Hey there everyone! A belated happy New Year! Let's make this year the best we can make it with our limited abilities! Now, I'd like to talk a little about the future of this page.

This year will make six years since I made this page and also started making music... that's mental. It doesn't feel like all that long ago, but at the same time it does. With that being said, there's been an obvious drop off in my posts on this site compared to even three years ago, and part of the reason for that is just that the music I'm making now is so different and requires so much more effort than what I was making three years ago. So much more time goes into sound design, recording, mixing, and mastering that the average time it takes me to make one song has doubled (from four to eight hours, for example), and that number is slowly getting bigger, the more I learn. My longest time on a project to date was forty hours.

Not only that, but also my Video Game Metal Covers on my YouTube page, a separate job, AND college have sucked up any time I've had to make stuff with the express intention of posting it to Newgrounds. And I'm not posting any more songs for Vengeful Spirit, which my last six songs have been from, since it's not anywhere close to done, and I want to keep a level of secrecy. So even though I have a solid eighteen other tracks I could post, I'm holding off until the album is done.

That said, I will be posting a little bit more this year. I go back and look at old tracks I've made and think, "I can do better." So this next year is going to be a little bit more active. I'm going to be rearranging, remastering, and reworking a bunch of old songs, and will also be working on some new ones. I've got such a different workflow now, so I think this is going to be an interesting experiment to show my growth and development as a musician and producer. This also means that EDM stuff WILL be returning. There will still be rock and metal, though.

I'm excited to see what this year gives and interested to see if I can find any new ways to write some of the music from my past. And I'm excited to show off a few other new ideas I have. So, won't you join me in heading for the future?

Best and take care!

~Zach (AlphaStorm)