- Daughters of Mara – I Am Destroyer [10/3]
- Linx – Annihilation [10/10]
- Living Dead Girl – Conspiracy [10/10]
- Batchelor – Shadow Protocol [10/14]
- Heartsick – Break the Curse [10/14]
- Julien-K – DRK|MODE [10/17]
- Dead Deceased – Chasm of Radiant Despair [10/17]
- The Thing With Feathers – So Electric [10/24]
- Anaria – Piercing the Veil [10/24]
- POET The Band – Night Era (Nightcore) [10/24]
- Buried Beneath Me – The House of Ash [10/24]
- Parhelyon – From Dark to Light [10/24]
- Dark Moon Spirit – Sacrificial Moon [10/31]
- Wraithlurk – Engraved [10/31]
- MethodOne – Novus Initium [10/31]
- Armchair Cynics – The Lost Tapes [11/7]
- Soulhound – The Divine Purge [11/7]
- Citizen Soldier – Family Heirlooms [11/12]
- Stellar Circuits – Phantom::Phoenix [11/14]
- Suicide Queen – Crowned in Blood [11/14]
- The Malt – Weeping Red [11/15]
- DENIGH – Sleep With No Sound [11/17]
- Falls for the Elderly – Insomnia [11/20]
- Never Enough – Aurora [11/21]
- Moonscape – Entity, Chapter III: A Sudden Glimpse of Clarity [11/21]
- The Pretty Wild – zero.point.genesis [11/21]
- RedPrint – Beyond Reality [11/26]
- Sleeper Signal – Tales of the Misguided Souls [11/26]
- Jungle Dream – We Are Legion [11/28]
- Black Dog Moon – Hell and Back [11/28]
- Excide – Bastard Hymns [11/28]
- Devil-M – Titanomachie [11/30]
- Michael Botte Band – Demos & Diamonds, Vol. 1 [12/5]
- the OWLiNG – You Don’t Bow You Will Learn [12/5]
- Immunosuppressed – Lilith [12/5]
- Set For Tomorrow – ARCS [12/5]
- Stain the Canvas – Honey Rot [12/12]
- Eye of Atlantis – Eye of Atlantis [12/13]
- Severed Skies – Oblivion [12/15]
- Vagabond – Ode to Isotopia [12/17]
- Priest – Live in Hollywood [12/19]
- Dark Enchantment – Fragments of Faith [12/20]
- SouthsideFerris – Dying Light [12/23]
- The Further I Get – Life [12/25]
- Libricide – Kismet [12/26]
- Cirkus – Still Remains [12/27]
- Damnum – Obsidian Machine [12/30]
Heartsick
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”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 5 (Updated 5/31/25)
The second half of May has come in as strong as the first! Check out these tracks that have been released since May 16th.
- Animate Experience: “Onyx”
- The Modern Kollective: “Dreams and Nightmares”
- Azarene: “Memories”
- Falling in Reverse: “God is a Weapon” (ft. Marilyn Manson)
- Lady Strange & the Rites: “High Strangeness”
- Razorwire Halo: “As Good As” (ft. r3nrut)
- A Beautiful Scar: “Never Break”
- Shadow Reborn: “Grave of Roses”
- SKNN: “Bow Down”
- obli_x_vion: “Bird to Prey” (ft. Tyler Noxwind)
- Dark Divine: “Make Me Disappear”
- A Killer’s Confession: “Hollow”
- Ballyhoo!: “Swim”
- Them Damn Dogs: “Weirdo”
- Seethe: “Banshee”
- 40 Below Summer: “King Ghidorah”
- Priest: “My Lonely Heart”
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “3 Visits”
- Third in Theory: “Clay”
- Bleeker: “Self-Made”
- Heartsick: “Break the Curse”
- Cirkus: “Know Yourself”
- Danny Worsnop: “Harder Than the Hard Stuff”
- Sick Century: “Demon Inside”
- Wider Eaves: “Half the Way Undone”
- Shape: “Husk”
- Left to Suffer: “Anon” (ft. King 810)
- Above Snakes: “Forsaken”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Devil Said”
- Painted Lines: “Better Off”
- Moonfall: “Light Blue Flowers”
- Closed City Terror: “Teflon Idiot”
- Storm Kingdom: “Raindrops Fall on Stained Glass Petals” (ft. Joe Booe)
- Stain the Canvas: “554th”
- Citizen Soldier: “Life Support”
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Alix Street”
- Anchor & Braille: “Sweet Jesus Knows”
- Midnight For Now: “Friends”
- Host of Nightmare: “Diamond”
- Carbonstone: “Standoff” (ft. Jonny Santos of Spineshank)
- Caelum Wraith: “Are You Still You?”
