- Stellar Circuits – Phantom::Phoenix (Director’s Cut) [9/1]
- Alvaro Archaic Ruiz – Hypersigil [9/2]
- President – Blood of Your Empire [9/4]
- Showing Teeth – A Fate Worse Than Loneliness [9/4]
- 156/Silence – From a Distance [9/4]
- Airbourne – Airbourne [9/4]
- Split Lilac – Sonder [9/4]
- Innocents Torn – Severance [9/5]
- Metaphoria – The Pact [9/8]
- Rubur – Fig_ment 幻果 [9/8]
- Lucifena – Warzone [9/11]
- RØRY – Bloodletting [9/11]
- Lake Malice – I Wanna Know If It’s Real [9/11]
- Green Lung – Necropolitan [9/11]
- Stickman – Scream Into the Void [9/14]
- Jane and the Killer Queens – Best in Show [9/16]
- Insect Skin – Remove the Silence [9/17]
- vasthearts – The Color of Collapse [9/18]
- BLiTZ – Bitter Me [9/18]
- The Vacuous Touch – Tethers [9/18]
- Bak Water Hollow – Bak Water Hollow [9/25]
- Die Kammer – Season VI: We Destroy What We Love [9/25]
- Rival Malice – Splitting [9/25]
- Victims of Contagion – Egregore [9/25]
- Scattered Hamlet – Nothing to Prove [9/29]
- Ashes Reign – Awakening [10/1]
- To The Grave – Liberation Front [10/1]
- Escape the Fate – The Last Goodbye [10/1]
- Miss May I – No Place For Me [10/2]
- Shades of Violette – Evernear [10/2]
- Helen – Linda’s Head [10/2]
- Wishy – Nature’s Pill [10/2]
- The Black Watch – The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop [10/2]
- The House of Mars – III [10/3]
- Tyler Gilbert – Monster [10/5]
- Sunny Hallow – The Florist’s Son [10/9]
- Stunning Rayguns – novalunosis [10/9]
- Red Red Sun – Just for a Goodbye [10/9]
- Dormer. – Old World, New Ghosts [10/14]
- sphere – Circumstances [10/14]
- Holy Motors – Heaven’s Night [10/16]
- Dummy – do you love the color of the sky? [10/16]
- A Shoreline Dream – Waiting [10/16]
- SAVE US – Death to Something [10/16]
- Unteachers – Under Bright Sadness [10/16]
- Coal & Crayon – Coal and Crayon [10/16]
- Defects – Artificial Icons [10/16]
- John Diva & the Rockets of Love – Your Favorite Drug [10/16]
- Eau the Music – Light in the Dark [10/16]
- Firestations – International Dust [10/16]
- Sidewave – Dispel [10/23]
- Priest – Altered State Police [10/23]
- Nicotine Dolls – Nicotine Dolls [10/23]
- Killed By Sorrow – Empire of Excess [10/23]
- Somehow Still – Still Somehow [10/23]
- Various – Ligerhawk Records Presents Wingspan, Vol. 1: Expansions and Horizons [10/23]
- soft siren – 4AM [10/23]
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good – Lo-Fi Lowlife [10/30]
- DeathbyRomy – Teenage Fever Dream [10/30]
Somehow Still
Albums Released July/August 2026
- Devil-M – Titanomachie (The Remixes) [7/3]
- The Mercury Seed – Depth Perception [7/3]
- The Shim Shams – Here We Go [7/10]
- downside – Plant Me Elsewhere [7/14]
- Sleeping on a Pedestal – Mind Cremation [7/17]
- Them Waves – Hurt People, Hurt People [7/24]
- Somehow Still – Stop & Let It In [7/24]
- Scarecrow Hill – Over Everything [7/24]
- Glis – Green Silence [7/24]
- Echo of Dissent – Diary of Pain [8/6]
- Xandria – Eclipse [8/7]
- Illusion of One – Illusion of One [8/11]
- Marilyn Manson – One Assassination Under God, Chapter 2 [8/14]
- If Not For Me – Where the Light Begins to Fade [8/14]
- Fallweather – Because You Were There [8/19]
