- 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]
- Into Elysium – In Your Darkest Hour [4/22]
- Devil’s Cut – Roadkill [4/24]
Glis
Albums Released in January/February 2026
- The Delirium Effect – Toxic Culture Shock [1/2]
- Redefind – Still Dreamin’ [1/9]
- Semper Acerbus – Following Omens [1/9]
- Pistols at Dawn – Memento Mori [1/9]
- AJ McLean – My Name is Alexander James [1/9]
- Alter Bridge – Alter Bridge [1/9]
- Asterism – Kick Down the Wall [1/14]
- The Funeral Portrait – Live From Suffocate City [1/16]
- The Far Worst – Vicious Cycle [1/20]
- Blindlove – Broken Heart Syndrome [1/21]
- Glis – Winterwerk [1/23]
- Fading Into Silence – Woman On My Mind [1/23]
- Crown of Nothing – The Weight I Can’t Escape [1/30]
- Opandaman – Digital Depression [1/30]
- Crownless Prince – Cherry and Velvet [2/1]
- Automated Uprising – Corruption [2/3]
- Noise Infinite – No Weapon Formed [2/3]
- Pretty Crooked – So Sickening [2/6]
- Wolverine – Anomalies [2/6]
- Siren Section – Separation Team [2/6]
- KonKuss – Black Baccara [2/9]
- MadLadGibson – The Journey Begins [2/12]
- Anaria – Between Loving and Dying [2/13]
- Ghosts Are Here – Above [2/18]
- Pleasantly Wild – Love Language [2/18]
- Rude and Reckless – All In [2/19]
- Ethereal Treason – All is Vanity [2/20]
- The Veer Union – Reinvention [2/20]
- Echoing Peaks – The Ascent [2/20]
- Histheory – High Seas Mysteries [2/20]
- Silent Script – Another Day in Bedlam [2/20]
- Vision of Fire – My Final Hour [2/25]
- Hero The Band – Anatomy: Part 2 [2/26]
- Deeper Graves – Pull Me Toward the Dark [2/27]
- Witchz – Afterlife [2/27]
- Announce the Apocalypse – Void [2/27]
- Final Gasp – New Day Symptoms [2/27]
- Blackwater Drowning – Obscure Sorrows [2/27]
EPs Released in January/February 2026
- Shadows Calling – The Other Side of Me [1/1]
- Elktooth – Elktooth [1/2]
- King’s Gambit – Hardwater [1/2]
- Skeleton – Seven Gates of Hell [1/2]
- Glis – Winterwerk, Vol. 2 [1/9]
- Witchz – The Collapse [1/9]
- Midnight Fracture – Ghost Inside [1/16]
- EPHMRL – As We Collide [1/16]
- Ninety Five – Welcome [1/18]
- husk – Mirror [1/22]
- Cryblood – Fall [1/23]
- Solely Veil – Reverie [1/23]
- December Morning – Stolen Days [1/23]
- Virtue in Vain – Nothing is All I Am [1/23]
- Born of Ghosts – If It Ever Was, It Isn’t Now [1/23]
- Remergent – Transcendence [1/26]
- Saint Social – Saint Social Acoustic Remix EP [1/28]
- Hortus – Szepty [1/30]
- Lo Cloud – Sleepwalker EP [1/30]
- The Venusian – Lost Record [2/2]
- ghostbells – Catacouture [2/5]
- Paeon – Pull [2/6]
- Half Awake Eyes – Half Awake Eyes [2/11]
- Announce the Apocalypse – Waiting for Daylight [2/13]
- RewØund + Fear Decay – Dream With Me [2/13]
- Unseen Faith – Fractured Will [2/13]
- Forever Odyssey – Searching for Paradise [2/19]
- Blessings of Mara – After Despair [2/19]
- Moon Medallion – Radiation EP [2/20]
- Scoria – Do You Feel You’re Normal? [2/20]
- HAMS – Send It! [2/21]
- Crispin Earl – The Sleep Token Edition [2/27]
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 12 (Updated 12/31/25)
The last playlist update of 2025 is here! It has been a year of bangers, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for my top 50 of 2025. For now, check out these releases from December.
