- Adelitas Way + New Medicine – Last Laugh [10/3]
- Gasoline Invertebrate – Misery Monster [10/3]
- Wind Walkers – I Don’t Belong Here [10/3]
- nøwhere – Final Descent [10/10]
- Douglas Katula – Screwtape [10/10]
- SVNFR – Memory Fragment 87 [10/17]
- northroot – clouds. [10/24]
- Witchz – Ded Again [10/31]
- Coldwards – Bad News [10/31]
- Christopher Ardra – SaiRu [11/4]
- Motif Hive – Phase [11/5]
- Cirkus – Straight to Hell [11/7]
- THEHERO – Gemini II [11/14]
- Sons of Levin – EP II [11/14]
- Spirit of the Moon – All That is Hidden [11/28]
- Matyrker – The Obscurial EP [11/28]
- Queen Kona – Smokeless Fire [12/5]
- Hallowtide – Drown With Us [12/6]
- Patient Sixty-Seven – A Very Heavy Christmas [12/10]
- Cryblood – Take My Life [12/12]
- K.A.R.L. (Kill All Remaining Life) – God is Watching: Redux [12/12]
- Ghost of Rucker – Hikari No Yoin [12/13]
- Loose Lips – Pretty Devastating [12/19]
- Life Hoax – Slow Burn [12/26]
- L.O.U.D. – AM Broadcast [12/31]
THEHERO
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. 7 (Updated 7/16/25)
Be sure to check out the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist!
Pt. 1 – Pt. 2 – Pt. 3 – Pt. 4 – Pt. 5 – Pt. 6
Here is the first batch of tracks released in July!
- Loosely Sewn: “Just Let Go”
- MissFit Toys: “Heart Sick” (Remastered)
- Shinedown: “Three Six Five” (Acoustic Version)
- Frayle: “Walking Wounded”
- Sever Red: “One More Time”
- NOFUTURE: “Loner”
- Die Tired: “Fall Forever”
- THEHERO: “The Howitzer”
- Sailing Before The Wind + POET The Band: “Catch the Sunlight” (Reimagined)
- Glis: “Amor Fati”
- A Fatal Black: “Swan Song”
- Feverlust: “feed off the vine”
- Stone Lions: “Another Night”
- RedPrint: “I Think It’s Called Dave”
- Boze: “Syllable Killa”
- Psycho Pact: “El Pacto”
- Letauro: “Scorpion Woman”
- The Fear In Us: “Sick of You”
- New Medicine: “Personal”
- The Essence: “Entropy”
- Living Dead Girl: “Poison Me”
- Loose Lips: “Crash”
- Storm Kingdom: “Fallen Grace”
- Matte Blvck: “Monument” (ft. Computerbandit)
- Crywolf: “Anachronism” (Hushed Version ft. Roniit and Maigan Kennedy)
- Revolution Rabbit Deluxe: “Friend or Foe”
- King 810: “Generation Pain” (ft. Left to Suffer)
- A Killer’s Confession: “Facts”
- Violet Dawn: “I Sat at Home”
- Seilies: “Descension”
- Citizen Soldier: “Sit in Your Shadows”
- Mortica: “Burn”
- Shinedown: “Killing Fields”
- Xero Hour: “Salem Burns”
- Lift the Curse: “Love is a Battlefield” (Pat Benatar cover)
- Jay Gearhart: “Smoke and Mirrors”
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. 3 (Updated 5/19/24)
View the full playlist here.
Also, be sure to check out parts one and two!
Here are the releases that have been added since May 5th:
- Honeyknife: “Even Out”
- Back From Zero: “Grind”
- Hooked Like Helen: “Duality” (Slipknot Reimagined)
- Reasons Above All: “Paper City”
- Sleeptalker: “LakeSideDreams”
- Spawn of Psychosis: “Pettingill”
- we are knaves: “Thank the Maker”
- Ham Radio: “Higher Ground”
- Blessings of Mara: “Voidwalker”
- Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: “Thrush”
- Greco Ray, Dorian Dolore: “All I Need”
- Brett Carlisle: “//Runaway”
- The Lucidia Project: “Soul Killer”
- Dark Divine: “Burn the Witch”
- Topher Music, JBEL Music: “Over It”
- Engines of Ruin: “Wolves”
- The Damn Devils: “Splinter”
- Last Word: “Trial of God”
- Scarlet View: “The Chase”
- Perfect Nightmare: “Your Ghost”
- Breathe In: “Machine”
- THEHERO: “Blood Money”
- Painted Lines: “Lost in Translation”
- Trading the Inside: “Burner”
- Seas on the Moon: “Are You With Me?” (ft. Eissa Morphide)
- Kluu: “Blood Stained Fingers”
- Bullet to the Heart: “Fight”
- Saint Diablo: “Voice on the Phone”
- CloZure: “Nevermore”
- Wicked Playground: “The Madness”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Damaged”
- Hollow Intent: “Wanna Be”
- Vicky von Vicky: “Freak Me Out”
- Forever in Transit: “Let Go Your Earthly Tether”
- Modyrn Myth: “Suture”
- Backward Blue: “Eye of the Storm”
- The Royal Ritual: “Modes of Violence”
- Inimical Drive: “Victim”
- Bobby Kane: “Riding Shotgun Through the Gates of Hell”
- Fractured: “Standing Still”
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