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The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 9 (Updated 9/20/25)
Welcome, September, and our first false fall! The temperature was pleasant this past week, especially in the mornings, but we’re back into the upper 80s, low 90s now. I’m so ready for cooler weather.
Anyway, I have begun part 9 of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist. Here are the songs I’ve found that have been released since September 1st.
- Linx: “One Step”
- Skold: “All the $ in the World”
- Dead Deceased: “Demon Christ”
- NEEDTOBREATHE: “Momma Loves Me” (ft. The Red Clay Strays)
- The Veer Union: “Caught in the Crossfire”
- Storm Kingdom: “Emerald Isle” (ft. Joe Booe)
- Kings of Karma: “Falling to Pieces”
- Young Other: “Sickle”
- Wraithlurk: “One More Lie” (ft. $KIMMY)
- We Cry Wolf: “Easy Way Out”
- Loose Lips: “Lightning Strikes”
- The Truth Music: “Without You” (ft. JD and Dexter Poetic)
- Alter Bridge: “Silent Divide”
- DENIGH: “Meanstreak”
- Blacklist Union: “Dyin’ 4 U”
- Fake City Fire: “Singularity of You”
- Save Oz: “Jaws of Defeat”
- Small Town Titans: “I’m Not Done”
- Swim the Current: “Set It Off”
- Jungle Dream: “La Llorona”
- Cirkus: “Crazy Train” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
- Seaside Massacre: “First Blood”
- Anemera: “Weight in Pain”
- Die Tired: “Why Won’t You Wake Up?”
- Violet Dawn: “Graveyard Walk”
- Kill the Fall: “Footsteps”
- Fright: “Bloody Dust”
- Have I Weather: “Plates”
- Stain the Canvas: “what are we now ‽”
- Velvet Queen: “Wolves”
- The Adio Sequence: “And You Will Be Rewarded”
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”
My Top 50 Songs of 2024
I didn’t even pretend I was going to do less than 50 songs for this list. There was no way. And y’all made it difficult to narrow it down to even that! I’m gonna end up with a top 100 if I’m not careful.
So, this is totally subjective, of course. There were tons of amazing releases over the past 12 months, and I tried to share them all (though I know I missed a few, or found them too late). But these are the tracks, in no particular order, that grabbed and held my attention without letting go.
View the full playlist HERE.
Note: One band/artist cannot have more than one song included. I tried not to put anything by major label bands/artists on here. Last but not least, no covers!
- The Fifth: “Starlight”
- Wicked Playground: “The Madness”
- Hayden Helms: “Motive Behind the Move”
- LASTRY: “Trick or Treat”
- Kill the Fall: “Let It Breathe”
- Maudlin Strangers: “Silver Stain”
- EarlyRise: “Dance for the Money”
- Nick Nasty: “Lose My YOUth”
- Brett Carlisle: “Runaway”
- Til Fauna: “Whisper”
- Deep as Ocean: “Dark Place”
- Globus, A.D.A.M.: “Redemption (down the line…)”
- No Fly List: “Ghost”
- Towers of Jupiter: “Morsus Frigoris”
- Hooked Like Helen: “It Doesn’t Look So Good For You Now”
- THEHERO: “Blood Money”
- Christopher Ardra: “Losing You”
- Circuit Preacher, Mobiius: “Burn”
- Blackjacket: “Blood Stains”
- Alchemy Within, Skyler Parker: “Blood in the Snow”
- Modern Mimes: “Black Butterflies”
- Major Distortion: “The Lone Sailor”
- High Fade: “Bone to Pick”
- Swim The Current: “Stay”
- Carbonstone: “Echoes”
- Bridges Ablaze: “Numb”
- A Shadow Within: “Event Horizon”
- Feverlust: “i dare you to speak”
- Leonine: “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”
- Young Other: “Change Everything”
- Neon Society: “Heliocentricity”
- Mike’s Dead: “Bestrafe Mich (Punish Me)”
- Black Tourmaline: “Embers”
- Hotel Security: “Manic Attack”
- O Mateus: “Perception”
- Silk Parlor: “Holding Me Up”
- Alibis: “Sell Out”
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Too Broke to Die”
- Mads Krul: “Feeling Alright”
- The Whispering Trees: “Bloodline”
- EverFelt: “River”
- Empty Atlas: “Little Voices”
- Red Eleven: “Path”
- Nothing Like Robots: “all natural”
- Algorhythm: “Deeper”
- Signal the Revolution: “Come to Life”
- The Holy Knives: “Killer”
- Kendall Cage: “Rabbit Hole”
- Nick Palma: “Super Electric”
- Sick Century: “Tidal Wave”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 5 (Updated 10/31/24)
I’m sharing an extra update to ensure that the singles from September and October get the attention they deserve before moving on to part 6 of this year’s playlist. I didn’t do this between installments 5 and 6, so I felt that tracks released in July and August may have been overlooked. I wasn’t making that mistake again.