- Zachary Baker: “Dark Horse”
- Hyporium: “Hit the Mute Button”
- Remergent: “Revelation”
- Wreckborn: “Sleigh Bell Pressure”
- Illusion of Solace: “Aeons”
- Seethe: “Flinch”
- Forge The Sun: “Angels We Have Heard on High” (ft. Sharp Lives)
- Storm Kingdom: “The Death of Love” (ft. MX the American)
- Purple Grace: “Turbulence”
- Ghost of Rucker: “Where Tears End”
- Glis: “Turbo Lush”
- Darlah: “Rain”
- Moonsette: “As I Stared”
- MAK: “Fever”
- sKelter pLus: “Alter” (ft. UnfortunatelyFallen)
- Luke Baird Music: “Dream”
- The Mercury Seed: “Disappear”
- Energiii: “Morrigan”
- Hortus: “Feniks”
- Shape: “Ever Beating Hearts”
- Somehow Still: “Phantom Weight”
- All Violet: “plead the fifth”
- Redefind: “Copycat”
- EPHMRL: “Into the Fracture”
- The CyberTones: “Freak Off” (ft. Johnny Tuesday)
- Future Theory: “Take Me Home”
- Polybomber: “Terminus”
- Lukas Boots: “Mirror Always Shows”
- Innocents Torn: “SkullCrusher”
- morino: “Built To Carry On”
- Dekay: “Slaughterhouse Disco”
- AM FALL: “Dystopia (So Tonight We Break Free)”
- L.O.U.D.: “Collide”
- Sweet Antidote: “Looking Back”
- Chase Nightmares: “My Best Friend Dex”
- The CyberTones: “What Epstein Files”
- vasthearts: “such a shame” (ft. romziie and Leø)
- Ethereal Treason: “Quiet as the Grave”
- AnonTheory: “Thoughts and Prayers”
- Mirrorcell: “Ichi” (ft. VCTMS)
- Hall of Lost: “Loser’s Game” (Acoustic Version)
- Fright: “The Fright Show”
- Doom Groove Orchestra: “Ain’t No Cure”
- Midnight Fracture: “Buried Underneath”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 10 (Updated 10/31/25)
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Here are the singles that have been released since October 16th.
- Suicide Heaven: “Make a Move on Me”
- We Cry Wolf: “Tell Me How It Feels”
- Young Other: “Breach”
- The Veer Union: “Sunk Your Teeth In”
- Against the Storm: “Fortress”
- Fright: “Hypnosis”
- As The Sky Went Black: “Angel of Death”
- vasthearts: “snowfall, darling”
- Braeker: “Die For You”
- Stellar Circuits: “Bury the Ashes”
- Deadly Vices: “Monster is You”
- Saliva: “Too Broke to Fix” (ft. The Founder and Judge & Jury)
- Truckstop Divas: “Steals to Survive”
- Make Fire: “NOIZE”
- Massfear: “Erase My Mind”
- Husk Bloom: “Illusion”
- Jungle Dream: “Are You Saved?”
- Boze: “Buzzin'”
- Unseen Faith: “Cold Resolve” (ft. Left to Suffer)
- Deadcode: “Rip My World Apart” (Kouss remix)
- Above Snakes: “My Resolve”
- Citizen Soldier: “Dead Butterflies”
- Vandalheart: “Rock Bottom”
- Braeker: “Haunting”
- DieHumane: “The Deep” (ft. Jeffrey Nothing)
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Spirit Animal”
- 9th Evolution: “Cry Little Sister” (Gerard McMahon cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Dark Angel”
- Vagabond: “Crawl”
- Future Theory: “The Fear”
- Glis: “Morning Sun”
- Seethe: “Frost (A Song for Abe)”
- Dekay: “Static Paranoia”
- Loose Lips: “Halloween”
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life): “Terminal Lucidity”
- morino: “Quiet in the Crowd”
- Forge the Sun: “Speedball”
- Fright: “Death Marks”
- Kissing Candice: “Bodies”
- Purple Grace: “Always By My Side”
- Lo: “Critical Condition” (ft. Sky Knives)
- Induction: “Love Kills”
- Seronova: “In the Company of Wolves”
- Rae Danté: “Bury the Bones”
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. 5 (Updated 5/16/25)
May is here, and so is a lot of new music to make your ear holes happy!
- Forge the Sun: “Decay”
- Deadcode: “Left You For Dead” (ft. Justin Warfield)
- Boogeymvn: “Reaching for Idle Hands”
- No Fly List: “The Rush”
- Rise to Ruin: “11th Hour”
- Saint Social: “Holiday Forever” (Acoustic Remix)
- Witchz: “Grime, Pt. 1”
- Storm Kingdom: “Hymn of the Ancients”
- MissFit Toys: “Ransom” (Remastered)
- Elliott Rubin: “Drain”
- Allie Riot: “Gimme Some Head”
- Waiting at the Bridge: “Love Gun” (KISS cover)
- Shinedown: “Three Six Five” (Piano Version)
- Citizen Soldier: “Inner Critic”
- L.O.U.D: “Denver”
- Stories of Solitude: “Abyss”
- Curse Inflikted: “Demigod”
- Static Season: “Peripheral”
- Kings County: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Corvid Corpus: “Dancing on Your Grave”
- CrumbsNBread: “Broken Heart”
- Last Dance Among Wolves: “High and Low”
- Wraithlurk: “The Raven”
- Glis: “No Pulse” (2025 Mix)
- Violet Dawn: “Burn for You”
- Fractured Sense: “Vacant Frames”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Catching Your Eye”
- MAKEITSTOP: “Hi Burning, I’m Drowning”
- Voice of Glass: “Henosis”
- AVKRVST: “The Trauma”
- Elirah’s Cross: “Winning” (ft. Ataraxia Music)
- Incite: “Dolores”
- Limberlost: “Alien”
- ParanoiZe: “Decisive”
- The Sanctity of Crows: “The Endless Life of Water”
- Inherently Lost: “Art of Corruption”
- Grizzly Ironside: “Deliver Us 2.0”
- Deep Sea Camels: “Exit Wound”
- Almera: “Fallacy”
- Nick Nasty: “Stalemate”
- Loose Lips: “Up and Running”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Architect”
- Christopher Ardra: “The Air in There”
- Storm Kingdom: “Under a Crooked Tree” (ft. Joe Booe)
- No Fly List: “Close to Closure”
- Boogeymvn: “Heaven No Longer Weeps For Me”
- Die Tired: “(So Called) Complex”
- Central: “Thorns in Silk” (ft. Mila Shade)
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Don’t forget to check out the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist!