- Hooked Like Helen: “Quote Unquote Life”
Be sure to visit the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist. You could discover your new favorite song/artist!
Nonpoint: Painful Statements Tour 2025
Nonpoint will be playing a handful of shows in January 2025, celebrating the 20th anniversary of To The Pain and the 25th anniversary of Statement. With special guests Crobot and Heartsick, this month-long run kicks off January 10th in Lakewood, Ohio. Tickets and VIP are now on sale at nonpoint.com!
- 1/10 – Lakewood, OH – The Roxy
- 1/11 – Pittsburgh, PA – Preserving Underground
- 1/12 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
- 1/14 – Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819
- 1/15 – North Chattanooga, TN – Barrelhouse Ballroom
- 1/17 – St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live
- 1/18 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room
- 1/19 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham
- 1/21 – Greenville, SC – Radio Room
- 1/22 – Virginia Beach, VA – Elevation 27
- 1/23 – Fredericksburg, VA – Hard Times Cafe/Four Mile Fork
- 1/25 – Columbus, OH – The King of Clubs
My Top 50 Songs of 2023
I tried to trim my list down to 30, the way I did last year, but it was impossible. For one thing, I started compiling singles for 2023 in January – last year, I got a late start. And for another thing, there have been way too many good songs released over the past twelve months!
So here are my top 50 songs of 2023 (in no particular order). And here is a link to the full playlist!
- Alive in Stone: “Fatboy”
- Katatonia: “Birds”
- Riverside: “Friend or Foe?”
- Animals as Leaders: “Red Miso”
- The Banishment: “Got What You Wanted”
- Lions at the Gate: “The Ledge”
- Fire Follows: “Say Words”
- Deadly Vices: “Notice Me”
- Kissing Candice: “Inveterate”
- Citizen Soldier + Royal Bliss: “Through Hell”
- Black Water Rising: “Hail Mary”
- Welcome Eternity: “Slave to the Crown”
- Moonfall: “Eyelids Closing Shut” (ft. Crystal Joilena)
- DK-Zero: “Nightmare”
- ANOXIA: “Earthbound” (ft. Corey James of Carbonstone)
- Saint Tragedy: “Limbo”
- City and Colour: “F**ked It Up”
- Kamelot: “Eventide”
- Band of Wolves: “On the Wagon”
- Carbonstone: “Damaged Like You”
- Linx: “Crystal Jellyfish”
- Breathing Theory: “The Cure”
- New Medicine: “Past the Past”
- Is MAN KIND: “25 to Life”
- Dark Remedy: “Haunted”
- Seven Year Witch: “Mark Cuban”
- Matt James: “Wait It Out”
- Bent Self: “Sunshine”
- Death Valley Dreams: “Ships in the Night”
- 3 Pill Morning: “Ethereal”
- Of Limbo: “California Demon”
- Stain the Canvas: “friXion”
- Patient Sixty-Seven, VRSTY: “Bad Habit”
- Rose Devika: “slow burn”
- Heartsick, Sapphire Noel: “Sadness”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Disconnect”
- Any Given Sin: “Cold Bones”
- Storm Kingdom: “Empires”
- The Props: “Target Practice”
- The BRKN: “FANGS”
- The Funeral Portrait: “Dark Thoughts”
- Lethal Injektion, Waylon Reavis: “Never Free”
- Divine Shade, Steve Fox-Harris: “Oublier”
- Rikets: “Infected and Controlled”
- Doom Groove Orchestra: “Why”
- Anaria: “Freakshow”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Ready to Burn”
- Silver Bullet Smile: “Man in the Moon”
- 2 Shadows: “Fading From Misery”
- Gears: “My Curse (Mi Maldición)”
The Mostly Music 2023 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 9/10/23)
So I have been remiss and have not posted all of the singles that have been added to parts one and two of my 2023 playlist, but from this post onward, I plan to stay on top of the third installment for the rest of the year. (This is quite the massive undertaking; as previously stated, in 2024, I will be dividing the playlists into more digestible segments – perhaps grouping only three months of singles into each rather than four.)
