- Shadows Calling – The Other Side of Me [1/1]
- Elktooth – Elktooth [1/2]
- King’s Gambit – Hardwater [1/2]
- Skeleton – Seven Gates of Hell [1/2]
- Glis – Winterwerk, Vol. 2 [1/9]
- Witchz – The Collapse [1/9]
- Midnight Fracture – Ghost Inside [1/16]
- EPHMRL – As We Collide [1/16]
- Ninety Five – Welcome [1/18]
- husk – Mirror [1/22]
- Cryblood – Fall [1/23]
- Solely Veil – Reverie [1/23]
- December Morning – Stolen Days [1/23]
- Virtue in Vain – Nothing is All I Am [1/23]
- Remergent – Transcendence [1/26]
- Saint Social – Saint Social Acoustic Remix EP [1/28]
- Hortus – Szepty [1/30]
- Lo Cloud – Sleepwalker EP [1/30]
- The Venusian – Lost Record [2/2]
- ghostbells – Catacouture [2/5]
- Paeon – Pull [2/6]
- Half Awake Eyes – Half Awake Eyes [2/11]
- Announce the Apocalypse – Waiting for Daylight [2/13]
- RewØund + Fear Decay – Dream With Me [2/13]
- Unseen Faith – Fractured Will [2/13]
- Forever Odyssey – Searching for Paradise [2/19]
- Blessings of Mara – After Despair [2/19]
- Moon Medallion – Radiation EP [2/20]
- Scoria – Do You Feel You’re Normal? [2/20]
- Crispin Earl – The Sleep Token Edition [2/27]
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2025 Covers You May Have Missed
I am working on the Top 50 of 2025, and I realized that there were quite a few covers released last year. I don’t include cover songs on that list, so I thought I’d share them here.
- Amerakin Overdose: “Genie in a Bottle” (Christina Aguilera cover)
- Næŕok, Steeno: “3” (Britney Spears cover)
- Boze: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (Charlie Daniels cover)
- Gillsaw: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Priest: “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak cover)
- Waiting at the Bridge: “Love Gun” (KISS cover)
- Kings County: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Damned Anthem, Lola Rhodes: “Heart-Shaped Box” (Nirvana cover)
- Silent Theory, Crispin Earl: “Pardon Me” (Incubus cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Love is a Battlefield” (Pat Benatar cover)
- RedPrint: “Stranglehold” (Ted Nugent cover)
- Rise to Ruin: “Paranoid” (Black Sabbath cover)
- Cirkus: “Crazy Train” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
- P.O.D.: “Don’t Let Me Down” (The Beatles cover)
- Blackjacket: “Grenade” (Bruno Mars cover)
- Nick Nasty: “Seven Nation Army” (The White Stripes cover)
- Feverlust: “That’s So True” (Gracie Abrams cover)
- We’re Wolves: “Bark at the Moon” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
- 9th Evolution: “Cry Little Sister” (Gerard McMahon cover)
- Kissing Candice: “Bodies” (Drowning Pool cover)
- Kings of Karma: “Run Rudolph Run” (Chuck Berry cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (Harry Reser and His Orchestra cover)
- Shallow Side: “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” (Elton John cover)
- Amerakin Overdose: “Feliz Navidad” (José Feliciano cover)
- ENMY: “Incomplete” (Backstreet Boys cover)
- KillDevil Theory: “Tom Sawyer” (Rush cover)
- Kalamity Kills: “Help!” (The Beatles cover)
- Nail Bite: “Nutshell” (Alice in Chains cover)
Also – Crispin Earl of The Veer Union released Covers Collection, Vol. 2 on December 5th, which includes his renditions of “The Kill” by Thirty Seconds to Mars, “Even in Arcadia” by Sleep Token, and more!
Albums Released From October to December 2025
- Daughters of Mara – I Am Destroyer [10/3]
- Bullet to the Heart – Echoes: The Final Chapter [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]
- Starver – The Silent Letter [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]
- Ghosts Are Here – Under [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]
- Distant Legacy – The Lighthouse’s Fate [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]
- Crispin Earl – Covers Collection, Vol. 2 [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]
- Matti Hoffman – Ascend [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]
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 2024 Playlist, Pt. 1 (Updated 1/14/24)
Happy New Year! We’re only two weeks in to 2024, and there has already been a lot of fantastic music released. I have compiled as many singles from the past fourteen days as I can into a Spotify playlist. This year, I’m doing a separate playlist for every three months instead of four, so there will be four parts total.
Here are the songs added from January 1st to today, January 14th.
- Devils Envy: “nightstalkers”
- AM FALL: “Mr. Rigatoni’s Circus Jabronis”
- AM FALL: “You Can’t Have a Panda, Without the Monium”
- The Fifth: “Starlight”
- The Veer Union: “Before It’s The End” (Acoustic)
- Wicked Playground: “RazOr”
- morino: “Monologue”
- Rail Rage: “Gatling Gun”
- Pariah System: “Kingdom of Madness”
- Lucifer: “Maculate Heart”
- All or Nothing: “Escape”
- Alive in Stone: “Down in a Hole”
- Die Tired: “Play” (Acoustic)
- A Scent Like Wolves: “Interstellar” (ft. Marcus Vik)
- Alien Cannibal: “Suffer Me”
- Isolation Forest: “Docking”
- Hayden Helms: “Motive Behind the Move”
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