Aesthetic Perfection
Aesthetic Perfection: Suckers For Punishment Tour 2026
Industrial pop outfit Aesthetic Perfection is coming back to the U.S., and they’re bringing some friends. With support from Priest and Julien-K, the band will be trekking from coast to coast throughout April and early May. Tickets are on sale now at aesthetic-perfection.net!
- 4/2 – West Hollywood, CA – Whisky A Go Go
- 4/3 – San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick
- 4/4 – Pomona, CA – Flyway
- 4/5 – San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
- 4/10 – West Chicago, IL – The WC Social Club
- 4/11 – Cleveland, OH – The Foundry Concert Club
- 4/12 – Harrisburg, PA – Capital City Music Hall
- 4/14 – Clifton, NJ – Dingbatz*
- 4/16 – Rochester, NY – Photo City Music Hall
- 4/17 – New York, NY – The Meadows
- 4/18 – Hartford, CT – The Webster
- 4/19 – Manchester, NH – Jewel Music Venue
- 4/21 – Raleigh, NC – Chapel of Bones
- 4/24 – Austin, TX – Come and Take It Live
- 4/25 – Houston, TX – Scout Bar
- 4/26 – Dallas, TX – Trees (New date!)
- 4/29 – Glendale, AZ – The 44 Sports Grill & Nightlife
- 4/30 – Las Vegas, NV – The Dive Bar
- 5/1 – Salt Lake City, UT – Liquid Joe’s
- 5/2 – Denver, CO – Ritual Noize Festival 2026+
* Aesthetic Perfection + Julien-K only
+ Festival
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”
Albums Released From April to June 2025
- Swallow the Sun – Shining (Deluxe Edition) [4/11]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life) – Chapter 5: Astral Projection [4/11]
- Young Other – Enlightenment [4/11]
- Arcadia – Renovatio [4/15]
- Circuit Preacher – Heaven Can’t Heal [4/18]
- Our Frankenstein – Magnum Spire Hotel [4/25]
- AM FALL – All My Friends Are Local Legends [4/25]
- Wednesday 13 – Mid Death Crisis [4/25]
- Zammek – Swell As Well [4/25]
- Naked Sunday – The Shoe String Sessions [5/2]
- Crimson Whisper – Vast World [5/2]
- How We Feel – Ready for War [5/2]
- The Fifth – We Are One [5/2]
- Plain Suite – Sweet Lady [5/8]
- Sleep Token – Even in Arcadia [5/9]
- Ghost Bath – Rose Thorn Necklace [5/9]
- Sleep Theory – Afterglow [5/16]
- Sister Kill Cycle – We Were Ghosts [5/16]
- No Fly List – Way More Tracks [5/30]
- Deadcode – Nothing and Nowhere [5/30]
- Lift the Curse – Don’t Bury the Dream [5/30]
- Blueprint Tokyo – Neon Circuits and the Mission of Hope [5/30]
- Cosmobrigade – Hollow Obsessions [6/6]
- AnimA – Demigod [6/10]
- Elvira’s Curse – The Time Has Come [6/12]
- Static Season – Peripheral [6/13]
- turner.Eturnal – Eturnal Terror [6/13]
- FleischKrieg – Herzblut II [6/13]
- McKenzie Hills – Ice Crossing [6/13]
- AVKRVST – Waving at the Sky [6/13]
- The Funeral Portrait – Greetings From Suffocate City (From Beyond the Abyss: Deluxe Edition) [6/13]
- Whispers in the Shadow – Rapture [6/13]
- Fright – GhostTown [6/18]
- Aesthetic Perfection – Closer to Human [6/20]
- Wraithlurk – Teethmarks [6/20]
- Ghost Chamber – A Decade in Review, Pt. 1 [6/20]
- Mission to the Sun – Seven Years [6/27]
- Half Lyfe – All in All [6/29]
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 5 (Updated 5/16/25)
May is here, and so is a lot of new music to make your ear holes happy!
