- Daughters of Mara – I Am Destroyer [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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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 Thing With Feathers
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”
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. 6 (Updated 6/30/25)
Make sure you check out each installment of my 2025 playlist!
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Here are the tracks that have been added since June 15th.
- Cryblood: “God Knows”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Dive Bar Breakdown”
- Seas on the Moon: “Enlightenment Calls” (ft. Polychuck)
- Citizen Soldier: “Bulletproof”
- Defects: “Heresy”
- Jay Gearhart: “Goodbye”
- Grizzly Ironside: “Glory Reborn”
- Parhelyon: “Secret”
- Morgan Joanel: “Fallin'”
- Feminoise: “A Delicate Mess”
- Guild Theory: “Vampiric Desires”
- Bury the Masses: “Sweet Chin Music” (ft. Berran Lee)
- Damned Anthem: “Heart-Shaped Box” (Nirvana cover ft. Lola Rhodes)
- Seven Blood: “No Breakout”
- Suffering: “The Curse” (ft. Mia Muñoz)
- Raven’s Banquet: “No One to Call”
- Ethereal Treason: “Ivory”
- AnonTheory: “Under My Skin”
- James Laurent: “Take My Grace”
- Mirrorcell: “U(phoria)”
- Vicious Rain: “IKIGAI”
- Emerge: “Tolerance”
- Alive in Stone: “Less You Bleed”
- The Immaculate Crows: “Struggle Street”
- The Fiction We Create: “More Than Scars”
- Psycholand: “Gay Bar”
- Josi J & Dessert: “Gimme That Beat”
- Of Limbo: “Something Real”
- Seaside Massacre: “Destroy Everything” (Hatebreed cover)
- Nick Palma: “Manifestation”
- Silos: “BL4CK_M0LD” (ft. Escape the Fate and HIGHSOCIETY)
- Silent Theory: “Pardon Me” (Incubus cover ft. Crispin Earl)
- Young Other: “Ghost” (ft. Nail Bite)
- Circuit Preacher: “Blood//Smoke” (ft. Insula Iscariot)
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “Chrysalis”
- Heartsick: “Debt to Pay”
- DayBreak Escape: “Paris”
- Skold: “All Humans Must Be Destroyed”
- Orbitlane: “Serve a Lie”
- Næŕok: “Disease” (Lady Gaga cover ft. Patchmarks)
- Grave Solace: “Shortness of Breath”
- Noir Addiction: “Chemical Bride”
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 5 (Updated 5/16/25)
May is here, and so is a lot of new music to make your ear holes happy!
- Forge the Sun: “Decay”
- Deadcode: “Left You For Dead” (ft. Justin Warfield)
- Boogeymvn: “Reaching for Idle Hands”
- No Fly List: “The Rush”
- Rise to Ruin: “11th Hour”
- Saint Social: “Holiday Forever” (Acoustic Remix)
- Witchz: “Grime, Pt. 1”
- Storm Kingdom: “Hymn of the Ancients”
- MissFit Toys: “Ransom” (Remastered)
- Elliott Rubin: “Drain”
- Allie Riot: “Gimme Some Head”
- Waiting at the Bridge: “Love Gun” (KISS cover)
- Shinedown: “Three Six Five” (Piano Version)
- Citizen Soldier: “Inner Critic”
- L.O.U.D: “Denver”
- Stories of Solitude: “Abyss”
- Curse Inflikted: “Demigod”
- Static Season: “Peripheral”
- Kings County: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Corvid Corpus: “Dancing on Your Grave”
- CrumbsNBread: “Broken Heart”
- Last Dance Among Wolves: “High and Low”
- Wraithlurk: “The Raven”
- Glis: “No Pulse” (2025 Mix)
- Violet Dawn: “Burn for You”
- Fractured Sense: “Vacant Frames”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Catching Your Eye”
- MAKEITSTOP: “Hi Burning, I’m Drowning”
- Voice of Glass: “Henosis”
- AVKRVST: “The Trauma”
- Elirah’s Cross: “Winning” (ft. Ataraxia Music)
- Incite: “Dolores”
- Limberlost: “Alien”
- ParanoiZe: “Decisive”
- The Sanctity of Crows: “The Endless Life of Water”
- Inherently Lost: “Art of Corruption”
- Grizzly Ironside: “Deliver Us 2.0”
- Deep Sea Camels: “Exit Wound”
- Almera: “Fallacy”
- Nick Nasty: “Stalemate”
- Loose Lips: “Up and Running”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Architect”
- Christopher Ardra: “The Air in There”
- Storm Kingdom: “Under a Crooked Tree” (ft. Joe Booe)
- No Fly List: “Close to Closure”
- Boogeymvn: “Heaven No Longer Weeps For Me”
- Die Tired: “(So Called) Complex”
- Central: “Thorns in Silk” (ft. Mila Shade)
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Don’t forget to check out the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist!
