- Stellar Circuits – Phantom::Phoenix (Director’s Cut) [9/1]
- Alvaro Archaic Ruiz – Hypersigil [9/2]
- President – Blood of Your Empire [9/4]
- Showing Teeth – A Fate Worse Than Loneliness [9/4]
- 156/Silence – From a Distance [9/4]
- Airbourne – Airbourne [9/4]
- Split Lilac – Sonder [9/4]
- Innocents Torn – Severance [9/5]
- Metaphoria – The Pact [9/8]
- Rubur – Fig_ment 幻果 [9/8]
- Lucifena – Warzone [9/11]
- RØRY – Bloodletting [9/11]
- Lake Malice – I Wanna Know If It’s Real [9/11]
- Green Lung – Necropolitan [9/11]
- Stickman – Scream Into the Void [9/14]
- Jane and the Killer Queens – Best in Show [9/16]
- Insect Skin – Remove the Silence [9/17]
- vasthearts – The Color of Collapse [9/18]
- BLiTZ – Bitter Me [9/18]
- The Vacuous Touch – Tethers [9/18]
- Bak Water Hollow – Bak Water Hollow [9/25]
- Die Kammer – Season VI: We Destroy What We Love [9/25]
- Rival Malice – Splitting [9/25]
- Victims of Contagion – Egregore [9/25]
- Scattered Hamlet – Nothing to Prove [9/29]
- Ashes Reign – Awakening [10/1]
- To The Grave – Liberation Front [10/1]
- Escape the Fate – The Last Goodbye [10/1]
- Miss May I – No Place For Me [10/2]
- Shades of Violette – Evernear [10/2]
- Helen – Linda’s Head [10/2]
- Wishy – Nature’s Pill [10/2]
- The Black Watch – The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop [10/2]
- The House of Mars – III [10/3]
- Tyler Gilbert – Monster [10/5]
- Siilk – Visceral Images [10/8]
- Sunny Hallow – The Florist’s Son [10/9]
- Stunning Rayguns – novalunosis [10/9]
- Red Red Sun – Just for a Goodbye [10/9]
- Dormer. – Old World, New Ghosts [10/14]
- sphere – Circumstances [10/14]
- Holy Motors – Heaven’s Night [10/16]
- Dummy – do you love the color of the sky? [10/16]
- A Shoreline Dream – Waiting [10/16]
- SAVE US – Death to Something [10/16]
- Unteachers – Under Bright Sadness [10/16]
- Coal & Crayon – Coal and Crayon [10/16]
- Defects – Artificial Icons [10/16]
- John Diva & the Rockets of Love – Your Favorite Drug [10/16]
- Eau the Music – Light in the Dark [10/16]
- Firestations – International Dust [10/16]
- Sidewave – Dispel [10/23]
- Priest – Altered State Police [10/23]
- Nicotine Dolls – Nicotine Dolls [10/23]
- Killed By Sorrow – Empire of Excess [10/23]
- Somehow Still – Still Somehow [10/23]
- Various – Ligerhawk Records Presents Wingspan, Vol. 1: Expansions and Horizons [10/23]
- soft siren – 4AM [10/23]
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good – Lo-Fi Lowlife [10/30]
- DeathbyRomy – Teenage Fever Dream [10/30]
Escape the Fate
Lacuna Coil: Sleepless Empire Tour 2026 – USA
Italian metal vets Lacuna Coil are hitting the United States this spring alongside Escape the Fate, Vowws, and AXTY. The tour is in support of the band’s latest album, Sleepless Empire, which was released February 14, 2025. Tickets and VIP experiences are available at lacunacoil.com!
- 3/24 – New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre*
- 3/25 – Worcester, MA – Palladium*
- 3/27 – Cleveland, OH – Globe Iron*
- 3/28 – Detroit, MI – Saint Andrew’s Hall*
- 3/29 – Chicago, IL – Concord Music Hall*
- 3/31 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall*
- 4/2 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex*
- 4/3 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall*
- 4/4 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile*
- 4/5 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom*
- 4/7 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore*
- 4/8 – Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades*
- 4/10 – Los Angeles, CA – The Bellwether*
- 4/11 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues San Diego*
- 4/12 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren*
- 4/13 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater*
- 4/15 – Dallas, TX – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall+
- 4/16 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theatre+
- 4/17 – Houston, TX – House of Blues Houston+
- 4/19 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues New Orleans+
- 4/21 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues Orlando+
- 4/22 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room+
- 4/24 – Charleston, SC – Music Farm+
- 4/25 – Atlanta, GA – Hell at The Masquerade+
- 4/26 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground+
- 4/28 – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry+
- 4/30 – Harrisburg, PA – XL Live+
- 5/1 – Albany, NY – Empire Live+
* w/Vowws
+ w/AXTY
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”
Albums Released From January to March 2025
Last year, I attempted to post a list of all the albums and EPs I heard about. I split this compilation into two parts, posting the first at 6 months and the second at the end of December. I didn’t really like the way it worked out, so I’m trying something different for 2025 and sharing new releases quarterly. I am dividing albums and EPs into separate posts, though. That much is staying the same.
