- House of Warwick – Lost in Hypnosis [7/1]
- Loosely Sewn – LS-1 [7/1]
- SFINX – SFINX [7/8]
- Moonfall – Hope at the Edge of Spring [7/11]
- Ded En – The Gala [7/18]
- Anaria – Chasing Shadows [8/1]
- Stain the Canvas – Inevitable [8/1]
- Phobias – This Was All For Nothing [8/7]
- Miss FD – Euphoria [8/8]
- Servants øf Sleep – 2.0/ [8/12]
- something else together. – see through [8/16]
- Ex Okay – Black EP [8/22]
- The Funeral Portrait – Dark Thoughts EP [8/22]
- Collide – Freaks Me Out [8/22]
- Glass Lungs – Afterglow [8/22]
- Shadow Reborn – The Magnificence of Agony, Pt. 1 [9/5]
- SINthetik Messiah + Moose Harris – Pyramid Schemes [9/6]
- Hunter and the Cold Hearts Club – Till the Flesh Falls [9/10]
- Flür – Your Way [9/19]
Anaria
EPs Released From April to June 2025
- Hand of the Tribe – Makinas, Vol. 1 [4/4]
- Wraithlurk – Suffering [4/4]
- Rise to Ruin – The Alchemy EP [4/4]
- Once Unnoticed – Forever Again [4/5]
- In Passing – In Passing [4/11]
- postdrome – Postdrome [4/15]
- Jutes – The End [4/23]
- Traverse the Abyss – Memento Mori [4/25]
- Death Valley High – U DON’T KNOW WHAT UR ASKING [4/25]
- Bad Valentines – Memory Tattoos [4/25]
- Valtozash – Sundered Synapses [5/2]
- The Journals Kept – Strike the Match [5/2]
- Anaria – Spark of Life [5/9]
- I Was the Crown – Broken Wings [6/1]
- StarrShine – As a Kid [6/5]
- Kumiko – The Space Between [6/7]
- Atomic Fate – Try It… You Might Like It!!! [6/10]
- Eayondig – Ivory Eye [6/11]
- L.O.U.D. – FM Broadcast [6/13]
- Traverse the Abyss – Memento Mori (Instrumental) [6/13]
- Lucretia Death – Half Dead [6/20]
- Priest – Chaos EP [6/20]
- Stain the Canvas – Gattini [6/27]
- Have I Weather – Porch Sessions [6/27]
- splinter kid – Control Freak [6/27]
- The Lucidia Project – The Twilight Affliction [6/30]
EPs Released From January to March 2025
As stated in the Albums Released From January to March 2025 post, I am handling the announcement of album and EP releases differently this year. I will be sharing a list every 3 months rather than every 6.
Please note that whenever possible, I have linked the artist’s Apple Music profile. I still use Spotify because of its convenience, but I respect that many are struggling with monetary decisions made by the streaming service and will send traffic to your other platforms if I can. (Release dates may vary depending on when the EP was uploaded to Apple.)
- Atta Guns – The Heart and the Mind Have Nothing in Common [1/1]
- ZombieSuckers – Captain Morgue and His Deadbeats [1/8]
- King Saltine – III [1/10]
- Monster Truck – Monster Truck Monday, Vol. 2 [1/13]
- Storm Kingdom – The Savage Garden [1/13]
- GHOSTHVRT – Neon Sin [1/17]
- The Reckless – Who Are You? [1/17]
- Midnight For Now – In the End [1/23]
- Circuit Preacher – Killed Something [1/24]
- Still Echoes – Self (Titled) [1/30]
- Illusions of Grandeur – The Siren Rises, Pt. 1: The Witch [1/31]
- Salaryman – Salaryman [2/1]
- Ghost of the Sun – Black Flower [2/3]
- Monster Truck – Monster Truck Monday, Vol. 3 [2/3]
- Cresthaven – For What It’s Worth [2/8]
- Darkriver – 004 [2/14]
- Fuzzy Death Machine – Culinary Slut [2/21]
- Ruin the Mind – Queen of the Damned (Reloaded) [2/22]
- Circuit Preacher – Torture God [2/28]
- Tropic Gold – Sick to Death of Everything [3/7]
- Take the W – Head in the Sky [3/10]
- f1oater. – Amnesia State of Mind [3/14]
- Who on Earth – Smoke & Mirrors [3/14]
- The Funeral March of the Marionettes – It All Falls Apart [3/14]
- No Fly List – No Fly List [3/17]
- Atlases – Penumbra: Recast [3/19]
- Gillsaw – Fog Watch [3/21]
- Sage – Heartwired [3/21]
- Moonfall – Stillness of Winter [3/21]
- Anaria – Curtain Fall [3/27]
- Adelitas Way – Deja Vu EP [3/28]
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 1 (Updated 1/31/25)
This is the second, and final, playlist update for January. I have already begun compiling my Top 50 of 2025 – I think this year is going to be difficult to narrow down… (I say that every year, but I already have 6 contenders and it’s not even February. If that happens every month, my life is going to be a challenge come December. Ha ha!)
