Self Deception
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”
Albums Released July to December 2024
Be sure to visit the list of albums from January to June 2024 as well!
Note: My focus is on the indie scene. If you don’t see an album here that dropped this year, please let me know!!!
- Synapsa: Hate Awareness [7/5]
- Auric Echoes: Division for Human Ascension [7/12]
- Damon Stone: My Resurrection [7/12]
- Amerakin Overdose: Artificial Infection [7/12]
- After the Apocalypse: Factions [7/18]
- David Dentinger: Prettiest Girl in the Bar [7/18]
- Shallow Side: Reflections [7/19]
- Patriarchs in Black: Visioning [7/19]
- Dearden: The Call of the Void [8/2]
- Shape: It’s Just Beginning [8/11]
- BlackRabit: Twin Shadows [8/15]
- The Crosseyed: Born in the Bowery [8/16]
- There Is No Us: There Is No Us [8/16]
- Bödel: Välkommen till avrättningen [8/16]
- Left to Suffer: Leap of Death [8/16]
- Endless Chain: Agony [8/23]
- Heal the Hurt: Heal the Hurt [8/23]
- Wraithlurk: Carnival of Madness [8/28]
- Wicked Scoundrel: The Dreamers of the Day [8/30]
- Catburglar: Splintered [8/30]
- Min Min Light: Min Min Light [8/30]
- Akira Xx: Black Rebel Empire [8/31]
- IAM-CK: Nightmares and Love Notes [9/4]
- Submersed: Grand Illusion Army [9/11]
- 8mm: Black Cat [9/13]
- The Funeral Portrait: Greetings From Suffocate City [9/13]
- Embracing the Enemy: Nihilist [9/13]
- Supahoney: Wishing in a Fishbowl [9/13]
- Sun Order: Reveal Yourself [9/13]
- Neocracy: Who To Blame? [9/15]
- My Cavernoma: Forgiven [9/20]
- Dead Spring: Anywhere But Down [9/21]
- Gone For Now + BatHead + KAIOHTE: Thoughts From the Grave [9/21]
- EpicDown: Days of Oblivion [9/27]
- SevVven: Don’t Panic [9/27]
- HILD: Thrash På Svenska [10/4]
- Christopher Ardra: Sometimes Other Times [10/4]
- Wraithlurk: ORIGINS [10/7]
- The Numb Project: Definition [10/11]
- Myles Kennedy: The Art of Letting Go [10/11]
- The Giant Baba: Apocalypse [10/15]
- Nightspell: SPOOKED! [10/17]
- Mindistry: Doppleganger [10/18]
- Mosspaw: Big Bite [10/18]
- Bloodhum: Bloodhum [10/24]
- Pøltergeist: Nachtmusik [10/25]
- Self Deception: Destroy the Art [10/25]
- Atreyu: The Pronoia Sessions [10/25]
- GhostEyes: Love Letters From the Tomb [10/31]
- Lost Seeds Found Trees: Full of Holes [10/31]
- Linkin Park: From Zero [11/15]
- The Anix: Voltage [11/22]
- Marilyn Manson: One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 [11/22]
- Deep as Ocean: Dance With Death [11/22]
- Society of Beggars: Levitator [11/28]
- Follow the Raven: Crowman [11/29]
- Hunt For More: Hunt For More [11/30]
- Velocyr: Somnium [12/1]
- Desert Undertones: The Sentinel [12/5]
- Jungle Mountain: Reverse Confusion [12/13]
- The Veer Union: Welcome to Dystopia [12/27]
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 1 (Updated 2/25/24)
View full playlist here
These are the tracks that have been added since 2/11/24.
- Liam Kelley: “Mezmerized”
- Self Deception: “Matthew McConaughey”
- Monster in a Human Suit: “Home”
- Hey Violet: “Uncomplicated”
- Bullets and Octane: “Love H8ting You” (ft. Xtine Reckless)
- Seethe: “Away”
- Horizon Theory: “Nowhere To Go”
- International Furlough: “Pest”
- Blacktop Mojo: “Like Wild Horses”
- Modern Mimes: “Roses in Ruins”
- for all the emptiness: “Sell the Sins”
- Globus: “Redemption (Down the Line)” (ft. A.D.A.M.)
- Cropsey: “Blood on Your Hands”
- Carbonstone: “White Noise”
- Wake Up Hate: “Two-Faced”
- Matt Galli: “Reason to Live”
- CloZure: “The Devil Effect”
- MINDPiLOT: “Voices”
- Ty Dy: “Cosmic”
- The Requiem: “Kill the Lights”
- Psithurism: “Body & Blood” (ft. Waste)
- Leonine: “Volatile”
- Mule: “Tour De Force”
- New Saints: “No Hope”
- Delusive Relics: “Fairy Ring”
- Cryblood: “Broken”
- Melodicka Bros.: “Wait and Bleed” (Slipknot cover)
- A Place i Know: “Good Enough.”
- CHXSR: “Only Darkness” (ft. Sinizter)
- Bullets and Octane: “Space Lord Symphony”
- Dark Remedy: “We Are The Dead”
- Xhale: “The Devil in the Details”
- Somatic Moon: “Only Dead to Save” (ft. Dav Aviz)
- Divine Grave: “Purgatory”
- The Red Lite District: “Outside”
- Declatel: “Penny Bun”
- Shadow Smile: “Thousandfold Sun”
- Anaria: “Legends Never Die” (Against the Current/League of Legends cover)
- Dissonant Tongue: “Descensum”
- Rvshvd: “Deal With the Devil” (ft. Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria)
- The PoZers: “Save a Kiss for Me”
- Til Fauna: “Other Nature”
Song of the Day – Self Deception: “Fight Fire With Gasoline”
My Top 30 Songs of 2022
There were some bangers released this year! This list doesn’t even begin to encompass all the great songs released over the past twelve months, I’m sure, but these were 30 of the tracks, in no particular order, that stood out to me and were in heavy rotation on my playlists.
Alter Bridge: “Sin After Sin”
Kissing Candice: “South Circle”
Kissing Candice: “see/\saw”
Mac Saturn: “Diamonds”
Call of Sirens: “Kenopsia”
The Funeral Portrait: “Voodoo Doll”
Dark Divine: “Circles”
Lovely Machine: “Picture Frame”
The Veer Union: “Just Pretend (Acoustic)”
Awesome Ray Ray: “Last Desperado”
Silent Theory: “So Far, So Good”
CARBONSTONE: “Scream”
MONOWHALES: “CTRL^^^”
Dark Summer: “In My Heart”
Devils Envy: “Lone Wolf”
Amerakin Overdose: “Agastopia”
A Killer’s Confession: “The Boys”
Modern Mimes: “Down and Dead”
Saliva: “Crows”
Stone Horses: “When I Get Paid”
Shallow Side: “The Worst Kind”
Psyclon Nine: “Money and Sex and Death”
Stone Harvest: “All The Lies”
Death Valley High: “Pretty Graves”
Nickelback: “High Time”
Self Deception: “Psycho”
Stain the Canvas: “Puppet”
Adelitas Way/New Medicine: “Up”
Bad Omens: “Like a Villain”
Shinedown: “The Saints of Violence and Innuendo”
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