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The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 11 (Updated 11/30/25)
I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving! Now it’s time to shift gears and focus on Christmas – and all the new music that I have to sort through to put together the top 50 of 2025. For now, though, here are the songs that have been added to part 11 of The Mostly Music Playlist since November 15th.
- Deep as Ocean: “Lifeblood”
- Deadwaste: “To Whom It May Concern”
- Alive in Stone: “Beautiful”
- Engines of Ruin: “To Your Grave”
- Nocturnal Monarch: “BlindMad”
- Fact Pattern: “With No Disguise (System Syn remix)”
- Storm Kingdom: “Godless” (ft. Ella Baphomet)
- Gravel Switch: “In Too Deep”
- Gus Wallner: “RWYS” (ft. Seethe)
- Self Deception: “Time’s Up”
- Bad Omens: “Left for Good”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Push”
- Shinedown: “Searchlight”
- Honeyknife: “Nothing Left”
- Braeker: “Make Me”
- Vana: “Pray”
- Don Broco: “Euphoria”
- No More Sun: “Sick of You”
- Fear Decay: “Slow Descent”
- In a Perfect Sky: “Afterthought”
- American Adrenalin: “Far From Sober”
- Don’t You Dare: “S.O.S.”
- Manimekhala: “Foreign Royalty”
- Slaycraft: “Shakedown”
- Ghost Trader: “Fresh Eyes”
- The Fell Swoop: “At Large”
- Lift the Curse: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
- The Veer Union: “Meet Your Maker”
- Shallow Side: “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” [Elton John cover]
- Amerakin Overdose: “Feliz Navidad”
- Palaye Royale: “Sad Generation”
- morino: “Back to the Light”
- Dekay: “Nightmare”
- crucifera: “Savior”
- Witchz: “Christmas in the Badlandz”
- Wild Tangent: “Truth in Ashes”
- Pale Krow: “Persistence” (ft. Merkules)
- Cursed Abyss: “Weeping Angel”
- Andi Fawcett: “Nothing To Me” (ft. After Dark)
- Nevero: “Tied To You”
- Solely Veil: “Deceiver”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 3/31/25)
Here are the last of the March releases (at least the ones I’ve found). Tomorrow begins the fourth installment of The Mostly Music Playlist! Be sure to visit each part of the playlist, and remember: my top 50 will drop on New Year’s Eve!
Below are the songs that have been added since March 16th.
- Anderson Park Lane: “Ghost of Cherry Creek”
- Neon Casket: “Arrows”
- Saint V: “Diamonds”
- Die Tired: “Reel Me In”
- Michael Botte Band: “Soulfully Appreciating”
- Epic Down: “Doula’s Obsession”
- Calvaria: “The Serpent Lies Within”
- New Medicine: “Natural”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Pursuit”
- Alchemy Within: “The Call”
- Wraithlurk: “Engraved” (ft. $KIMMY)
- anMech: “Necessity”
- Beneath the Hollow: “Old Hymns”
- Lift the Curse: “Violet Violence”
- KREWX: “Aura”
- KREWX: “Enchanted”
- Oozik: “In the Darkness”
- Dal-War: “No Way Out”
- Makes My Blood Dance: “Time and a Place”
- Ded: “Until I Die” (ft. Chris Motionless)
- Point Disarray: “In My Head”
- Boze: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (Charlie Daniels cover)
- Title Holder: “Time Won’t Stop”
- Could You Not?: “Backpedal”
- The Ascendant: “Treading Water”
- Our Frankenstein: “Magnum Spire Hotel”
- Soul Sign: “Negative Thoughts” (ft. Bjorn Englen, Mark Boals, and Mike Cancino)
- Crimson Whisper: “Falling Through the Night”
- SFINX: “Magic” (ft. Left to Suffer, Aaron Gillespie, and Taylor Barber)
- Stain the Canvas: “The Light Within”
- Run the River: “Fulton Heights”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Beautiful”
- Silent Theory: “Emptiness in You” (ft. Daedric)
- Czarina: “Fall Damage” (ft. Circuit Preacher)
- Loose Lips: “Video Games”
- Wraithlurk: “Drown” (ft. $KIMMY)
- Swallow the Sun: “MelancHoly – Holy Edit”
- Radiation Invasion: “Your Love is Darkness”
- Bury the Pines: “Pardon My French”
- Danny Worsnop: “Tell Me Why”
- Blessings of Mara: “Pink Venom”
- Beneath the Hollow: “Butter”
- Six Hours For A Lifetime: “21”
- Against the Storm: “Setting Sun”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Miniskirt”
- Awake At Last: “Be Not Afraid”
- Mr. Strange: “Mr. Strange Does Not Exist”
- Sublimenal Stimuli: “Burn Me Up” (ft. Scarlett Silhouette)
- SKYND: “Aileen Wuornos”
- A Killer’s Confession: “In Case of Emergency” (ft. J. Mann)
- Deadcode: “Come Undone”
- Effing and Blinding: “Scab”
- The Witching Hour: “Dead Inside”
- Kissing Candice: “Bitter Pill”
- Of Limbo: “Finish What Ya Started”
- Wraithlurk: “Straitjacket Sin”
- Storm Kingdom: “Upon the Wings of Despair”
- Engines of Ruin: “One More”
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”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 6 (Updated 12/30/24)
This is the last update of 2024! I can’t believe this year is already coming to an end. It seems like just yesterday I was adding the first few songs to part one of the playlist. I hope my posts helped y’all find your new favorite song(s).
