Seven Year Witch
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 8 (Updated 8/16/25)
It’s August, which means summer is coming to its end (yay), and I have turned another year older (ugh). It also means the eighth installment of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist is here!
Don’t forget to check out parts one through seven after you dive into these recent additions!
- Bury the Masses: “Who I Smoke” (Reimagined with Berran Lee and Black Cat Bill)
- Seas on the Moon: “Never Fair” (ft. Lena Scissorhands)
- Rise to Ruin: “Paranoid”
- Jungle Dream: “Legion”
- The Thing With Feathers: “So Electric”
- Cold Clay Mountain: “Bury Me”
- Storm Kingdom: “The Fall of Agramemnon”
- Awake at Last: “GhØst GhØst GhØst”
- Crywolf: “DRIP [hushed]” (ft. Maigan Kennedy)
- Run the River: “Can We Go Back”
- Sikari: “Deceiver”
- Gloomclub: “Welcome to the Club”
- AsFireFalls: “Stay”
- Silence Reigns: “Dipsomania”
- Low Knife: “I’m Lost”
- Inhuman Shimmer: “Hikikomori”
- Above Snakes: “Waking the Savage”
- FOAMER: “Slenderman”
- SFINX: “Sold My Soul” (ft. Keep Close)
- Stellan: “At Least For Now”
- Aeternum: “Bite My Tongue”
- Hunter and the Cold Hearts Club: “I Die Happily”
- Topher Music: “I Think I’m Gonna Go”
- Seven Year Witch: “Big For My Britches”
- Seethe: “PostScript”
- Inhuman Shimmer: “Please Hold, Pt. 1”
- Stellar: “Outta My League”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 4 (Updated 4/30/25)
Hey, y’all, and welcome to another playlist update! April has been a very weird month for me on a personal level, but at least the soundtrack was fire!!! Here are the songs that have been added to part four since April 16th.
- EarlyRise: “The Bitter Pill”
- Marilyn Manson: “In the Air Tonight” (Phil Collins cover)
- 50 Meter Icewall: “Purge Me Daddy”
- Rogue Island: “Sweat”
- Curse Inflikted: “Dancing With Shadows”
- Silent Theory: “Swept Away” (Julien-K remix)
- Wraithlurk: “Dimensions”
- Matte Blvck + ALVABEAT: “Pupula Duplex (Your Demise)”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Fade to Black” (Metallica cover)
- Storm Kingdom + Sonia Hutchinson: “Ninmah”
- No Fly List: “All Lost No Found”
- Priest: “Black Hole Sun” (Soundgarden cover)
- Citizen Soldier: “Better Off Broken”
- A Place i Know: “Freedom Bells”
- The Truth Music: “Heart Issues” (ft. JD)
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Death Becomes You” (StoneBridge remix)
- Dawn of Ashes: “Hypertensive Crisis”
- Antibody + Binary Division + Czarina: “My Enemy”
- Wind Walkers: “The End Aesthetic”
- obiman: “UNDERTHEWEIGHT”
- Misfire: “Living the Dream”
- The Lineage: “Burn Down”
- Stone Lions: “Bite Your Tongue” (ft. Dani Winter-Bates)
- To The Shores: “Blood in the Water”
- Dal-War: “Run Run Run Away Yeah”
- Heir to Nothing: “Don’t Tell Me”
- Into Ruin: “Godless”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Manifest”
- Priest: “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak cover)
- Mr. Strange: “X the Eyes”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Point of No Return”
- Adelitas Way + New Medicine: “Rollin'”
- The Funeral Portrait: “Skinny Lies”
- Storm Kingdom: “Children of the Sun” (ft. Makaade)
- Not Enough Space: “Eye 4 an Eye” (ft. Dark Divine)
- Seven Year Witch: “Better Off as Strangers”
- Moonfall: “Rainstorm”
- Sleep Token: “Damocles”
- Archers Gate: “Suffocate”
- The Impulsive: “Echo”
- Seethe: “Reprieve”
- Blackwood: “One Track Mind” (ft. Kameron Jane)
- Alive in Stone: “Comatose”
- We’re Not Doctors: “RAD\\MOD”
- Tyler Griese: “Suffocate Me”
- Nick Nasty: “Systems Don’t Break (People Do)”
- REDWAVE: “Fax Machine”
- The Black Zodiac: “Gallow’s Call”
- Screams of Tranquility: “Frozen Tears of Solitude”
- Metal Charm: “Time to Restart”
- Von Loop: “Stomping on the Demons”
- Linx: “مختلف” (Them)
- Anderson Park Lane: “NEWS”
- AVKRVST: “The Malevolent” (ft. Ross Jennings)
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And, as always, be sure to check out the 2025 playlist in its entirety!
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 1 (Updated 1/31/25)
This is the second, and final, playlist update for January. I have already begun compiling my Top 50 of 2025 – I think this year is going to be difficult to narrow down… (I say that every year, but I already have 6 contenders and it’s not even February. If that happens every month, my life is going to be a challenge come December. Ha ha!)
