- Swallow the Sun – Shining (Deluxe Edition) [4/11]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life) – Chapter 5: Astral Projection [4/11]
- Young Other – Enlightenment [4/11]
- Arcadia – Renovatio [4/15]
- Circuit Preacher – Heaven Can’t Heal [4/18]
- Our Frankenstein – Magnum Spire Hotel [4/25]
- AM FALL – All My Friends Are Local Legends [4/25]
- Wednesday 13 – Mid Death Crisis [4/25]
- Zammek – Swell As Well [4/25]
- Naked Sunday – The Shoe String Sessions [5/2]
- Crimson Whisper – Vast World [5/2]
- How We Feel – Ready for War [5/2]
- The Fifth – We Are One [5/2]
- Plain Suite – Sweet Lady [5/8]
- Sleep Token – Even in Arcadia [5/9]
- Ghost Bath – Rose Thorn Necklace [5/9]
- Sleep Theory – Afterglow [5/16]
- Sister Kill Cycle – We Were Ghosts [5/16]
- No Fly List – Way More Tracks [5/30]
- Deadcode – Nothing and Nowhere [5/30]
- Lift the Curse – Don’t Bury the Dream [5/30]
- Blueprint Tokyo – Neon Circuits and the Mission of Hope [5/30]
- Cosmobrigade – Hollow Obsessions [6/6]
- AnimA – Demigod [6/10]
- Elvira’s Curse – The Time Has Come [6/12]
- Static Season – Peripheral [6/13]
- turner.Eturnal – Eturnal Terror [6/13]
- FleischKrieg – Herzblut II [6/13]
- McKenzie Hills – Ice Crossing [6/13]
- AVKRVST – Waving at the Sky [6/13]
- The Funeral Portrait – Greetings From Suffocate City (From Beyond the Abyss: Deluxe Edition) [6/13]
- Whispers in the Shadow – Rapture [6/13]
- Fright – GhostTown [6/18]
- Aesthetic Perfection – Closer to Human [6/20]
- Wraithlurk – Teethmarks [6/20]
- Ghost Chamber – A Decade in Review, Pt. 1 [6/20]
- Mission to the Sun – Seven Years [6/27]
- Half Lyfe – All in All [6/29]
Our Frankenstein
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 3/31/25)
Here are the last of the March releases (at least the ones I’ve found). Tomorrow begins the fourth installment of The Mostly Music Playlist! Be sure to visit each part of the playlist, and remember: my top 50 will drop on New Year’s Eve!
Below are the songs that have been added since March 16th.
- Anderson Park Lane: “Ghost of Cherry Creek”
- Neon Casket: “Arrows”
- Saint V: “Diamonds”
- Die Tired: “Reel Me In”
- Michael Botte Band: “Soulfully Appreciating”
- Epic Down: “Doula’s Obsession”
- Calvaria: “The Serpent Lies Within”
- New Medicine: “Natural”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Pursuit”
- Alchemy Within: “The Call”
- Wraithlurk: “Engraved” (ft. $KIMMY)
- anMech: “Necessity”
- Beneath the Hollow: “Old Hymns”
- Lift the Curse: “Violet Violence”
- KREWX: “Aura”
- KREWX: “Enchanted”
- Oozik: “In the Darkness”
- Dal-War: “No Way Out”
- Makes My Blood Dance: “Time and a Place”
- Ded: “Until I Die” (ft. Chris Motionless)
- Point Disarray: “In My Head”
- Boze: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (Charlie Daniels cover)
- Title Holder: “Time Won’t Stop”
- Could You Not?: “Backpedal”
- The Ascendant: “Treading Water”
- Our Frankenstein: “Magnum Spire Hotel”
- Soul Sign: “Negative Thoughts” (ft. Bjorn Englen, Mark Boals, and Mike Cancino)
- Crimson Whisper: “Falling Through the Night”
- SFINX: “Magic” (ft. Left to Suffer, Aaron Gillespie, and Taylor Barber)
- Stain the Canvas: “The Light Within”
- Run the River: “Fulton Heights”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Beautiful”
- Silent Theory: “Emptiness in You” (ft. Daedric)
- Czarina: “Fall Damage” (ft. Circuit Preacher)
- Loose Lips: “Video Games”
- Wraithlurk: “Drown” (ft. $KIMMY)
- Swallow the Sun: “MelancHoly – Holy Edit”
- Radiation Invasion: “Your Love is Darkness”
- Bury the Pines: “Pardon My French”
- Danny Worsnop: “Tell Me Why”
- Blessings of Mara: “Pink Venom”
- Beneath the Hollow: “Butter”
- Six Hours For A Lifetime: “21”
- Against the Storm: “Setting Sun”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Miniskirt”
- Awake At Last: “Be Not Afraid”
- Mr. Strange: “Mr. Strange Does Not Exist”
- Sublimenal Stimuli: “Burn Me Up” (ft. Scarlett Silhouette)
- SKYND: “Aileen Wuornos”
- A Killer’s Confession: “In Case of Emergency” (ft. J. Mann)
- Deadcode: “Come Undone”
- Effing and Blinding: “Scab”
- The Witching Hour: “Dead Inside”
- Kissing Candice: “Bitter Pill”
- Of Limbo: “Finish What Ya Started”
- Wraithlurk: “Straitjacket Sin”
- Storm Kingdom: “Upon the Wings of Despair”
- Engines of Ruin: “One More”
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”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 2 (Updated 4/7/24)
View the full playlist here. And be sure to visit part I of The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, as well.