Also, in as many cases as possible, I am linking Apple Music profiles. While I continue to use Spotify when building my playlists, I do understand that many artists have conflicting emotions in regard to that particular streaming service. Therefore, I will attempt to send traffic to your alternative platforms. (Release dates may differ, depending on when the album hit Apple. I have used the dates posted by the bands/artists.)
- Skies of Terra – Dreamcatcher [1/1]
- Hobokin – The Rebellion [1/3]
- The Journals Kept – Campfire [1/3]
- Black Cat Bill – Floral Swords: Kuro Neko Sama [1/5]
- Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How [1/10]
- Gnostician – Unification as an Art [1/10]
- The Obsidian Resurrection – As Darkness Falls [1/10]
- Total Radio Silence – The Stories We Tell Ourselves [1/12]
- Animal Ion – Introspection [1/15]
- Nail Bite – Nostalgia [1/17]
- Featured – All Mouth and No Trousers [1/17]
- Beatific – Life Under Tension [1/24]
- Divine Shade – Fragments, Vol. 1 [1/26]
- Deified – Defacto Flame [1/31]
- Jonathan Hultén – Eyes of the Living Night [1/31]
- Six Hours For A Lifetime – 21 [2/5]
- Of Grace – Vindicta [2/7]
- Days of Jupiter – The World Was Never Enough [2/7]
- Wraithlurk – Crucified [2/12]
- Moon Fever – Forever Sleep [2/14]
- Horizon Theory – Radio Silence! [2/14]
- Hands Like Houses – Atmospherics [2/14]
- Bloody Pineapples – Bloody Pineapples [2/14]
- Touch of Red – In Our Nature [2/14]
- Crying Vessel – Sepulchers: The Maiden [2/14]
- Crying Vessel – Sepulchers: The Servant [2/14]
- Spiders – Sharp Objects [2/14]
- Corlyx – Purple Pain [2/14]
- Onioroshi – Shrine [2/18]
- Tricky Shoreline – Hummingbird [2/21]
- Sinclair Noire – Bone Orchard [2/21]
- Dirty Honey – Mayhem and Revelry Live [2/21]
- Jason Bieler and the Baron Von Bielski Orchestra – The Escapologist [2/21]
- Delphi Ravens – Keeper of Secrets [2/21]
- War Within Dreams – The Blue [2/22]
- Conan and the Malis – Going for a Walk [2/23]
- Starbender – Social Engineering [2/27]
- Caleb Hyles, Judge & Jury – The Darkness Before the Dawn [2/28]
- Kings of Karma – Bite the Bullet [3/1]
- VVitch – Nefarious [3/1]
- The Royal Ritual – Retract in Circles [3/4]
- Confessions of a Serial Killer – Audio Violence [3/7]
- CrosseD – No Pulse [3/10]
- Mean Silver Machine – No Way Out [3/14]
- Dead Rabbitts, Judge & Jury, Escape the Fate – Redefined [3/14]
- I Rose From the Dead – Lost in the Woods [3/14]
- Mainframe Bird – Ghosts Never Clap [3/21]
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 1 (Updated 1/31/25)
This is the second, and final, playlist update for January. I have already begun compiling my Top 50 of 2025 – I think this year is going to be difficult to narrow down… (I say that every year, but I already have 6 contenders and it’s not even February. If that happens every month, my life is going to be a challenge come December. Ha ha!)
Here are the tracks that have been added to the playlist since January 14th. You can view the list in its entirety here.
