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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!
Song of the Day – Bad Marriage: “Denim and Leather”
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?
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