- Daughters of Mara – I Am Destroyer [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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
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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”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 10 (Updated 10/16/25)
IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!
Sorry, y’all. I just love spooky season!
Anyway, here is the first batch of October releases. Be sure to check out the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist; this year has seen some bangers, and we still have two months to go!
- Secrets: “Paralyzed”
- The Red Clay Strays: “People Hatin'”
- Moonscape: “A Place to Call Home”
- Living Dead Girl: “Succubus”
- Dark Remedy: “Someway, Somehow”
- The Edge of Reason: “Drum Show”
- Storm Kingdom: “In the Shadow of Persephone” (ft. Joe Booe)
- Hands Like Houses: “Love & Affection”
- Fright: “Intergalactic”
- Bryce Savage: “Yes Daddy”
- Seas on the Moon: “Edge of Reason” (ft. Thomas Polychuck and Lena Scissorhands)
- Citizen Soldier: “Worth It All”
- ExitWounds: “Death Walk” (ft. Left to Suffer)
- Matt James: “Something to Burn”
- Alter Bridge: “What Lies Within”
- Motif Hive: “Unit”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Sick”
- Wuthering Waves: “Aphelion [Galbrena’s Lullaby]” (ft. Crywolf)
- The Rasmus: “Creatures of Chaos” (ft. Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman)
- Mac Saturn: “Takes Time”
- Wraithlurk: “Secrets After Midnight”
- Cirkus: “One in a Million”
- Unhappily Ever Now: “To the Light”
- Left to Suffer: “This Comfort Won’t Last Here Long”
- Matte Blvck: “Soulless”
- Paper Shrine: “Fasting”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 8 (Updated 8/31/25)
I made it through August and it’s blistering heat – and miserable humidity – with the help of some amazing bands/artists! Here are the songs that have been added to part eight of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist since August 16th.
- Covenant of None: “Goodbye”
- Somber-Side: “Daydream”
- Ritual Howls: “Follow the Sun”
- Kain: “Fall of Man”
- From Fall to Spring: “Blood”
- Vicious Rain: “Spitting Blood Again”
- Mean Silver Machine: “Summer Days”
- Haunting Ghosts: “Blessed With a Hex”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Can You See Me – Remix” (ft. Zenaro)
- Living Dead Girl: “We’ll All Be Dead”
- Xero Hour: “Bend the Knee”
- Citizen Soldier: “Too Loud”
- We Are The Virus: “Roadkill South”
- Pandemic at Midnight: “Almost Made It Out Alive”
- Sammy Jay Love: “Fading Love” (ft. Victor Borba)
- Killing Connor: “Sunk Cost Fallacy”
- Saints of No One: “Look Around (what do you see)”
- Shattered Colors: “Dark Minds”
- High pulse: “Think Twice”
- MELØ: “Follow You, Follow Me”
- Frankie Finito: “Lullaby”
- The Isolated Brigade: “Can You Feel It Coming?”
- Odd Project: “Sound the Alarm!”
- The Twin: “The Void”
- Brandon Gullion: “Over My Head”
- BlindStrike: “Flowers”
- Moth Tax: “Trophies”
- 6deep: “Leech”
- 9 Dead: “God of Mine”
- Induction: “Dark Temptation”
- Terminals: “Faith”
- Sleeptalker: “Kingdom of Glass”
- EarlyRise: “Paper Empire”
- Parhelyon: “Stygma”
- Overthrow: “Tribute”
- Wolves in Wait: “Withered and Tired”
- Stellar Circuits: “I See Your Spirit”
- Archers Rise: “Get Away”
- The Jötunn: “Blood Flower”
- THEHERO: “Burnout”
- Elliott Rubin: “Nosedive – Long Island Heartthrob Remix” (ft. Benny Reid)
- SFINX: “Golden” (ft. RinRin and Dal Av)
- Feverlust: “That’s So True”
- Storm Kingdom: “Infidel” (ft. K.A.R.L.)
- Hall of Lost: “Scavengers” (ft. Robbie Ekblom, Jr.)
- The CyberTones: “Not So Grateful Dead”
- Wraithlurk: “Skinned”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Long, Strange Trip”
- Shallow Side: “Antilight” (Acoustic)
- Cryblood: “Deep Cuts”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Domino”
- Saints of No One: “Sleepwalking Through Life”
- Georgi: “Break Me” (Aesthetic Perfection remix)
- Shadows of Spectres: “we are not alone.”
