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