- Cemetery Skyline – Nordic Gothic (Deluxe Edition) [5/1]
- Reaper – Liberation [5/1]
- Sevendust – One [5/1]
- Underground Springhouse – A Noise Without a Name [5/1]
- NVTURES GHOST – I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream [5/1]
- Slaves Wage – Omnia Nova [5/1]
- Scattered Hamlet – Tangled Web [5/5]
- Crashdïet – Art of Chaos [5/8]
- Hillbilly Vegas – Á LA MODE [5/8]
- mothshade – Revenant [5/8]
- The Wandering Willows – The Light & the Dark [5/8]
- Saint Social – Saint Social Live From The Sanctuary [5/13]
- Self Deception – One of Us [5/15]
- The Hollow – The Hollow [5/15]
- Gasoline Invertebrate – Black Lists Matter [5/15]
- Heathensun – Adios [5/15]
- Black Cloud – Life Without Summer [5/20]
- Black Heart Gypsy – Into Darker Times [5/22]
- Valley Lights – Devil May Care [5/22]
- Static Dress – Injury Episode [5/28]
- Dark Divine – Undead Melody [5/29]
- Shinedown – EI8HT [5/29]
- Paul McCartney – The Boys of Dungeon Lane [5/29]
- Baarhus – Songs Under a Darkened Sky [5/29]
- The Cruel Intentions – All Hail Hypocrisy [5/29]
- Whale Watching – Remember to Love Before You Die [6/4]
- Evanescence – Sanctuary [6/5]
- The Red Clay Strays – Grateful [6/5]
- Cruel Mourning – Modern Tension [6/5]
- Christopher Ardra – Saw It in a Dream [6/5]
- seaspyre choir – spiral survival [6/5]
- Makes My Blood Dance – #Z3RO 2 LGHT $P33D! [6/5]
- BLiTZ – Bitter Me [6/12]
- Rice Thief – The Hard Way [6/19]
- Muse – The Wow! Signal [6/26]
- Nachtmahr – IMPERIVM [6/26]
Dark Divine
Dark Divine: The Shallow Graves Tour 2026
Tickets/VIP: darkdivineofficial.com
- 3/4 – Worcester, MA – Palladium
- 3/5 – Asbury Park, NJ – House of Independents
- 3/6 – New Kensington, PA – Preserving Underground
- 3/7 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
- 3/8 – New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre
- 3/10 – Montreal, QC – Théâtre Fairmount
- 3/11 – Toronto, ON – Hard Luck Bar
- 3/13 – Cleveland, OH – The Foundry
- 3/14 – Hamtramck, MI – The Sanctuary
- 3/15 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
- 3/17 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theater
- 3/18 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Urban Lounge
- 3/20 – Roseville, CA – Goldfield Trading Post
- 3/21 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
- 3/22 – Mesa, AZ – The Rosetta Room
- 3/24 – San Antonio, TX – The Rock Box
- 3/25 – Houston, TX – The Secret Group
- 3/26 – Dallas, TX – Puzzles Deep Ellum
- 3/28 – Atlanta, GA – Purgatory at The Masquerade
- 3/29 – Nashville, TN – The End
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 9 (Updated 9/30/25)
I don’t have much to say except that September has not been very kind to me. I guess it is what it is.
Here are the songs that have been added to The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist since September 20th.
