MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/23/26

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/23/26

HOUR 1
THE FAILSAFE – “happy to be here” // happy to be here - single
MADAM DRIVER feat KAT BAUMANN – “don’t you want me” // static valley
ANGRY WATERS – “ours to be had” // angry waters III
YONAKA – “cruel” // until you’re satisfied
CHEVELLE – “wolves (love and light)" // bright as blasphemy
NONPOINT – “alive and kicking" // to the pain
AMIRA ELFEKY – “hold onto me" // hold onto me - single

POPPY – “bruised sky" // empty hands
BACKHAND BLUE – “digging my grave” // digging my grave - single
KAMI KEHOE – “fade out” // fade out – single
GLIXEN – “medicine bow” // medicine bow - single
ANXIETY SOCIETY feat ELISSA-MARIE OGGARD - "nihilist eyes" // pull
ARROWS AT DAWN - "let live" // pieces
DAEMONAUT – “chronon” // frame dragging

HOUR 2
MEGADETH – “puppet parade" // megadeth
IRON MAIDEN - "the trooper" // piece of mind
FIT FOR A KING – “lonely god" // lonely god - single
METAL ALLEGIANCE feat WILLIAM DUVALL – “black horizon” // black horizon – single
TOO LATE, BUT STILL - "nine years" // night songs
KUBLAI KHAN TX – “low tech" // exhibition of prowess
LAMB OF GOD – “into oblivion” // into oblivion – single

ROMAN CANDLE – “can we watch something happy” // can we watch something happy - single
CONVERGE – “we were never the same” // love is not enough
POISON THE WELL – “thoroughbreds” // peace in place
CASTLE RAT – “wolf I" // the bestiary
DETHKLOK – “aortic desecration" // dethalbum IV
AMON AMARTH – “raise your horns" // jomsviking
CORSAIR – “battle eternal” // the golden heart
KNOCKED LOOSE - "counting worms" // laugh tracks

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/16/26

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/16/26

HOUR 1
GREYWIND - "let's see if you can float" // severed heart city
MADAM DRIVER - "a different side of me" // static valley
ANGRY WATERS - "the heist" // the ghosts we chase
ALTER BRIDGE - "power down" // alter bridge
BACKHAND BLUE - "digging my grave" // digging my grave - single
EVA UNDER FIRE - "awakening" // awakening - single
NOVELISTS - "coda" // coda

JOHNNYROOK - "happy birthday" (2025) // the more things change (2025)
RAD OWL - "always eyes" // rage gracefully
EXACTLYNO - "all I need" // all I need - single
COLD - "go away" // cold
HOUSE OF PROTECTION - "godspeed" // outrun you all
FUTURE PALACE - "deep blue" // deep blue - single
AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS - "gasoline" // did you ask to be set free?
TURNSTILE - "birds" // never enough

HOUR 2
LAMB OF GOD - "into oblivion" // into oblivion
PLAGUE OF STARS - "false reality" // extinctions
ONLYTIME - "the pull" // compassion fatigue
DAEMONAUT - "epoch" // frame dragging
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "broken and blind" // engines of demolition
MESSA - "fire on the roof" // the spin
POISON THE WELL - "thoroughbreds" // peace in place

CONVERGE - "we were never the same" // love is not enough
DRAIN - "until next time" // ...is your friend
DYING WISH - "revenge in carnage" // flesh stays together
THE CHALLENGER DISASTER CONSPIRACY – “corncob messiah” // city pages 2023 band of the year
PERIPHERY – “facepalm mute" // periphery II
BY THE THOUSANDS – “shiver" // the descent
MESHUGGAH – “do not look down" // koloss

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/09/26

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/09/26
MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2026 (or at least the ones we hope come out in 2026) part 2

HOUR 1
DAEMONAUT – “ticking” // frame dragging
LOATHE – “given every strength” // given every strength – single
BETTER LOVERS – “don’t forget to say please” // highly irresponsible (deluxe edition)
SHINEDOWN – “killing fields” // killing fields – single
THE PRETTY RECKLESS – “for I am death" // for I am death - single
NONPOINT – “underdog” // underdog - single
SONS OF BLISS – “starz” // starz - single

SEVENDUST - "everything" // truth killer
RAD OWL – “growl” // rage gracefully
FORBIDDEN SEAS – “wolves, sheep” // wolves, sheep - single
THE LETTER BLACK – “hanging by a thread" // hanging by a thread
CASANATRA – “blonde train run” // blonde train run - single
THE WARNING – “automatic sun” (live) // live from Auditorio Nacional CDMX
ANGRY WATERS - "invasive species" (live) // angry waters live

