- Shwarma – From Beyond [3/2]
- Scattered Hamlet – Judged by 12 [3/3]
- If I Could Kill Myself – Steeldeath [3/6]
- J.D. Graham – Uppers & Downers [3/6]
- Lords Of Salem – Supersonic Vampire Pussy [3/6]
- American Adrenalin – Burn the Ships [3/6]
- Julia. – Fish in the Percolator [3/13]
- Becoming Sons – Refined by the Flames [3/13]
- Across the Frostlands – The Fruits of Peace (A Cry for Peace) [3/17]
- Exodus – Goliath [3/20]
- Poison the Well – Peace in Place [3/20]
- Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World [3/20]
- Seventh Day Slumber – Thy Kingdom Come [3/20]
- Night Signal – The End of Everything [3/24]
- Take the Flame – A New Life [3/24]
- Defying Decay – Synthetic Sympathy [3/26]
- Devil Electric – Tahlia [3/27]
- Ghost of Rucker – The Bones of the Hollow [3/27]
- Don Broco – Nightmare Tripping [3/27]
- Hellripper – Coronach [3/27]
- Black Label Society – Engines of Demolition [3/27]
- Moodring – death fetish [3/27]
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie (20 Year Anniversary) [3/27]
- little image – Kill the Ghost [3/27]
- The Jins – It’s All Over [3/27]
- Threat Signal – Revelations [3/27]
- Resistor – Bite This! [3/27]
- Drowning James – Ascended [3/27]
- Luke Black – Parasite [3/27]
- Gatlin – Worst Case Scenario [3/28]
- Aurora Corvinus – Melancholy [3/30]
- Ice of Neptune – Shots and Dollars [3/31]
- Letters From Wolves – Immortals [4/3]
- Gasoline Invertebrate – Everybody Hates Me [4/3]
- Crucifera – Exostential [4/3]
- Nervosa – Slave Machine [4/3]
- Radium88 – Beauty is Lies [4/4]
- Nouveau Arcade – Die Happy! [4/10]
- Florence Black – Pouring Rain [4/10]
- Polybomber – Authors of Damnation [4/10]
- Lord of the Lost – Opvs Noir, Vol. 3 [4/10]
- Somehow Still – Here & Awake [4/17]
- Brother Cane – Magnolia Medicine [4/17]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life) – Strani Rumori [4/17]
- Glis – Artifacts in Sequence [4/17]
- Razing Jane – Razing Jane [4/17]
- Into Elysium – In Your Darkest Hour [4/22]
- Devil’s Cut – Roadkill [4/24]
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My Top 50 Songs of 2025
This list is rolling out a lot later than usual, and I’ve gotta be honest – it’s because I failed so miserably at keeping up with releases last year. I mean, I added tracks to my playlist and shared them here, as well as on Facebook and Insta, but I didn’t sit and listen to them until recently. I’ll do better this year, I swear!
And now, here are the fifty songs that really jumped out at me in 2025. A few things to be aware of: I do not rank the tracks in any particular order, and I do not include major label artists (or I try not to, at any rate), nor do I include covers. Last but not least, no band/artist can have more than one song on the list.
View the full playlist HERE.
- Element 117: “Vision”
- SKNN: “Digital Zombies”
- Could You Not?: “Backpedal”
- Hooked Like Helen: “Quote Unquote Life”
- The Fiction We Create: “More Than Scars”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Push”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Long, Strange Trip”
- Boze: “I Will Go”
- The CyberTones: “Red Flags Flying”
- Deadcode: “Don’t Let Me Go”
- AGBAT: “Fair Winds”
- Sever Red: “Conjuring”
- Endless May: “Call My Name”
- Absolutist: “Lineage”
- Elirah’s Cross: “The Walk” (ft. Histheory)
- Matte Blvck: “Vicious Dreams”
- Alchemy Within: “The Call”
- In Passing: “Silhouette”
- A Fatal Black: “Kill the Lights”
- Stellar Circuits: “Bury the Ashes”
- mothshade: “Labyrinth”
- New Dilemma: “Ice Cold Hands” (ft. Chloe Robin)
- Czarina: “Fall Damage” (ft. Circuit Preacher)
- postdrome: “So Inviting”
- Cold Clay Mountain: “These Hands”
- Krysis: “The Summit’s Ice”
- Adelitas Way + New Medicine: “Rollin'”
- Blackwood: “One Track Mind” (ft. Kameron Jane)
- The Black Zodiac: “Gallow’s Call”
- No Fly List: “The Rush”
- Voice of Glass: “Henosis”
- Nights in Prada: “Thorns in Silk” (ft. Sara Rayne)
- Divide the Fall: “Beyond the Surface”
- War Inside: “Hollow Points”
- Ethereal Treason: “Ivory”
- Mirrorcell: “U(phoria)”
- Noir Addiction: “Chemical Bride”
- Phantom of Pop: “Sugar Sin”
- Almera: “Retrograde”
- Stellar: “Outta My League”
- Kings of Karma: “Falling to Pieces”
- Wraithlurk: “One More Lie” (ft. $KIMMY)
- Rise to Ruin: “Archaic”
- Danger Silent: “To Whoever’s Left, Pt. 2”
- Hallowtide: “O Captain”
- MAK: “Fever”
- The Mercury Seed: “Disappear”
- vasthearts: “such a shame” (ft. romziie and Leø)
- AnonTheory: “Thoughts and Prayers”
- We Brought the Storm: “Heavy Rain”
Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [1/12 – 1/18]
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 11 (Updated 11/30/25)
I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving! Now it’s time to shift gears and focus on Christmas – and all the new music that I have to sort through to put together the top 50 of 2025. For now, though, here are the songs that have been added to part 11 of The Mostly Music Playlist since November 15th.