Here are the tracks that have been added to the playlist since January 14th. You can view the list in its entirety here.
- Blank Labels: “Drive”
- Danny Worsnop: “Ain’t No Use”
- Elirah’s Cross: “The Walk” (ft. Histheory)
- Not Enough Space: “Solace in Silence”
- Sloans Grove: “Above It All”
- The Lycan: “Memento”
- Against the Sun: “Pieces” (ft. Alibis)
- The Mysterious Bruises: “Cold Long Nights”
- Never the Name: “Consequences”
- The Bettors: “Never Change”
- Dethamphetamine: “Brains”
- Gnostician: “Dwarf Star Partition”
- Silent WVLF: “Elation”
- Last Good Thing: “Wish You Were”
- Van Berlain: “Glass House”
- Featured: “Just Another Day” (ft. Rose Berlin)
- HotWax: “One More Reason”
- Seven Year Witch: “Blue Flower, Red Thorns”
- little image: “The Pressure”
- By the River: “Bridges”
- Dimensionist: “Syntagma”
- MNYKR: “Sweat With Me” (ft. Greco Ray)
- Mandatory Affect: “Transient”
- Mandatory Affect: “Letters to the Lost”
- Lift the Curse: “Save Me”
- Levana: “Set Me Free”
- Swim the Current: “Right Your Wrong”
- One Day Alive: “The Calling”
- Young Other: “Iron Horse”
- Shinedown: “Dance, Kid, Dance”
- Shinedown: “Three Six Five”
- Bad Valentines: “Last Days in the Sun”
- SKNN: “Radioactive”
- The Fiction We Create: “Knightfall”
- Any Given Sin: “Rest for the Wicked”
- TJ Marzonie: “Blame It on the Devil”
- Kissing Lilith: “More Than Worth It”
- Bridges Ablaze: “Heartless”
- Photon Flux: “Hypofrontality”
- Damien Graves: “Skyfall” (ft. Forsaken Silence)
- Disconnected: “We Carry On”
- Landslide: “Lost”
- Robbie Ekblom Jr.: “Darkness Befalls” (ft. Hall of Lost)
- Out of Body: “The Hold Up”
- Deadcode: “Don’t Let Me Go”
- SkyMuseum: “Unawake” (ft. Adam Faris)
- Feverlust: “1000 Memories”
- Draven: “Hollowed Penance”
- The Split: “Son of New Ages”
- Jay Gearhart: “Faced With Hate”
- Gemini Syndrome: “Suffer in Silence”
- Krysis: “The Summit’s Ice”
- Call of Sirens: “Siren”
- Mr. Strange: “Easy Come, Easy Go”
- Matte Blvck: “Vicious Dreams”
- Effing and Blinding: “We’re All Gonna Get It”
- Boogeymvn: “Once Upon a Dream”
- Boogeymvn: “I Feel Nothing”
- Mean Silver Machine: “Motorcycle Rock”
- Adelitas Way: “What If You Go?”
- Anaria: “Stay”
- AGBAT: “Fair Winds”
- Glis: “Street Dragon Ninja”
- Glis: “A Different Dream”
- Seethe: “Mandela Effect”
- No Fly List: “Tension”
- Dead Rabbitts: “Artificial Gods” (ft. Escape the Fate, HIGHSOCIETY, and Judge & Jury)
- Traverse the Abyss: “Reasoning”
- When Hearts Wither: “I’ll Wait For Your Return, My Friend”
- Into Elysium: “Her Name Was”
- Hands Like Houses: “Fatally Fractured”
- The Truth Music: “The Peace I Need”
- The Space Turtles: “IPV”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Afterlife”
- The Immaculate Crows: “Shylene”
- Storm Kingdom: “The Fall of the Morning Star”
- Seas on the Moon: “The Trailhead” (ft. Eissa Morphide)
- Enemy of Fate: “Killswitch”
- Verging on Hopeless: “Turning Away”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 5 (Updated 9/22/24)
September has flown by. There have been several notable releases – not only singles, but also albums/EPs – and I’m still finding music that dropped near the end of August! Lol. So naturally, I am going to encourage y’all to check out every installment of the 2024 playlist.
Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4
Here are the songs I’ve added to part 5 since 9/8/24.
