- The Delirium Effect – Toxic Culture Shock [1/2]
- Redefind – Still Dreamin’ [1/9]
- Semper Acerbus – Following Omens [1/9]
- Pistols at Dawn – Memento Mori [1/9]
- AJ McLean – My Name is Alexander James [1/9]
- Alter Bridge – Alter Bridge [1/9]
- The Funeral Portrait – Live From Suffocate City [1/16]
- The Far Worst – Vicious Cycle [1/20]
- Glis – Winterwerk [1/23]
- Fading Into Silence – Woman On My Mind [1/23]
- Crown of Nothing – The Weight I Can’t Escape [1/30]
- Opandaman – Digital Depression [1/30]
- Crownless Prince – Cherry and Velvet [2/1]
- Automated Uprising – Corruption [2/3]
- Noise Infinite – No Weapon Formed [2/3]
- Pretty Crooked – So Sickening [2/6]
- Wolverine – Anomalies [2/6]
- Siren Section – Separation Team [2/6]
- KonKuss – Black Baccara [2/9]
- MadLadGibson – The Journey Begins [2/12]
- Anaria – Between Loving and Dying [2/13]
- Ghosts Are Here – Above [2/18]
- Pleasantly Wild – Love Language [2/18]
- Rude and Reckless – All In [2/19]
- Ethereal Treason – All is Vanity [2/20]
- The Veer Union – Reinvention [2/20]
- Echoing Peaks – The Ascent [2/20]
- Histheory – High Seas Mysteries [2/20]
- Silent Script – Another Day in Bedlam [2/20]
- Deeper Graves – Pull Me Toward the Dark [2/27]
- Witchz – Afterlife [2/27]
- Announce the Apocalypse – Void [2/27]
- Final Gasp – New Day Symptoms [2/27]
- Blackwater Drowning – Obscure Sorrows [2/27]
REdEFIND
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 12 (Updated 12/31/25)
The last playlist update of 2025 is here! It has been a year of bangers, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for my top 50 of 2025. For now, check out these releases from December.
- Zachary Baker: “Dark Horse”
- Hyporium: “Hit the Mute Button”
- Remergent: “Revelation”
- Wreckborn: “Sleigh Bell Pressure”
- Illusion of Solace: “Aeons”
- Seethe: “Flinch”
- Forge The Sun: “Angels We Have Heard on High” (ft. Sharp Lives)
- Storm Kingdom: “The Death of Love” (ft. MX the American)
- Purple Grace: “Turbulence”
- Ghost of Rucker: “Where Tears End”
- Glis: “Turbo Lush”
- Darlah: “Rain”
- Moonsette: “As I Stared”
- MAK: “Fever”
- sKelter pLus: “Alter” (ft. UnfortunatelyFallen)
- Luke Baird Music: “Dream”
- The Mercury Seed: “Disappear”
- Energiii: “Morrigan”
- Hortus: “Feniks”
- Shape: “Ever Beating Hearts”
- Somehow Still: “Phantom Weight”
- All Violet: “plead the fifth”
- Redefind: “Copycat”
- EPHMRL: “Into the Fracture”
- The CyberTones: “Freak Off” (ft. Johnny Tuesday)
- Future Theory: “Take Me Home”
- Polybomber: “Terminus”
- Lukas Boots: “Mirror Always Shows”
- Innocents Torn: “SkullCrusher”
- morino: “Built To Carry On”
- Dekay: “Slaughterhouse Disco”
- AM FALL: “Dystopia (So Tonight We Break Free)”
- L.O.U.D.: “Collide”
- Sweet Antidote: “Looking Back”
- Chase Nightmares: “My Best Friend Dex”
- The CyberTones: “What Epstein Files”
- vasthearts: “such a shame” (ft. romziie and Leø)
- Ethereal Treason: “Quiet as the Grave”
- AnonTheory: “Thoughts and Prayers”
- Mirrorcell: “Ichi” (ft. VCTMS)
- Hall of Lost: “Loser’s Game” (Acoustic Version)
- Fright: “The Fright Show”
- Doom Groove Orchestra: “Ain’t No Cure”
- Midnight Fracture: “Buried Underneath”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 12 (Updated 12/16/25)
We have entered the final month of 2026! Just a couple more weeks until I unleash my top 50 songs of the year, so let’s see what drops between now and then. There have already been several epic releases in December. Check them out!
- Shovel Monster: “Worms” (ft. Raúl Jimenez and Derek Vandermallie)
- The Sanctity of Crows: “After Christmas”
- Alter Bridge: “Playing Aces”
- Stanley Simmons: “Body Down”
- Silent Theory: “Eyes Everywhere”
- From Ashes to New: “Drag Me”
- Czarina: “Dagger in the Heart”
- SKNN: “Gladiator”
- Veio: “Judas”
- Miss Construction: “Back Again”
- Bryce Savage: “Show Me”
- Kalamity Kills: “Help!”
- Ratboys: “What’s Right?”