- Deep as Ocean: “Lifeblood”
- Deadwaste: “To Whom It May Concern”
- Alive in Stone: “Beautiful”
- Engines of Ruin: “To Your Grave”
- Nocturnal Monarch: “BlindMad”
- Fact Pattern: “With No Disguise (System Syn remix)”
- Storm Kingdom: “Godless” (ft. Ella Baphomet)
- Gravel Switch: “In Too Deep”
- Gus Wallner: “RWYS” (ft. Seethe)
- Self Deception: “Time’s Up”
- Bad Omens: “Left for Good”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Push”
- Shinedown: “Searchlight”
- Honeyknife: “Nothing Left”
- Braeker: “Make Me”
- Vana: “Pray”
- Don Broco: “Euphoria”
- No More Sun: “Sick of You”
- Fear Decay: “Slow Descent”
- In a Perfect Sky: “Afterthought”
- American Adrenalin: “Far From Sober”
- Don’t You Dare: “S.O.S.”
- Manimekhala: “Foreign Royalty”
- Slaycraft: “Shakedown”
- Ghost Trader: “Fresh Eyes”
- The Fell Swoop: “At Large”
- Lift the Curse: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
- The Veer Union: “Meet Your Maker”
- Shallow Side: “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” [Elton John cover]
- Amerakin Overdose: “Feliz Navidad”
- Palaye Royale: “Sad Generation”
- morino: “Back to the Light”
- Dekay: “Nightmare”
- crucifera: “Savior”
- Witchz: “Christmas in the Badlandz”
- Wild Tangent: “Truth in Ashes”
- Pale Krow: “Persistence” (ft. Merkules)
- Cursed Abyss: “Weeping Angel”
- Andi Fawcett: “Nothing To Me” (ft. After Dark)
- Nevero: “Tied To You”
- Solely Veil: “Deceiver”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 10 (Updated 10/16/25)
IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!
Sorry, y’all. I just love spooky season!
Anyway, here is the first batch of October releases. Be sure to check out the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist; this year has seen some bangers, and we still have two months to go!
- Secrets: “Paralyzed”
- The Red Clay Strays: “People Hatin'”
- Moonscape: “A Place to Call Home”
- Living Dead Girl: “Succubus”
- Dark Remedy: “Someway, Somehow”
- The Edge of Reason: “Drum Show”
- Storm Kingdom: “In the Shadow of Persephone” (ft. Joe Booe)
- Hands Like Houses: “Love & Affection”
- Fright: “Intergalactic”
- Bryce Savage: “Yes Daddy”
- Seas on the Moon: “Edge of Reason” (ft. Thomas Polychuck and Lena Scissorhands)
- Citizen Soldier: “Worth It All”
- ExitWounds: “Death Walk” (ft. Left to Suffer)
- Matt James: “Something to Burn”
- Alter Bridge: “What Lies Within”
- Motif Hive: “Unit”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Sick”
- Wuthering Waves: “Aphelion [Galbrena’s Lullaby]” (ft. Crywolf)
- The Rasmus: “Creatures of Chaos” (ft. Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman)
- Mac Saturn: “Takes Time”
- Wraithlurk: “Secrets After Midnight”
- Cirkus: “One in a Million”
- Unhappily Ever Now: “To the Light”
- Left to Suffer: “This Comfort Won’t Last Here Long”
- Matte Blvck: “Soulless”
- Paper Shrine: “Fasting”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 8 (Updated 8/31/25)
I made it through August and it’s blistering heat – and miserable humidity – with the help of some amazing bands/artists! Here are the songs that have been added to part eight of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist since August 16th.
