- 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]
- Siilk – Visceral Images [10/8]
- 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]
Stellar Circuits
My Top 50 Songs of 2025
This list is rolling out a lot later than usual, and I’ve gotta be honest – it’s because I failed so miserably at keeping up with releases last year. I mean, I added tracks to my playlist and shared them here, as well as on Facebook and Insta, but I didn’t sit and listen to them until recently. I’ll do better this year, I swear!
And now, here are the fifty songs that really jumped out at me in 2025. A few things to be aware of: I do not rank the tracks in any particular order, and I do not include major label artists (or I try not to, at any rate), nor do I include covers. Last but not least, no band/artist can have more than one song on the list.
View the full playlist HERE.
- Element 117: “Vision”
- SKNN: “Digital Zombies”
- Could You Not?: “Backpedal”
- Hooked Like Helen: “Quote Unquote Life”
- The Fiction We Create: “More Than Scars”
- Nouveau Arcade: “Push”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Long, Strange Trip”
- Boze: “I Will Go”
- The CyberTones: “Red Flags Flying”
- Deadcode: “Don’t Let Me Go”
- AGBAT: “Fair Winds”
- Sever Red: “Conjuring”
- Endless May: “Call My Name”
- Absolutist: “Lineage”
- Elirah’s Cross: “The Walk” (ft. Histheory)
- Matte Blvck: “Vicious Dreams”
- Alchemy Within: “The Call”
- In Passing: “Silhouette”
- A Fatal Black: “Kill the Lights”
- Stellar Circuits: “Bury the Ashes”
- mothshade: “Labyrinth”
- New Dilemma: “Ice Cold Hands” (ft. Chloe Robin)
- Czarina: “Fall Damage” (ft. Circuit Preacher)
- postdrome: “So Inviting”
- Cold Clay Mountain: “These Hands”
- Krysis: “The Summit’s Ice”
- Adelitas Way + New Medicine: “Rollin'”
- Blackwood: “One Track Mind” (ft. Kameron Jane)
- The Black Zodiac: “Gallow’s Call”
- No Fly List: “The Rush”
- Voice of Glass: “Henosis”
- Nights in Prada: “Thorns in Silk” (ft. Sara Rayne)
- Divide the Fall: “Beyond the Surface”
- War Inside: “Hollow Points”
- Ethereal Treason: “Ivory”
- Mirrorcell: “U(phoria)”
- Noir Addiction: “Chemical Bride”
- Phantom of Pop: “Sugar Sin”
- Almera: “Retrograde”
- Stellar: “Outta My League”
- Kings of Karma: “Falling to Pieces”
- Wraithlurk: “One More Lie” (ft. $KIMMY)
- Rise to Ruin: “Archaic”
- Danger Silent: “To Whoever’s Left, Pt. 2”
- Hallowtide: “O Captain”
- MAK: “Fever”
- The Mercury Seed: “Disappear”
- vasthearts: “such a shame” (ft. romziie and Leø)
- AnonTheory: “Thoughts and Prayers”
- We Brought the Storm: “Heavy Rain”
Albums Released From October to December 2025
- Daughters of Mara – I Am Destroyer [10/3]
- Bullet to the Heart – Echoes: The Final Chapter [10/3]
- Linx – Annihilation [10/10]
- Living Dead Girl – Conspiracy [10/10]
- Batchelor – Shadow Protocol [10/14]
- Heartsick – Break the Curse [10/14]
- Julien-K – DRK|MODE [10/17]
- Dead Deceased – Chasm of Radiant Despair [10/17]
- Starver – The Silent Letter [10/17]
- The Thing With Feathers – So Electric [10/24]
- Anaria – Piercing the Veil [10/24]
- POET The Band – Night Era (Nightcore) [10/24]
- Buried Beneath Me – The House of Ash [10/24]
- Parhelyon – From Dark to Light [10/24]
- Dark Moon Spirit – Sacrificial Moon [10/31]
- Wraithlurk – Engraved [10/31]
- MethodOne – Novus Initium [10/31]
- Armchair Cynics – The Lost Tapes [11/7]
- Soulhound – The Divine Purge [11/7]
- Citizen Soldier – Family Heirlooms [11/12]
- Stellar Circuits – Phantom::Phoenix [11/14]
- Suicide Queen – Crowned in Blood [11/14]
- The Malt – Weeping Red [11/15]
- DENIGH – Sleep With No Sound [11/17]
- Falls for the Elderly – Insomnia [11/20]
- Never Enough – Aurora [11/21]
- Moonscape – Entity, Chapter III: A Sudden Glimpse of Clarity [11/21]
- The Pretty Wild – zero.point.genesis [11/21]
- Ghosts Are Here – Under [11/21]
- RedPrint – Beyond Reality [11/26]
- Sleeper Signal – Tales of the Misguided Souls [11/26]
- Jungle Dream – We Are Legion [11/28]
- Black Dog Moon – Hell and Back [11/28]
- Excide – Bastard Hymns [11/28]
- Distant Legacy – The Lighthouse’s Fate [11/28]
- Devil-M – Titanomachie [11/30]
- Michael Botte Band – Demos & Diamonds, Vol. 1 [12/5]
- the OWLiNG – You Don’t Bow You Will Learn [12/5]
- Immunosuppressed – Lilith [12/5]
- Set For Tomorrow – ARCS [12/5]
- Crispin Earl – Covers Collection, Vol. 2 [12/5]
- Stain the Canvas – Honey Rot [12/12]
- Eye of Atlantis – Eye of Atlantis [12/13]
- Severed Skies – Oblivion [12/15]
- Vagabond – Ode to Isotopia [12/17]
- Priest – Live in Hollywood [12/19]
- Dark Enchantment – Fragments of Faith [12/20]
- Matti Hoffman – Ascend [12/20]
- SouthsideFerris – Dying Light [12/23]
- The Further I Get – Life [12/25]
- Libricide – Kismet [12/26]
- Cirkus – Still Remains [12/27]
- Damnum – Obsidian Machine [12/30]
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 10 (Updated 10/31/25)
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Here are the singles that have been released since October 16th.