- The Franklin Cassettes: “Why Not My Name”
- Vale: “Purgatory Dreams”
- REdEFIND: “Thoughts”
- splinter kid: “Another Christmas Alone”
- Perfect Weather for Humans: “Bowerbird”
- Everyday Dolores: “Wagmi”
- Wolverine: “This World and All Its Dazzling Lights”
- Induction: “Steel and Thunder”
- postdrome: “From Heaven, From Nowhere”
- Benighted: “The Spineless Freak”
- Moon Fever: “Masses”
- Lydia Can’t Breathe: “The Quiet Part”
- vasthearts: “dying to know” (ft. Z3n721)
- Winter in May: “World on Fire”
- Telling Secrets: “DYTIMI?”
- Matti Hoffman: “Dreamstate”
- Sick Century: “Dorian Gray”
- A.A. Williams: “Just a Shadow”
- Sky Caught Fire: “Experience As A Tortured Artist” (ft. Bad Shape)
- Whispers in the Shadow: “Dead of Winter”
- Silver Dose: “Joyride”
- Echoes Divide: “Crashing Out”
- Phantom of Pop: “Cold Frame”
Ill Niño: 25 Years of Latin Metal U.S. Tour 2024 (Updated 4/19/24)
Update: Show added on 6/13 in Glendale, Arizona!
Heavy metal band Ill Niño have announced June 2024 dates with special guests Flaw and A Killer’s Confession. There will be support from The Crowned, REdEFIND, or Scarlet View on select dates. You can grab your tickets now at illnino1.com!
- 6/11 – Las Vegas, NV – Sinwave+
- 6/12 – West Hollywood, CA – Whisky A Go Go+
- 6/13 – Glendale, AZ – The 44+ (New date!)
- 6/14 – San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick+
- 6/15 – Tucson, AZ – The Rock+
- 6/16 – El Paso, TX – RockHouse Bar & Grill+
- 6/18 – Lubbock, TX – Jake’s Sports Cafe and Backroom*
- 6/19 – Austin, TX – Come and Take It Live*
- 6/20 – Houston, TX – Scout Bar*
- 6/21 – Corpus Christi, TX – House of Rock*
- 6/22 – Dallas, TX – Trees*
- 6/23 – Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street OKC*
- 6/25 – Sioux Falls, SD – Remedy at 611^
- 6/26 – Iowa City, IA – Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon^
- 6/27 – Urbana, IL – Canopy Club^
- 6/28 – Joliet, IL – The Forge^
- 6/29 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave/Eagles Club^
- 6/30 – Ringle, WI – The Q & Z Expo Center^
+ w/The Crowned
* w/REdEFIND
^ w/Scarlet View
Song of the Day — REdEFIND: “Outcast”
Ill Niño Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Confession With US Tour
Ill Niño’s Confession is turning 20 this year, and the band is hitting the road to celebrate this milestone! They will be playing the album in its entirety, plus more. With them will be Through Fire and Dropout Kings. They will have special guests in each city, as well, including Sinshrift, Tulip, REdEFIND, Burden of the Sky, and/or Semper Acerbus.
Tickets available at bandsintown.com/illnino. You can also purchase a VIP bus hang at national-acts.com/illnino.
- 5/4 – Jacksonville, NC – Hooligans*
- 5/5 – Winchester, VA – Blue Fox Billiards*
- 5/6 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom*
- 5/7 – Horseheads, NY – The L*
- 5/9 – Mechanicsburg, PA – Lovedraft’s*
- 5/10 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Crafthouse Stage & Grill #
- 5/11 – Lakewood, OH – The Winchester #
- 5/12 – Flint, MI – Machine Shop #
- 5/13 – Angola, IN – The Eclectic Room #
- 5/14 – Joliet, IL – The Forge #
- 5/16 – Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theatre ^
- 5/17 – Belvidere, IL – The Apollo Theatre ^
- 5/18 – Omaha, NE – Waiting Room ^
- 5/19 – Sioux Falls, SD – Bigs Bar ^
- 5/20 – Billings, MT – The Pub Station+
- 5/21 – Great Falls, MT – The Newberry+
- 5/23 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theater %
- 5/24 – Colorado Springs, CO – Sunshine Studios %
- 5/25 – Grand Junction, CO – Mesa Theater %
- 5/26 – Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge
- 5/27 – El Paso, TX – Rockhouse %
- 5/30 – Lubbock, TX – Jake’s %
- 5/31 – Corpus Christi, TX – House of Rock %
- 6/1 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live %
- 6/2 – San Antonio, TX – The Rock Box %
- 6/3 – Fort Worth, TX – Rail Club %
- 6/4 – Tyler, TX – Country River Club %
* w/REdEFIND and Semper Acerbus
# w/REdEFIND and Tulip
^ w/Burden of the Sky and REdEFIND
+ w/Burden of the Sky and Sinshrift
% w/Tulip and Sinshrift
REdEFIND Releases Video for Their Latest Single “This Is Fine”
“This is Fine” is the first single from REdEFIND’s upcoming EP, Audio Video Disco.
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