- Covenant of None: “Goodbye”
- Somber-Side: “Daydream”
- Ritual Howls: “Follow the Sun”
- Kain: “Fall of Man”
- From Fall to Spring: “Blood”
- Vicious Rain: “Spitting Blood Again”
- Mean Silver Machine: “Summer Days”
- Haunting Ghosts: “Blessed With a Hex”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Can You See Me – Remix” (ft. Zenaro)
- Living Dead Girl: “We’ll All Be Dead”
- Xero Hour: “Bend the Knee”
- Citizen Soldier: “Too Loud”
- We Are The Virus: “Roadkill South”
- Pandemic at Midnight: “Almost Made It Out Alive”
- Sammy Jay Love: “Fading Love” (ft. Victor Borba)
- Killing Connor: “Sunk Cost Fallacy”
- Saints of No One: “Look Around (what do you see)”
- Shattered Colors: “Dark Minds”
- High pulse: “Think Twice”
- MELØ: “Follow You, Follow Me”
- Frankie Finito: “Lullaby”
- The Isolated Brigade: “Can You Feel It Coming?”
- Odd Project: “Sound the Alarm!”
- The Twin: “The Void”
- Brandon Gullion: “Over My Head”
- BlindStrike: “Flowers”
- Moth Tax: “Trophies”
- 6deep: “Leech”
- 9 Dead: “God of Mine”
- Induction: “Dark Temptation”
- Terminals: “Faith”
- Sleeptalker: “Kingdom of Glass”
- EarlyRise: “Paper Empire”
- Parhelyon: “Stygma”
- Overthrow: “Tribute”
- Wolves in Wait: “Withered and Tired”
- Stellar Circuits: “I See Your Spirit”
- Archers Rise: “Get Away”
- The Jötunn: “Blood Flower”
- THEHERO: “Burnout”
- Elliott Rubin: “Nosedive – Long Island Heartthrob Remix” (ft. Benny Reid)
- SFINX: “Golden” (ft. RinRin and Dal Av)
- Feverlust: “That’s So True”
- Storm Kingdom: “Infidel” (ft. K.A.R.L.)
- Hall of Lost: “Scavengers” (ft. Robbie Ekblom, Jr.)
- The CyberTones: “Not So Grateful Dead”
- Wraithlurk: “Skinned”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Long, Strange Trip”
- Shallow Side: “Antilight” (Acoustic)
- Cryblood: “Deep Cuts”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Domino”
- Saints of No One: “Sleepwalking Through Life”
- Georgi: “Break Me” (Aesthetic Perfection remix)
- Shadows of Spectres: “we are not alone.”
- Shadows of Spectres: “memorial for the departed.”
- Husk Bloom: “Fiction Wears Off”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 3/16/25)
Welcome to March! I hope daylight savings time didn’t ruin your week like it did mine. (If y’all don’t mess with that BS where you live, lucky you.)
Anyway, time change aside, this month seems to be moving ahead much more rapidly than January or February. On the bright side, we have a really killer soundtrack for the ride!
Here are the recent releases that have been added since February 28th! And don’t forget to visit parts one and two, if you haven’t already. You could just discover your new favorite song!
- Robbie Ekblom, Jr.: “A Matrimony With the Stars Unleashed”
- Alive in Stone: “Fear” (ft. Let Me Bleed)
- UMO Electronic: “Telemetry Mind Pollution”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Genie in a Bottle” (Christina Aguilera cover)
- Orbis Max: “Follow”
- Villain of the Story: “The First Time” (ft. Trevor Borg)
- Signal the Revolution: “Don’t Let Go” (ft. Dustie Waring)
- Telling Secrets: “Paranoid”
- No Promises: “Visions”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Atlantis”
- One Day Alive: “Only Scars”
- DeathbyRomy: “Pray to Me” (ft. Palaye Royale)
- Citizen Soldier: “The Liar”
- Næŕok: “3” (Britney Spears cover ft. Steeno)
- Haunted Vessel: “Aftermath”
- Rogue Island: “Rose Tinted”
- ManWoMan: “Love Punch”
- Kawano: “Give Me the Power”
- Daniel Dwight: “Who Am I”
- Crow Magnum: “Your Atlas”
- Incite: “Just a Rat”
- The Space Turtles: “Memory Lane”
- New Life: “Here’s to Life”
- The Pretty Wild: “Button Eyes”
- Sleep Token: “Emergence”
- Reset Reality: “The Void”
- Last Dance Among Wolves: “Shaped By Design”
- Seethe: “Oceans”
- BLAZADA: “Death By Symphony”
- Silent WVLF: “My Beloved”
- Silent Dunes: “Let Me Breathe”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Guns & Candy”
- Rise to Ruin: “Alchemy”
- New Dilemma: “Ice Cold Hands” (ft. Chloe Robin)
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