- Lost on Story Road: “SKIN”
- Bound South: “Wrapped Around You (Reprise)”
- th3 L3p3rs: “I Don’t Want to Feel”
- Alive in Stone: “Nightcrawl”
- Hex Divided: “Cruel Tide”
I have a couple of honorable mentions this week, as well.
Alive In Stone
Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [1/5 – 1/11]
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. 6 (Updated 6/30/25)
Make sure you check out each installment of my 2025 playlist!
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Here are the tracks that have been added since June 15th.
- Cryblood: “God Knows”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Dive Bar Breakdown”
- Seas on the Moon: “Enlightenment Calls” (ft. Polychuck)
- Citizen Soldier: “Bulletproof”
- Defects: “Heresy”
- Jay Gearhart: “Goodbye”
- Grizzly Ironside: “Glory Reborn”
- Parhelyon: “Secret”
- Morgan Joanel: “Fallin'”
- Feminoise: “A Delicate Mess”
- Guild Theory: “Vampiric Desires”
- Bury the Masses: “Sweet Chin Music” (ft. Berran Lee)
- Damned Anthem: “Heart-Shaped Box” (Nirvana cover ft. Lola Rhodes)
- Seven Blood: “No Breakout”
- Suffering: “The Curse” (ft. Mia Muñoz)
- Raven’s Banquet: “No One to Call”
- Ethereal Treason: “Ivory”
- AnonTheory: “Under My Skin”
- James Laurent: “Take My Grace”
- Mirrorcell: “U(phoria)”
- Vicious Rain: “IKIGAI”
- Emerge: “Tolerance”
- Alive in Stone: “Less You Bleed”
- The Immaculate Crows: “Struggle Street”
- The Fiction We Create: “More Than Scars”
- Psycholand: “Gay Bar”
- Josi J & Dessert: “Gimme That Beat”
- Of Limbo: “Something Real”
- Seaside Massacre: “Destroy Everything” (Hatebreed cover)
- Nick Palma: “Manifestation”
- Silos: “BL4CK_M0LD” (ft. Escape the Fate and HIGHSOCIETY)
- Silent Theory: “Pardon Me” (Incubus cover ft. Crispin Earl)
- Young Other: “Ghost” (ft. Nail Bite)
- Circuit Preacher: “Blood//Smoke” (ft. Insula Iscariot)
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “Chrysalis”
- Heartsick: “Debt to Pay”
- DayBreak Escape: “Paris”
- Skold: “All Humans Must Be Destroyed”
- Orbitlane: “Serve a Lie”
- Næŕok: “Disease” (Lady Gaga cover ft. Patchmarks)
- Grave Solace: “Shortness of Breath”
- Noir Addiction: “Chemical Bride”
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!
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 3/16/25)
Welcome to March! I hope daylight savings time didn’t ruin your week like it did mine. (If y’all don’t mess with that BS where you live, lucky you.)
Anyway, time change aside, this month seems to be moving ahead much more rapidly than January or February. On the bright side, we have a really killer soundtrack for the ride!
Here are the recent releases that have been added since February 28th! And don’t forget to visit parts one and two, if you haven’t already. You could just discover your new favorite song!
- Robbie Ekblom, Jr.: “A Matrimony With the Stars Unleashed”
- Alive in Stone: “Fear” (ft. Let Me Bleed)
- UMO Electronic: “Telemetry Mind Pollution”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Genie in a Bottle” (Christina Aguilera cover)
- Orbis Max: “Follow”
- Villain of the Story: “The First Time” (ft. Trevor Borg)
- Signal the Revolution: “Don’t Let Go” (ft. Dustie Waring)
- Telling Secrets: “Paranoid”
- No Promises: “Visions”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Atlantis”
- One Day Alive: “Only Scars”
- DeathbyRomy: “Pray to Me” (ft. Palaye Royale)
- Citizen Soldier: “The Liar”
- Næŕok: “3” (Britney Spears cover ft. Steeno)
- Haunted Vessel: “Aftermath”
- Rogue Island: “Rose Tinted”
- ManWoMan: “Love Punch”
- Kawano: “Give Me the Power”
- Daniel Dwight: “Who Am I”
- Crow Magnum: “Your Atlas”
- Incite: “Just a Rat”
- The Space Turtles: “Memory Lane”
- New Life: “Here’s to Life”
- The Pretty Wild: “Button Eyes”
- Sleep Token: “Emergence”
- Reset Reality: “The Void”
- Last Dance Among Wolves: “Shaped By Design”
- Seethe: “Oceans”
- BLAZADA: “Death By Symphony”
- Silent WVLF: “My Beloved”
- Silent Dunes: “Let Me Breathe”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Guns & Candy”
- Rise to Ruin: “Alchemy”
- New Dilemma: “Ice Cold Hands” (ft. Chloe Robin)
EPs Released July to December 2024
Here is a list of EPs released during the second half of 2024. (Be sure to check out the January to June compilation here.)