- Suicide Heaven: “Make a Move on Me”
- We Cry Wolf: “Tell Me How It Feels”
- Young Other: “Breach”
- The Veer Union: “Sunk Your Teeth In”
- Against the Storm: “Fortress”
- Fright: “Hypnosis”
- As The Sky Went Black: “Angel of Death”
- vasthearts: “snowfall, darling”
- Braeker: “Die For You”
- Stellar Circuits: “Bury the Ashes”
- Deadly Vices: “Monster is You”
- Saliva: “Too Broke to Fix” (ft. The Founder and Judge & Jury)
- Truckstop Divas: “Steals to Survive”
- Make Fire: “NOIZE”
- Massfear: “Erase My Mind”
- Husk Bloom: “Illusion”
- Jungle Dream: “Are You Saved?”
- Boze: “Buzzin'”
- Unseen Faith: “Cold Resolve” (ft. Left to Suffer)
- Deadcode: “Rip My World Apart” (Kouss remix)
- Above Snakes: “My Resolve”
- Citizen Soldier: “Dead Butterflies”
- Vandalheart: “Rock Bottom”
- Braeker: “Haunting”
- DieHumane: “The Deep” (ft. Jeffrey Nothing)
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Spirit Animal”
- 9th Evolution: “Cry Little Sister” (Gerard McMahon cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Dark Angel”
- Vagabond: “Crawl”
- Future Theory: “The Fear”
- Glis: “Morning Sun”
- Seethe: “Frost (A Song for Abe)”
- Dekay: “Static Paranoia”
- Loose Lips: “Halloween”
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life): “Terminal Lucidity”
- morino: “Quiet in the Crowd”
- Forge the Sun: “Speedball”
- Fright: “Death Marks”
- Kissing Candice: “Bodies”
- Purple Grace: “Always By My Side”
- Lo: “Critical Condition” (ft. Sky Knives)
- Induction: “Love Kills”
- Seronova: “In the Company of Wolves”
- Rae Danté: “Bury the Bones”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 9 (Updated 9/30/25)
I don’t have much to say except that September has not been very kind to me. I guess it is what it is.
Here are the songs that have been added to The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist since September 20th.
- NOFUTURE: “Flatline”
- Moon Fever: “Decayed”
- In Wildest Dreams: “Dark Light”
- Sidewise: “Where My Heart Remains”
- Ovtlier: “Creature of the Night”
- Jay El Dee + Alex Kenchel: “Rebound”
- Rise to Ruin: “Archaic”
- Michael Botte Band: “If I Asked You”
- Wraithlurk: “Holy Nothing” (ft. $KIMMY)
- The Thing With Feathers: “You Know You Love It”
- Hall of Lost: “Loser’s Game”
- Saint Social: “Swagger” (Acoustic Remix)
- Bryce Savage: “Save It For The Weekend”
- Black Dog Moon: “Neon Queen”
- The CyberTones: “Red Flags Flying”
- The Immaculate Crows: “Short Changed”
- Gloomclub: “My Obscurity”
- Divide the Fall: “Break Free”
- Noise Ratchet: “Freedom”
- Forged in Fire: “Guardian” (ft. Siamese)
- Stellar Circuits: “Corridor”
- Sleep When We’re Dead: “Rainbow Cat”
- StrikingBlue: “Martyr”
- Ghost Chamber: “The Power of Prayer”
- Collide: “Will Not Be Destroyed” (Signals Mix)
- Mindy Jackson: “Reverie”
- BLD DRV: “Vines”
- Boze: “We Comin'”
- Effing and Blinding: “Old Soul”
- Dark Divine: “Halloweentown II – Welcome Home”
- POET the Band: “Sin Eater” (Acoustic)
- Næŕok: “Rabbit Hole”
- morino: “Till the Break of Dawn”
- AM FALL: “MCR Told Me I’m Not Okay, and I’m Not, I Need Backup!” (ft. Raise the Death Toll, Rain Falls Red, Fighting the Phoenix, and Misconceptions)
- Storm Kingdom: “Moonlight” (ft. MX the American and Richie Warwick)
- Bryce Savage: “She Just Wanna Have Fun”
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”