- Shadows of Spectres: “memorial for the departed.”
- Husk Bloom: “Fiction Wears Off”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 7 (Updated 7/16/25)
Be sure to check out the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist!
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Here is the first batch of tracks released in July!
- Loosely Sewn: “Just Let Go”
- MissFit Toys: “Heart Sick” (Remastered)
- Shinedown: “Three Six Five” (Acoustic Version)
- Frayle: “Walking Wounded”
- Sever Red: “One More Time”
- NOFUTURE: “Loner”
- Die Tired: “Fall Forever”
- THEHERO: “The Howitzer”
- Sailing Before The Wind + POET The Band: “Catch the Sunlight” (Reimagined)
- Glis: “Amor Fati”
- A Fatal Black: “Swan Song”
- Feverlust: “feed off the vine”
- Stone Lions: “Another Night”
- RedPrint: “I Think It’s Called Dave”
- Boze: “Syllable Killa”
- Psycho Pact: “El Pacto”
- Letauro: “Scorpion Woman”
- The Fear In Us: “Sick of You”
- New Medicine: “Personal”
- The Essence: “Entropy”
- Living Dead Girl: “Poison Me”
- Loose Lips: “Crash”
- Storm Kingdom: “Fallen Grace”
- Matte Blvck: “Monument” (ft. Computerbandit)
- Crywolf: “Anachronism” (Hushed Version ft. Roniit and Maigan Kennedy)
- Revolution Rabbit Deluxe: “Friend or Foe”
- King 810: “Generation Pain” (ft. Left to Suffer)
- A Killer’s Confession: “Facts”
- Violet Dawn: “I Sat at Home”
- Seilies: “Descension”
- Citizen Soldier: “Sit in Your Shadows”
- Mortica: “Burn”
- Shinedown: “Killing Fields”
- Xero Hour: “Salem Burns”
- Lift the Curse: “Love is a Battlefield” (Pat Benatar cover)
- Jay Gearhart: “Smoke and Mirrors”
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. 5 (Updated 5/31/25)
The second half of May has come in as strong as the first! Check out these tracks that have been released since May 16th.
- Animate Experience: “Onyx”
- The Modern Kollective: “Dreams and Nightmares”
- Azarene: “Memories”
- Falling in Reverse: “God is a Weapon” (ft. Marilyn Manson)
- Lady Strange & the Rites: “High Strangeness”
- Razorwire Halo: “As Good As” (ft. r3nrut)
- A Beautiful Scar: “Never Break”
- Shadow Reborn: “Grave of Roses”
- SKNN: “Bow Down”
- obli_x_vion: “Bird to Prey” (ft. Tyler Noxwind)
- Dark Divine: “Make Me Disappear”
- A Killer’s Confession: “Hollow”
- Ballyhoo!: “Swim”
- Them Damn Dogs: “Weirdo”
- Seethe: “Banshee”
- 40 Below Summer: “King Ghidorah”
- Priest: “My Lonely Heart”
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “3 Visits”
- Third in Theory: “Clay”
- Bleeker: “Self-Made”
- Heartsick: “Break the Curse”
- Cirkus: “Know Yourself”
- Danny Worsnop: “Harder Than the Hard Stuff”
- Sick Century: “Demon Inside”
- Wider Eaves: “Half the Way Undone”
- Shape: “Husk”
- Left to Suffer: “Anon” (ft. King 810)
- Above Snakes: “Forsaken”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Devil Said”
- Painted Lines: “Better Off”
- Moonfall: “Light Blue Flowers”
- Closed City Terror: “Teflon Idiot”
- Storm Kingdom: “Raindrops Fall on Stained Glass Petals” (ft. Joe Booe)
- Stain the Canvas: “554th”
- Citizen Soldier: “Life Support”
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Alix Street”
- Anchor & Braille: “Sweet Jesus Knows”
- Midnight For Now: “Friends”
- Host of Nightmare: “Diamond”
- Carbonstone: “Standoff” (ft. Jonny Santos of Spineshank)
- Caelum Wraith: “Are You Still You?”
- Hooked Like Helen: “Quote Unquote Life”
Be sure to visit the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist. You could discover your new favorite song/artist!
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!