Please remember that my focus is on the indie community! And, as stated in the first post, I have likely missed a few, so if there’s anything y’all don’t see, let me know. I will be doing a separate blog for full-length albums that have dropped in the same time frame.
- New Dilemma: Toxic [7/12]
- Saint Diablo: The Reckoning [7/19]
- Witchz: Take Me Back [7/26]
- BREAKKER: Breakker [7/27]
- Jungle Dream: Only a Moment [7/27]
- Bullet to the Heart: Trauma [8/2]
- Vulnicura: Undead End [8/2]
- Alive in Stone: A Cure for Wickedness [8/6]
- Sun Order: Last One Standing [8/9]
- Galaxy Parade: I’ll Always Be Around [8/9]
- Please Knock: Grim [8/21]
- Yuko Rade: Legend [8/23]
- Blueprint Tokyo: Blue [8/28]
- Deny: Call of the Void [8/30]
- LA ROXX: LA Roxx [8/31]
- Generation Down: Masquerades & Mirrors [9/2]
- Red Eleven: Path [9/5]
- Anny: Apparitions [9/6]
- Guillotine: Hellbound [9/13]
- All the Tall Trees: See the World Come Alive [9/20]
- Lil Tytan: Intentions of Evil, Vol. 1 [9/27]
- Plague Mind: Always on the Outside [9/27]
- Stand Abandoned: The Divide [10/4]
- They Were Giants: Legacies [10/4]
- Joel Santiago: Eternal Night [10/13]
- Awesome Ray Ray: The Ups and Downs EP [10/14]
- Ivy Kill: Psychosis Mission [10/18]
- MidiEvil: Dark Arts [10/18]
- Half Fortune: Half Fortune [10/23]
- We’re Wolves: Transformation [10/25]
- Ohanna: Memoirs [10/26]
- POET The Band: t h e p r o l o g u e [10/27]
- Blood Druid: Cannibalistic Tendencies [10/30]
- Rockright: Dark Matter [10/31]
- Besra: Equilibrium [11/1]
- Daniel Thielman, Jay Johnson: A Sacred Truth by Indigo Sect [11/11]
- The Funeral Portrait: Casanova (From Beyond the Abyss) [11/15]
- Ghost in the Room: The Alastor [11/19]
- Ceyeo: Together They Were Nothing [12/13]
- The Crooked Skulls: Hivemind [12/13]
- After the Mourning: Our Transgressions [12/13]
- Silverside: The Blood EP [12/19]
- Heir to Nothing: Perpetuity [12/19]
- Freaky Things: Magic Songs, Vol. 2 [12/22]
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 5 (Updated 10/20/24)
I don’t have much to say with this post. We lost my grandmother yesterday morning and honestly, I’m running on autopilot. Be sure to visit all of the 2024 playlist segments, including part 5 in its entirety. The sixth and final installment will be starting soon!
Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4 // Part 5
Here are the tracks that have been added since October 6th.
- Alive in Stone: “Walking in the Moonlight”
- Love Ghost x Skold: “Ski Mask”
- Bourbon Sons: “Jump Back”
- Bleedstone: “Witch Hunt”
- The Black Plague Doctors: “Cypher No. 2” (ft. EA$Y)
- SpringBrooke: “Cold World”
- Overturn: “Eulogy”
- New Dilemma: “Spiral”
- Mid-Engine: “Why Go Outside”
- Ashley Purdy: “Ride Like the Wind”
- Free Warren: “Eyes Wide Open”
- EarlyRise: “Dance For the Money”
- Cole Coleman: “Scream”
- HILD: “Varm så länge hjärtat slår”
- Title Holder: “Found My Home”
- Shawn Rose: “When I Need You”
- We Kill Cowboys: “Android”
- Omega Bad: “Levitate”
- technically nothing: “thinking’s overrated”
- Cam Allen: “Sledgehammer”
- EMBR: “Tensions”
- Dark Remedy: “Right Back To You”
- ShadowHart: “Calcified”
- Stray Forever: “Forgotten Girl”
- Virssis: “Prove Me Wrong”
- Liam Kelley: “Shooting Stars”
- Crazy Lixx: “Little Miss Dangerous”
- Sisters Doll: “United”
- No Horizon: “Show Me The Light”
- Brett Carlisle: “Note To Self”
- Matter of Mind: “Bad Things”
- Stonefeather: “Simp-Le Life”
- Sagen: “Slaying of the Witch”
- JAELYN: “The Last Star (Archimedes)”
- Orbis Max: “Candy on the Hill” (ft. Ed Ryan)
- Vaggelis Paraskevaidis: “Claptrap”
- Eisige Venen: “Seaforged”
- The Red Crow: “Illusions”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 6/30/24)
This will be the last update for part 3. The singles released in July and August will get their own playlist, part 4.