Here are the tracks that have been added to the playlist since January 14th. You can view the list in its entirety here.
- Blank Labels: “Drive”
- Danny Worsnop: “Ain’t No Use”
- Elirah’s Cross: “The Walk” (ft. Histheory)
- Not Enough Space: “Solace in Silence”
- Sloans Grove: “Above It All”
- The Lycan: “Memento”
- Against the Sun: “Pieces” (ft. Alibis)
- The Mysterious Bruises: “Cold Long Nights”
- Never the Name: “Consequences”
- The Bettors: “Never Change”
- Dethamphetamine: “Brains”
- Gnostician: “Dwarf Star Partition”
- Silent WVLF: “Elation”
- Last Good Thing: “Wish You Were”
- Van Berlain: “Glass House”
- Featured: “Just Another Day” (ft. Rose Berlin)
- HotWax: “One More Reason”
- Seven Year Witch: “Blue Flower, Red Thorns”
- little image: “The Pressure”
- By the River: “Bridges”
- Dimensionist: “Syntagma”
- MNYKR: “Sweat With Me” (ft. Greco Ray)
- Mandatory Affect: “Transient”
- Mandatory Affect: “Letters to the Lost”
- Lift the Curse: “Save Me”
- Levana: “Set Me Free”
- Swim the Current: “Right Your Wrong”
- One Day Alive: “The Calling”
- Young Other: “Iron Horse”
- Shinedown: “Dance, Kid, Dance”
- Shinedown: “Three Six Five”
- Bad Valentines: “Last Days in the Sun”
- SKNN: “Radioactive”
- The Fiction We Create: “Knightfall”
- Any Given Sin: “Rest for the Wicked”
- TJ Marzonie: “Blame It on the Devil”
- Kissing Lilith: “More Than Worth It”
- Bridges Ablaze: “Heartless”
- Photon Flux: “Hypofrontality”
- Damien Graves: “Skyfall” (ft. Forsaken Silence)
- Disconnected: “We Carry On”
- Landslide: “Lost”
- Robbie Ekblom Jr.: “Darkness Befalls” (ft. Hall of Lost)
- Out of Body: “The Hold Up”
- Deadcode: “Don’t Let Me Go”
- SkyMuseum: “Unawake” (ft. Adam Faris)
- Feverlust: “1000 Memories”
- Draven: “Hollowed Penance”
- The Split: “Son of New Ages”
- Jay Gearhart: “Faced With Hate”
- Gemini Syndrome: “Suffer in Silence”
- Krysis: “The Summit’s Ice”
- Call of Sirens: “Siren”
- Mr. Strange: “Easy Come, Easy Go”
- Matte Blvck: “Vicious Dreams”
- Effing and Blinding: “We’re All Gonna Get It”
- Boogeymvn: “Once Upon a Dream”
- Boogeymvn: “I Feel Nothing”
- Mean Silver Machine: “Motorcycle Rock”
- Adelitas Way: “What If You Go?”
- Anaria: “Stay”
- AGBAT: “Fair Winds”
- Glis: “Street Dragon Ninja”
- Glis: “A Different Dream”
- Seethe: “Mandela Effect”
- No Fly List: “Tension”
- Dead Rabbitts: “Artificial Gods” (ft. Escape the Fate, HIGHSOCIETY, and Judge & Jury)
- Traverse the Abyss: “Reasoning”
- When Hearts Wither: “I’ll Wait For Your Return, My Friend”
- Into Elysium: “Her Name Was”
- Hands Like Houses: “Fatally Fractured”
- The Truth Music: “The Peace I Need”
- The Space Turtles: “IPV”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Afterlife”
- The Immaculate Crows: “Shylene”
- Storm Kingdom: “The Fall of the Morning Star”
- Seas on the Moon: “The Trailhead” (ft. Eissa Morphide)
- Enemy of Fate: “Killswitch”
- Verging on Hopeless: “Turning Away”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 4 (Updated 8/25/24)
This is the last update for part 4, then I’ll start the September-October installment! Check out all four existing 2024 playlists.
Part I // Part II // Part III // Part IV
Here are the singles that have been added since 8/11/24.
- Don’t Panic: “Red Lights”
- Cicrus: “Reading My Eulogy”
- bash explode: “LFH” (ft. Ohm-I)
- Seven Year Witch: “What’s in the Trunk?”