Here are the songs that have been added since 3/24/24.
- Sons of a Sinner: “Nothing’s Changed”
- The Lonely Ones: “My God”
- MUX: “Graveyard Man”
- Khaos Theory: “My Blood”
- Anny: “My Confession”
- Our Sacred Grounds: “Anemoia”
- Lift the Curse: “Vengeance”
- Matyrker: “The Loathsome Thing”
- Dark Remedy: “Never Going Back”
- Twist It: “Bitter”
- Sinful Lilly: “California Man”
- Serpent Rising: “MUD”
- Arcana: “Telepathy”
- BlindHardt: “Burn and Burn”
- Haunting Ghosts: “Final Stretch”
- Max Fite: “Hellbent”
- Dopeghost: “Once Burnt, Twice Shy”
- Wilde Owl: “Bells & Whistles”
- Haunted Vessel: “I Was Never Here”
- Hourcast: “Stop the World”
- In Passing: “Under the Weather”
- Alchemy Within: “Like a Bullet”
- Bleed the Fifth: “Black Sun”
- Wilde Owl: “Get It Right”
- Maudlin Strangers: “Silver Stain”
- The Damn Devils: “Heartstopper”
- Alibis: “Darkside” (Siren Sonata Version)
- Divide the Fall: “Fake Love” (ft. Villain of the Story)
- Lines in the Sky: “Thalassophobia”
- Perfect Nightmare: “Decay”
- Sick Century: “Shadow Worlds Rise”
- Junkyard Drive: “Saw You Hanging There”
- Junkyard Drive: “Shoot From the Hip”
- Leonine: “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”
- Daughters of Mara: “Happy”
- Atlases: “Violent Cold”
- Til Fauna: “Secrets”
- Kaosis: “Memory Never Dies” (ft. Skold)
- Lost Gems: “Black Seed”
- Jack Savage + Blxxd Clxt: “Bad Vibes”
- Hollow Intent: “Rise”
- The Edge of Reason: “With You”
- Upfall: “Lose You” (ft. The Veer Union)
- Noiz Ritual: “Abuse Me”
- Barrel Smoke: “Red Light Rumble”
- Our Frankenstein: “Judas Dance”
- Fractured Sense: “Deteriorate”
- A Shadow Within: “Spiral”
- NDGO: “I See You”
- faulty wires: “DUI”
- Young Other: “Change Everything”
- Thornsband: “Thin”
- Small Town Titans: “Finish the Story”
- You Said Tomorrow: “Blind Mary”
- Die Tired: “Need to Feed”
Psyclon Nine: From Hell & Back Tour 2023
Psyclon Nine is embarking on their From Hell & Back Tour alongside Clockwork Echo and Our Frankenstein. Tickets and VIP packages available at Psyclon Nine’s Bandcamp page.
- 2/16 – Sacramento, CA – Old Ironsides
- 2/17 – San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
- 2/19 – Portland, OR – Band Booked
- 2/21 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon
- 2/22 – Spokane, WA – The Big Dipper
- 2/25 – Lincoln, NE – 1867 Bar (The state on the poster is wrong, LOL.)