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 3/31/25)
Here are the last of the March releases (at least the ones I’ve found). Tomorrow begins the fourth installment of The Mostly Music Playlist! Be sure to visit each part of the playlist, and remember: my top 50 will drop on New Year’s Eve!
Below are the songs that have been added since March 16th.
- Anderson Park Lane: “Ghost of Cherry Creek”
- Neon Casket: “Arrows”
- Saint V: “Diamonds”
- Die Tired: “Reel Me In”
- Michael Botte Band: “Soulfully Appreciating”
- Epic Down: “Doula’s Obsession”
- Calvaria: “The Serpent Lies Within”
- New Medicine: “Natural”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Pursuit”
- Alchemy Within: “The Call”
- Wraithlurk: “Engraved” (ft. $KIMMY)
- anMech: “Necessity”
- Beneath the Hollow: “Old Hymns”
- Lift the Curse: “Violet Violence”
- KREWX: “Aura”
- KREWX: “Enchanted”
- Oozik: “In the Darkness”
- Dal-War: “No Way Out”
- Makes My Blood Dance: “Time and a Place”
- Ded: “Until I Die” (ft. Chris Motionless)
- Point Disarray: “In My Head”
- Boze: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (Charlie Daniels cover)
- Title Holder: “Time Won’t Stop”
- Could You Not?: “Backpedal”
- The Ascendant: “Treading Water”
- Our Frankenstein: “Magnum Spire Hotel”
- Soul Sign: “Negative Thoughts” (ft. Bjorn Englen, Mark Boals, and Mike Cancino)
- Crimson Whisper: “Falling Through the Night”
- SFINX: “Magic” (ft. Left to Suffer, Aaron Gillespie, and Taylor Barber)
- Stain the Canvas: “The Light Within”
- Run the River: “Fulton Heights”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Beautiful”
- Silent Theory: “Emptiness in You” (ft. Daedric)
- Czarina: “Fall Damage” (ft. Circuit Preacher)
- Loose Lips: “Video Games”
- Wraithlurk: “Drown” (ft. $KIMMY)
- Swallow the Sun: “MelancHoly – Holy Edit”
- Radiation Invasion: “Your Love is Darkness”
- Bury the Pines: “Pardon My French”
- Danny Worsnop: “Tell Me Why”
- Blessings of Mara: “Pink Venom”
- Beneath the Hollow: “Butter”
- Six Hours For A Lifetime: “21”
- Against the Storm: “Setting Sun”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Miniskirt”
- Awake At Last: “Be Not Afraid”
- Mr. Strange: “Mr. Strange Does Not Exist”
- Sublimenal Stimuli: “Burn Me Up” (ft. Scarlett Silhouette)
- SKYND: “Aileen Wuornos”
- A Killer’s Confession: “In Case of Emergency” (ft. J. Mann)
- Deadcode: “Come Undone”
- Effing and Blinding: “Scab”
- The Witching Hour: “Dead Inside”
- Kissing Candice: “Bitter Pill”
- Of Limbo: “Finish What Ya Started”
- Wraithlurk: “Straitjacket Sin”
- Storm Kingdom: “Upon the Wings of Despair”
- Engines of Ruin: “One More”
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 12/3/23)
Visit the full playlist here. And check out Part 1 and Part 2!