- NOFUTURE: “Flatline”
- Moon Fever: “Decayed”
- In Wildest Dreams: “Dark Light”
- Sidewise: “Where My Heart Remains”
- Ovtlier: “Creature of the Night”
- Jay El Dee + Alex Kenchel: “Rebound”
- Rise to Ruin: “Archaic”
- Michael Botte Band: “If I Asked You”
- Wraithlurk: “Holy Nothing” (ft. $KIMMY)
- The Thing With Feathers: “You Know You Love It”
- Hall of Lost: “Loser’s Game”
- Saint Social: “Swagger” (Acoustic Remix)
- Bryce Savage: “Save It For The Weekend”
- Black Dog Moon: “Neon Queen”
- The CyberTones: “Red Flags Flying”
- The Immaculate Crows: “Short Changed”
- Gloomclub: “My Obscurity”
- Divide the Fall: “Break Free”
- Noise Ratchet: “Freedom”
- Forged in Fire: “Guardian” (ft. Siamese)
- Stellar Circuits: “Corridor”
- Sleep When We’re Dead: “Rainbow Cat”
- StrikingBlue: “Martyr”
- Ghost Chamber: “The Power of Prayer”
- Collide: “Will Not Be Destroyed” (Signals Mix)
- Mindy Jackson: “Reverie”
- BLD DRV: “Vines”
- Boze: “We Comin'”
- Effing and Blinding: “Old Soul”
- Dark Divine: “Halloweentown II – Welcome Home”
- POET the Band: “Sin Eater” (Acoustic)
- Næŕok: “Rabbit Hole”
- morino: “Till the Break of Dawn”
- AM FALL: “MCR Told Me I’m Not Okay, and I’m Not, I Need Backup!” (ft. Raise the Death Toll, Rain Falls Red, Fighting the Phoenix, and Misconceptions)
- Storm Kingdom: “Moonlight” (ft. MX the American and Richie Warwick)
- Bryce Savage: “She Just Wanna Have Fun”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 7 (Updated 7/31/25)
Here are the recent releases that have been added to my playlist since July 16th!
- The Truth Music: “1 Hundred”
- RedPrint: “245”
- Dark Divine: “Better Start Digging”
- Shade of Sorrow: “Summer’s Sorrow”
- CHoNK: “Shallow Water”
- Phantom of Pop: “Sugar Sin”
- Another Face in the Crowd: “Reignite”
- Lilac & Lotus: “Ecocide”
- The Republic of Wolves: “Heat Signature”
- Jason Randall: “MadMan”
- Razorwire Halo: “Time Bomb” (ft. r3nrut)
- FlickN: “Not Today”
- Not Enough Space: “New Age Cannibal”
- Terminals: “Sunstone”
- Etched in Embers: “The Grey”
- Devil in Disguise: “Cringe”
- S1SON: “Devil in Disguise”
- Zach Hennessey: “Devil in Disguise”
- Seethe: “Fairweather”
- Little Evil: “Down”
- Big Wreck: “Holy Roller”
- Saturns Downfall: “Bury the Beast”
- Immunosuppressed: “Whispers”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Nothing (Without You)”
- DED: “Eraser”
- Fevered: “Glow”
- Mechanic A: “KnuckleBuster”
- In Passing: “Fever Dream”
- Don Broco: “Cellophane”
- Almera: “Retrograde”
- Blessings of Mara: “Obani Moons”
- RedPrint: “Stranglehold”
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. 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!
Ice Nine Kills Shares Spring 2025 Dates
Horror-inspired metal outfit Ice Nine Kills has a lot of their plate this spring. Having already booked dates supporting Metallica, the band has now scheduled The Silver Scream-A-Thon Tour, in which they will be playing two nights in each city. Night one will feature The Silver Scream in its entirety, while the second evening will be dedicated to the entire The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood record. Support for night one will be The Word Alive, The Funeral Portrait, and Melrose Avenue. The opening acts for night two will be Hail the Sun, Tx2, and Dark Divine.
Tickets are on sale at iceninekills.com!
