- The Delirium Effect – Toxic Culture Shock [1/2]
- Redefind – Still Dreamin’ [1/9]
- Semper Acerbus – Following Omens [1/9]
- Pistols at Dawn – Memento Mori [1/9]
- AJ McLean – My Name is Alexander James [1/9]
- Alter Bridge – Alter Bridge [1/9]
- The Funeral Portrait – Live From Suffocate City [1/16]
- The Far Worst – Vicious Cycle [1/20]
- Glis – Winterwerk [1/23]
- Fading Into Silence – Woman On My Mind [1/23]
- Crown of Nothing – The Weight I Can’t Escape [1/30]
- Opandaman – Digital Depression [1/30]
- Crownless Prince – Cherry and Velvet [2/1]
- Automated Uprising – Corruption [2/3]
- Noise Infinite – No Weapon Formed [2/3]
- Pretty Crooked – So Sickening [2/6]
- Wolverine – Anomalies [2/6]
- Siren Section – Separation Team [2/6]
- KonKuss – Black Baccara [2/9]
- MadLadGibson – The Journey Begins [2/12]
- Anaria – Between Loving and Dying [2/13]
- Ghosts Are Here – Above [2/18]
- Pleasantly Wild – Love Language [2/18]
- Rude and Reckless – All In [2/19]
- Ethereal Treason – All is Vanity [2/20]
- The Veer Union – Reinvention [2/20]
- Echoing Peaks – The Ascent [2/20]
- Histheory – High Seas Mysteries [2/20]
- Silent Script – Another Day in Bedlam [2/20]
- Deeper Graves – Pull Me Toward the Dark [2/27]
- Witchz – Afterlife [2/27]
- Announce the Apocalypse – Void [2/27]
- Final Gasp – New Day Symptoms [2/27]
- Blackwater Drowning – Obscure Sorrows [2/27]
The Veer Union
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. 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 9/20/25)
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. 6 (Updated 6/15/25)
Not much to say, so I’ll just encourage y’all to check out every installment of the playlist.
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5
And here are the singles I’ve found that have been released so far in June!
- To The Grave: “Show Them the Bodies”
- Scarlet View: “On My Way”
- SFINX: “Out of Luck” (ft. Grant Dawson)
- Last Dance Among Wolves: “The Awakening”
- Kami Kehoe: “Dopamine”
- Bonedaddy: “Murder House”
- Ash Fault Jungle: “Electric Nights”
- Linx: “Love Virus”
- Dark Remedy: “In the Wind”
- Safety Training: “What I Need”
- Creeper: “Headstones”
- Not Enough Space: “Waiting 4 U”
- StarrShine: “Child’s Play”
- Lilac Oblivion: “My Mind”
- War Inside: “Hollow Points”
- The Veer Union: “My Empire”
- Inner Outlines: “Endeavor”
- Rebel: “Shadowboxer”
- Shearer Avenue: “AFY”
- Self Control: “Who You Are”
- Overcoast: “Favorite Sins”
- Fright: “Horror Show”
- STEVENZERO: “Phantasm”
- Zenadare: “We Are The Result” (Campfire Edition)
- Winter in May: “We Stand Strong”
- New Medicine: “Somebody Else”
- Michael Botte Band: “Shine Down”
- Mr. Strange: “Strange Lands”
- Dread Majesty: “Gemini” (ft. Czarina)
- Cruel Mourning: “Dark Phenomenon”
- The Space Turtles: “Can’t Wait for Tomorrow”
- Sick Century: “Crosswinds”
- Cellmod: “Stress Test” (ft. System Syn)
- Esca: “The Sunken Cost”
- The Isolated Brigade: “Wrath”
- Mindy Jackson: “Frenemy”
- Hivesong: “Electric Fever”
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. 6 (Updated 12/8/24)
Christmas is rapidly approaching, and with it, the Top 50 of 2024! I have started short-listing tracks for that honor, but it’s gonna be tough choosing just fifty. Thank goodness I don’t actually attempt to rank them in any particular order!
Make sure you check out all six installments of this year’s playlist.
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Here are the songs that have been added since November 24th.