- Vestite: “13.affection”
- Zero Micro Heaven: “Crazy People”
- Firmament: “Beneddictional” (ft. Alex Hunter)
- The Damn Devils: “Rare Breed”
- Oak Winter Red: “The Real Truth”
- Travis Black: “Fake’s Hit 222”
- The Ovtfit: “Isolate”
- Red Eleven: “Path”
- Hollow Intent: “Unchained”
- GXTP: “Couldn’t Keep the Faith” (ft. Faris Zahid)
- Nothing Like Robots: “all natural”
- Eric Sleeper: “Midnight Robber”
- Coralee: “Phantom Pain”
- Gunshine: “Bayou”
- DGMA: “Fall Out of My Jaw”
- Blind Channel: “Everybody (Bloodbros Back)”
- Red Melting: “Light Shines Through”
- Neon Nightmare: “She’s Drowning”
- Siren of the Sun: “Follow Along”
- Supahoney: “I Wish”
- Tremonti: “The Mother, the Earth, and I”
- Bad Bubble: “In Pursuit of Something to Care About”
- Eyes To End: “Pilot”
- Hillhaven: “Liar”
- The Fiction We Create: “The Void’s Calling”
- Sunmancer: “Doom Temple”
- Anaria: “Trigger”
- The Red Crow: “Haunted Eyes”
- Mindistry: “Titan”
- Krushya: “Unholy Trinity”
- Rat Silo: “Cantrustaman”
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”
My Top 50 Songs of 2023
I tried to trim my list down to 30, the way I did last year, but it was impossible. For one thing, I started compiling singles for 2023 in January – last year, I got a late start. And for another thing, there have been way too many good songs released over the past twelve months!
So here are my top 50 songs of 2023 (in no particular order). And here is a link to the full playlist!
- Alive in Stone: “Fatboy”
- Katatonia: “Birds”
- Riverside: “Friend or Foe?”
- Animals as Leaders: “Red Miso”
- The Banishment: “Got What You Wanted”
- Lions at the Gate: “The Ledge”
- Fire Follows: “Say Words”
- Deadly Vices: “Notice Me”
- Kissing Candice: “Inveterate”
- Citizen Soldier + Royal Bliss: “Through Hell”
- Black Water Rising: “Hail Mary”
- Welcome Eternity: “Slave to the Crown”
- Moonfall: “Eyelids Closing Shut” (ft. Crystal Joilena)
- DK-Zero: “Nightmare”
- ANOXIA: “Earthbound” (ft. Corey James of Carbonstone)
- Saint Tragedy: “Limbo”
- City and Colour: “F**ked It Up”
- Kamelot: “Eventide”
- Band of Wolves: “On the Wagon”
- Carbonstone: “Damaged Like You”
- Linx: “Crystal Jellyfish”
- Breathing Theory: “The Cure”
- New Medicine: “Past the Past”
- Is MAN KIND: “25 to Life”
- Dark Remedy: “Haunted”
- Seven Year Witch: “Mark Cuban”
- Matt James: “Wait It Out”
- Bent Self: “Sunshine”
- Death Valley Dreams: “Ships in the Night”
- 3 Pill Morning: “Ethereal”
- Of Limbo: “California Demon”
- Stain the Canvas: “friXion”
- Patient Sixty-Seven, VRSTY: “Bad Habit”
- Rose Devika: “slow burn”
- Heartsick, Sapphire Noel: “Sadness”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Disconnect”
- Any Given Sin: “Cold Bones”
- Storm Kingdom: “Empires”
- The Props: “Target Practice”
- The BRKN: “FANGS”
- The Funeral Portrait: “Dark Thoughts”
- Lethal Injektion, Waylon Reavis: “Never Free”
- Divine Shade, Steve Fox-Harris: “Oublier”
- Rikets: “Infected and Controlled”
- Doom Groove Orchestra: “Why”
- Anaria: “Freakshow”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Ready to Burn”
- Silver Bullet Smile: “Man in the Moon”
- 2 Shadows: “Fading From Misery”
- Gears: “My Curse (Mi Maldición)”
The Mostly Music 2023 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 12/3/23)
Visit the full playlist here. And check out Part 1 and Part 2!
Below is a list of songs that I’ve added to part 3 since 11/19/23.
- Crywolf, The Kids: “Take This Weight”
- Xero Hour: “Black Flag”
- As the Sky Went Black: “Lucky 13”
- Televised Mind: “Masks”
- Robots Are Dix: “Rainbow Sun”
- The Exceptional Mr. Hyde: “Solemn Power”
- Fidite Nemini: “Let It Go”
- Drunk and Lonely: “Heartstrings”
- Luke S. Williams: “I Wonder”
- Anaria: “The Sandman”
- Anaria: “Freakshow”
- Lovely Machine: “GOING UNDER”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Ready to Burn”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Something Wrong”
- Of Chains: “Reconsider the Source”
- Zammek: “Roisterer”
- Armored Dawn: “Wayfaring Stranger”
- The Props: “Warpath”
- Etched in Embers: “Happy Song”
- Across the Frostlands: “Behind That Door”
- Knightfall: “Farewell” (ft. Jessica Mercy, Pete Rawcliffe, Patrick Goble, and George Acker)
- The Motor Control: “Last December”
- Against the Storm: “Lord of the Flies”
- Lifting Curses: “Heartscrossed”
- DENIGH: “Bed of Nails”
- Nils Ursin: “Purified”
- Highway Jones: “Rock and Roll Dress”
- Would You Kindly?: “Blood in the Water”
- Mad Wet Sea: “The Hunter”
- Kings of Karma: “Them Wheels”
- Unite!: “Fire (Feel the Flame)”
- Arcana Rising: “Rainsong”
- Seventh Fall: “Hey Pablo”
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