Alabama-based rock band Shallow Side has released the video for “No One Wins,” which is track ten on their 2024 album Reflections. Check it out below!
Shallow Side
2025 Covers You May Have Missed
I am working on the Top 50 of 2025, and I realized that there were quite a few covers released last year. I don’t include cover songs on that list, so I thought I’d share them here.
- Amerakin Overdose: “Genie in a Bottle” (Christina Aguilera cover)
- Næŕok, Steeno: “3” (Britney Spears cover)
- Boze: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (Charlie Daniels cover)
- Gillsaw: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Priest: “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak cover)
- Waiting at the Bridge: “Love Gun” (KISS cover)
- Kings County: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Damned Anthem, Lola Rhodes: “Heart-Shaped Box” (Nirvana cover)
- Silent Theory, Crispin Earl: “Pardon Me” (Incubus cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Love is a Battlefield” (Pat Benatar cover)
- RedPrint: “Stranglehold” (Ted Nugent cover)
- Rise to Ruin: “Paranoid” (Black Sabbath cover)
- Cirkus: “Crazy Train” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
- P.O.D.: “Don’t Let Me Down” (The Beatles cover)
- Blackjacket: “Grenade” (Bruno Mars cover)
- Nick Nasty: “Seven Nation Army” (The White Stripes cover)
- Feverlust: “That’s So True” (Gracie Abrams cover)
- We’re Wolves: “Bark at the Moon” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
- 9th Evolution: “Cry Little Sister” (Gerard McMahon cover)
- Kissing Candice: “Bodies” (Drowning Pool cover)
- Kings of Karma: “Run Rudolph Run” (Chuck Berry cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (Harry Reser and His Orchestra cover)
- Shallow Side: “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” (Elton John cover)
- Amerakin Overdose: “Feliz Navidad” (José Feliciano cover)
- ENMY: “Incomplete” (Backstreet Boys cover)
- KillDevil Theory: “Tom Sawyer” (Rush cover)
- Kalamity Kills: “Help!” (The Beatles cover)
- Nail Bite: “Nutshell” (Alice in Chains cover)
Also – Crispin Earl of The Veer Union released Covers Collection, Vol. 2 on December 5th, which includes his renditions of “The Kill” by Thirty Seconds to Mars, “Even in Arcadia” by Sleep Token, and more!
No Resolve: The Unleashed Tour 2026
No Resolve has shared dates for The Unleashed Tour, featuring special guests Shallow Side and Above Snakes. This winter run will make its first stop in St. Paul, Minnesota, on February 10th. Tickets are available at noresolve.info!
- 2/10 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
- 2/11 – Joliet, IL – The Forge
- 2/12 – Iowa City, IA – Wildwood Saloon
- 2/13 – Omaha, NE – Waiting Room
- 2/14 – Kansas City, MO – Westport Bowery
- 2/16 – Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street
- 2/18 – Dallas, TX – Trees
- 2/19 – Springfield, MO – The Riff
- 2/20 – Toledo, OH – Frankie’s
- 2/21 – Columbus, OH – King of Clubs
- 2/22 – Pittsburgh, PA – Crafthouse
- 2/24 – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room
- 2/25 – Lakewood, OH – Mercury Music Lounge
- 2/27 – Flint, MI – The Machine Shop
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”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 8 (Updated 8/31/25)
I made it through August and it’s blistering heat – and miserable humidity – with the help of some amazing bands/artists! Here are the songs that have been added to part eight of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist since August 16th.
- Covenant of None: “Goodbye”
- Somber-Side: “Daydream”
- Ritual Howls: “Follow the Sun”
- Kain: “Fall of Man”
- From Fall to Spring: “Blood”
- Vicious Rain: “Spitting Blood Again”
- Mean Silver Machine: “Summer Days”
- Haunting Ghosts: “Blessed With a Hex”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Can You See Me – Remix” (ft. Zenaro)
- Living Dead Girl: “We’ll All Be Dead”
- Xero Hour: “Bend the Knee”
- Citizen Soldier: “Too Loud”
- We Are The Virus: “Roadkill South”
- Pandemic at Midnight: “Almost Made It Out Alive”
- Sammy Jay Love: “Fading Love” (ft. Victor Borba)
- Killing Connor: “Sunk Cost Fallacy”
- Saints of No One: “Look Around (what do you see)”
- Shattered Colors: “Dark Minds”
- High pulse: “Think Twice”
- MELØ: “Follow You, Follow Me”
- Frankie Finito: “Lullaby”
- The Isolated Brigade: “Can You Feel It Coming?”
- Odd Project: “Sound the Alarm!”
- The Twin: “The Void”
- Brandon Gullion: “Over My Head”
- BlindStrike: “Flowers”
- Moth Tax: “Trophies”
- 6deep: “Leech”
- 9 Dead: “God of Mine”
- Induction: “Dark Temptation”
- Terminals: “Faith”
- Sleeptalker: “Kingdom of Glass”
- EarlyRise: “Paper Empire”
- Parhelyon: “Stygma”
- Overthrow: “Tribute”
- Wolves in Wait: “Withered and Tired”
- Stellar Circuits: “I See Your Spirit”
- Archers Rise: “Get Away”
- The Jötunn: “Blood Flower”
- THEHERO: “Burnout”
- Elliott Rubin: “Nosedive – Long Island Heartthrob Remix” (ft. Benny Reid)
- SFINX: “Golden” (ft. RinRin and Dal Av)
- Feverlust: “That’s So True”
- Storm Kingdom: “Infidel” (ft. K.A.R.L.)
