This is an experimental thread idea I had which, if it works, could become a perennial thing like the album and song threads.
The idea is to have a thread to discuss what you've been listening to for the last few weeks or months. Are you exploring new artists? Following new releases? Spending a lot of time with an old favorite? This is sort of a catch-all thread to talk about those things and potentially share thoughts and recommendations.
It's a little broader than the "What album are you listening to" thread, but a little more focused than the general discussion thread that was tried a few months back. And it's certainly not intended to replace posting in an artist-specific thread when you get into them, but it could be a supplement to that for less-frequently discussed artists.
I'll go first to give an example of what I have in mind: I've largely been in discography-exploration mode for the last several months. I have a few artists that I've gotten pretty interested in, and I've been working my way slowly through their discographies. I tend to explore discographies pretty slowly, getting one or two albums at a time and really immersing myself in them before moving on to more. I'm midway through ongoing discography explorations on Evergrey, Epica and Amorphis (all of whom I've been working on for close to a year now), and I've recently started in on Unleash the Archers and Big Big Train. So I'm definitely also very much in prog mode, as I have been for the last several years, really.
I'm also in a moderately heavy DT phase, the heaviest one I've been in for years, thanks to the release of the new album (which I like a lot, whereas DoT disappointed me), the LNF Archive releases, and Kev's DT ranking thread.