HEAVY ROTATION: Best of 2025 So Far August 12, 2025
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These are the favorite songs of 2025 so far for MI DJs and blog contributors, past and present. You can stream Malicious Intent every Sunday from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. on the KJHK website. You can stream the Butt Metal Blast Cast (featuring former MI DJs and current blog contributors Wulf and Judge Dredd) wherever you stream podcasts!

Judge Dredd

  • “consequence,” Ten-Gallon Heart, halfmass
  • “Já Sám,” Decultivate, Decultivate
  • “Neglect,” Saddiction, Hangman’s Chair
  • “Midvillain,” MOLT, MOLT
  • “Never Known Peace,” Never Known Peace, Doomsday
  • “Runner,” Runner EP, D. Pound
  • “Fake Out Luxury,” Bursting, Bursting
  • “My Fault,” single, The Touchdowns
  • “Redacted,” Defeatist, Blue Youth

Gorn

  • “Rose Thorn Necklace,” Rose Thorn Necklace, Ghost Bath
  • “Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of My Death,” Blackbraid III, Blackbraid
  • “Precipice of Stone,” spelewithiipi, Nechochwen
  • “The Dress,” The Spin, Messa
  • “Killing Fields,” Never Known Peace, Doomsday
  • “Winds of Time,” Single, Wings of Steel
  • “Shallow Ecstasy,” Beyond Obsidian Euphoria, Tómarúm
  • “Het Vlees Vergaat,” V, Walg
  • “Confessing Darkness,” Confessing Darkness, Imha Tarikat

CJ

  • “Amethyst,” Lonely People With Power, Deafheaven
  • “No Less than Death,” A Void Within Existence, Abigail Williams
  • “Beneath a Lightless Star,” single, Holy Fawn
  • “Motherless,” Perfect Dark, Volatile Ways
  • “my mind is a mountain,” single, Deftones
  • “Blueprints for Idol Genocide,” SALVATION LAUGHS IN THE FACE OF A GRIEVING MOTHER, PSYCHO-FRAME
  • “The Obsidian Architect,” Xenotaph, Fallujah
  • “Chalice of Despair,” single, Crown Vic
  • “Havukruunu ja Talvenvarjo,” Tavastland, Havukruunu

Mark of the Beast

  • “Rift in Reality,” Rift in Reality, Labyrinthus Stellarum
  • “The Thirst,” Shadow Play, Drudkh
  • “To Not Grow Old,” Infinite Presence, Genune
  • “mthothwathiipi,” spelewithiipi, Nechochwen
  • “Reunion,” Alunea, Kardashev
  • “Sorcier des Glases (Part V),” Sorcier des Glaces, Sorcier des Glaces
  • “Vvydargaenger,” Geysterzvvang, Drudensang
  • “Wayfarers of the Wind,” Older Than Ancient, Elderwind
  • “Fylgja,” Harmr, Thurnin

Wulf

  • “Viscera Vobiscum,” The Calling of Fire, Blood Monolith
  • “Ours Is the Kingdom,” Ours Is the Kingdom, Forefather
  • “Bodom After Midnight,” Follow the Reaper, Children of Bodom
  • “Dirty Laundry,” I Can’t Stand Still, Don Henley
  • “Amidst the Ruins,” Portals to Canaan, Deeds of Flesh
  • “Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love,” Van Halen, Van Halen
  • “Harder Than Before,” Untopia, Kruelty
  • “To Conquer Eternal Damnation,” To Conquer Eternal Damnation, Darkness Everywhere
  • “The Night Watch,” Starless and Bible Black, King Crimson