- House of Warwick – Lost in Hypnosis [7/1]
- Loosely Sewn – LS-1 [7/1]
- SFINX – SFINX [7/8]
- Moonfall – Hope at the Edge of Spring [7/11]
- Ded En – The Gala [7/18]
- Anaria – Chasing Shadows [8/1]
- Stain the Canvas – Inevitable [8/1]
- Phobias – This Was All For Nothing [8/7]
- Miss FD – Euphoria [8/8]
- Servants øf Sleep – 2.0/ [8/12]
- something else together. – see through [8/16]
- Ex Okay – Black EP [8/22]
- The Funeral Portrait – Dark Thoughts EP [8/22]
- Collide – Freaks Me Out [8/22]
- Glass Lungs – Afterglow [8/22]
- Shadow Reborn – The Magnificence of Agony, Pt. 1 [9/5]
- SINthetik Messiah + Moose Harris – Pyramid Schemes [9/6]
- Hunter and the Cold Hearts Club – Till the Flesh Falls [9/10]
- Flür – Your Way [9/19]
Moonfall
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!
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 4 (Updated 4/30/25)
Hey, y’all, and welcome to another playlist update! April has been a very weird month for me on a personal level, but at least the soundtrack was fire!!! Here are the songs that have been added to part four since April 16th.
- EarlyRise: “The Bitter Pill”
- Marilyn Manson: “In the Air Tonight” (Phil Collins cover)
- 50 Meter Icewall: “Purge Me Daddy”
- Rogue Island: “Sweat”
- Curse Inflikted: “Dancing With Shadows”
- Silent Theory: “Swept Away” (Julien-K remix)
- Wraithlurk: “Dimensions”
- Matte Blvck + ALVABEAT: “Pupula Duplex (Your Demise)”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Fade to Black” (Metallica cover)
- Storm Kingdom + Sonia Hutchinson: “Ninmah”
- No Fly List: “All Lost No Found”
- Priest: “Black Hole Sun” (Soundgarden cover)
- Citizen Soldier: “Better Off Broken”
- A Place i Know: “Freedom Bells”
- The Truth Music: “Heart Issues” (ft. JD)
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Death Becomes You” (StoneBridge remix)
- Dawn of Ashes: “Hypertensive Crisis”
- Antibody + Binary Division + Czarina: “My Enemy”
- Wind Walkers: “The End Aesthetic”
- obiman: “UNDERTHEWEIGHT”
- Misfire: “Living the Dream”
- The Lineage: “Burn Down”
- Stone Lions: “Bite Your Tongue” (ft. Dani Winter-Bates)
- To The Shores: “Blood in the Water”
- Dal-War: “Run Run Run Away Yeah”
- Heir to Nothing: “Don’t Tell Me”
- Into Ruin: “Godless”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Manifest”
- Priest: “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak cover)
- Mr. Strange: “X the Eyes”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Point of No Return”
- Adelitas Way + New Medicine: “Rollin'”
- The Funeral Portrait: “Skinny Lies”
- Storm Kingdom: “Children of the Sun” (ft. Makaade)
- Not Enough Space: “Eye 4 an Eye” (ft. Dark Divine)
- Seven Year Witch: “Better Off as Strangers”
- Moonfall: “Rainstorm”
- Sleep Token: “Damocles”
- Archers Gate: “Suffocate”
- The Impulsive: “Echo”
- Seethe: “Reprieve”
- Blackwood: “One Track Mind” (ft. Kameron Jane)
- Alive in Stone: “Comatose”
- We’re Not Doctors: “RAD\\MOD”
- Tyler Griese: “Suffocate Me”
- Nick Nasty: “Systems Don’t Break (People Do)”
- REDWAVE: “Fax Machine”
- The Black Zodiac: “Gallow’s Call”
- Screams of Tranquility: “Frozen Tears of Solitude”
- Metal Charm: “Time to Restart”
- Von Loop: “Stomping on the Demons”
- Linx: “مختلف” (Them)
- Anderson Park Lane: “NEWS”
- AVKRVST: “The Malevolent” (ft. Ross Jennings)
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And, as always, be sure to check out the 2025 playlist in its entirety!
EPs Released From January to March 2025
As stated in the Albums Released From January to March 2025 post, I am handling the announcement of album and EP releases differently this year. I will be sharing a list every 3 months rather than every 6.
Please note that whenever possible, I have linked the artist’s Apple Music profile. I still use Spotify because of its convenience, but I respect that many are struggling with monetary decisions made by the streaming service and will send traffic to your other platforms if I can. (Release dates may vary depending on when the EP was uploaded to Apple.)