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Get ready for my top 50 of 2024, which will be posted tomorrow!
Here are the releases that have been added to the playlist since December 22nd.
- The Flips: “Freefall”
- The American Scream: “cut”
- The American Scream: “i’m a mess you’re a wreck”
- The American Scream: “You Said”
- Sunny Hallow: “Contact List”
- The Mizzerables: “Oi to the World!”
- Wudakhan: “10 AM”
- Engines of Ruin: “Riding”
- The Black Vultures: “Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide”
- Carrying Torches: “Good in Blue”
- Saint Aquarius: “Leave Me Behind”
- Appalachia: “At the Center of Divide”
- Mercury Red: “Victim”
- The Whispering Trees: “Bloodline”
- Sick Century: “Tidal Wave”
- Till Lindemann: “Meine Welt”
- Glass Horizon: “Rehabilitate”
- Only Love: “Gallows”
- Caught Off Guard: “Blind Thief in a Dark Alley”
- Unfit: “Until the End”
- Lastry: “Neverland”
- TheoryMD: “Take Me Higher” (ft. David Mason)
- One Day Alive: “Never Again”
- RA: “Without You With Me”
- Soluna: “Ivory” (ft. Garret Rapp)
- The Holy Knives: “Manipulator”
- Somewhat Sober: “I Stayed Until the End”
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”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 2 (Updated 3/24/24)
The IG algorithm has figured out I post about music a lot and now most of my ads are paid announcements for new singles. I am not complaining. Lol.
You can check out part one of the playlist, as well as the entirety of part two. Below are the songs that have been added since 3/10/24.
Note: Singles are not always added in order of release. Sometimes, I stumble across things that have been out for a while, but I still include them so long as they were put out this year.
- Neosonic: “We Are Traveling to the Future”
- Towers of Jupiter: “Morsus Frigoris”
- The Ascendant: “Refuge”
- Remain: “Season of Youth”
- schneid: “The Architect”
- A Killer’s Confession: “Greed”
- Havoc Faction: “Someone Else to Blame”
- The Ninth Empire: “Ghosted”
- Dawn of Ashes: “Anhedonia”
- Living Dead Girl: “Ugly”
- Cultus Black: “I Am Not” (ft. Twiztid)
- Halfway to Neptune: “Edge of a Knife”
- Mike’s Dead: “WAR”
- Eric Sleeper: “Lotto”
- Condors and Chaos: “Drug”
- The Ascendant: “Elevate”
- Townhousefire: “Resurrection Ignite”
- Christina Iris: “This Means War”
- DaysGone: “Broken Heart”
- The Up & Up: “Freezing Cold”
- MAGEFA: “Rotting Away”
- Jester Syndrome: “Silence”
- Engines of Ruin: “All the Devils” (ft. Ashton Blake)
- Circle the City: “Dancin’ With the Devil”
- Junkwolvz: “Ride With Me”
- The Reckless: “Get Loud”
- Blacktop Mojo: “I Can’t Tell”
- Spelly: “Not Like You”
- Fortune Teller: “Drop the Act”
- Cell Zero: “Something Wrong”
- Avatari: “Fighter”
- Vagabond: “Strikes at Midnight”
- Kill The Fall: “Let It Breathe”
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