- Adelitas Way + New Medicine – Last Laugh [10/3]
- Gasoline Invertebrate – Misery Monster [10/3]
- Wind Walkers – I Don’t Belong Here [10/3]
- nøwhere – Final Descent [10/10]
- Douglas Katula – Screwtape [10/10]
- SVNFR – Memory Fragment 87 [10/17]
- northroot – clouds. [10/24]
- Witchz – Ded Again [10/31]
- Coldwards – Bad News [10/31]
- Christopher Ardra – SaiRu [11/4]
- Motif Hive – Phase [11/5]
- Cirkus – Straight to Hell [11/7]
- THEHERO – Gemini II [11/14]
- Sons of Levin – EP II [11/14]
- Spirit of the Moon – All That is Hidden [11/28]
- Matyrker – The Obscurial EP [11/28]
- Queen Kona – Smokeless Fire [12/5]
- Hallowtide – Drown With Us [12/6]
- Patient Sixty-Seven – A Very Heavy Christmas [12/10]
- Cryblood – Take My Life [12/12]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life) – God is Watching: Redux [12/12]
- Ghost of Rucker – Hikari No Yoin [12/13]
- Loose Lips – Pretty Devastating [12/19]
- Life Hoax – Slow Burn [12/26]
- L.O.U.D. – AM Broadcast [12/31]
Patient Sixty-Seven
EPs Released January to June 2024
There have been quite a few EPs released so far this year, and I decided to put a list together at the halfway point (June). I’m sure I’ve missed several, but these are the ones I have found. Please keep in mind that my focus is the lesser known indie community. If you have an EP to add to this list, feel free to drop a comment!
Note: I will be doing a separate post for the full-length albums released within the same time frame.
- FOURPL4Y: FOURGOTTEN [1/5]
- MONOWHALES: Who’s There to Hear Me Out? [1/18]
- Penny Fountain: Attack of the Ducks [1/19]
- Defects: Lockdown [1/24]
- Sever Red: Sick and Tormented [1/26]
- Only Love: Death’s Night Shift [1/26]
- The Throwaway Scene: On Death & Dying [1/26]
- Seethe: Cavalier Dualities [1/29]
- Retina Sky: Without Hope We Wither [2/2]
- The Companies: Maybe We Should Let Me Go [2/5]
- Six Scars: The Silence and the Withering [2/16]
- Have I Weather: Zeepbel [2/19]
- BOOGEYMVN: 404: Error Unknown [2/19]
- Ty Dy: Sing Through Strings [2/23]
- 1016: Gettysburg [2/25]
- Violet Dawn: From Basement to Dawn [3/16]
- Shadows Calling: These Scars [3/22]
- The Up & Up: It Starts With You [3/29]
- Perfect Nightmare: This is War [4/3]
- Bryce Evans & the Black Cats: Moonlight [4/4]
- Patient Sixty-Seven: What If It Never Gets Better [4/5]
- The Haunt: Do Not Resuscitate [4/5]
- Anemera: Unconventional Wisdoms [4/5]
- Slave to Sin: Control and Beliefs [4/5]
- The Buyers: Metamorphosis [4/11]
- Key Suspects: Speaking in Tongues [4/12]
- Princess: Wishes for an Untimely Demise [4/12]
- Abigail Circus: 3 Ring Sideshow [4/13]
- Glis: Ascension [4/18]
- Seaside Massacre: Shells [4/19]
- Wilde Owl: Pictures of Richard [4/19]
- The Lazy Ghouls: Louder Than Bombs [4/24]
- Back From Zero: FIVE [4/26]
- Old Ways: Cryin’ Poor Mouth [4/26]
- Waverly Drive: Push My Luck [5/10]
- faulty wires: Punk Isn’t Dead…But Maybe It’s Disabled [5/14]
- Voltaire’s Ghost: Nemesis [5/14]
- Pandemic Unleashed: Return to Ashes [5/14]
- Saint Social: Don’t Let the Fire Die [5/15]
- The Ovtfit: Sunshine [5/17]
- Noiz Ritual: Embrace the Noiz [5/21]
- Pern: Barely Breathing [5/22]
- Lavender Scare: BITES [5/31]
- Ashen Skies: Ashen Skies [5/31]
- Ian Cuthbertson: I’m on a Walk [5/31]
- Central: Solstice [6/3]
- Common Vision: Where Solace Meets the Misery [6/7]
- Cruel Mourning: Cruel Mourning [6/21]
- Naked Sunday: Rise [6/21]
My Top 50 Songs of 2023
I tried to trim my list down to 30, the way I did last year, but it was impossible. For one thing, I started compiling singles for 2023 in January – last year, I got a late start. And for another thing, there have been way too many good songs released over the past twelve months!
So here are my top 50 songs of 2023 (in no particular order). And here is a link to the full playlist!
- Alive in Stone: “Fatboy”
- Katatonia: “Birds”
- Riverside: “Friend or Foe?”
- Animals as Leaders: “Red Miso”
- The Banishment: “Got What You Wanted”
- Lions at the Gate: “The Ledge”
- Fire Follows: “Say Words”
- Deadly Vices: “Notice Me”
- Kissing Candice: “Inveterate”
- Citizen Soldier + Royal Bliss: “Through Hell”
- Black Water Rising: “Hail Mary”
- Welcome Eternity: “Slave to the Crown”
- Moonfall: “Eyelids Closing Shut” (ft. Crystal Joilena)
- DK-Zero: “Nightmare”
- ANOXIA: “Earthbound” (ft. Corey James of Carbonstone)
- Saint Tragedy: “Limbo”
- City and Colour: “F**ked It Up”
- Kamelot: “Eventide”
- Band of Wolves: “On the Wagon”
- Carbonstone: “Damaged Like You”
- Linx: “Crystal Jellyfish”
- Breathing Theory: “The Cure”
- New Medicine: “Past the Past”
- Is MAN KIND: “25 to Life”
- Dark Remedy: “Haunted”
- Seven Year Witch: “Mark Cuban”
- Matt James: “Wait It Out”
- Bent Self: “Sunshine”
- Death Valley Dreams: “Ships in the Night”
- 3 Pill Morning: “Ethereal”
- Of Limbo: “California Demon”
- Stain the Canvas: “friXion”
- Patient Sixty-Seven, VRSTY: “Bad Habit”
- Rose Devika: “slow burn”
- Heartsick, Sapphire Noel: “Sadness”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Disconnect”
- Any Given Sin: “Cold Bones”
- Storm Kingdom: “Empires”
- The Props: “Target Practice”
- The BRKN: “FANGS”
- The Funeral Portrait: “Dark Thoughts”
- Lethal Injektion, Waylon Reavis: “Never Free”
- Divine Shade, Steve Fox-Harris: “Oublier”
- Rikets: “Infected and Controlled”
- Doom Groove Orchestra: “Why”
- Anaria: “Freakshow”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Ready to Burn”
- Silver Bullet Smile: “Man in the Moon”
- 2 Shadows: “Fading From Misery”
- Gears: “My Curse (Mi Maldición)”
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