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Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [1/5 – 1/11]
Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [1/1 – 1/4]
It has been 2026 for, like, three seconds and already, we have soooo much good music to listen to. I am building a playlist, as per usual, which you can check out here. However, I am going to share new releases a bit differently this year.
Instead of doing bi-weekly posts with everything I’ve found during that period – and twelve separate playlists, one for each month – I will be hitting the highlights each week and adding all songs to a single 2026 playlist. I will share as much as I can to my Facebook page, but I intend to share posts directly from the musicians/artists rather than doing my own. Shares and likes help them, and that’s my main goal.
So here are five songs that were released this week that I absolutely adore. Please give them a listen and add them to your playlists!
EPs Released From October to December 2025
- Adelitas Way + New Medicine – Last Laugh [10/3]
- Gasoline Invertebrate – Misery Monster [10/3]
- Wind Walkers – I Don’t Belong Here [10/3]
- nøwhere – Final Descent [10/10]
- Douglas Katula – Screwtape [10/10]
- SVNFR – Memory Fragment 87 [10/17]
- northroot – clouds. [10/24]
- Witchz – Ded Again [10/31]
- Coldwards – Bad News [10/31]
- Christopher Ardra – SaiRu [11/4]
- Motif Hive – Phase [11/5]
- Cirkus – Straight to Hell [11/7]
- THEHERO – Gemini II [11/14]
- Sons of Levin – EP II [11/14]
- Spirit of the Moon – All That is Hidden [11/28]
- Matyrker – The Obscurial EP [11/28]
- Queen Kona – Smokeless Fire [12/5]
- Hallowtide – Drown With Us [12/6]
- Patient Sixty-Seven – A Very Heavy Christmas [12/10]
- Cryblood – Take My Life [12/12]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life) – God is Watching: Redux [12/12]
- Ghost of Rucker – Hikari No Yoin [12/13]
- Loose Lips – Pretty Devastating [12/19]
- Life Hoax – Slow Burn [12/26]
- L.O.U.D. – AM Broadcast [12/31]
Albums Released From October to December 2025
- Daughters of Mara – I Am Destroyer [10/3]
- Bullet to the Heart – Echoes: The Final Chapter [10/3]
- Linx – Annihilation [10/10]
- Living Dead Girl – Conspiracy [10/10]
- Batchelor – Shadow Protocol [10/14]
- Heartsick – Break the Curse [10/14]
- Julien-K – DRK|MODE [10/17]
- Dead Deceased – Chasm of Radiant Despair [10/17]
- Starver – The Silent Letter [10/17]
- The Thing With Feathers – So Electric [10/24]
- Anaria – Piercing the Veil [10/24]
- POET The Band – Night Era (Nightcore) [10/24]
- Buried Beneath Me – The House of Ash [10/24]
- Parhelyon – From Dark to Light [10/24]
- Dark Moon Spirit – Sacrificial Moon [10/31]
- Wraithlurk – Engraved [10/31]
- MethodOne – Novus Initium [10/31]
- Armchair Cynics – The Lost Tapes [11/7]
- Soulhound – The Divine Purge [11/7]
- Citizen Soldier – Family Heirlooms [11/12]
- Stellar Circuits – Phantom::Phoenix [11/14]
- Suicide Queen – Crowned in Blood [11/14]
- The Malt – Weeping Red [11/15]
- DENIGH – Sleep With No Sound [11/17]
- Falls for the Elderly – Insomnia [11/20]
- Never Enough – Aurora [11/21]
- Moonscape – Entity, Chapter III: A Sudden Glimpse of Clarity [11/21]
- The Pretty Wild – zero.point.genesis [11/21]
- Ghosts Are Here – Under [11/21]
- RedPrint – Beyond Reality [11/26]
- Sleeper Signal – Tales of the Misguided Souls [11/26]
- Jungle Dream – We Are Legion [11/28]
- Black Dog Moon – Hell and Back [11/28]
- Excide – Bastard Hymns [11/28]
- Distant Legacy – The Lighthouse’s Fate [11/28]
- Devil-M – Titanomachie [11/30]
- Michael Botte Band – Demos & Diamonds, Vol. 1 [12/5]
- the OWLiNG – You Don’t Bow You Will Learn [12/5]
- Immunosuppressed – Lilith [12/5]
- Set For Tomorrow – ARCS [12/5]
- Crispin Earl – Covers Collection, Vol. 2 [12/5]
- Stain the Canvas – Honey Rot [12/12]
- Eye of Atlantis – Eye of Atlantis [12/13]
- Severed Skies – Oblivion [12/15]
- Vagabond – Ode to Isotopia [12/17]
- Priest – Live in Hollywood [12/19]
- Dark Enchantment – Fragments of Faith [12/20]
- Matti Hoffman – Ascend [12/20]
- SouthsideFerris – Dying Light [12/23]
- The Further I Get – Life [12/25]
- Libricide – Kismet [12/26]
- Cirkus – Still Remains [12/27]
- Damnum – Obsidian Machine [12/30]
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 12 (Updated 12/31/25)
The last playlist update of 2025 is here! It has been a year of bangers, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for my top 50 of 2025. For now, check out these releases from December.