- Eleven Ounces: “The Devil You See”
- A2oustically: “I’m Sorry For Me”
- Push Through: “Frail”
- Drew Paul: “Looking Back”
- 6deep: “Idle Hands”
- Giveth: “Flames”
- The F-use: “Pretty”
- LASTRY: “The Chronicle”
- Lilakk: “DirtyBird (Remastered)”
- Maulskull: “Desiderium”
- Chance to Steal: “Hate Sells”
- Farcreek: “Way Out”
- Amphisbaena: “Luto”
- held under.: “It Dies With Me”
- Mercury Red: “Do What You Do”
- Manosaurus: “Full of Shit” (ft. Dan Wade)
- Jay Gearhart: “Fallout”
- Whip Wilson: “Trouble Always Finds Me”
- whenitsmytime: “Saint Petersburg”
- Nick Nasty: “Lose My YOUth”
- Chilling Revelation: “Letters”
- The Veer Union: “Shades of Gray”
- Glis: “Sex Object” (Kraftwerk cover)
- Adullam: “Weight of the World”
- Nick Palma: “Super Electric”
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life): “4 Walls”
- Chasing Rotation: “Change Your Mind”
- RA: “Incomplete” (ft. Keith Wallen and Jason Hook)
- Mandatory Affect: “Emergence Revisited”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 6 (Updated 11/10/24)
Welcome to the last installment of The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist! Make sure you visit parts 1-5, and get ready for my Top 50 of 2024, which will drop December 31st.
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5
Here are the songs that have been added since October 31st. (A few were actually released on Halloween. I included them to ensure they received recognition and were not skipped over.)
- Eli Howard & the Greater Good: “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” (Live)
- Devils Envy: “Echoes” (ft. ONI)
- Saliva: “Time Bomb” (ft. Peyton Parrish and Judge & Jury)
- Lift the Curse: “Direct Hit”
- Turn Two: “Medicine (Black & Blue)”
- Kissing Candice: “Gulag”
- Buzz N’ Bangs: “Be Good”
- Voidshaper: “Day of the Cyclone” (ft. Derek Hung)
- Head Over Heels: “Last Stand”
- The Vast Expanse: “Of Venom and Flame”
- WWIII: “Find Me Anywhere”
- Salivus: “Trix”
- Array: “The Locker”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Eternity”
- Danny Worsnop: “The Bed I Made”
- Dark Remedy: “Killing Me”
- Daughters of Mara: “Holy Ghost”
- Call of Sirens: “Puppeteer”
- Maulskull: “Arm’s Reach”
- Worldwide Panic: “Break Me Down”
- RJ Archer & the Painful Memories: “Out of Line”
- Bödel: “Guidance Patrol”
- The Veer Union + Silent Theory: “Welcome to Dystopia”
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 2 (Updated 4/7/24)
View the full playlist here. And be sure to visit part I of The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, as well.
Here are the songs that have been added since 3/24/24.
- Sons of a Sinner: “Nothing’s Changed”
- The Lonely Ones: “My God”
- MUX: “Graveyard Man”
- Khaos Theory: “My Blood”
- Anny: “My Confession”
- Our Sacred Grounds: “Anemoia”
- Lift the Curse: “Vengeance”
- Matyrker: “The Loathsome Thing”
- Dark Remedy: “Never Going Back”
- Twist It: “Bitter”
- Sinful Lilly: “California Man”
- Serpent Rising: “MUD”
- Arcana: “Telepathy”
- BlindHardt: “Burn and Burn”
- Haunting Ghosts: “Final Stretch”
- Max Fite: “Hellbent”
- Dopeghost: “Once Burnt, Twice Shy”
- Wilde Owl: “Bells & Whistles”
- Haunted Vessel: “I Was Never Here”
- Hourcast: “Stop the World”
- In Passing: “Under the Weather”
- Alchemy Within: “Like a Bullet”
- Bleed the Fifth: “Black Sun”
- Wilde Owl: “Get It Right”
- Maudlin Strangers: “Silver Stain”
- The Damn Devils: “Heartstopper”
- Alibis: “Darkside” (Siren Sonata Version)
- Divide the Fall: “Fake Love” (ft. Villain of the Story)
- Lines in the Sky: “Thalassophobia”
- Perfect Nightmare: “Decay”
- Sick Century: “Shadow Worlds Rise”
- Junkyard Drive: “Saw You Hanging There”
- Junkyard Drive: “Shoot From the Hip”
- Leonine: “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”
- Daughters of Mara: “Happy”
- Atlases: “Violent Cold”
- Til Fauna: “Secrets”
- Kaosis: “Memory Never Dies” (ft. Skold)
- Lost Gems: “Black Seed”
- Jack Savage + Blxxd Clxt: “Bad Vibes”
- Hollow Intent: “Rise”
- The Edge of Reason: “With You”
- Upfall: “Lose You” (ft. The Veer Union)
- Noiz Ritual: “Abuse Me”
- Barrel Smoke: “Red Light Rumble”
- Our Frankenstein: “Judas Dance”
- Fractured Sense: “Deteriorate”
- A Shadow Within: “Spiral”
- NDGO: “I See You”
- faulty wires: “DUI”
- Young Other: “Change Everything”
- Thornsband: “Thin”
- Small Town Titans: “Finish the Story”
- You Said Tomorrow: “Blind Mary”
- Die Tired: “Need to Feed”
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