If you are interested, I will link the other two playlists at the end of this post. For now, here is the first group of singles I added to part three. I usually do two weeks’ worth at a time, as some weeks there are very few releases to share.
Also, this list is far from comprehensive. I tend to focus on independent bands/artists who are not backed by major labels. I’m sure I miss an entire world of tracks by other indie artists/bands. You can feel free to comment with a few, if you’d like!
- Hitten: “Mr. Know It All”
- A Scent Like Wolves: “Sunscape”
- Sleep in Motion: “Terminal”
- Sekond Skyn: “Wounds”
- Mac Saturn: “Mint Julep”
- Unveil the Strength: “Foundations”
- DRVID: “Oblivion”
- Moonfall: “On the Shore”
- Waiting at the Bridge: “Plague Walker”
- Citizen Soldier: “Good Enough for God”
- Heartsick: “Eight Years”
- Bear Within Us: “Down”
- 9th Planet: “Prey”
- Aeolian: “The Miracle”
- Red Devil Vortex: “Walking the Wire”
More fun links!
New Music Video! Heartsick: “Derecho”
The Veer Union: The Rock Shop Records Spring Tour 2022 (Updated!)
The Veer Union hasn’t toured in three long years, but they are back now and bringing some friends! Tickets and VIP packages are available at theveerunion.com.
The four supporting acts are Late Night Savior, 2 Shadows, Heartsick, and Madzilla. They are playing in different combinations throughout, so I’ll mark that clearly.
- 3/31 – Vancouver, BC – The Roxy (CANCELLED!)
- 4/7 – Bellingham, WA – The Shakedown (w/2 Shadows & Guests)
- 4/8 – Seattle, WA – Fun House @ El Corazon (w/2 Shadows & Guests)
- 4/9 – Portland, OR – Mano Oculta (w/2 Shadows & Guests)
- 4/11 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/12 – Fresno, CA – Full Circle Brewery (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/13 – Los Angeles, CA – Los Globos (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/14 – San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/15 – Scottsdale, AZ – Pub Rock Live (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/16 – Tucson, AZ – House of Bards (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/20 – San Angelo, TX – The Dead Horse (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/21 – Houston, TX – Scout Bar (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/22 – Laredo, TX – Wonder Lounge (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/23 – San Antonio, TX – Vibes Underground (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/24 – Austin, TX – Come and Take It Live (w/2 Shadows & Madzilla)
- 4/25 – Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street Collective (w/2 Shadows)
- 4/26 – Springfield, MO – Outland Ballroom (w/2 Shadows)
- 4/27 – Columbia, MO – Rose Music Hall (w/2 Shadows)
- 4/28 – Lincoln, NE – 1867 Bar (w/2 Shadows)
- 4/29 – Sioux City, IA – The Marquee (w/2 Shadows)
- 4/30 – Des Moines, IA – Lefty’s Live Music (w/2 Shadows)
- 5/2 – Chicago, IL – Reggies Music Joint (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/3 – Westland, MI – The Token Lounge (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/4 – Jeffersonville, IN – Maxwell’s House of Music (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/5 – Fort Wayne, IN – Piere’s (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/6 – Akron, OH – The Vortex (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/7 – New Kensington, PA – Preserving Underground (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/8 – Baldwinsville, NY – Average Joe’s (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/9 – Harrisburg, PA – HMAC @ Stage on Herr (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/11 – Teaneck, NJ – Debonaire Music Hall (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/12 – Providence, RI – Alchemy (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/13 – Frenchtown, NJ – Arties Bar & Grill (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/14 – Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Hall (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/15 – Washington DC – DC9 (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/16 – Virginia Beach, VA – Scandals Live (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/18 – Jacksonville, NC – Hooligans Music Hall (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/19 – Spartanburg, SC – Ground Zero (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/20 – Jonesboro, GA – Furnace 41 (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/21 – Birmingham, AL – Ghost Train Brewing Co. (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/24 – Dallas, TX – Trees (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/26 – Colorado Springs, CO – Sunshine Studios Live (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/27 – Denver, CO – The Roxy Theater (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/28 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Urban Lounge (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
- 5/29 – Las Vegas, NV – Rockstar Bar (w/Late Night Savior & Heartsick)
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