Cold Clay Mountain
He Is Legend: Suck Out the Poison 20th Anniversary Tour
Hard rockers He Is Legend have shared the dates for the second part of their Suck Out the Poison 20th anniversary tour. This spring run boasts support from A Lot Like Birds, along with special guests Cold Clay Mountain, Lost in Separation, or Softspoken. Tickets and VIP packages are available at linktr.ee.com/heislegend!
- 4/7 – Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819*
- 4/8 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Hell)*
- 4/10 – San Antonio, TX – Rock Box*
- 4/11 – Houston, TX – Bad Astronaut Brewing*
- 4/12 – Dallas, TX – Puzzles Deep Ellum*
- 4/14 – Phoenix, AZ – Rosetta Room+
- 4/16 – San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick+
- 4/17 – Anaheim, CA – Parish @ House of Blues+
- 4/18 – Roseville, CA – Goldfield Trading Post+
- 4/19 – Reno, CA – Club Underground+
- 4/21 – Portland, OR – Dante’s+
- 4/22 – Tacoma, WA – Airport Tavern+
- 4/24 – Denver, CO – The Oriental Theater+
- 4/25 – Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theatre+
- 4/28 – Minneapolis, MN – Underground+
- 4/29 – West Chicago, IL – WC Social Club^
- 4/30 – Columbus, OH – King of Clubs^
- 5/1 – Nashville, TN – Eastside Bowl^
* w/Cold Clay Mountain
+ w/Lost in Separation
^ w/Softspoken
My Top 50 Songs of 2025
This list is rolling out a lot later than usual, and I’ve gotta be honest – it’s because I failed so miserably at keeping up with releases last year. I mean, I added tracks to my playlist and shared them here, as well as on Facebook and Insta, but I didn’t sit and listen to them until recently. I’ll do better this year, I swear!
And now, here are the fifty songs that really jumped out at me in 2025. A few things to be aware of: I do not rank the tracks in any particular order, and I do not include major label artists (or I try not to, at any rate), nor do I include covers. Last but not least, no band/artist can have more than one song on the list.
View the full playlist HERE.
- Element 117: “Vision”
- SKNN: “Digital Zombies”
- Could You Not?: “Backpedal”
- Hooked Like Helen: “Quote Unquote Life”
- The Fiction We Create: “More Than Scars”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Push”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Long, Strange Trip”
- Boze: “I Will Go”
- The CyberTones: “Red Flags Flying”
- Deadcode: “Don’t Let Me Go”
- AGBAT: “Fair Winds”
- Sever Red: “Conjuring”
- Endless May: “Call My Name”
- Absolutist: “Lineage”
- Elirah’s Cross: “The Walk” (ft. Histheory)
- Matte Blvck: “Vicious Dreams”
- Alchemy Within: “The Call”
- In Passing: “Silhouette”
- A Fatal Black: “Kill the Lights”
- Stellar Circuits: “Bury the Ashes”
- mothshade: “Labyrinth”
- New Dilemma: “Ice Cold Hands” (ft. Chloe Robin)
- Czarina: “Fall Damage” (ft. Circuit Preacher)
- postdrome: “So Inviting”
- Cold Clay Mountain: “These Hands”
- Krysis: “The Summit’s Ice”
- Adelitas Way + New Medicine: “Rollin'”
- Blackwood: “One Track Mind” (ft. Kameron Jane)
- The Black Zodiac: “Gallow’s Call”
- No Fly List: “The Rush”
- Voice of Glass: “Henosis”
- Nights in Prada: “Thorns in Silk” (ft. Sara Rayne)
- Divide the Fall: “Beyond the Surface”
- War Inside: “Hollow Points”
- Ethereal Treason: “Ivory”
- Mirrorcell: “U(phoria)”
- Noir Addiction: “Chemical Bride”
- Phantom of Pop: “Sugar Sin”
- Almera: “Retrograde”
- Stellar: “Outta My League”
- Kings of Karma: “Falling to Pieces”
- Wraithlurk: “One More Lie” (ft. $KIMMY)
- Rise to Ruin: “Archaic”
- Danger Silent: “To Whoever’s Left, Pt. 2”
- Hallowtide: “O Captain”
- MAK: “Fever”
- The Mercury Seed: “Disappear”
- vasthearts: “such a shame” (ft. romziie and Leø)
- AnonTheory: “Thoughts and Prayers”
- We Brought the Storm: “Heavy Rain”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 8 (Updated 8/16/25)
It’s August, which means summer is coming to its end (yay), and I have turned another year older (ugh). It also means the eighth installment of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist is here!
Don’t forget to check out parts one through seven after you dive into these recent additions!
- Bury the Masses: “Who I Smoke” (Reimagined with Berran Lee and Black Cat Bill)
- Seas on the Moon: “Never Fair” (ft. Lena Scissorhands)
- Rise to Ruin: “Paranoid”
- Jungle Dream: “Legion”
- The Thing With Feathers: “So Electric”
- Cold Clay Mountain: “Bury Me”
- Storm Kingdom: “The Fall of Agramemnon”
- Awake at Last: “GhØst GhØst GhØst”
- Crywolf: “DRIP [hushed]” (ft. Maigan Kennedy)
- Run the River: “Can We Go Back”
- Sikari: “Deceiver”
- Gloomclub: “Welcome to the Club”
- AsFireFalls: “Stay”
- Silence Reigns: “Dipsomania”
- Low Knife: “I’m Lost”
- Inhuman Shimmer: “Hikikomori”
- Above Snakes: “Waking the Savage”
- FOAMER: “Slenderman”
- SFINX: “Sold My Soul” (ft. Keep Close)
- Stellan: “At Least For Now”
- Aeternum: “Bite My Tongue”
- Hunter and the Cold Hearts Club: “I Die Happily”
- Topher Music: “I Think I’m Gonna Go”
- Seven Year Witch: “Big For My Britches”
- Seethe: “PostScript”
- Inhuman Shimmer: “Please Hold, Pt. 1”
- Stellar: “Outta My League”
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”