You can listen to all of part 3 here.
And don’t forget part 1 and part 2.
Here are the songs that have been added since June 16th.
- Ten4One: “I Believe”
- Alive in Stone: “Slave”
- Sourworm: “Kill the World”
- Pulsifier: “Scars”
- Crobot: “Come Down”
- Ariias: “A Delicate Balance”
- Central: “Black Dahlia”
- Glis: “Yesterday’s Anthems”
- Preacher Red: “Eye to Eye”
- Painted Lines: “Didn’t Get Your Name”
- DEATH CODE: “Pain” (ft. CRYBLOOD)
- Enemy Within: “The Final Suffering”
- Dayshaper: “Solidarity”
- The Renascent: “For You”
- Witchz: “LA$ VEGA$”
- Flat Black: “Sideways”
- The Stone Eye: “High Frequency Hog”
- Cruel Mourning: “Dead on Arrival”
- Silk Parlor: “Holding Me Up”
- NiNeO3: “I Know”
- Bullet to the Heart: “Freeze”
- The Funeral Portrait: “Suffocate City” (ft. Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills)
- Positivity Club: “Stop So Hard”
- One World (R)evolution: “Fractured”
- 3 Bravo: “Awake”
- Blacklist Union: “Horns and Halos”
- Bödel: “Bilan Faller”
- Desert Kites: “Holiday”
- We Are The Storm: “Obsidian”
- Ease!: “In This Room”
- Feathers For Fuel: “Winds”
- Fading Echoes: “Vultures”
- Earth Attack: “Dream”
- Crossbreed: “The Killer Inside”
- Young Other: “All Alright” (ft. Emily Rae)
- Burn the Ballroom: “Story of the End”
- Endless Chain: “We Are We”
- Dirty Rivals: “Lost”
- Hooked Like Helen: “OCD (these thoughts again)”
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “See This Through”
- Altamadum: “A Criminal Mind” (ft. Skyler Pretty)
- A Fatal Black: “DedHed (Welcome to the Graveyard)”
- By All Means: “Redesign”
- The Murder of Jane Crow: “Wicked Ways”
- Honeyknife: “Stay Bored”
- Carsex: “Crooked Canvas”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 5/5/24)
Welcome to the first update of The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Part 3! Be sure to visit the first two parts, featuring releases from January through April: partes uno y dos.
Here are the songs that have been added since April 21st.
- Innocents Torn: “Broken Dollz”
- Reddex: “FLASHBANG”
- nightjar: “Molecules”
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “Sunrise”
- Graypath: “Monster”
- Coyote GoLightly: “Captivated”
- Sun Order: “Leaders of the Fight”
- Vivianite: “Pitch Black”
- NO BODIES: “No Bodies”
- Doomboyz: “Lysergic Solution”
- rose cold: “falling off”
- Miss FD: “Syndicated”
- Shallow Side: “Filters” (ft. Elias Soriano of Nonpoint)
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “The Dream”
- One Day Alive: “Addicted Again”
- Mike’s Dead: “Bestrafe Mich”
- Topher Music: “Let Her Go”
- Neon Society: “Heliocentricity”
- Fevercast: “Shove It Down”
- Solely Veil: “Unravel”
- Deep as Ocean: “The Dawn”
- Crooked Pilots: “Collapsing Star” (ft. Devon Lisenby)
- EarlyRise: “The Villain”
- Powerman 5000: “Dancing Like We’re Dead”
- Priest: “Black Venom”
- Modern Mimes: “Bridge to Clarity”
- Hands Like Houses: “Hollow”
- Alive in Stone: “Two Piece Town”
- The Lürxx: “We Are The Weeds”
- Ikana: “Colorblind”
- Autumn Dreams: “The Seer”
- Edge of Destiny: “Set My Soul on Fire”
- The Props: “Get Off”
- The Props: “Echoes”
- Livekill: “Crushing Blows”
- Divide the Fall: “Death of Me”
- Shannon Darcy: “Just Worried Because”
- Nathan James + Arankai: “Paranormal”
- Circuit Preacher: “Subtext”
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