- Zachary Baker: “Dark Horse”
- Hyporium: “Hit the Mute Button”
- Remergent: “Revelation”
- Wreckborn: “Sleigh Bell Pressure”
- Illusion of Solace: “Aeons”
- Seethe: “Flinch”
- Forge The Sun: “Angels We Have Heard on High” (ft. Sharp Lives)
- Storm Kingdom: “The Death of Love” (ft. MX the American)
- Purple Grace: “Turbulence”
- Ghost of Rucker: “Where Tears End”
- Glis: “Turbo Lush”
- Darlah: “Rain”
- Moonsette: “As I Stared”
- MAK: “Fever”
- sKelter pLus: “Alter” (ft. UnfortunatelyFallen)
- Luke Baird Music: “Dream”
- The Mercury Seed: “Disappear”
- Energiii: “Morrigan”
- Hortus: “Feniks”
- Shape: “Ever Beating Hearts”
- Somehow Still: “Phantom Weight”
- All Violet: “plead the fifth”
- Redefind: “Copycat”
- EPHMRL: “Into the Fracture”
- The CyberTones: “Freak Off” (ft. Johnny Tuesday)
- Future Theory: “Take Me Home”
- Polybomber: “Terminus”
- Lukas Boots: “Mirror Always Shows”
- Innocents Torn: “SkullCrusher”
- morino: “Built To Carry On”
- Dekay: “Slaughterhouse Disco”
- AM FALL: “Dystopia (So Tonight We Break Free)”
- L.O.U.D.: “Collide”
- Sweet Antidote: “Looking Back”
- Chase Nightmares: “My Best Friend Dex”
- The CyberTones: “What Epstein Files”
- vasthearts: “such a shame” (ft. romziie and Leø)
- Ethereal Treason: “Quiet as the Grave”
- AnonTheory: “Thoughts and Prayers”
- Mirrorcell: “Ichi” (ft. VCTMS)
- Hall of Lost: “Loser’s Game” (Acoustic Version)
- Fright: “The Fright Show”
- Doom Groove Orchestra: “Ain’t No Cure”
- Midnight Fracture: “Buried Underneath”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 12 (Updated 12/16/25)
We have entered the final month of 2026! Just a couple more weeks until I unleash my top 50 songs of the year, so let’s see what drops between now and then. There have already been several epic releases in December. Check them out!
- Shovel Monster: “Worms” (ft. Raúl Jimenez and Derek Vandermallie)
- The Sanctity of Crows: “After Christmas”
- Alter Bridge: “Playing Aces”
- Stanley Simmons: “Body Down”
- Silent Theory: “Eyes Everywhere”
- From Ashes to New: “Drag Me”
- Czarina: “Dagger in the Heart”
- SKNN: “Gladiator”
- Veio: “Judas”
- Miss Construction: “Back Again”
- Bryce Savage: “Show Me”
- Kalamity Kills: “Help!”
- Ratboys: “What’s Right?”
- The Franklin Cassettes: “Why Not My Name”
- Vale: “Purgatory Dreams”
- REdEFIND: “Thoughts”
- splinter kid: “Another Christmas Alone”
- Perfect Weather for Humans: “Bowerbird”
- Everyday Dolores: “Wagmi”
- Wolverine: “This World and All Its Dazzling Lights”
- Induction: “Steel and Thunder”
- postdrome: “From Heaven, From Nowhere”
- Benighted: “The Spineless Freak”
- Moon Fever: “Masses”
- Lydia Can’t Breathe: “The Quiet Part”
- vasthearts: “dying to know” (ft. Z3n721)
- Winter in May: “World on Fire”
- Telling Secrets: “DYTIMI?”
- Matti Hoffman: “Dreamstate”
- Sick Century: “Dorian Gray”
- A.A. Williams: “Just a Shadow”
- Sky Caught Fire: “Experience As A Tortured Artist” (ft. Bad Shape)
- Whispers in the Shadow: “Dead of Winter”
- Silver Dose: “Joyride”
- Echoes Divide: “Crashing Out”
- Phantom of Pop: “Cold Frame”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 11 (Updated 11/30/25)
I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving! Now it’s time to shift gears and focus on Christmas – and all the new music that I have to sort through to put together the top 50 of 2025. For now, though, here are the songs that have been added to part 11 of The Mostly Music Playlist since November 15th.
- Deep as Ocean: “Lifeblood”
- Deadwaste: “To Whom It May Concern”
- Alive in Stone: “Beautiful”
- Engines of Ruin: “To Your Grave”
- Nocturnal Monarch: “BlindMad”
- Fact Pattern: “With No Disguise (System Syn remix)”
- Storm Kingdom: “Godless” (ft. Ella Baphomet)
- Gravel Switch: “In Too Deep”
- Gus Wallner: “RWYS” (ft. Seethe)
- Self Deception: “Time’s Up”
- Bad Omens: “Left for Good”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Push”
- Shinedown: “Searchlight”
- Honeyknife: “Nothing Left”
- Braeker: “Make Me”
- Vana: “Pray”
- Don Broco: “Euphoria”
- No More Sun: “Sick of You”
- Fear Decay: “Slow Descent”
- In a Perfect Sky: “Afterthought”
- American Adrenalin: “Far From Sober”
- Don’t You Dare: “S.O.S.”
