- 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]
Witchz
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. 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. 4 (Updated 4/16/25)
Welcome to April – and a whole new batch of bangers! We’re a little over two weeks into the month, and already, we’ve seen a lot of great releases.
Don’t forget to check out the previous installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist while you’re at it.
Here are the songs that have been added so far in April!
- I Was the Crown: “Mirage in My Veins”
- Taylor Barber: “Forever (Stripped)” – Acoustic (ft. Alejandro Aranda)
- obli_x_vion: “To the Grave” (ft. Circuit Preacher)
- Lost Hearts: “Gone Too Far”
- Linx: “Dead”
- Incite: “No Mercy, No Forgiveness”
- Ghost Bath: “Well, I Tried Drowning”
- SKNN: “Antidote”
- New Medicine: “Baggage”
- Sleep Token: “Caramel”
- Hand of the Tribe: “Smile”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Consequence”
- Empire Springs: “Circle Forbidden”
- Witchz: “The Dose”
- Rogue Island: “Ghost of You”
- To the Grave: “Sawed Off”
- Arlind: “Up at Night”
- Shadows of Spectres: “Ichi”
- Energiii: “Hekate”
- Fear Atomic: “A Bullseye on Your Heart”
- City of Strays: “Stupid and Naive”
- Pigeon Park: “The Anchor”
- Seventh Day Slumber: “Savior Machine” (ft. Nine Lashes)
- Storm Kingdom: “Deus Lapsus (The Fallen God)”
- Left to Suffer: “Set the World on Fire” (ft. UnityTX)
- Retina Sky: “Broken Wing”
- Forge the Sun: “Peanut”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Master”
- Cold Clay Mountain: “These Hands”
- A Moment of Violence: “Breaking Me”
- Jay Gearhart: “Heaven and Hell”
- Somerseth: “In Hell I’m Gone”
- anMech: “Identify Me”
- Gillsaw: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- In Passing: “Closer”
- Ghost: “Lachryma”
EPs Released July to December 2024
Here is a list of EPs released during the second half of 2024. (Be sure to check out the January to June compilation here.)
Please remember that my focus is on the indie community! And, as stated in the first post, I have likely missed a few, so if there’s anything y’all don’t see, let me know. I will be doing a separate blog for full-length albums that have dropped in the same time frame.
- New Dilemma: Toxic [7/12]
- Saint Diablo: The Reckoning [7/19]
- Witchz: Take Me Back [7/26]
- BREAKKER: Breakker [7/27]
- Jungle Dream: Only a Moment [7/27]
- Bullet to the Heart: Trauma [8/2]
- Vulnicura: Undead End [8/2]
- Alive in Stone: A Cure for Wickedness [8/6]
- Sun Order: Last One Standing [8/9]
- Galaxy Parade: I’ll Always Be Around [8/9]
- Please Knock: Grim [8/21]
- Yuko Rade: Legend [8/23]
- Blueprint Tokyo: Blue [8/28]
- Deny: Call of the Void [8/30]
- LA ROXX: LA Roxx [8/31]
- Generation Down: Masquerades & Mirrors [9/2]
- Red Eleven: Path [9/5]
- Anny: Apparitions [9/6]
- Guillotine: Hellbound [9/13]
- All the Tall Trees: See the World Come Alive [9/20]
- Lil Tytan: Intentions of Evil, Vol. 1 [9/27]
- Plague Mind: Always on the Outside [9/27]
- Stand Abandoned: The Divide [10/4]
- They Were Giants: Legacies [10/4]
- Joel Santiago: Eternal Night [10/13]
- Awesome Ray Ray: The Ups and Downs EP [10/14]
- Ivy Kill: Psychosis Mission [10/18]
- MidiEvil: Dark Arts [10/18]
- Half Fortune: Half Fortune [10/23]
- We’re Wolves: Transformation [10/25]
- Ohanna: Memoirs [10/26]
- POET The Band: t h e p r o l o g u e [10/27]
- Blood Druid: Cannibalistic Tendencies [10/30]
- Rockright: Dark Matter [10/31]
- Besra: Equilibrium [11/1]
- Daniel Thielman, Jay Johnson: A Sacred Truth by Indigo Sect [11/11]
- The Funeral Portrait: Casanova (From Beyond the Abyss) [11/15]
- Ghost in the Room: The Alastor [11/19]
- Ceyeo: Together They Were Nothing [12/13]
- The Crooked Skulls: Hivemind [12/13]
- After the Mourning: Our Transgressions [12/13]
- Silverside: The Blood EP [12/19]
- Heir to Nothing: Perpetuity [12/19]
- Freaky Things: Magic Songs, Vol. 2 [12/22]
The Mostly Music 2024 Playlist, Pt. 3 (Updated 6/30/24)
This will be the last update for part 3. The singles released in July and August will get their own playlist, part 4.
You can listen to all of part 3 here.
And don’t forget part 1 and part 2.
Here are the songs that have been added since June 16th.
- Ten4One: “I Believe”
- Alive in Stone: “Slave”
- Sourworm: “Kill the World”
- Pulsifier: “Scars”
- Crobot: “Come Down”
- Ariias: “A Delicate Balance”
- Central: “Black Dahlia”
- Glis: “Yesterday’s Anthems”
- Preacher Red: “Eye to Eye”
- Painted Lines: “Didn’t Get Your Name”
- DEATH CODE: “Pain” (ft. CRYBLOOD)
- Enemy Within: “The Final Suffering”
- Dayshaper: “Solidarity”
- The Renascent: “For You”
- Witchz: “LA$ VEGA$”
- Flat Black: “Sideways”
- The Stone Eye: “High Frequency Hog”
- Cruel Mourning: “Dead on Arrival”
- Silk Parlor: “Holding Me Up”
- NiNeO3: “I Know”
- Bullet to the Heart: “Freeze”
- The Funeral Portrait: “Suffocate City” (ft. Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills)
- Positivity Club: “Stop So Hard”
- One World (R)evolution: “Fractured”
- 3 Bravo: “Awake”
- Blacklist Union: “Horns and Halos”
- Bödel: “Bilan Faller”
- Desert Kites: “Holiday”
- We Are The Storm: “Obsidian”
- Ease!: “In This Room”
- Feathers For Fuel: “Winds”
- Fading Echoes: “Vultures”
- Earth Attack: “Dream”
- Crossbreed: “The Killer Inside”
- Young Other: “All Alright” (ft. Emily Rae)
- Burn the Ballroom: “Story of the End”
- Endless Chain: “We Are We”
- Dirty Rivals: “Lost”
- Hooked Like Helen: “OCD (these thoughts again)”
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “See This Through”
- Altamadum: “A Criminal Mind” (ft. Skyler Pretty)
- A Fatal Black: “DedHed (Welcome to the Graveyard)”
- By All Means: “Redesign”
- The Murder of Jane Crow: “Wicked Ways”
- Honeyknife: “Stay Bored”
- Carsex: “Crooked Canvas”