50 Best Music Videos of 2025 You Probably Missed Part 4: 20 – 11

We’re into the Top 20 underground and indie music videos of 2025 today, dear readers. Be ready for murder, mayhem, monsters, and 1990s video game graphics, not necessarily in that order. Please play the following videos at maximum volume.

20. “Many Things Are Destroying Me,” Grape Wayne

Grace Bellury tries to have a chill day, but she’s stalked by a giant hand and hit with a bout of nausea that makes her cough up tchotchkes. Yeah, the whole thing sounds like a Michel Gondry film, but there’s something so adorably sad about it that you can’t help but fall in love.

19. “The Dead,” Badlands

“The Dead” is very, very creepy. Catharina Jaunviksna’s face, bathed in red, is filmed in super slow motion, so her sinister smile feel more like watching time-lapse of decay than seeing someone grin. Then it switches to a terrified woman being manipulated by giant hand shadows. Judging from the lyrics, it’s a fair guess this whole video takes place in a Lynchian Hell.

18. “Tell Me You Love Me,” Skuzland

Few arguments can survive a rocket launcher, and “Tell Me You Love Me” has the receipts to prove it. UglyWorldWide auditions to join a girl gang, who eagerly accept her and then head out to attack a police station like it’s a scene from A Clockwork Orange. There were a lot of bands feeling the vigilante vibe this year, including our next entry.

17. “Luigi’s Mansione,” Chanpan

To some, Luigi Mangione is a symbol of resistance to corporate control of healthcare. To others, he’s a sign of an increasingly violent society. To Chanpan, he’s the inspiration for a very whimsical looking crime spree that is probably giving the Nintendo marketing team ulcers.

16. “Planet Paparazzi,” Elita

Have you ever seen a music video filmed inside a PS1 game? Now you have. Elita and animator Victor Estrella make “Planet Paparazzi” feel like a lost Silent Hill level, right down to some very disturbing imagery near the end.

Telenova takes the wandering music video to new heights with “The Deep.” Singer  Angeline Armstrong flees a nightclub to have an intricately choreographed panic attack in the streets while her own thoughts end up projected along the walls and walkways of the city around her. She leans into the madness, ultimately finding a quite place on the beach to walk into the surf. Director Minh Nguyen keeps the manic pace a smooth ride with a clever combination of cuts that make it feel like one long take.

14. “Bingo,” Peach Candy Nut Boys

A simple game of Bingo turns into a carousel of ass-beating in this Peach Candy Nut Boys video. Anyone who has actually sat in a Bingo hall knows this is not particularly noteworthy, but at least the soundtrack this time slaps.

13. “Playing Dead,” Human Hollow

Oh hey, all of our sleep paralysis demons started a band, and they’re pretty good. Lucia Luna stars a person stalked by cheap-looking but surprisingly scary monsters as they lie in bed frantically trying to will themselves to life. There are some severely frightening moments on top of the stellar song.

12. “He Asked for It,” Ella Red

Ella Red had a devilish time dancing through the night with a knife in search of creeps to stab. “He Asked for It” follows her as a psychopathic angel throughout history, stalking stalkers and ending their lives. What makes it work so well is the fiendish glee that Red shows as she sings and dances behind her prey, like a kewpie doll version of Art the Clown or a pop princess Patrick Bateman. She makes murder look fun.

11. “Aria,” Chrissy Chlapecka

My favorite musical discovery this year is Chrissy Chlapecka, who released an impeccable stream of singles in 2025. While her best song is definitely “Passionfruit,” it’s her take on Phantom of the Opera, “Aria,” that’s the best video. It’s a sapphic distillation of the musical for a new audience, including riding into the Phantom’s lair on a customized jet ski.

See you tomorrow for the grand finale.

This article appears in Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2025.