HOUR 2
BARONESS – “throw me an anchor" // gold and grey
ANTHRAX – “earth on hell" // worship music
FEAR FACTORY – “shock" // obsolete
ROMAN CANDLE – “nothing is original” // nothing is original - single
GORE. – “like you meant it” // if you do not fear me
IN FLAMES – “a dialogue in b flat minor" // foregone
VENDED – “paint the skin” // vended

JOHNNY BOOTH – “bury the rose" // firsthand accounts
KORN – “lost in the grandeur" // requiem
GIDEON – “til the wheels fall off” // til the wheels fall off - single
MASTODON – “ember city" // once more round the sun
ENTHEOS – “empty on the inside” // empty on the inside - single
REAPING ASMODEIA – “shattered leviathan” // shattered leviathan - single

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/02/26

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 01/02/26
MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2026 (or at least the ones we hope come out in 2026) part 1

HOUR 1
GOJIRA - "only pain" (live) // live at Hellfest 2016
ALTER BRIDGE - "playing aces" // alter bridge
GREYWIND - "waterfall" // severed heart city
MEGADETH - "let there be shred" // megadeth
POPPY - "bruised sky" // empty hands
CONVERGE - "love is not enough" // love is not enough
CHARLOTTE SANDS - "one eye open" // satellite

EXACTLYNO - "all I need" // all I need - single
BULLETS AND BUTTERFLIES - "sleepless nights" // full circle
WEEKEND PICNIC - "echo chamber" // echo chamber - single
BEARTOOTH - "bad listener" // disease
BUTCHER BABIES - "sincerity" // sincerity - single
EVA UNDER FIRE - "awakening" // awakening - single
LAMB OF GOD - "sepsis" // sepsis - single
KUBLAI KHAN TX - "the mountain of Corsicana" // the mountain of Corsicana - single

HOUR 2
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - "broken and blind" // broken and blind - single
NEKROGOBLIKON - "show me your goblin" // show me your goblin - single
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - "clean my wounds" // deliverence
CLUTCH feat RANDY BLYTHE - "passive restraints" // weathermaker vault vol 1
DOWN - "lifer (live)" // diary of a mad band
AMON AMARTH - "we rule the waves" // we rule the waves - single
ELECTRIC CALLBOY - "tanznied" // tanzneid - single

DEADLANDS & THE PRETTY WILD - "kundalini" // seven
AUGUST BURNS RED feat JOSH McMANNESS - "barbarian" // thrill seeker (20th anniversary edition)
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE - "meltdown" // scoring the end of the world
AMIRA ELFEKY - "tonight (demo)" // skin to skin
SLDG - "out of here" // of my own design
AFTER THE BURIAL - "hum from the hollow" // hum from the hollow - single
HATEBREED - "perseverance" // perseverance

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/26/25

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/26/25

HOUR 1 - NICK's TOP 10 of 2025
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "I believe" // this consequence
10. TURNSTILE - "sunshower / birds" // never enough
9. DIE SPITZ - "punishers" // something to consume
8. SUMO CYCO - "villains" // neon void
7. MAMMOTH - "the spell" // the end
6. ARCHITECTS feat HOUSE OF PROTECTION - "brain dead" // the sky, the earth and all between
5. DRAIN - "until next time" // ...is your friend
4. ORBIT CULTURE - "death above life" // death above life

3. SCOWL - "not hell, not heaven" // are we all angels
2. FLESHWATER - "last escape" // 2000: in search of the endless sky
1. DEFTONES - "infinite source" // private music
1. DEFTONES - "cut hands" // private music
THRICE - "albatross" // horizons/west
MESSA - "fire on the roof" // the spell
DYING WISH - "I brought you my soul (your world brought me despair)" // I brought you my soul - single

HOUR 2 - LOCAL SCENE 2025 RECAP
CYMOTHOA feat NATE GALBRAITH - "chuggernaut" // make noise loud again but with vocals
PLAGUE OF STARS - "false reality" // extinction
EVERNOIR - "you tried" // hateful lullabies
TWO HARBORS - "what you're on about" // can't shake this dream
CALIBER 39 - "these apologies" // oblivion
SLDG - "crickets" // of my own design
EVERNORTH - "prevailer" // silver tongue