- Divisionaries – Monarchist [8/19]
- The Band Feel – What Of Now [8/20]
- Violent Brides – Buried Light [8/21]
- Beautiful Skeletons – Pulse Line Scar [8/21]
- The Lacs – Still on Them Country Roads [8/21]
- ema sid – Send Me Spiral [8/21]
- Edge of Destiny – Forsaken [8/21]
- Make Fire – Make Fire [8/28]
- Surf Trash – No Chaser [8/28]
- Hotel Leo – Everybody You Know [8/28]
- Embrace the Silence – Lies of Empathy [8/28]
Albums Released March/April 2026
- Shwarma – From Beyond [3/2]
- Scattered Hamlet – Judged by 12 [3/3]
- If I Could Kill Myself – Steeldeath [3/6]
- J.D. Graham – Uppers & Downers [3/6]
- Lords Of Salem – Supersonic Vampire Pussy [3/6]
- American Adrenalin – Burn the Ships [3/6]
- Charlotte Sands – Satellite [3/6]
- Julia. – Fish in the Percolator [3/13]
- Becoming Sons – Refined by the Flames [3/13]
- Across the Frostlands – The Fruits of Peace (A Cry for Peace) [3/17]
- Exodus – Goliath [3/20]
- Poison the Well – Peace in Place [3/20]
- Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World [3/20]
- Seventh Day Slumber – Thy Kingdom Come [3/20]
- Night Signal – The End of Everything [3/24]
- Take the Flame – A New Life [3/24]
- Defying Decay – Synthetic Sympathy [3/26]
- Devil Electric – Tahlia [3/27]
- Ghost of Rucker – The Bones of the Hollow [3/27]
- Don Broco – Nightmare Tripping [3/27]
- Hellripper – Coronach [3/27]
- Black Label Society – Engines of Demolition [3/27]
- Moodring – death fetish [3/27]
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie (20 Year Anniversary) [3/27]
- little image – Kill the Ghost [3/27]
- The Jins – It’s All Over [3/27]
- Threat Signal – Revelations [3/27]
- Resistor – Bite This! [3/27]
- Drowning James – Ascended [3/27]
- Luke Black – Parasite [3/27]
- Gatlin – Worst Case Scenario [3/28]
- Aurora Corvinus – Melancholy [3/30]
- Ice of Neptune – Shots and Dollars [3/31]
- Letters From Wolves – Immortals [4/3]
- Gasoline Invertebrate – Everybody Hates Me [4/3]
- Crucifera – Exostential [4/3]
- Nervosa – Slave Machine [4/3]
- Dead Wrong – The Extent [4/3]
- Radium88 – Beauty is Lies [4/4]
- Nouveau Arcade – Die Happy! [4/10]
- Florence Black – Pouring Rain [4/10]
- Polybomber – Authors of Damnation [4/10]
- Lord of the Lost – Opvs Noir, Vol. 3 [4/10]
- Somehow Still – Here & Awake [4/17]
- Brother Cane – Magnolia Medicine [4/17]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life) – Strani Rumori [4/17]
- Glis – Artifacts in Sequence [4/17]
- Razing Jane – Razing Jane [4/17]
- Blow Up Daisy – Immaculate Misconception [4/17]
- Into Elysium – In Your Darkest Hour [4/22]
- Devil’s Cut – Roadkill [4/24]
- Silence of the Generals – Restricted Records [4/27]
- EarlyRise – The Flood is Coming [4/30]
- Roughpool – Sleepless [4/30]
Five Songs I’m Obsessed With [2/16 – 2/22]
- Chasing Stars: “Embrace”
- Somehow Still: “Enough”
- Hooked Like Helen: “Lend Me Your Ear”
- Hillbilly Vegas: “I Hope You Know”
- Bound South: “A Gambler Knows a Cheat”
I’m allowing myself an Honorable Mention again, because I really dig this track but can’t replace any of the others.
Song of the Day – Somehow Still: “Smoke Signals”
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”