- Forge the Sun: “Decay”
- Deadcode: “Left You For Dead” (ft. Justin Warfield)
- Boogeymvn: “Reaching for Idle Hands”
- No Fly List: “The Rush”
- Rise to Ruin: “11th Hour”
- Saint Social: “Holiday Forever” (Acoustic Remix)
- Witchz: “Grime, Pt. 1”
- Storm Kingdom: “Hymn of the Ancients”
- MissFit Toys: “Ransom” (Remastered)
- Elliott Rubin: “Drain”
- Allie Riot: “Gimme Some Head”
- Waiting at the Bridge: “Love Gun” (KISS cover)
- Shinedown: “Three Six Five” (Piano Version)
- Citizen Soldier: “Inner Critic”
- L.O.U.D: “Denver”
- Stories of Solitude: “Abyss”
- Curse Inflikted: “Demigod”
- Static Season: “Peripheral”
- Kings County: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Corvid Corpus: “Dancing on Your Grave”
- CrumbsNBread: “Broken Heart”
- Last Dance Among Wolves: “High and Low”
- Wraithlurk: “The Raven”
- Glis: “No Pulse” (2025 Mix)
- Violet Dawn: “Burn for You”
- Fractured Sense: “Vacant Frames”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Catching Your Eye”
- MAKEITSTOP: “Hi Burning, I’m Drowning”
- Voice of Glass: “Henosis”
- AVKRVST: “The Trauma”
- Elirah’s Cross: “Winning” (ft. Ataraxia Music)
- Incite: “Dolores”
- Limberlost: “Alien”
- ParanoiZe: “Decisive”
- The Sanctity of Crows: “The Endless Life of Water”
- Inherently Lost: “Art of Corruption”
- Grizzly Ironside: “Deliver Us 2.0”
- Deep Sea Camels: “Exit Wound”
- Almera: “Fallacy”
- Nick Nasty: “Stalemate”
- Loose Lips: “Up and Running”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Architect”
- Christopher Ardra: “The Air in There”
- Storm Kingdom: “Under a Crooked Tree” (ft. Joe Booe)
- No Fly List: “Close to Closure”
- Boogeymvn: “Heaven No Longer Weeps For Me”
- Die Tired: “(So Called) Complex”
- Central: “Thorns in Silk” (ft. Mila Shade)
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Don’t forget to check out the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist!
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 4 (Updated 4/30/25)
Hey, y’all, and welcome to another playlist update! April has been a very weird month for me on a personal level, but at least the soundtrack was fire!!! Here are the songs that have been added to part four since April 16th.
- EarlyRise: “The Bitter Pill”
- Marilyn Manson: “In the Air Tonight” (Phil Collins cover)
- 50 Meter Icewall: “Purge Me Daddy”
- Rogue Island: “Sweat”
- Curse Inflikted: “Dancing With Shadows”
- Silent Theory: “Swept Away” (Julien-K remix)
- Wraithlurk: “Dimensions”
- Matte Blvck + ALVABEAT: “Pupula Duplex (Your Demise)”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Fade to Black” (Metallica cover)
- Storm Kingdom + Sonia Hutchinson: “Ninmah”
- No Fly List: “All Lost No Found”
- Priest: “Black Hole Sun” (Soundgarden cover)
- Citizen Soldier: “Better Off Broken”
- A Place i Know: “Freedom Bells”
- The Truth Music: “Heart Issues” (ft. JD)
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Death Becomes You” (StoneBridge remix)
- Dawn of Ashes: “Hypertensive Crisis”
- Antibody + Binary Division + Czarina: “My Enemy”
- Wind Walkers: “The End Aesthetic”
- obiman: “UNDERTHEWEIGHT”
- Misfire: “Living the Dream”
- The Lineage: “Burn Down”
- Stone Lions: “Bite Your Tongue” (ft. Dani Winter-Bates)
- To The Shores: “Blood in the Water”
- Dal-War: “Run Run Run Away Yeah”
- Heir to Nothing: “Don’t Tell Me”
- Into Ruin: “Godless”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Manifest”
- Priest: “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak cover)
- Mr. Strange: “X the Eyes”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Point of No Return”
- Adelitas Way + New Medicine: “Rollin'”
- The Funeral Portrait: “Skinny Lies”
- Storm Kingdom: “Children of the Sun” (ft. Makaade)
- Not Enough Space: “Eye 4 an Eye” (ft. Dark Divine)
- Seven Year Witch: “Better Off as Strangers”
- Moonfall: “Rainstorm”
- Sleep Token: “Damocles”
- Archers Gate: “Suffocate”
- The Impulsive: “Echo”
- Seethe: “Reprieve”
- Blackwood: “One Track Mind” (ft. Kameron Jane)
- Alive in Stone: “Comatose”
- We’re Not Doctors: “RAD\\MOD”
- Tyler Griese: “Suffocate Me”
- Nick Nasty: “Systems Don’t Break (People Do)”
- REDWAVE: “Fax Machine”
- The Black Zodiac: “Gallow’s Call”
- Screams of Tranquility: “Frozen Tears of Solitude”
- Metal Charm: “Time to Restart”
- Von Loop: “Stomping on the Demons”
- Linx: “مختلف” (Them)
- Anderson Park Lane: “NEWS”
- AVKRVST: “The Malevolent” (ft. Ross Jennings)
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And, as always, be sure to check out the 2025 playlist in its entirety!