- Hall of Lost: “Scavengers” (ft. Robbie Ekblom, Jr.)
- The CyberTones: “Not So Grateful Dead”
- Wraithlurk: “Skinned”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Long, Strange Trip”
- Shallow Side: “Antilight” (Acoustic)
- Cryblood: “Deep Cuts”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Domino”
- Saints of No One: “Sleepwalking Through Life”
- Georgi: “Break Me” (Aesthetic Perfection remix)
- Shadows of Spectres: “we are not alone.”
- Shadows of Spectres: “memorial for the departed.”
- Husk Bloom: “Fiction Wears Off”
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. 3 (Updated 5/5/24)
Welcome to the first update of The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Part 3! Be sure to visit the first two parts, featuring releases from January through April: partes uno y dos.
Here are the songs that have been added since April 21st.
- Innocents Torn: “Broken Dollz”
- Reddex: “FLASHBANG”
- nightjar: “Molecules”
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “Sunrise”
- Graypath: “Monster”
- Coyote GoLightly: “Captivated”
- Sun Order: “Leaders of the Fight”
- Vivianite: “Pitch Black”
- NO BODIES: “No Bodies”
- Doomboyz: “Lysergic Solution”
- rose cold: “falling off”
- Miss FD: “Syndicated”
- Shallow Side: “Filters” (ft. Elias Soriano of Nonpoint)
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “The Dream”
- One Day Alive: “Addicted Again”
- Mike’s Dead: “Bestrafe Mich”
- Topher Music: “Let Her Go”
- Neon Society: “Heliocentricity”
- Fevercast: “Shove It Down”
- Solely Veil: “Unravel”
- Deep as Ocean: “The Dawn”
- Crooked Pilots: “Collapsing Star” (ft. Devon Lisenby)
- EarlyRise: “The Villain”
- Powerman 5000: “Dancing Like We’re Dead”
- Priest: “Black Venom”
- Modern Mimes: “Bridge to Clarity”
- Hands Like Houses: “Hollow”
- Alive in Stone: “Two Piece Town”
- The Lürxx: “We Are The Weeds”
- Ikana: “Colorblind”
- Autumn Dreams: “The Seer”
- Edge of Destiny: “Set My Soul on Fire”
- The Props: “Get Off”
- The Props: “Echoes”
- Livekill: “Crushing Blows”
- Divide the Fall: “Death of Me”
- Shannon Darcy: “Just Worried Because”
- Nathan James + Arankai: “Paranormal”
- Circuit Preacher: “Subtext”
Shallow Side Drops New Collaboration With Nonpoint’s Elias Soriano
Alabama rockers Shallow Side have released their latest single, “Filters,” which features a guest appearance by Nonpoint vocalist Elias Soriano. This is one of the heaviest songs Shallow Side has ever put out, and I am digging it! Check out the official video below and be sure to add “Filters” to your playlists on your favorite streaming service.
“Filters” will be airing on Sirius XM Octane at the times listed below:
- Fri, 4/26 – 9 PM ET/6 PM PT
- Sat, 4/27 – 12 PM ET/9 AM PT
- Sun, 4/28 – 6 PM ET/3 PM PT
- Mon, 4/29 – 3 PM ET/12 PM PT
- Tues, 4/30 – 9 AM ET/6 AM PT
- Wed, 5/1 – 10 PM ET/7 PM PT
Shallow Side: Rock Redemption Tour 2024
This spring, Alabama rockers Shallow Side are bringing their Rock Redemption Tour to a city near you! This 12-date run features several shows with Scotty Austin headlining and fellow special guests Seventh Day Slumber, Love the Hate, and Magdalene Rose. You can get tickets at shallowside.net!
- 4/12 – Biloxi, MS – The Cannery Bar & Grill^
- 4/13 – Bonaire, GA – Pub 96^
- 4/14 – Birmingham, AL – Zydeco**
- 4/17 – Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall**
- 4/18 – Little Rock, AR – Stickyz**
- 4/19 – Mountain Home, AR – AC’s Event Center^
- 4/20 – Warrensburg, MO – Bodie’s^
- 4/21 – Springfield, MO – Oxo Bar & Grill**
- 4/24 – Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street**
- 4/25 – Fort Smith, AR – The Majestic+
- 4/26 – Houston, TX – Acadia Bar & Grill+
- 4/27 – San Antonio, TX – Fitzgerald’s+
^ w/Scotty Austin headlining
** Shallow Side only
+ Seventh Day Slumber, Shallow Side, Love the Hate, and Magdalene Rose
Any Given Sin + Shallow Side: The Sinful Side Tour 2023
Any Given Sin and Shallow Side are hitting the road this August with special guest Ovtlier. Tickets are available here. (The Cincinnati and Johnson City dates do not yet have tickets on sale, but they will soon!)
- 8/9 – Cincinnati, OH – Madison Live
- 8/10 – Columbus, OH – Rumba Cafe
- 8/11 – Lakewood, OH – The Winchester Music Tavern
- 8/12 – Rochester, NY – Montage Music Hall
- 8/13 – Millersville, PA – Phantom Power
- 8/15 – Pittsburgh, PA – Crafthouse
- 8/16 – Brooklyn, NY – Kingsland
- 8/17 – Concord, NH – Bank of NH Stage
- 8/18 – Clifton, NJ – Dingbatz
- 8/20 – Vienna, VA – Jammin’ Java
- 8/23 – Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819
- 8/24 – Spartanburg, SC – Ground Zero
- 8/25 – Huntsville, AL – Rocket Republic
- 8/26 – Johnson City, TN – Capone’s
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