- 2/26 – West Chicago, IL – WC Social Club
- 2/27 – Ann Arbor, MI – Necto
- 2/28 – Lakewood, OH – The Winchester
- 3/1 – Buffalo, NY – Mohawk Place
- 3/3 – Mt. Holly, NJ – Union Firehouse
- 3/4 – Richmond, VA – Fallout
- 3/6 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Purgatory)
- 3/8 – Winter Park, FL – The Conduit
- 3/10 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Respectable Street
- 3/11 – Tampa, FL – Crowbar/Brass Mug
- 3/12 – New Orleans, LA – The Goat
- 3/14 – Colorado Springs, CO – Vultures
- 3/15 – Greeley, CO – Moxi Theater
- 3/16 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
- 3/17 – Las Vegas, NV – The Dive Bar
- 3/18 – Los Angeles, CA – Bar Sinister
Psyclon Nine: The Road to Hell Tour 2022 (Updated 6/10)
News: The Winchester, VA, show on 6/18 has been swapped for a Whitehall, PA, show on 6/20!
The Road to Hell Tour, featuring Psyclon Nine, Seven Factor, and Our Frankenstein, will commence June 7th in Salt Lake City, Utah. You can find tickets and VIP meet-and-greets at psyclonnine.bandcamp.com. (The VIP packages are limited in number and include a meet-and-greet on the tour bus, a special poster, and a GA ticket for entry.)
According to Psyclon Nine’s Facebook, these are the currently scheduled dates and there are more TBA.
- 6/7 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
- 6/8 – Denver, CO – HQ
- 6/9 – Overland Park, KS – Vivo
- 6/10 – Sioux City, IA – The Marquee
- 6/11 – Chicago, IL – The WC Social Club
- 6/12 – Maple Heights, OH – Maple Grove Tavern
- 6/13 – Ann Arbor, MI – Necto
- 6/14 – Buffalo, NY – Mohawk Place
- 6/15 – Clifton, NJ – Dingbatz
- 6/16 – Mechanicsburg, PA – Lovedraft’s
- 6/17 – New York City, NY – Stimulate
- 6/19 – Richmond, VA – Canal Club
- 6/20 – Whitehall, PA – Planet Trog (New date!)
- 6/22 – Greenville, SC – Radio Room
- 6/23 – West Palm Beach, FL – Respectable Street
- 6/25 – Jonesboro, GA – Furnace 41
- 6/26 – Ft. Walton Beach, FL – Downtown Music Hall
- 6/28 – Austin, TX – Elysium
- 6/29 – Dallas, TX – Limbo Room @ The Ruins
- 6/30 – El Paso, TX – Rockhouse
- 7/1 – Phoenix, AZ – Nile Underground
- 7/2 – Los Angeles, CA – Bar Sinister
- 7/3 – San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick
Psyclon Nine: The Road to Hell Tour 2022
The Road to Hell Tour, featuring Psyclon Nine, Seven Factor, and Our Frankenstein, will commence June 7th in Salt Lake City, Utah. You can find tickets and VIP meet-and-greets at psyclonnine.bandcamp.com. (The VIP packages are limited in number and include a meet-and-greet on the tour bus, a special poster, and a GA ticket for entry.)
According to Psyclon Nine’s Facebook, these are the currently scheduled dates and there are more TBA.
- 6/7 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
- 6/8 – Denver, CO – HQ
- 6/9 – Overland Park, KS – Vivo
- 6/10 – Sioux City, IA – The Marquee
- 6/11 – Chicago, IL – The WC Social Club
- 6/12 – Maple Heights, OH – Maple Grove Tavern
- 6/13 – Ann Arbor, MI – Necto
- 6/14 – Buffalo, NY – Mohawk Place
- 6/15 – Clifton, NJ – Dingbatz
- 6/16 – Mechanicsburg, PA – Lovedraft’s
- 6/17 – New York City, NY – Stimulate
- 6/18 – Winchester, VA – Blue Fox Billiards
- 6/19 – Richmond, VA – Canal Club
- 6/22 – Greenville, SC – Radio Room
- 6/23 – West Palm Beach, FL – Respectable Street
- 6/25 – Jonesboro, GA – Furnace 41
- 6/26 – Ft. Walton Beach, FL – Downtown Music Hall
- 6/28 – Austin, TX – Elysium
- 6/29 – Dallas, TX – Limbo Room @ The Ruins
- 6/30 – El Paso, TX – Rockhouse
- 7/1 – Phoenix, AZ – Nile Underground
- 7/2 – Los Angeles, CA – Bar Sinister
- 7/3 – San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick
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