MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/20/26

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/20/26

HOUR 1
LOST ISLAND SOCIETY – “fine” // fine - single
AMERICAN SCARECROWS – “Cheshire” // yesteryear
TWO HARBORS – “that’s not me” // can’t shake this dream
RAD OWL – “growl” // rage gracefully
MOLS – “wolves" // wolves - single
FLIPP – “half a brain” // flipp (20th anniversary platinum edition)
MOTHICA – “weapon” // somewhere in between
SHINEDOWN – “safe and sound" // ei8ht

COHEED AND CAMBRIA – “play the poet" // the father of make believe
BACKHAND BLUE – “digging my grave” // digging my grave – single
BREAKING BENJAMIN – “polyamorous" // saturate
STARSET - "manifest" // divisions
CHEVELLE – “karma goddess" // bright as blasphemy
KAMI KEHOE – “fade out" // fade out - single
ANXIETY SOCIETY feat JOSEPHINE MARIE – “sandpit (guilty)" // pull
ANGEL DU$T – “cold 2 the touch” // cold 2 the touch

HOUR 2
EVERNOIR – “derecho” // derecho – single
ICE NINE KILLS feat MCKENNA GRACE - "twisting the knife" // twisting the knife - single / Scream 7
POPPY – “ribs" // empty hands
NOVELISTS – “all for nothing" // coda
BEARTOOTH – “bad listener" // disease
NOTHING MORE – “if it doesn't hurt" // carnal
DROPKICK MUPRHYS – “the boys are back" // signed and sealed in blood
AUGUST BURNS RED - "behemoth" // behemoth - single

MOTIONLESS IN WHITE – “afraid of the dark” // afraid of the dark – single
NEKROGOBLIKON feat REEL BIG FISH – “secret elephant” // the boiling sea
ROMAN CANDLE – “bite harder than you bleed” // bite harder than you bleed – single
KNOCKED LOOSE feat DENZEL CURRY – “hive mind” // hive mind – single
CONVERGE – “force meets presence” // love is not enough
ARCH ENEMY - "to the last breath" // to the last breath - single
REAPING ASMODEIA – “shattered leviathan” // shattered leviathan – single

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/13/26

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/13/26

HOUR 1
CONVERGE – “force meets presence" // love is not enough
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK feat SINCERE ENGINEER – “things like this” // the same old wasted wonderful world
DIVIDE THE FALL – “burn it down” // burn it down - single
LOST ISLAND SOCIETY – “fine” // fine - single
RAD OWL – “always eyes” // rage gracefully
ANGRY WATERS - "invasive species" // hold the high ground
THE WARNING & CARIN LEON – “love to be loved” // love to be loved
EVA UNDER FIRE – “murder scene” // murder scene - single

CONVERGE – “to feel something" // love is not enough
BAYSIDE – “castaway” // there are worse things than being alive
TAKING BACK SUNDAY – “sink into me” // new again
EXACTLYNO - "all I need" // all I need - single
BULLETS AND BUTTERFLIES – “complicated” // full circle
FLESHWATER – “last escape" // 2000: in search of the endless sky
NOVELISTS - "all for nothing" // coda
REVILWEN - "those who control" // follow the money

HOUR 2
CONVERGE – “make me forget you" // love is not enough
ORBIT CULTURE - "the storm" // death above life
THE CHALLENGER DISASTER CONSPIRACY - "corncob messiah" // city pages 2023 band of the year
STAHLECKER feat CHRIS SELE – “blood runs cold” // blood runs cold - single
EARTHSIDE & DAEDRIC – “earthsink” // let the truth speak (deluxe edition)
THE HU – “shoog shoog” // the gereg
MESSA – “reveal” // the spin

CONVERGE – “distract and divide" // love is not enough
KNOCKED LOOSE feat DENZEL CURRY – “hive mind” // hive mind – single
DRAIN – “who’s having fun?” // …is your friend
ANGEL DU$T – “cold 2 the touch" // cold 2 the touch
SCOWL – “b.a.b.e.” // are we all angels
DYING WISH – “I brought you my soul (your world brought me despair)” // I brought you my soul - single
CAGE FIGHT – “un bon souvenir” // exuvia
HATEBREED - "tear it down" // the rise of brutality
GORE. - "Babylon" // a bud that never blooms

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/06/26

MIDWEST BEATDOWN PLAYLIST :: 02/06/26

HOUR 1
EVA UNDER FIRE - "murder scene" // murder scene - single
ASHES FROM STONE – “molon labe" // molon labe
AEOUS – “monster" // the light you've always had
WEEKEND PICNIC – “crash into me” // crash into me - single
MVRROW – “empty entity" // empty entity - single
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK – “mi Corizon" // the same old wasted wonderful world
DIVIDE THE FALL – “burn it down” // burn it down - single
THE WARNING & CARIN LEON - "love to be loved" // love to be loved - single

TWO HARBORS – “what you're on about" // can't shake this dream
BIFFY CLYRO – “hunting season" // futique
DEAD PONY – “eat my dust” // eat my dust – single
TURNSTILE – “birds” // never enough
NINE INCH NAILS – “as alive as you need me to be” // tron: ares soundtrack
YUNGBLUD, NUNO BETTENCOURT, FRANK BELLO, ADAM WAKEMAN, II – “changes (live at Villa Park)” // changes - single
DED - "purpose (be myself)" // resent

HOUR 2
STAHLECKER feat CHRIS SELE - "blood runs cold" // blood runs cold - single
LOST ISLAND SOCIETY - "fine" // fine - single
SEETHER – “illusion" // the surface seems so far
SEVENDUST – “is this the real you?” // one
HELD. feat FRANK IERO – “new you anthem” // grey
LIVING DEAD GIRL - "ugly" // conspiracy
CASTLE RAT - "wolf I" // the bestiary

GUILT TRIP feat LVNDMARKS – “sweet dreams" // severance
BIOHAZARD - "strength the face of adversity" // divided we fall
EVERNORTH – “oliphaunt" // silver tongue
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE – “afraid of the dark” // afraid of the dark – single
ODDS OF AN AFTERTHOUGHT – “show me a sign" // through eyes of change
SOULKEEPER - "go ask alice" // join us in creating excellence
SLDG - "crickets" // of my own design
CONVERGE - "we were never the same" // love is not enough