- Dead Adventurers – Fresh Horrors [5/1]
- Kroke Stoke – Better Late Than Ever [5/1]
- Arsenic Kitchen – Handbook for the Recently Deceased [5/1]
- Relent – Suffer [5/6]
- Chatter – Voiceless [5/7]
- Raygun Romance – Cut Me Off EP [5/8]
- Night Signal – In the Beginning EP [5/11]
- Feverlust – American Vitriol [5/15]
- Hands Like Houses – Lótus [5/22]
- Vision Divine – A Clockwork Reverie [5/22]
- Hollow Like Her – Through the Darkness [6/1]
- Nightwave Nexus – The Incompleteness Paradox Part Two: Farewell Archimedes [6/12]
- Circle of Origin – Gallows [6/12]
- Burning Bouquet – The Rain [6/19]
- Our Frankenstein – Cinema [6/26]
- Vibinstein – Half Way There [6/26]
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2025 Covers You May Have Missed
I am working on the Top 50 of 2025, and I realized that there were quite a few covers released last year. I don’t include cover songs on that list, so I thought I’d share them here.
- Amerakin Overdose: “Genie in a Bottle” (Christina Aguilera cover)
- Næŕok, Steeno: “3” (Britney Spears cover)
- Boze: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (Charlie Daniels cover)
- Gillsaw: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Priest: “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak cover)
- Waiting at the Bridge: “Love Gun” (KISS cover)
- Kings County: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Damned Anthem, Lola Rhodes: “Heart-Shaped Box” (Nirvana cover)
- Silent Theory, Crispin Earl: “Pardon Me” (Incubus cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Love is a Battlefield” (Pat Benatar cover)
- RedPrint: “Stranglehold” (Ted Nugent cover)
- Rise to Ruin: “Paranoid” (Black Sabbath cover)
- Cirkus: “Crazy Train” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
- P.O.D.: “Don’t Let Me Down” (The Beatles cover)
- Blackjacket: “Grenade” (Bruno Mars cover)
- Nick Nasty: “Seven Nation Army” (The White Stripes cover)
- Feverlust: “That’s So True” (Gracie Abrams cover)
- We’re Wolves: “Bark at the Moon” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
- 9th Evolution: “Cry Little Sister” (Gerard McMahon cover)
- Kissing Candice: “Bodies” (Drowning Pool cover)
- Kings of Karma: “Run Rudolph Run” (Chuck Berry cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (Harry Reser and His Orchestra cover)
- Shallow Side: “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” (Elton John cover)
- Amerakin Overdose: “Feliz Navidad” (José Feliciano cover)
- ENMY: “Incomplete” (Backstreet Boys cover)
- KillDevil Theory: “Tom Sawyer” (Rush cover)
- Kalamity Kills: “Help!” (The Beatles cover)
- Nail Bite: “Nutshell” (Alice in Chains cover)
- Vampires Everywhere!: “Welcome to the Black Parade” (My Chemical Romance cover)
Also – Crispin Earl of The Veer Union released Covers Collection, Vol. 2 on December 5th, which includes his renditions of “The Kill” by Thirty Seconds to Mars, “Even in Arcadia” by Sleep Token, and more!
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. 7 (Updated 7/16/25)
Be sure to check out the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist!
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Here is the first batch of tracks released in July!
- Loosely Sewn: “Just Let Go”
- MissFit Toys: “Heart Sick” (Remastered)
- Shinedown: “Three Six Five” (Acoustic Version)
- Frayle: “Walking Wounded”
- Sever Red: “One More Time”
- NOFUTURE: “Loner”
- Die Tired: “Fall Forever”
- THEHERO: “The Howitzer”
- Sailing Before The Wind + POET The Band: “Catch the Sunlight” (Reimagined)
- Glis: “Amor Fati”
- A Fatal Black: “Swan Song”
- Feverlust: “feed off the vine”
- Stone Lions: “Another Night”
- RedPrint: “I Think It’s Called Dave”
- Boze: “Syllable Killa”
- Psycho Pact: “El Pacto”
- Letauro: “Scorpion Woman”
- The Fear In Us: “Sick of You”
- New Medicine: “Personal”
- The Essence: “Entropy”
- Living Dead Girl: “Poison Me”
- Loose Lips: “Crash”
- Storm Kingdom: “Fallen Grace”
- Matte Blvck: “Monument” (ft. Computerbandit)
- Crywolf: “Anachronism” (Hushed Version ft. Roniit and Maigan Kennedy)
- Revolution Rabbit Deluxe: “Friend or Foe”
- King 810: “Generation Pain” (ft. Left to Suffer)
- A Killer’s Confession: “Facts”
- Violet Dawn: “I Sat at Home”
- Seilies: “Descension”
- Citizen Soldier: “Sit in Your Shadows”
- Mortica: “Burn”
- Shinedown: “Killing Fields”
- Xero Hour: “Salem Burns”
- Lift the Curse: “Love is a Battlefield” (Pat Benatar cover)
- Jay Gearhart: “Smoke and Mirrors”
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”
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 10/31/24)
I’m sharing an extra update to ensure that the singles from September and October get the attention they deserve before moving on to part 6 of this year’s playlist. I didn’t do this between installments 5 and 6, so I felt that tracks released in July and August may have been overlooked. I wasn’t making that mistake again.
As always, please visit all of the portions of 2024’s playlist! You could just find your new favorite song and band.
Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4 // Part 5
Here are the singles that have been added since October 20th.
- DAMNAGE: “Important”
- Blood Vision: “Resurrection”
- held under.: “Gradient”
- Haast Hunter: “Trial Unknown”
- Kendrick Bebout: “Black Magic Caravan”
- Algorhythm: “Deeper”
- Soluna: “Cerulean” (Acoustic)
- Swim the Current: “Stay”
- Modern Mimes: “Black Butterflies”
- Empire Springs: “Hollow”
- Pink Elefants: “Norman Bates”
- Carbonstone: “Echoes”
- Signal the Revolution: “Come to Life”
- Jungle Dream: “Ultraviolent” (X Brand Wrestling version)
- Bullet to the Heart: “Dreamscape”
- Feverlust: “i dare you to speak”
- No Bodies: “12 Gauge”
- Lastry: “Trick or Treat”
- The Transpacific: “Afterlife”
- LIIS: “#1 Crush” (ft. Julien-K)
- Silverside: “Black Ocean”
- Skumlove: “Ride or Die”
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