JOHNNYROOK - "feel it all again" (2025) // the more things change (2025)
NEW MEDICINE - "die trying" // die trying - the double album
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK feat PATRICK STUMP - "particle physics" // the same old wasted wonderful world
TOO LATE, BUT STILL - "gentle howls" // night songs
MADAM DRIVER - "alive" // static valley
ANXIETY SOCIETY feat JOSEPHINE MARIE - "sandpit (guilty)" // pull
REAPING ASMODEIA - "nothing remains" // metempsychosis

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/19/25 - BIOHAZARD

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/19/25
GUESTS :: BIOHAZARD

HOUR 1
FLIPP – “the Grinch who stole Christmas“ // merry flippmas
ANXIETY SOCIETY feat ELISSA-MARIE OGAARD – “nihilist eyes” // pull
BUSH – “more than machines" // the art of survival
ALTER BRIDGE – “playing aces” // alter bridge
EVA UNDER FIRE – “awakening” // awakening - single
BUTCHER BABIES – “sincerity” // sincerity - single
THE PRETTY RECKLESS – “where are you Christmas” // Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless Christmas

CLUTCH – “cypress grove” // blast tyrant
ANGRY WATERS – “the heist" // the ghosts we chase
MADAM DRIVER feat KAT BAUMANN – “don’t you want me” // static valley
ELECTRIC CALLBOY – ‘tanzneid” // tanzneid - single
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “mi corazon" // the same old wasted wonderful world
MOTHICA – “evergreen misery” // evergreen misery - single
FUTURE PALACE – “deep blue” // deep blue – single
AUGUST BURNS RED - "all I want for Christmas is you" // all I want for Christmas is you - single

HOUR 2
BIOHAZARD - "forsaken" // divided we fall
BIOHAZARD - "eyes on six" // divided we fall
BIOHAZARD - "I will overcome" // divided we fall
GWAR – “sick of you” // scumdogs of the universe

SOULFLY – “no power = no pain” // chama
TESTAMENT – “nature of the beast" // para bellum
CURRENTS – “it only gets darker” // all that follows
MOLS – “not impressed” // under ground
SONS OF BLISS – “starz” // starz – single
DRAIN – “stealing happiness from tomorrow “ // …is your friend
CONVERGE – “love is not enough” // love is not enough
PSYCHOSTICK - "abcdeath" // we couldn't think of a title

**SPECIAL THANKS to BILLY from BIOHAZARD for zooming in to the Midwest Beatdown this week! BIOHAZARD's fantastic new record "Divided We Fall" is out now on BlkIIBlk Records!

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MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/12/25 - ANXIETY SOCIETY

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 12/12/25
GUESTS :: ANXIETY SOCIETY

HOUR 1
WEEKEND PICNIC – “wish list” // a weekend picnic Christmas
AMERICAN SCARECROWS – “broken bones and mountains” // drawing little pictures
TWO HARBORS – “that’s not me” // can’t shake this dream
RAD OWL – “grape mister misty" // Madison beast
ANXIETY SOCIETY - "you want it" // pull

ANXIETY SOCIETY feat JOSEPHINE MARIE - "hands of the painter" // pull
ANXIETY SOCIETY feat JOSEPHINE MARIE - "sandpit (guilty)" // pull
ANXIETY SOCIETY - "sole rejection" // pull
BABES IN TOYLAND - "he's my thing" // painkillers

HOUR 2
REAPING ASMODEIA – “nothing remains” // nothing remains - single
NUISANCE – “greed" // undisputed
BY THE THOUSANDS – “the flood" // the descent
EVERNORTH – “prevailer" // silver tongue
VIA – “appetite" // after you drown
BLOODYWOOD – “tadka" // nu delhi
THE PRETTY WILD – “zero.point.genesis" // zero.point.genesis
DEADLANDS – “die in paradise" // seven

AMON AMARTH – “we rule the waves” // we rule the waves - single
DETHKLOK – “aortic desecration" // dethalbum IV
DESTROPHY - "welcome home" // welcome home - single
DYING WISH - "I don't belong anywhere" // flesh stays together
ROMAN CANDLE – “nothing is original” // nothing is original - single
CURRENTS – “rise and fall” // all that follows
SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL – “Russian grizzly in America" // grizzly

**SPECIAL THANKS to ANXIETY SOCIETY for zooming in to the Midwest Beatdown to talk about their debut album "Pull" out now! ANIXETY SOCIETY's album release party is DEC 19 at ZHORA DARLING in Minneapolis with THE MODERN ERA, LAZENLOW and HANDSOME MIDNIGHT!

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