As always, please visit all of the portions of 2024’s playlist! You could just find your new favorite song and band.
Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4 // Part 5
Here are the singles that have been added since October 20th.
- DAMNAGE: “Important”
- Blood Vision: “Resurrection”
- held under.: “Gradient”
- Haast Hunter: “Trial Unknown”
- Kendrick Bebout: “Black Magic Caravan”
- Algorhythm: “Deeper”
- Soluna: “Cerulean” (Acoustic)
- Swim the Current: “Stay”
- Modern Mimes: “Black Butterflies”
- Empire Springs: “Hollow”
- Pink Elefants: “Norman Bates”
- Carbonstone: “Echoes”
- Signal the Revolution: “Come to Life”
- Jungle Dream: “Ultraviolent” (X Brand Wrestling version)
- Bullet to the Heart: “Dreamscape”
- Feverlust: “i dare you to speak”
- No Bodies: “12 Gauge”
- Lastry: “Trick or Treat”
- The Transpacific: “Afterlife”
- LIIS: “#1 Crush” (ft. Julien-K)
- Silverside: “Black Ocean”
- Skumlove: “Ride or Die”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 2 (Updated 4/21/24)
This will be the last update for part 2 of the playlist. The late April/early May releases will kick off part 3.
Be sure to check out part 1 and the entirety of part 2!
Here are the songs that have been added since 4/7/24.
- Tongues of Fire: “Speak”
- I Hate Elephants Sitting on Children: “These Walls”
- The Ninth Empire: “Hunt You Down”
- Too Close For Comfort: “Playing the Fool”
- Powerman 5000: “1999”
- Vampiric Moonlight: “Endless Night”
- Lost in Exile: “Vengeance”
- Mike Squires + Empty Atlas: “Good Enough”
- BREAKKER: “Fever”
- Inside the Hollow: “Last of Me”
- Dragon Punch: “Monster”
- Aramis: “Icarus and the Fall”
- Ask Tomorrow: “Special Kid”
- The F-use: “All the Same”
- 15th Bend: “The Pain”
- Diggy Graves: “Zzz”
- Mäsqueräde: “The End of Everything”
- Waverly Drive: “After the Show”
- The Shackletons: “Caller Number 10”
- Slave to Sin: “Fake”
- Scorched Waves: “Ghost”
- When in Doubt: “All of My Life”
- POET The Band: “Heart in Your Mind”
- Heroes and Villains: “Time’s Up” (ft. Tacboy and Mike Mexas)
- Swim the Current: “So Low”
- In Shallow Seas: “GG4”
- Viscaya: “See You Again”
- BOZE: “Same Book/New Chapter”
- Zombeast: “The Cycle”
- Crywolf: “celestina” (ft. emalyn)
- DD Starshaker: “Shapeshifter”
- Abigail Circus: “Beware of the Circus”
- The Cage in Your Head: “I Died a Long Time Ago”
- A Place i Know: “Home”
- A Place i Know: “Save Me”
- Coldwards: “The Fire Inside” (ft. Jonathan Norris of Kingdom Collapse)
- Round One Fight!: “Failure By Design”
- The Funeral Portrait: “You’re So Ugly When You Cry” (ft. Bert McCracken of The Used)
- Reddstar: “Old Man” (ft. Rainy Terrell)
- Above Snakes: “Ride & Die”
- Erode the Dream: “The Waiting”
- Solipsis: “She Went and Leave”
- Solipsis: “Motivation”
- Glis: “Control”
- Grin Cynic: “Let Me Go”
- Carrying Torches: “Conversations”
- Beyond Unbroken: “My Life”
- Joey Rival: “Rooted in Blood”
- morino: “Souls Collided”
- Monster in a Human Suit: “Deathcurse”
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