- 4/26 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre*
- 4/30 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
- 5/1 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
- 5/3 – Nashville, TN – Nissan Stadium*
- 5/6 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
- 5/7 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
- 5/9 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
- 5/10 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
- 5/11 – Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival 2025+
- 5/13 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore
- 5/14 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore
- 5/18 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
- 5/19 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
- 5/20 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live at 20 Monroe
- 5/21 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live at 20 Monroe
- 5/23 – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field*
- 5/24 – Montclair, NJ – Wellmont Theater
- 5/25 – Montclair, NJ – Wellmont Theater
- 5/29 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
- 5/30 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
- 6/1 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
- 6/2 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
- 6/4 – Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
- 6/5 – Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
- 6/6 – Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium*
- 6/8 – New Orleans, LA – The Fillmore
- 6/9 – New Orleans, LA – The Fillmore
- 6/11 – Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
- 6/12 – Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
- 6/20 – Santa Clara, CA – Levi’s Stadium*
- 6/27 – Denver, CO – Empower Field at Mile High*
* Supporting Metallica
+ Festival appearance
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 4 (Updated 7/28/24)
I’m sure I’ve missed several singles over the past two weeks, but in my defense, it’s been a very hectic and stressful July for me. I am ready for things to settle down! In the meantime, please check out the 2024 playlists I have compiled!
Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4 (all tracks)
And here are the songs that have been added to the fourth installment since July 14th.
- Blackjacket: “Blood Stains”
- Ovtlier: “Warriors” (ft. Chris Motionless)
- Aldern: “The Anomaly”
- Dark Divine: “Digital Numb”
- Innocent Skyline: “Outta My Mind”
- Cannonball: “Flip Flops”
- Von Loop: “Leafy Greens”
- The Split: “Mankind In Vitro – Life Matrix”
- Sleep Theory: “Stuck In My Head”
- Sunny Hallow: “Steppin’ Stones”
- Faded Impulse: “Levels”
- Josh Krajcik: “I Don’t Fear It”
- Slumberwave: “Pareidolia”
- Alchemy Within: “Blood in the Snow” (ft. Skyler Parker)
- Fist in Face: “When Life Fades Away”
- The Pozers: “Missing You (Missing Me)”
- Our-Fi: “Bear Tent”
- Die So Fluid: “Dispute”
- Frost Koffin: “Mass Manipulator”
- The Lonely Ones: “The Bottom”
- Lost in Tomorrow: “Gloves Down” (ft. Marko Duplisak)
- Carissa Creates: “Into Fire”
- By Ghosts: “Enthrone”
- Red Melting: “Dark Moon”
- A Moment of Violence: “Bullet”
- Bunch: “Royal Blood”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 5/19/24)
View the full playlist here.
Also, be sure to check out parts one and two!
Here are the releases that have been added since May 5th:
- Honeyknife: “Even Out”
- Back From Zero: “Grind”
- Hooked Like Helen: “Duality” (Slipknot Reimagined)
- Reasons Above All: “Paper City”
- Sleeptalker: “LakeSideDreams”
- Spawn of Psychosis: “Pettingill”
- we are knaves: “Thank the Maker”
- Ham Radio: “Higher Ground”
- Blessings of Mara: “Voidwalker”
- Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: “Thrush”
- Greco Ray, Dorian Dolore: “All I Need”
- Brett Carlisle: “//Runaway”
- The Lucidia Project: “Soul Killer”
- Dark Divine: “Burn the Witch”
- Topher Music, JBEL Music: “Over It”
- Engines of Ruin: “Wolves”
- The Damn Devils: “Splinter”
- Last Word: “Trial of God”
- Scarlet View: “The Chase”
- Perfect Nightmare: “Your Ghost”
- Breathe In: “Machine”
- THEHERO: “Blood Money”
- Painted Lines: “Lost in Translation”
- Trading the Inside: “Burner”
- Seas on the Moon: “Are You With Me?” (ft. Eissa Morphide)
- Kluu: “Blood Stained Fingers”
- Bullet to the Heart: “Fight”
- Saint Diablo: “Voice on the Phone”
- CloZure: “Nevermore”
- Wicked Playground: “The Madness”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Damaged”
- Hollow Intent: “Wanna Be”
- Vicky von Vicky: “Freak Me Out”
- Forever in Transit: “Let Go Your Earthly Tether”
- Modyrn Myth: “Suture”
- Backward Blue: “Eye of the Storm”
- The Royal Ritual: “Modes of Violence”
- Inimical Drive: “Victim”
- Bobby Kane: “Riding Shotgun Through the Gates of Hell”
- Fractured: “Standing Still”
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