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Song of the Day – Seronova: “Room 55”
Song of the Day – Heir to Nothing: “Fraud”
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!
Three Covers That I Did Not See Coming
I always enjoy hearing artists’ takes on songs they love, and the most fun reimaginings to me are the ones that come from a completely different genre than the original. Over the past week, two such renditions have been released into the world. The third cover… Well, it was always a dark song, so an infamously dark artist sharing his version makes sense.
1. Priest: “Black Hole Sun”
Yes, that “Black Hole Sun.” It’s so Priest, but I think it’s a very respectful nod to Soundgarden and the original. And, let’s be honest, it takes balls to release a song and know everyone is going to be comparing your vocals to Chris Cornell’s.
2. Aesthetic Perfection: “Fade to Black”
Aesthetic Perfection is a self-proclaimed industrial pop act. Hearing them do a Metallica track was unexpected, but I dig it.
3. Marilyn Manson: “In the Air Tonight”
Manson prides himself on shocking people. His entire career is based on it, in fact. He has done odd covers before. However, I just never would have predicted a Phil Collins song. Lol. As stated above, it kinda makes sense. The subject matter of “In the Air Tonight” is rather dark. Who better to reimagine it than Marilyn Manson and Tyler Bates?
Song of the Day – Rude & Reckless: “Thanks for the Honey”
Song of the Day – The Undertaking!: “Touch Dirt”
Song of the Day – Alive For Redemption: “Imprisoned”
Song of the Day – Pøltergeist: “Children of the Dark”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 4 (Updated 4/16/25)
Welcome to April – and a whole new batch of bangers! We’re a little over two weeks into the month, and already, we’ve seen a lot of great releases.
Don’t forget to check out the previous installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist while you’re at it.
Here are the songs that have been added so far in April!
- I Was the Crown: “Mirage in My Veins”
- Taylor Barber: “Forever (Stripped)” – Acoustic (ft. Alejandro Aranda)
- obli_x_vion: “To the Grave” (ft. Circuit Preacher)
- Lost Hearts: “Gone Too Far”
- Linx: “Dead”
- Incite: “No Mercy, No Forgiveness”
- Ghost Bath: “Well, I Tried Drowning”
- SKNN: “Antidote”
- New Medicine: “Baggage”
- Sleep Token: “Caramel”
- Hand of the Tribe: “Smile”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Consequence”
- Empire Springs: “Circle Forbidden”
- Witchz: “The Dose”
- Rogue Island: “Ghost of You”
- To the Grave: “Sawed Off”
- Arlind: “Up at Night”
- Shadows of Spectres: “Ichi”
- Energiii: “Hekate”
- Fear Atomic: “A Bullseye on Your Heart”
- City of Strays: “Stupid and Naive”
- Pigeon Park: “The Anchor”
- Seventh Day Slumber: “Savior Machine” (ft. Nine Lashes)
- Storm Kingdom: “Deus Lapsus (The Fallen God)”
- Left to Suffer: “Set the World on Fire” (ft. UnityTX)
- Retina Sky: “Broken Wing”
- Forge the Sun: “Peanut”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Master”
- Cold Clay Mountain: “These Hands”
- A Moment of Violence: “Breaking Me”
- Jay Gearhart: “Heaven and Hell”
- Somerseth: “In Hell I’m Gone”
- anMech: “Identify Me”
- Gillsaw: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- In Passing: “Closer”
- Ghost: “Lachryma”
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