- Atta Guns – The Heart and the Mind Have Nothing in Common [1/1]
- ZombieSuckers – Captain Morgue and His Deadbeats [1/8]
- King Saltine – III [1/10]
- Monster Truck – Monster Truck Monday, Vol. 2 [1/13]
- Storm Kingdom – The Savage Garden [1/13]
- GHOSTHVRT – Neon Sin [1/17]
- The Reckless – Who Are You? [1/17]
- Midnight For Now – In the End [1/23]
- Circuit Preacher – Killed Something [1/24]
- Still Echoes – Self (Titled) [1/30]
- Illusions of Grandeur – The Siren Rises, Pt. 1: The Witch [1/31]
- Salaryman – Salaryman [2/1]
- Ghost of the Sun – Black Flower [2/3]
- Monster Truck – Monster Truck Monday, Vol. 3 [2/3]
- Cresthaven – For What It’s Worth [2/8]
- Darkriver – 004 [2/14]
- Fuzzy Death Machine – Culinary Slut [2/21]
- Ruin the Mind – Queen of the Damned (Reloaded) [2/22]
- Circuit Preacher – Torture God [2/28]
- Tropic Gold – Sick to Death of Everything [3/7]
- Take the W – Head in the Sky [3/10]
- f1oater. – Amnesia State of Mind [3/14]
- Who on Earth – Smoke & Mirrors [3/14]
- The Funeral March of the Marionettes – It All Falls Apart [3/14]
- No Fly List – No Fly List [3/17]
- Atlases – Penumbra: Recast [3/19]
- Gillsaw – Fog Watch [3/21]
- Sage – Heartwired [3/21]
- Moonfall – Stillness of Winter [3/21]
- Anaria – Curtain Fall [3/27]
- Adelitas Way – Deja Vu EP [3/28]
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 2 (Updated 2/14/25)
Hello, February! (And Valentine’s Day…)
I hope everyone is having a good year so far, but however you’re feeling at the moment, I have the soundtrack to go with it. Check out these recent releases!
- BREAKKER: “Stick to Your Guns”
- Summon the Moon: “All For Love” (ft. Rodney Noffsinger and Eric Smith)
- Arktifice: “Carry On”
- Gillsaw: “Siren Comes”
- Dark Remedy: “Let Me Go”
- Circles of Namibia: “Needing”
- This Haunted Sky: “Perfect Sleep”
- Dusty Suns: “Vegas Nerve”
- Sleep Theory: “Static”
- Late Night Television: “$2 Bill”
- Heliosphere 8: “Stargates”
- Farewell Come April: “Everything is Fine”
- Moonfall: “Petrichor”
- MissFit Toys: “Red Dragon (Club Mix)”
- Robert Jon & the Wreck: “Sittin’ Pretty”
- Edge of Paradise: “Prophecy Unbound”
- Joyful Forfeit: “Left-Handed Cursive”
- Plastic Tears: “Carvão no Natal”
- Shovel Monster: “Exodus”
- Six Hours For a Lifetime: “Sick Of It All”
- Touch of Red: “Tear Down the Sky”
- Dexoflex: “Lights Out, Bud”
- Nick Nasty: “Back 9 Bullies”
- Disint: “Discordant”
- Between the Portals: “Here to Mars”
- SOSAYWEALL: “The Rift”
- The Bettors: “A Place”
- Lilyhammer: “Nihilist”
- The Fiction We Create: “Hope Burns Bright”
- New Medicine: “TYPE”
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Death Becomes You”
- AccidFerry: “How It Ends”
- Bury My Demons: “State of Dystopia”
- Of Limbo: “Joke’s on You”
- Storm Kingdom: “Blood & Tears”
- To The Grave: “Forced Diet Reassignment”
- AM FALL: “The Silence Behind Your Hollow Heart” (ft. Scapegoat, Chemical Youth, and JB Music)
- Traverse the Abyss: “Viewpoint”
- Above Snakes: “Fight Fire With Fire”
- Winter in May: “Stay”
- Saint Social: “From Beginning to the End (Acoustic Remix)”
- The Dead Rabbitts: “Hellscape” (ft. Wednesday 13, Stitched Up Heart, and Judge & Jury)
- Never Enough: “This is the End”
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!
5 Bands/Artists You Should Be Following (#20)
1. Greyhaven (UK)
Alternative/modern rock from London. For fans of Bring Me the Horizon, A Day to Remember, Walk the Moon, etc. Back in May, Greyhaven was featured on a Metal Hammer tribute to Avenged Sevenfold. They covered “Hail to the King.” Here are two originals from the band: “Breathe” and “Truth”.
Facebook – Instagram – YouTube
2. Playing Savage
Funk/soul/rock with a hint of hip-hop, based in Vienna. For fans of Res, Michael Jackson, Alabama Shakes, etc. Playing Savage is busy writing and recording new music! In the meantime, check out the Spotify page, as well as these two songs from the YouTube page, “This Is Love” and “Get Off of My Back.”
3. Moonfall
Alternative/pop/rock band from New York. For fans of Fall Out Boy, twenty one pilots, Panic! At The Disco, etc. According to their Instagram, Moonfall has “so much in the works” but “so little we can say.” You can, however, check out the lyric video for “Windswept,” and the video for the first song I heard, “Lost.”
4. Dare Defy
Hard rock/metal music from Florida. For fans of Killswitch Engage, Taking Back Sunday, Finch, etc. (with a touch of Slipknot). Dare Defy’s first EP is available via Spotify. They are currently booking shows and Labor Day weekend, they will be playing the Blue Ridge Rock Fest alongside such acts as Puddle of Mudd, Orgy, Lamb of God, and Jonathan Davis. Listen to the songs “Love Sick” and “Burn.”
Facebook – Instagram – YouTube
5. Indogen
Melodic progressive rock from Arizona. For fans of Tool, A Perfect Circle, Pink Floyd, etc. Indogen is working on new music and playing live in and around the Phoenix area, so if you’re anywhere nearby, check out their Facebook page and get to a show! Crank up the volume and jam “Autopilot” and “Implosion.”
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