- Manimekhala: “Foreign Royalty”
- Slaycraft: “Shakedown”
- Ghost Trader: “Fresh Eyes”
- The Fell Swoop: “At Large”
- Lift the Curse: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
- The Veer Union: “Meet Your Maker”
- Shallow Side: “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” [Elton John cover]
- Amerakin Overdose: “Feliz Navidad”
- Palaye Royale: “Sad Generation”
- morino: “Back to the Light”
- Dekay: “Nightmare”
- crucifera: “Savior”
- Witchz: “Christmas in the Badlandz”
- Wild Tangent: “Truth in Ashes”
- Pale Krow: “Persistence” (ft. Merkules)
- Cursed Abyss: “Weeping Angel”
- Andi Fawcett: “Nothing To Me” (ft. After Dark)
- Nevero: “Tied To You”
- Solely Veil: “Deceiver”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 11 (Updated 11/15/25)
Happy Holidays!
We’re getting so close to the end of 2025, and I’m going to say it now – choosing my top 50 this year is going to be hard. There has been a lot of great music released, and there’s still a month-and-a-half to go! Whyyy do I do this to myself? Ha!
Anyway, here are the singles I’ve added so far in November.
- Past Silent: “Glass House”
- Schmooze: “Too Late to Plead Insanity”
- Storm Kingdom: “Purgatory” (ft. Joe Booe)
- Horizon Theory: “Transcendence”
- Rise to Ruin: “Horizon Divide”
- Adelitas Way: “We Are Unbroken”
- Killed By Sorrow: “Betrayal”
- Cryblood: “Enemy”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “The World is Crazy”
- Excision: “Adrenaline” (ft. Sullivan King and From Ashes to New)
- Traverse the Abyss: “Memento Mori”
- Closed City Terror: “No One”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “We Bring the Beat”
- Danger Silent: “To Whoever’s Left, Pt. 2”
- Coal Chamber: “Overflowing Blessings”
- Lord of the Lost: “Would You Walk With Me Through Hell” (ft. Infected Rain)
- Boze: “Boom Bap Collapse” (ft. Jude Buckingham)
- Sydney V. Smith: “Wasted Years”
- A.A. Kidd: “Isn’t the Sunset Beautiful?” (ft. Sa’Lunara)
- Gasoline Invertebrate: “Resurface”
- Ghosts Are Here: “You Deserve to Know”
- Bovault: “The Fool and the Trouble”
- vasthearts: “don’t feel the same” (ft. wintr)
- Palaye Royale: “Feel Something, Great”
- Gasoline Invertebrate: “Settler”
- Kings of Karma: “Run Rudolph Run”
- Boze: “I Will Go”
- Brother Cane: “If This Means War”
- The Renascent: “Keep Me Here”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 10 (Updated 10/31/25)
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Here are the singles that have been released since October 16th.
- Suicide Heaven: “Make a Move on Me”
- We Cry Wolf: “Tell Me How It Feels”
- Young Other: “Breach”
- The Veer Union: “Sunk Your Teeth In”
- Against the Storm: “Fortress”
- Fright: “Hypnosis”
- As The Sky Went Black: “Angel of Death”
- vasthearts: “snowfall, darling”
- Braeker: “Die For You”
- Stellar Circuits: “Bury the Ashes”
- Deadly Vices: “Monster is You”
- Saliva: “Too Broke to Fix” (ft. The Founder and Judge & Jury)
- Truckstop Divas: “Steals to Survive”
- Make Fire: “NOIZE”
- Massfear: “Erase My Mind”
- Husk Bloom: “Illusion”
- Jungle Dream: “Are You Saved?”
- Boze: “Buzzin'”
- Unseen Faith: “Cold Resolve” (ft. Left to Suffer)
- Deadcode: “Rip My World Apart” (Kouss remix)
- Above Snakes: “My Resolve”
- Citizen Soldier: “Dead Butterflies”
- Vandalheart: “Rock Bottom”
- Braeker: “Haunting”
- DieHumane: “The Deep” (ft. Jeffrey Nothing)
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Spirit Animal”
- 9th Evolution: “Cry Little Sister” (Gerard McMahon cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Dark Angel”
- Vagabond: “Crawl”
- Future Theory: “The Fear”
- Glis: “Morning Sun”
- Seethe: “Frost (A Song for Abe)”
- Dekay: “Static Paranoia”
- Loose Lips: “Halloween”
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life): “Terminal Lucidity”
- morino: “Quiet in the Crowd”
- Forge the Sun: “Speedball”
- Fright: “Death Marks”
- Kissing Candice: “Bodies”
- Purple Grace: “Always By My Side”
- Lo: “Critical Condition” (ft. Sky Knives)
- Induction: “Love Kills”
- Seronova: “In the Company of Wolves”
- Rae Danté: “Bury the Bones”
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