- Shwarma – From Beyond [3/2]
- Scattered Hamlet – Judged by 12 [3/3]
- If I Could Kill Myself – Steeldeath [3/6]
- J.D. Graham – Uppers & Downers [3/6]
- Lords Of Salem – Supersonic Vampire Pussy [3/6]
- American Adrenalin – Burn the Ships [3/6]
- Julia. – Fish in the Percolator [3/13]
- Becoming Sons – Refined by the Flames [3/13]
- Across the Frostlands – The Fruits of Peace (A Cry for Peace) [3/17]
- Exodus – Goliath [3/20]
- Poison the Well – Peace in Place [3/20]
- Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World [3/20]
- Seventh Day Slumber – Thy Kingdom Come [3/20]
- Night Signal – The End of Everything [3/24]
- Take the Flame – A New Life [3/24]
- Defying Decay – Synthetic Sympathy [3/26]
- Devil Electric – Tahlia [3/27]
- Ghost of Rucker – The Bones of the Hollow [3/27]
- Don Broco – Nightmare Tripping [3/27]
- Hellripper – Coronach [3/27]
- Black Label Society – Engines of Demolition [3/27]
- Moodring – death fetish [3/27]
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie (20 Year Anniversary) [3/27]
- little image – Kill the Ghost [3/27]
- The Jins – It’s All Over [3/27]
- Threat Signal – Revelations [3/27]
- Resistor – Bite This! [3/27]
- Drowning James – Ascended [3/27]
- Luke Black – Parasite [3/27]
- Gatlin – Worst Case Scenario [3/28]
- Aurora Corvinus – Melancholy [3/30]
- Ice of Neptune – Shots and Dollars [3/31]
- Letters From Wolves – Immortals [4/3]
- Gasoline Invertebrate – Everybody Hates Me [4/3]
- Crucifera – Exostential [4/3]
- Nervosa – Slave Machine [4/3]
- Radium88 – Beauty is Lies [4/4]
- Nouveau Arcade – Die Happy! [4/10]
- Florence Black – Pouring Rain [4/10]
- Polybomber – Authors of Damnation [4/10]
- Lord of the Lost – Opvs Noir, Vol. 3 [4/10]
- Somehow Still – Here & Awake [4/17]
- Brother Cane – Magnolia Medicine [4/17]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life) – Strani Rumori [4/17]
- Glis – Artifacts in Sequence [4/17]
- Razing Jane – Razing Jane [4/17]
- Blow Up Daisy – Immaculate Misconception [4/17]
- Into Elysium – In Your Darkest Hour [4/22]
- Devil’s Cut – Roadkill [4/24]
- Silence of the Generals – Restricted Records [4/27]
- EarlyRise – The Flood is Coming [4/30]
- Roughpool – Sleepless [4/30]
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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. 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!
My Top 50 Songs of 2024
I didn’t even pretend I was going to do less than 50 songs for this list. There was no way. And y’all made it difficult to narrow it down to even that! I’m gonna end up with a top 100 if I’m not careful.
So, this is totally subjective, of course. There were tons of amazing releases over the past 12 months, and I tried to share them all (though I know I missed a few, or found them too late). But these are the tracks, in no particular order, that grabbed and held my attention without letting go.
View the full playlist HERE.
Note: One band/artist cannot have more than one song included. I tried not to put anything by major label bands/artists on here. Last but not least, no covers!
- The Fifth: “Starlight”
- Wicked Playground: “The Madness”
- Hayden Helms: “Motive Behind the Move”
- LASTRY: “Trick or Treat”
- Kill the Fall: “Let It Breathe”
- Maudlin Strangers: “Silver Stain”
- EarlyRise: “Dance for the Money”
- Nick Nasty: “Lose My YOUth”
- Brett Carlisle: “Runaway”
- Til Fauna: “Whisper”
- Deep as Ocean: “Dark Place”
- Globus, A.D.A.M.: “Redemption (down the line…)”
- No Fly List: “Ghost”
- Towers of Jupiter: “Morsus Frigoris”
- Hooked Like Helen: “It Doesn’t Look So Good For You Now”
- THEHERO: “Blood Money”
- Christopher Ardra: “Losing You”
- Circuit Preacher, Mobiius: “Burn”
- Blackjacket: “Blood Stains”
- Alchemy Within, Skyler Parker: “Blood in the Snow”
- Modern Mimes: “Black Butterflies”
- Major Distortion: “The Lone Sailor”
- High Fade: “Bone to Pick”
- Swim The Current: “Stay”
- Carbonstone: “Echoes”
- Bridges Ablaze: “Numb”
- A Shadow Within: “Event Horizon”
- Feverlust: “i dare you to speak”
- Leonine: “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”
- Young Other: “Change Everything”
- Neon Society: “Heliocentricity”
- Mike’s Dead: “Bestrafe Mich (Punish Me)”
- Black Tourmaline: “Embers”
- Hotel Security: “Manic Attack”
- O Mateus: “Perception”
- Silk Parlor: “Holding Me Up”
- Alibis: “Sell Out”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Too Broke to Die”
- Mads Krul: “Feeling Alright”
- The Whispering Trees: “Bloodline”
- EverFelt: “River”
- Empty Atlas: “Little Voices”
- Red Eleven: “Path”
- Nothing Like Robots: “all natural”
- Algorhythm: “Deeper”
- Signal the Revolution: “Come to Life”
- The Holy Knives: “Killer”
- Kendall Cage: “Rabbit Hole”
- Nick Palma: “Super Electric”
- Sick Century: “Tidal Wave”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 5 (Updated 10/20/24)
I don’t have much to say with this post. We lost my grandmother yesterday morning and honestly, I’m running on autopilot. Be sure to visit all of the 2024 playlist segments, including part 5 in its entirety. The sixth and final installment will be starting soon!
Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4 // Part 5
Here are the tracks that have been added since October 6th.
- Alive in Stone: “Walking in the Moonlight”
- Love Ghost x Skold: “Ski Mask”
- Bourbon Sons: “Jump Back”
- Bleedstone: “Witch Hunt”
- The Black Plague Doctors: “Cypher No. 2” (ft. EA$Y)
- SpringBrooke: “Cold World”
- Overturn: “Eulogy”
- New Dilemma: “Spiral”
- Mid-Engine: “Why Go Outside”
- Ashley Purdy: “Ride Like the Wind”
- Free Warren: “Eyes Wide Open”
- EarlyRise: “Dance For the Money”
- Cole Coleman: “Scream”
- HILD: “Varm så länge hjärtat slår”
- Title Holder: “Found My Home”
- Shawn Rose: “When I Need You”
- We Kill Cowboys: “Android”
- Omega Bad: “Levitate”
- technically nothing: “thinking’s overrated”
- Cam Allen: “Sledgehammer”
- EMBR: “Tensions”
- Dark Remedy: “Right Back To You”
- ShadowHart: “Calcified”
- Stray Forever: “Forgotten Girl”
- Virssis: “Prove Me Wrong”
- Liam Kelley: “Shooting Stars”
- Crazy Lixx: “Little Miss Dangerous”
- Sisters Doll: “United”
- No Horizon: “Show Me The Light”
- Brett Carlisle: “Note To Self”
- Matter of Mind: “Bad Things”
- Stonefeather: “Simp-Le Life”
- Sagen: “Slaying of the Witch”
- JAELYN: “The Last Star (Archimedes)”
- Orbis Max: “Candy on the Hill” (ft. Ed Ryan)
- Vaggelis Paraskevaidis: “Claptrap”
- Eisige Venen: “Seaforged”
- The Red Crow: “Illusions”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 5/5/24)
Welcome to the first update of The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Part 3! Be sure to visit the first two parts, featuring releases from January through April: partes uno y dos.
Here are the songs that have been added since April 21st.
- Innocents Torn: “Broken Dollz”
- Reddex: “FLASHBANG”
- nightjar: “Molecules”
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “Sunrise”
- Graypath: “Monster”
- Coyote GoLightly: “Captivated”
- Sun Order: “Leaders of the Fight”
- Vivianite: “Pitch Black”
- NO BODIES: “No Bodies”
- Doomboyz: “Lysergic Solution”
- rose cold: “falling off”
- Miss FD: “Syndicated”
- Shallow Side: “Filters” (ft. Elias Soriano of Nonpoint)
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “The Dream”
- One Day Alive: “Addicted Again”
- Mike’s Dead: “Bestrafe Mich”
- Topher Music: “Let Her Go”
- Neon Society: “Heliocentricity”
- Fevercast: “Shove It Down”
- Solely Veil: “Unravel”
- Deep as Ocean: “The Dawn”
- Crooked Pilots: “Collapsing Star” (ft. Devon Lisenby)
- EarlyRise: “The Villain”
- Powerman 5000: “Dancing Like We’re Dead”
- Priest: “Black Venom”
- Modern Mimes: “Bridge to Clarity”
- Hands Like Houses: “Hollow”
- Alive in Stone: “Two Piece Town”
- The Lürxx: “We Are The Weeds”
- Ikana: “Colorblind”
- Autumn Dreams: “The Seer”
- Edge of Destiny: “Set My Soul on Fire”
- The Props: “Get Off”
- The Props: “Echoes”
- Livekill: “Crushing Blows”
- Divide the Fall: “Death of Me”
- Shannon Darcy: “Just Worried Because”
- Nathan James + Arankai: “Paranormal”
- Circuit Preacher: “Subtext”
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