Below is a list of songs that I’ve added to part 3 since 11/19/23.
- Crywolf, The Kids: “Take This Weight”
- Xero Hour: “Black Flag”
- As the Sky Went Black: “Lucky 13”
- Televised Mind: “Masks”
- Robots Are Dix: “Rainbow Sun”
- The Exceptional Mr. Hyde: “Solemn Power”
- Fidite Nemini: “Let It Go”
- Drunk and Lonely: “Heartstrings”
- Luke S. Williams: “I Wonder”
- Anaria: “The Sandman”
- Anaria: “Freakshow”
- Lovely Machine: “GOING UNDER”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Ready to Burn”
- The Thing With Feathers: “Something Wrong”
- Of Chains: “Reconsider the Source”
- Zammek: “Roisterer”
- Armored Dawn: “Wayfaring Stranger”
- The Props: “Warpath”
- Etched in Embers: “Happy Song”
- Across the Frostlands: “Behind That Door”
- Knightfall: “Farewell” (ft. Jessica Mercy, Pete Rawcliffe, Patrick Goble, and George Acker)
- The Motor Control: “Last December”
- Against the Storm: “Lord of the Flies”
- Lifting Curses: “Heartscrossed”
- DENIGH: “Bed of Nails”
- Nils Ursin: “Purified”
- Highway Jones: “Rock and Roll Dress”
- Would You Kindly?: “Blood in the Water”
- Mad Wet Sea: “The Hunter”
- Kings of Karma: “Them Wheels”
- Unite!: “Fire (Feel the Flame)”
- Arcana Rising: “Rainsong”
- Seventh Fall: “Hey Pablo”
Mac Saturn: Hard to Sell Tour 2024
Rock band Mac Saturn will be headlining a North American tour in early 2024 in support of their new album, Hard to Sell, which will be released on January 26th. The 35-date run comes with support from alt-rock/indie pop trio The Thing With Feathers. You can get tickets at macsaturn.com – and bring your dancing shoes!
- 1/26 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
- 1/27 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
- 1/28 – Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground
- 1/30 – Montreal, QC – Bar le Ritz PDB
- 1/31 – South Burlington, VT – Showcase Lounge
- 2/2 – Portland, ME – Portland House of Music
- 2/3 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
- 2/4 – Albany, NY – Empire Underground
- 2/6 – New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre
- 2/8 – Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry
- 2/9 – Washington, DC – Union Stage
- 2/10 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground
- 2/12 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
- 2/13 – Nashville, TN – Exit/In
- 2/15 – St. Louis, MO – Red Flag
- 2/16 – Kansas City, MO – recordBar
- 2/17 – Oklahoma City, OK – Beer City Music Hall
- 2/19 – Houston, TX – The Bronze Peacock at House of Blues
- 2/20 – Dallas Downtown, TX – The Cambridge Room at House of Blues
- 2/21 – Austin, TX – 3TEN ACL Live
- 2/23 – Tempe, AZ – Innings Festival 2024 (The Thing With Feathers will not be appearing.)
- 2/26 – San Diego, CA – Voodoo Room at House of Blues
- 2/27 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
- 2/28 – Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone
- 3/1 – Seattle, WA – Barboza
- 3/2 – Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
- 3/4 – Boise, ID – 9th Street Parallel at Knitting Factory
- 3/5 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
- 3/8 – Denver, CO – Marquis
- 3/11 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
- 3/12 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
- 3/13 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
- 3/15 – Indianapolis, IN – Old National Centre
- 3/16 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups
- 3/17 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection-The Stache
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