Three Covers That I Did Not See Coming
I always enjoy hearing artists’ takes on songs they love, and the most fun reimaginings to me are the ones that come from a completely different genre than the original. Over the past week, two such renditions have been released into the world. The third cover… Well, it was always a dark song, so an infamously dark artist sharing his version makes sense.
1. Priest: “Black Hole Sun”
Yes, that “Black Hole Sun.” It’s so Priest, but I think it’s a very respectful nod to Soundgarden and the original. And, let’s be honest, it takes balls to release a song and know everyone is going to be comparing your vocals to Chris Cornell’s.
2. Aesthetic Perfection: “Fade to Black”
Aesthetic Perfection is a self-proclaimed industrial pop act. Hearing them do a Metallica track was unexpected, but I dig it.
3. Marilyn Manson: “In the Air Tonight”
Manson prides himself on shocking people. His entire career is based on it, in fact. He has done odd covers before. However, I just never would have predicted a Phil Collins song. Lol. As stated above, it kinda makes sense. The subject matter of “In the Air Tonight” is rather dark. Who better to reimagine it than Marilyn Manson and Tyler Bates?
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 4 (Updated 4/16/25)
Welcome to April – and a whole new batch of bangers! We’re a little over two weeks into the month, and already, we’ve seen a lot of great releases.
Don’t forget to check out the previous installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist while you’re at it.
Here are the songs that have been added so far in April!
- I Was the Crown: “Mirage in My Veins”
- Taylor Barber: “Forever (Stripped)” – Acoustic (ft. Alejandro Aranda)
- obli_x_vion: “To the Grave” (ft. Circuit Preacher)
- Lost Hearts: “Gone Too Far”
- Linx: “Dead”
- Incite: “No Mercy, No Forgiveness”
- Ghost Bath: “Well, I Tried Drowning”
- SKNN: “Antidote”
- New Medicine: “Baggage”
- Sleep Token: “Caramel”
- Hand of the Tribe: “Smile”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Consequence”
- Empire Springs: “Circle Forbidden”
- Witchz: “The Dose”
- Rogue Island: “Ghost of You”
- To the Grave: “Sawed Off”
- Arlind: “Up at Night”
- Shadows of Spectres: “Ichi”
- Energiii: “Hekate”
- Fear Atomic: “A Bullseye on Your Heart”
- City of Strays: “Stupid and Naive”
- Pigeon Park: “The Anchor”
- Seventh Day Slumber: “Savior Machine” (ft. Nine Lashes)
- Storm Kingdom: “Deus Lapsus (The Fallen God)”
- Left to Suffer: “Set the World on Fire” (ft. UnityTX)
- Retina Sky: “Broken Wing”
- Forge the Sun: “Peanut”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Master”
- Cold Clay Mountain: “These Hands”
- A Moment of Violence: “Breaking Me”
- Jay Gearhart: “Heaven and Hell”
- Somerseth: “In Hell I’m Gone”
- anMech: “Identify Me”
- Gillsaw: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- In Passing: “Closer”
- Ghost: “Lachryma”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 3/31/25)
Here are the last of the March releases (at least the ones I’ve found). Tomorrow begins the fourth installment of The Mostly Music Playlist! Be sure to visit each part of the playlist, and remember: my top 50 will drop on New Year’s Eve!
Below are the songs that have been added since March 16th.
