At the beginning of each year I create two “Smart” playlists in Apple Music: one that holds every albums I check out in the current year, and one that is just metal releases for the current year. It helps a lot come EOY time, and there’s a huge joy in then deleting all the music I didn’t like or purchase from the library. It’s cleansing, and feel good for the short period of time before it bloats back up with the new year’s releases. So to wrap up my Holiday Hiatus™ playlists, we’re hitting Shuffle again on the 2025 Music Playlist and see what spits out from this year. I’ll leave it to you to see if any of these are to your liking – I can’t guarantee they’re all to mine.

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