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”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 6 (Updated 12/8/24)
Christmas is rapidly approaching, and with it, the Top 50 of 2024! I have started short-listing tracks for that honor, but it’s gonna be tough choosing just fifty. Thank goodness I don’t actually attempt to rank them in any particular order!
Make sure you check out all six installments of this year’s playlist.
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Here are the songs that have been added since November 24th.
- Eleven Ounces: “The Devil You See”
- A2oustically: “I’m Sorry For Me”
- Push Through: “Frail”
- Drew Paul: “Looking Back”
- 6deep: “Idle Hands”
- Giveth: “Flames”
- The F-use: “Pretty”
- LASTRY: “The Chronicle”
- Lilakk: “DirtyBird (Remastered)”
- Maulskull: “Desiderium”
- Chance to Steal: “Hate Sells”
- Farcreek: “Way Out”
- Amphisbaena: “Luto”
- held under.: “It Dies With Me”
- Mercury Red: “Do What You Do”
- Manosaurus: “Full of Shit” (ft. Dan Wade)
- Jay Gearhart: “Fallout”
- Whip Wilson: “Trouble Always Finds Me”
- whenitsmytime: “Saint Petersburg”
- Nick Nasty: “Lose My YOUth”
- Chilling Revelation: “Letters”
- The Veer Union: “Shades of Gray”
- Glis: “Sex Object” (Kraftwerk cover)
- Adullam: “Weight of the World”
- Nick Palma: “Super Electric”
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life): “4 Walls”
- Chasing Rotation: “Change Your Mind”
- RA: “Incomplete” (ft. Keith Wallen and Jason Hook)
- Mandatory Affect: “Emergence Revisited”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 6/30/24)
This will be the last update for part 3. The singles released in July and August will get their own playlist, part 4.
You can listen to all of part 3 here.
And don’t forget part 1 and part 2.
Here are the songs that have been added since June 16th.
- Ten4One: “I Believe”
- Alive in Stone: “Slave”
- Sourworm: “Kill the World”
- Pulsifier: “Scars”
- Crobot: “Come Down”
- Ariias: “A Delicate Balance”
- Central: “Black Dahlia”
- Glis: “Yesterday’s Anthems”
- Preacher Red: “Eye to Eye”
- Painted Lines: “Didn’t Get Your Name”
- DEATH CODE: “Pain” (ft. CRYBLOOD)
- Enemy Within: “The Final Suffering”
- Dayshaper: “Solidarity”
- The Renascent: “For You”
- Witchz: “LA$ VEGA$”
- Flat Black: “Sideways”
- The Stone Eye: “High Frequency Hog”
- Cruel Mourning: “Dead on Arrival”
- Silk Parlor: “Holding Me Up”
- NiNeO3: “I Know”
- Bullet to the Heart: “Freeze”
- The Funeral Portrait: “Suffocate City” (ft. Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills)
- Positivity Club: “Stop So Hard”
- One World (R)evolution: “Fractured”
- 3 Bravo: “Awake”
- Blacklist Union: “Horns and Halos”
- Bödel: “Bilan Faller”
- Desert Kites: “Holiday”
- We Are The Storm: “Obsidian”
- Ease!: “In This Room”
- Feathers For Fuel: “Winds”
- Fading Echoes: “Vultures”
- Earth Attack: “Dream”
- Crossbreed: “The Killer Inside”
- Young Other: “All Alright” (ft. Emily Rae)
- Burn the Ballroom: “Story of the End”
- Endless Chain: “We Are We”
- Dirty Rivals: “Lost”
- Hooked Like Helen: “OCD (these thoughts again)”
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “See This Through”
- Altamadum: “A Criminal Mind” (ft. Skyler Pretty)
- A Fatal Black: “DedHed (Welcome to the Graveyard)”
- By All Means: “Redesign”
- The Murder of Jane Crow: “Wicked Ways”
- Honeyknife: “Stay Bored”
- Carsex: “Crooked Canvas”
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