Eli Howard & the Greater Good
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. 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. 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. 1 (Updated 1/14/25)
Welcome to another year of my annual playlist! Here, I focus on the lesser-known bands/artists and their releases. We are 2 weeks into 2025 and already have a fair share of bangers.
Note: This year, I am dividing the playlist by month. There will be 12 installments, and updates will be posted every 2 weeks.
Check out the releases that have dropped since January 1st.
- Sever Red: “Conjuring”
- Verias Smith: “Playground”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “See Me Now (Live)”
- The Delirium Effect: “Parasite”
- Impending Doom: “Christ is King”
- Impending Doom: “Punishment”
- Element 117: “Vision”
- Our Frankenstein: “Kerosene”
- Mads Krul: “Now Let’s Go”
- My Field of Honor: “Resolution”
- The Murder Project: “Back to Life”
- Bleedstone: “King Baby Reigns”
- OK Otter: “Maybe It’s You”
- Endless May: “Call My Name”
- Spring Ahead, Fall Apart: “Brink”
- The Zedds: “The Wrong Road”
- Sleepwalker Funeral: “Perseverance, Written in Blood”
- Jauncey: “Manifest”
- Histheory: “Insomnia” (ft. Drew Nold and Shannon Darcy)
- Gillsaw: “Rizen”
- The Lürxx: “The Streets are Paved With Stars”
- Breathe In: “Fallujah”
- New Medicine: “Know Somebody”
- Tin Zelkova: “Loser”
- Spycamera: “Predictable”
- A.D.A.M. Music Project: “Two Worlds” (ft. Aranda)
- Silverside: “Godspeed”
- Absolutist: “Lineage”
- Engines of Ruin: “Time”
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. 6 (Updated 11/24/24)
Can y’all believe it’s almost Thanksgiving already?! Time needs to slow down. I’ve gotta compile the Top 50 of 2024, and there are only (roughly) five weeks of new music left!
With that in mind, be sure to visit the other installments of this year’s playlist.
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Here are the releases that have been added since November 10th.
- Eric Bass Presents: “Mind Control”
- Hot for Crime: “Jack of Moons”
- Silverside: “Tears”
- Rootwork: “Killjoy”
- Therewolf: “Silently Sinking”
- Luxury Funeral: “Snakes”
- Archer’s New Rival: “Too Young to Die”
- Foul Blooded: “Demon Engine”
- Sleepwalker Funeral: “Bunny Walk”
- Jet Cemetery: “Eagle Rider”
- Ashes Reign: “My Final Plea”
- Illusions of Grandeur: “Spine”
- Echo Road: “Greetings to the Optimist”
- Freemoor: “Affliction”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Too Broke To Die”
- Turn Two: “Polaroid”
- Kendall Cage: “Rabbit Hole”
- Richard Tyler Epperson: “December Night”
- Lions At The Gate: “Silhouettes of Me”
- FallBright: “The Emerald Door”
- Reckless High: “Crown & Coke”
- Enola Reven: “Beautiful Misery”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 6 (Updated 11/10/24)
Welcome to the last installment of The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist! Make sure you visit parts 1-5, and get ready for my Top 50 of 2024, which will drop December 31st.
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5
Here are the songs that have been added since October 31st. (A few were actually released on Halloween. I included them to ensure they received recognition and were not skipped over.)
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” (Live)
- Devils Envy: “Echoes” (ft. ONI)
- Saliva: “Time Bomb” (ft. Peyton Parrish and Judge & Jury)
- Lift the Curse: “Direct Hit”
- Turn Two: “Medicine (Black & Blue)”
- Kissing Candice: “Gulag”
- Buzz N’ Bangs: “Be Good”
- Voidshaper: “Day of the Cyclone” (ft. Derek Hung)
- Head Over Heels: “Last Stand”
- The Vast Expanse: “Of Venom and Flame”
- WWIII: “Find Me Anywhere”
- Salivus: “Trix”
- Array: “The Locker”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Eternity”
- Danny Worsnop: “The Bed I Made”
- Dark Remedy: “Killing Me”
- Daughters of Mara: “Holy Ghost”
- Call of Sirens: “Puppeteer”
- Maulskull: “Arm’s Reach”
- Worldwide Panic: “Break Me Down”
- RJ Archer & the Painful Memories: “Out of Line”
- Bödel: “Guidance Patrol”
- The Veer Union + Silent Theory: “Welcome to Dystopia”
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”
Vandoliers Announce 2024 Dates With Jon Snodgrass and Eli Howard & the Greater Good
Alt-country outfit Vandoliers have shared some spring/summer dates! Punk/alt/indie/folk artist Jon Snodgrass will be appearing at a few shows, and alternative country rock band Eli Howard & the Greater Good will share the stage for a run in late June, early July. Tickets available now at vandoliers.com!
- 5/11 – Arlington, TX – Levitt Pavilion (w/Sam Morrow)
- 5/30 – Springfield, MO – Southbound Bar & Grill
- 5/31 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway*
- 6/1 – Morris, IL – fForest Festival 2024*
- 6/2 – Wisconsin Dells, WI – Showboat Saloon*
- 6/20 – Davenport, IA – Triple Crown Whiskey Bar & Raccoon Motel^
- 6/21 – Yorkville, IL – Summer Solstice Festival 2024^
- 6/22 – Venice, NE – Buck’s Bar & Grill^
- 6/25 – Salt Lake City, UT – Soundwell^
- 6/27 – Pendleton, OR – Jackalope Jamboree 2024
- 6/28 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s
- 6/29 – Bellingham, WA – The Shakedown^
- 6/30 – Spokane, WA – The District Bar^
- 7/2 – Bozeman, MT – Rialto Bozeman^
- 7/3 – Billings, MT – Pub Station Taproom^
- 7/5 – Fort Collins, CO – Surfside 7^
- 7/6 – Denver, CO – Punk Rock Saves Lives Fest 2024
- 7/27 – Craponne-sur-Arzon, FR – Craponne Country Festival 2024
* w/Jon Snodgrass
^ w/Eli Howard & the Greater Good
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