- Blank Labels: “Drive”
- Danny Worsnop: “Ain’t No Use”
- Elirah’s Cross: “The Walk” (ft. Histheory)
- Not Enough Space: “Solace in Silence”
- Sloans Grove: “Above It All”
- The Lycan: “Memento”
- Against the Sun: “Pieces” (ft. Alibis)
- The Mysterious Bruises: “Cold Long Nights”
- Never the Name: “Consequences”
- The Bettors: “Never Change”
- Dethamphetamine: “Brains”
- Gnostician: “Dwarf Star Partition”
- Silent WVLF: “Elation”
- Last Good Thing: “Wish You Were”
- Van Berlain: “Glass House”
- Featured: “Just Another Day” (ft. Rose Berlin)
- HotWax: “One More Reason”
- Seven Year Witch: “Blue Flower, Red Thorns”
- little image: “The Pressure”
- By the River: “Bridges”
- Dimensionist: “Syntagma”
- MNYKR: “Sweat With Me” (ft. Greco Ray)
- Mandatory Affect: “Transient”
- Mandatory Affect: “Letters to the Lost”
- Lift the Curse: “Save Me”
- Levana: “Set Me Free”
- Swim the Current: “Right Your Wrong”
- One Day Alive: “The Calling”
- Young Other: “Iron Horse”
- Shinedown: “Dance, Kid, Dance”
- Shinedown: “Three Six Five”
- Bad Valentines: “Last Days in the Sun”
- SKNN: “Radioactive”
- The Fiction We Create: “Knightfall”
- Any Given Sin: “Rest for the Wicked”
- TJ Marzonie: “Blame It on the Devil”
- Kissing Lilith: “More Than Worth It”
- Bridges Ablaze: “Heartless”
- Photon Flux: “Hypofrontality”
- Damien Graves: “Skyfall” (ft. Forsaken Silence)
- Disconnected: “We Carry On”
- Landslide: “Lost”
- Robbie Ekblom Jr.: “Darkness Befalls” (ft. Hall of Lost)
- Out of Body: “The Hold Up”
- Deadcode: “Don’t Let Me Go”
- SkyMuseum: “Unawake” (ft. Adam Faris)
- Feverlust: “1000 Memories”
- Draven: “Hollowed Penance”
- The Split: “Son of New Ages”
- Jay Gearhart: “Faced With Hate”
- Gemini Syndrome: “Suffer in Silence”
- Krysis: “The Summit’s Ice”
- Call of Sirens: “Siren”
- Mr. Strange: “Easy Come, Easy Go”
- Matte Blvck: “Vicious Dreams”
- Effing and Blinding: “We’re All Gonna Get It”
- Boogeymvn: “Once Upon a Dream”
- Boogeymvn: “I Feel Nothing”
- Mean Silver Machine: “Motorcycle Rock”
- Adelitas Way: “What If You Go?”
- Anaria: “Stay”
- AGBAT: “Fair Winds”
- Glis: “Street Dragon Ninja”
- Glis: “A Different Dream”
- Seethe: “Mandela Effect”
- No Fly List: “Tension”
- Dead Rabbitts: “Artificial Gods” (ft. Escape the Fate, HIGHSOCIETY, and Judge & Jury)
- Traverse the Abyss: “Reasoning”
- When Hearts Wither: “I’ll Wait For Your Return, My Friend”
- Into Elysium: “Her Name Was”
- Hands Like Houses: “Fatally Fractured”
- The Truth Music: “The Peace I Need”
- The Space Turtles: “IPV”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Afterlife”
- The Immaculate Crows: “Shylene”
- Storm Kingdom: “The Fall of the Morning Star”
- Seas on the Moon: “The Trailhead” (ft. Eissa Morphide)
- Enemy of Fate: “Killswitch”
- Verging on Hopeless: “Turning Away”
Mostly Music Halloween 2023 Playlist
I think I actually created this playlist last year, but it has undergone some changes since then! So click the link to visit the actual list on Spotify (this is NSFW), or simply read what made the cut below! Happy Halloween, y’all!
- Type O Negative: “Love You to Death”
- Type O Negative: “Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)”
- Small Town Titans: “Monster Mash”
- Marilyn Manson: “This is Halloween”
- Ed Ivory, Ken Page: “Oogie Boogie’s Song”
- Danny Elfman: “Remains of the Day”
- Bruno Coulais, The Children’s Choir of Nice: “Coraline End Credits”
- London After Midnight: “The Black Cat”
- Avenged Sevenfold: “A Little Piece of Heaven”
- Alice Cooper: “Feed My Frankenstein”
- Depeche Mode: “Enjoy the Silence – 2006 Remaster”
- Marilyn Manson, Sneaker Pimps: “Long Hard Road Out of Hell”
- Sneaker Pimps: “6 Underground”
- Little Nell, Patricia Quinn, Richard O’Brien: “Time Warp”
- Lana Del Rey: “Season of the Witch”
- Eagles: “Witchy Woman – 2013 Remaster”
- Collide: “White Rabbit”
- Rob Zombie: “Dragula”
- Crosses: “Bitches Brew”
- White Zombie: “Thunder Kiss ’65”
- Fall Out Boy: “Uma Thurman”
- Backstreet Boys: “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”
- The Weeknd: “Blinding Lights”
- The 69 Eyes: “Lost Boys”
- Ghost: “Dance Macabre”
- Keith David: “Friends on the Other Side” (from The Princess and the Frog)
- The Alan Parsons Project: “The Raven”
- The Alan Parsons Project: “(The System Of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather”
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: “Red Right Hand”
- Front Line Assembly: “Ghosts”
- Creature Feature: “The Greatest Show Unearthed”
- Jyrki 69, Steve Stevens: “White Rabbit”