- Avian Theory: “Understand This” (ft. Delta Hate)
- Starry Eyes: “Aloha”
- Addalyn: “Split”
- Cyant: “Values”
- MT BONNELL: “Mistake”
- Deliver the Galaxy: “Shadows”
- Our Minds to Fellowship Divine: “Alone”
- I: “Unheard”
- Mindistry: “No Tomorrow”
- Rat Silo: “Never Walk Home Alone”
- RJ Archer & The Painful Memories: “A Heart in Winter”
- Bödel: “Grisarna och snuten”
- Leo Lauren: “Lovesick”
- Sentience: “bloodstain”
- Mechanic A: “Let It Go” (ft. Joe Booe)
- Artimus Ion: “Shake My Tree”
- Lurid: “Eye Contact”
- Sunny Hallow: “4D Shine (Nostalgia)”
- The Jötunn: “Ulceration”
- Lilac & Lotus: “Cauterize”
- Quinn Allman: “I Digress”
- J. Dahlia: “Great Day”
- In Passing: “Mirror”
- The Adio Sequence: “Sink or Swim”
- Hollow Intent: “Forget Me” (ft. Morgan Hudson)
- Gigantum: “For All My Friends”
- Hex Automata: “Slave to the System”
- LASTRVN: “Go”
- Joyful Forfeit: “No Better. No Worse.”
- Call of Sirens: “Disengage”
- Never Obey Again: “Never Feel, Never Fear”
Albums Released January to June 2024
There have been several albums released so far in 2024, and I decided to compile them in a post separate from the EPs. Much as with the other list, I am sure I’ve missed a few, so if there are any you know of that are not shared here, feel free to tell me in the comments!
Be sure to check out my list of EPs that have dropped over the past 6 months, as well!
- Jack the Elbow: Crush [1/5]
- Shadow Person: Person of Interest [1/18]
- Ghost Atlas: Dust of the Human Shape [1/26]
- Immortal Girlfriend: Sojourner [2/2]
- Kluu, availax: lunar isolation [2/2]
- It Came From the Basement: Revenant [2/9]
- Jester Syndrome: Shape [2/9]
- Crude Mothas: Crude Mothas [2/11]
- Gravehuffer: Mile High Live [2/14]
- As A Treat: A Little Extra [2/14]
- The Transits: The Transits [2/16]
- Framing the Red: Three to Get Ready [2/16]
- The Requiem: A Cure to Poison the World [2/16]
- ENMY: Breaking Down (Deluxe) [2/20]
- A Scent Like Wolves: Distant Dystopia [2/23]
- AnAkA: The Oblivion Call [2/23]
- Black Sonic Pearls: Sonixomnia [2/23]
- Seven Year Witch: Vampire Calamity [3/1]
- Damned Anthem: The Arsenal 2 [3/1]
- Blind Channel: Exit Emotions [3/1]
- Isenordal: Requiem for Eirênê [3/8]
- NinémiA: Weapons of Math Destruction [3/22]
- Dead Energy: Dark Savior [3/23]
- Blacktop Mojo: Pollen [4/5]
- Blackwood: Release Me [4/9]
- technically nothing: it’s past ur bedtime [4/19]
- Valemon: Enemies [4/19]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life): Dying Memories (2009-2024) [4/19]
- Violet Vanity: Violet Vanity [4/19]
- Dead Heart Bloom: Dream States [4/23]
- GLOSSA: Death is Not the End [4/26]
- 3 Bravo: Divine Wreckage [4/30]
- Ian Cuthbertson: Alabama Flower [4/30]
- Circuit Preacher: Made to Burn [5/3]
- Danger Silent: The Revival [5/4]
- Crownshift: Crownshift [5/10]
- Powerman 5000: Abandon Ship [5/10]
- Haunting Ghosts: Shadow Work [5/12]
- The Edge of Reason: Ocean [5/17]
- Glis: Gateway to Oblivion [5/17]
- The Royal Ritual: Pleasure Hides Your Needs [5/24]
- Central: The Fall [5/27]
- Priest: Dark Pulse [5/31]
- GLASSFIRES: Gemini [5/31]
- Three Days Bright: Weight of the World [6/11]
- Synthetik Blonde: Dark Side of Your Love [6/12]
- Crywolf: let me be your womb [6/14]
- FortyMore: FortyMore [6/14]
- Eden Architect: Form and Function [6/18]
- Chatrooms: Something Went Wrong… [6/28]
Song of the Day – Seven Year Witch: “Cyanide”
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)”
The Mostly Music 2023 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 10/8/23)
Link to the playlist on Spotify: Check it out!
Welcome to the first list of additions for October! The past two weeks have brought more hard rock for mental health from Above Snakes, a playfully dark metalcore anthem from Not Enough Space, and more! Here are the songs that have been added since my last update:
- K/lank: “Les Roses”
- Above Snakes: “All In My Head”
- Lovely Machine: “Chemical”
- Not Enough Space: “Goth Girl Dinner” (ft. Spider Inside Her)
- The Stone Eye: “Raindrops”
- Citizen Soldier: “Give Up to Ghosts”
- Monowhales: “Backbone”
- Hand of Juno: “Destroy the Line”
- Matt James: “Chainsmoking Whiskey”
- Soul Stir: “She Belongs With Me”
- Stain The Canvas: “In Reverse”
- Seven Year Witch: “Black and Blue”
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