Hey! I'm alive... barely!

Yeah, it's been a minute. Obviously I posted all the demos of the songs from my next album, which is still very much in the works and I'm hoping to get out by November this year. It probably won't, but I'm going to try to anyway. In the meantime though, I've started a weekly project on my YouTube channel that will be taking up pretty much all of my time. I'll spare some time over the summer as I usually do for the NGADm and NGUAC, so there will be some original music, but I'm dedicating all of my time to covers now.

With that being said, there is another album I finished writing, including lyrics, that I could attempt to sing myself, and is basically done. This year might be the year I finally put that out, as I've been hoping to do so pretty much ever since I finished writing it. It'll be a return to my old-school Metallica style writing I used to do back in the old days, so that'll be fun! It'll definitely be released on streaming services, but I have eight songs to track and I'm a long way out from finishing it still, so it might push Insert Coin out to 2026. I have no qualms with that though, I'm just happy to have any interest in it at all.

As for how I'm doing, I've been EXTREMELY tired lately, although that might be because I've got a cold right now, and regardless of how inconvenient a cold is, it still sucks to be sick. I'm working through it and I'll be okay, but I'm just so cripplingly tired all the time. Thankfully, I largely escaped my depressive rut, but not without some bumps along the way. I'm pretty much back where I was a year and a half ago, which I take as a win, to be honest; I'm not perfectly happy with how my life is (mainly just a crippling sense of loneliness), but I am much, much, MUCH better than I was in July. All in all, my life is going okay now, so if you'd been spending the last few months wondering how I was doing... that's how I'm doing!

That's pretty much all I have to say for now! Thanks everyone for a pretty good year (even thought it sucked for me personally)! This year will be even better!

Thanks!

All the best and take care!

~Zach (AlphaStorm)