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The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 1 (Updated 1/14/25)
Welcome to another year of my annual playlist! Here, I focus on the lesser-known bands/artists and their releases. We are 2 weeks into 2025 and already have a fair share of bangers.
Note: This year, I am dividing the playlist by month. There will be 12 installments, and updates will be posted every 2 weeks.
Check out the releases that have dropped since January 1st.
- Sever Red: “Conjuring”
- Verias Smith: “Playground”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “See Me Now (Live)”
- The Delirium Effect: “Parasite”
- Impending Doom: “Christ is King”
- Impending Doom: “Punishment”
- Element 117: “Vision”
- Our Frankenstein: “Kerosene”
- Mads Krul: “Now Let’s Go”
- My Field of Honor: “Resolution”
- The Murder Project: “Back to Life”
- Bleedstone: “King Baby Reigns”
- OK Otter: “Maybe It’s You”
- Endless May: “Call My Name”
- Spring Ahead, Fall Apart: “Brink”
- The Zedds: “The Wrong Road”
- Sleepwalker Funeral: “Perseverance, Written in Blood”
- Jauncey: “Manifest”
- Histheory: “Insomnia” (ft. Drew Nold and Shannon Darcy)
- Gillsaw: “Rizen”
- The Lürxx: “The Streets are Paved With Stars”
- Breathe In: “Fallujah”
- New Medicine: “Know Somebody”
- Tin Zelkova: “Loser”
- Spycamera: “Predictable”
- A.D.A.M. Music Project: “Two Worlds” (ft. Aranda)
- Silverside: “Godspeed”
- Absolutist: “Lineage”
- Engines of Ruin: “Time”
Song of the Day – Tin Zelkova: “Almost Home”
Song of the Day – Challenger: “The Aluminum Hand”
Song of the Day – Jughandle: “Prisoner”
Song of the Day – Those Left Behind: “Negative”
Song of the Day – POET The Band: “Sin Eater”
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. 6 (Updated 12/30/24)
This is the last update of 2024! I can’t believe this year is already coming to an end. It seems like just yesterday I was adding the first few songs to part one of the playlist. I hope my posts helped y’all find your new favorite song(s).
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Get ready for my top 50 of 2024, which will be posted tomorrow!
Here are the releases that have been added to the playlist since December 22nd.
- The Flips: “Freefall”
- The American Scream: “cut”
- The American Scream: “i’m a mess you’re a wreck”
- The American Scream: “You Said”
- Sunny Hallow: “Contact List”
- The Mizzerables: “Oi to the World!”
- Wudakhan: “10 AM”
- Engines of Ruin: “Riding”
- The Black Vultures: “Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide”
- Carrying Torches: “Good in Blue”
- Saint Aquarius: “Leave Me Behind”
- Appalachia: “At the Center of Divide”
- Mercury Red: “Victim”
- The Whispering Trees: “Bloodline”
- Sick Century: “Tidal Wave”
- Till Lindemann: “Meine Welt”
- Glass Horizon: “Rehabilitate”
- Only Love: “Gallows”
- Caught Off Guard: “Blind Thief in a Dark Alley”
- Unfit: “Until the End”
- Lastry: “Neverland”
- TheoryMD: “Take Me Higher” (ft. David Mason)
- One Day Alive: “Never Again”
- RA: “Without You With Me”
- Soluna: “Ivory” (ft. Garret Rapp)
- The Holy Knives: “Manipulator”
- Somewhat Sober: “I Stayed Until the End”
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