- Anderson Park Lane: “Ghost of Cherry Creek”
- Neon Casket: “Arrows”
- Saint V: “Diamonds”
- Die Tired: “Reel Me In”
- Michael Botte Band: “Soulfully Appreciating”
- Epic Down: “Doula’s Obsession”
- Calvaria: “The Serpent Lies Within”
- New Medicine: “Natural”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Pursuit”
- Alchemy Within: “The Call”
- Wraithlurk: “Engraved” (ft. $KIMMY)
- anMech: “Necessity”
- Beneath the Hollow: “Old Hymns”
- Lift the Curse: “Violet Violence”
- KREWX: “Aura”
- KREWX: “Enchanted”
- Oozik: “In the Darkness”
- Dal-War: “No Way Out”
- Makes My Blood Dance: “Time and a Place”
- Ded: “Until I Die” (ft. Chris Motionless)
- Point Disarray: “In My Head”
- Boze: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (Charlie Daniels cover)
- Title Holder: “Time Won’t Stop”
- Could You Not?: “Backpedal”
- The Ascendant: “Treading Water”
- Our Frankenstein: “Magnum Spire Hotel”
- Soul Sign: “Negative Thoughts” (ft. Bjorn Englen, Mark Boals, and Mike Cancino)
- Crimson Whisper: “Falling Through the Night”
- SFINX: “Magic” (ft. Left to Suffer, Aaron Gillespie, and Taylor Barber)
- Stain the Canvas: “The Light Within”
- Run the River: “Fulton Heights”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Beautiful”
- Silent Theory: “Emptiness in You” (ft. Daedric)
- Czarina: “Fall Damage” (ft. Circuit Preacher)
- Loose Lips: “Video Games”
- Wraithlurk: “Drown” (ft. $KIMMY)
- Swallow the Sun: “MelancHoly – Holy Edit”
- Radiation Invasion: “Your Love is Darkness”
- Bury the Pines: “Pardon My French”
- Danny Worsnop: “Tell Me Why”
- Blessings of Mara: “Pink Venom”
- Beneath the Hollow: “Butter”
- Six Hours For A Lifetime: “21”
- Against the Storm: “Setting Sun”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Miniskirt”
- Awake At Last: “Be Not Afraid”
- Mr. Strange: “Mr. Strange Does Not Exist”
- Sublimenal Stimuli: “Burn Me Up” (ft. Scarlett Silhouette)
- SKYND: “Aileen Wuornos”
- A Killer’s Confession: “In Case of Emergency” (ft. J. Mann)
- Deadcode: “Come Undone”
- Effing and Blinding: “Scab”
- The Witching Hour: “Dead Inside”
- Kissing Candice: “Bitter Pill”
- Of Limbo: “Finish What Ya Started”
- Wraithlurk: “Straitjacket Sin”
- Storm Kingdom: “Upon the Wings of Despair”
- Engines of Ruin: “One More”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 1 (Updated 2/25/24)
View full playlist here
These are the tracks that have been added since 2/11/24.
- Liam Kelley: “Mezmerized”
- Self Deception: “Matthew McConaughey”
- Monster in a Human Suit: “Home”
- Hey Violet: “Uncomplicated”
- Bullets and Octane: “Love H8ting You” (ft. Xtine Reckless)
- Seethe: “Away”
- Horizon Theory: “Nowhere To Go”
- International Furlough: “Pest”
- Blacktop Mojo: “Like Wild Horses”
- Modern Mimes: “Roses in Ruins”
- for all the emptiness: “Sell the Sins”
- Globus: “Redemption (Down the Line)” (ft. A.D.A.M.)
- Cropsey: “Blood on Your Hands”
- Carbonstone: “White Noise”
- Wake Up Hate: “Two-Faced”
- Matt Galli: “Reason to Live”
- CloZure: “The Devil Effect”
- MINDPiLOT: “Voices”
- Ty Dy: “Cosmic”
- The Requiem: “Kill the Lights”
- Psithurism: “Body & Blood” (ft. Waste)
- Leonine: “Volatile”
- Mule: “Tour De Force”
- New Saints: “No Hope”
- Delusive Relics: “Fairy Ring”
- Cryblood: “Broken”
- Melodicka Bros.: “Wait and Bleed” (Slipknot cover)
- A Place i Know: “Good Enough.”
- CHXSR: “Only Darkness” (ft. Sinizter)
- Bullets and Octane: “Space Lord Symphony”
- Dark Remedy: “We Are The Dead”
- Xhale: “The Devil in the Details”
- Somatic Moon: “Only Dead to Save” (ft. Dav Aviz)
- Divine Grave: “Purgatory”
- The Red Lite District: “Outside”
- Declatel: “Penny Bun”
- Shadow Smile: “Thousandfold Sun”
- Anaria: “Legends Never Die” (Against the Current/League of Legends cover)
- Dissonant Tongue: “Descensum”
- Rvshvd: “Deal With the Devil” (ft. Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria)
- The PoZers: “Save a Kiss for Me”
- Til Fauna: “Other Nature”