- Die Krupps: “The Vampire Strikes Back”
- Panzer AG: “Monster”
- Rob Zombie: “House of 1000 Corpses”
- Rob Zombie: “Pussy Liquor”
- John 5: “Beat It”
- Anarchy Club: “Behind the Mask”
- Graveyard BBQ: “Cheat on the Church”
- Bobaflex: “I’m Glad You’re Dead”
- Rammstein: “Mein Teil”
- Ghost: “Call Me Little Sunshine”
- Ghost: “Hunter’s Moon”
- Atlanta Rhythm Section: “Spooky”
- Alice Cooper: “Welcome To My Nightmare”
- Tom Petty: “Zombie Zoo”
- Wednesday 13: “I Walked With a Zombie”
- Murderdolls: “Love at First Fright”
- Escape the Fate: “Zombie Dance”
- Escape the Fate: “Gorgeous Nightmare”
- Escape the Fate: “Lost in Darkness”
- Powerman 5000: “Black Lipstick”
- Deftones: “Change (In the House of Flies)”
- Muse: “You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween”
- Strvngers: “Crucifixxx”
- Strvngers: “Necromancer”
- Crywolf: “Halloween, 1987”
- Andrew Gold: “Spooky, Scary Skeletons (Undead Tombstone Remix)”
- People in Planes: “Vampire”
- Roxy Lane: “Graveyard”
- Vampires Everywhere!: “Cry Little Sister”
- Rob Zombie: “Living Dead Girl”
- No Resolve, From Ashes To New: “Thriller”
- The 69 Eyes: “We Own The Night”
- Powerman 5000: “Horror Show”
- London After Midnight: “Spider and the Fly”
Escape The Fate: Out Of The Shadows Tour 2023
Escape The Fate is kicking off their Out of the Shadows Tour on August 31st in Salt Lake City. With them will be D.R.U.G.S., Point North, Stitched Up Heart, and Garzi. You can get your tickets and VIP at escapethefate.com. (VIP is also available for Stitched Up Heart.)
- 8/31 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
- 9/1 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
- 9/2 – Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theatre
- 9/3 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave/Eagles Club
- 9/5 – Chicago, IL – Concord Music Hall
- 9/7 – Alton, VA – Blue Ridge Rock Festival 2023 (Escape The Fate and Stitched Up Heart only)
- 9/8 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
- 9/9 – Providence, RI – The Strand Ballroom & Theatre
- 9/10 – Philadelphia, PA – Brooklyn Bowl
- 9/12 – Warrendale, PA – Jergel’s Rhythm Grille
- 9/13 – Columbus, OH – The KING of CLUBS
- 9/15 – Pontiac, MI – The Crofoot Ballroom
- 9/16 – Covington, KY – Madison Theater
- 9/17 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl
- 9/19 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Heaven)
- 9/20 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City
- 9/22 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
- 9/23 – Dallas, TX – The Factory in Deep Ellum
- 9/24 – San Antonio, TX – Vibes Event Center
- 9/26 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre
- 9/27 – Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco Theater
- 9/29 – Riverside, CA – Riverside Municipal Auditorium
- 9/30 – Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl
- 10/1 – San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
- 10/3 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox
- 10/5 – Portland, OR – Bossanova Ballroom
- 10/7 – Sacramento, CA – Aftershock Festival 2023 (Escape The Fate only)
Song of the Day — Escape The Fate: “Not My Problem” (ft. Travis Barker)
Papa Roach and Falling In Reverse Share Dates for the Second Leg of the Rockzilla Tour
With special guests Hollywood Undead and Escape the Fate! Tickets and more available at paparoachmerch.com, firmerch.com, hollywoodundead.com, and escapethefate.com.
- 2/1 – Rochester, NY – Main Street Armory
- 2/2 – Hamilton, ON – FirstOntario Centre
- 2/4 – Chicago, IL – Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
- 2/5 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena
- 2/7 – Huntsville, AL – Von Braun Center Arena
- 2/8 – Biloxi, MS – Mississippi Coast Coliseum
- 2/10 – Johnstown, PA – 1st Summit Arena
- 2/11 – Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Special Events Center
- 2/13 – Youngstown, OH – Covelli Centre
- 2/14 – Kalamazoo, MI – Wings Event Center
- 2/16 – Wichita, KS – Hartman Arena
- 2/18 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
- 2/19 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall
- 2/21 – Rio Rancho, NM – Rio Rancho Events Center
- 2/22 – Colorado Springs, CO – Broadmoor World Arena
- 2/24 – Missoula, MT – Adams Center
- 2/27 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Convention Centre
- 2/28 – Calgary, AB – Big Four
- 3/2 – Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Centre
- 3/3 – Portland, OR – Veterans Memorial Coliseum
- 3/5 – Seattle, WA – Angel of the Winds Arena
