| 1 | Geryon | "Silent Command" | The Wound and the Bow | Sometimes "metal" is a word for noisy restlessness. |
| 2 | Sinistro | "Partida" | Semente | Or the conviction that if you can achieve slow-motion you can live forever. |
| 3 | Uada | "Natus Eclipsim" | Devoid of Light | Or the feeling, watching an approaching storm, that the calm has been suffocating us. |
| 4 | Zhrine | "Spewing Gloom" | Unortheta | And that metal can evoke and maybe even summon a universal chaos that is the same from Portland to Portugal to Iceland. |
| 5 | Violenta Josefina | "Ascensor" | El Ejército del Aire | But that is true too of murmuring Argentine post-rock indie-gaze. |
| 6 | Skating Polly | "Oddie Moore" | The Big Fit | And is the same heart Oklahoma teenagers find when they peer inside themselves. |
| 7 | Fear of Men | "Trauma" | single | There are abstracted lullabies for the ostensibly intermediated lives we nonetheless actually live. |
| 8 | Haken | "The Endless Knot" | single | The hybridization of dubstep and progressive metal was arguably a yearning masculine inevitability. |
| 9 | Sparzanza | "Temple Of The Red-Eyed Pigs" | Twenty Years Of Sin | Swedish scientists have quietly continued to develop more and more advanced forms of blustery hard-rock. |
| 10 | Shiraz Lane | "Wake Up" | For Crying out Loud | Also in Finland. |
| 11 | Kivimetsän Druidi | "The Lost Captains" | The Lost Captains +2 | But Finnish black folk-metal makes The Blair Witch Project look like Rivers and Tides. |
| 12 | Schammasch | "Maelstrom" | single | And Swiss neo-folk metal can approach liminal epicore. |
| 13 | Joyless | "Black Zodiac" | Black Zodiac +3 | Despite the pentagrammed goat-head on the cover, this is actually dark-atmospheric techno instead of black metal, but the distinction is less sharp then you might guess. |
| 14 | P!nk | "Just Like Fire (From the Original Motion Picture "Alice Through The Looking Glass")" | single | I'm pretty sure Lewis Carroll would have objected that this sounds a little too much like a Rihanna song, but he was stodgier than I am. |
| 15 | Lera Lynn | "Cut + Burn" | single | Smoke-curl poise. |
| 16 | My Bubba | "Big Bad Good" | Big Bad Good | Trans-nordic voice-percussive minimalism. |
| 17 | Horse Latitudes | "Spirals Album" | Primal Gnosis | Distended doom-ambient tectonic metal. |
| 18 | Primitive Weapons | "Ashes Or Paradise" | The Future Of Death | Lumbering doom-screamo post-post-rock. |
| 19 | GLOWINTHEDARK | "Fire Alarm (feat. Alicia Madison)" | Stars & Moon 6 | Dubstep glitter-pen-graffiti dance-art-punk. |
| 20 | Kay Tse | "諸神混亂 - (劇集 “殭" 主題曲)" | single | Whirling, roaring Hong Kong gothic orchestral pop-metal. |
| 21 | Black Swan | "All Right" | My Horrible Boss (Original Television Soundtrack), Pt.3 2 | Surging Korean electro-rock TV theme. |
| 22 | Bruno Sanfilippo | "The Poet" | single | Dense, textural piano-and-multiple-violin modern-classical fugue. |
| 23 | Annalisa | "Se avessi un cuore" | single | Dubstep wobble + eurodisco strut + arena-pop flourish. |
| 24 | Gianluca Corrao | "Amanti d'estate" | single | Warm-hearted ragged-glory arena pop-rock. |
| 25 | Västerbron | "Vaccin" | Till vilket pris som helst | Slashing, rousing Swedish shout-along punk. |
| 26 | Hurula | "Ont som jag" | single | Murky, guitar-pealing Swedish post-punk. Like a noisier Kent restart. |
| 27 | Bellman | "Colored By You" | single | Electro-fluttery indietronic apologetic-catharsis pop. |
| 28 | Long Distance Calling | "Getaway" | single | Twitchy instrumental retro-electro post-rock. |
| 29 | Whispered | "Strike!" | single | Avantgarde folk-thrash shriek. |
| 30 | Car Seat Headrest | "Fill in the Blank" | single | What could be more American than crossing Guided by Voices and Bright Eyes? |
| 31 | Weaves | "Candy" | single | Stomping Toronto noise-rock. |
| 32 | Titan Slayer | "Ultra Renaissance" | Titanium: Chapter 03 | Ominous replicant epicore. |
| 33 | Troker | "1919" | 1919 Música para Cine | Mexican steampunk-jazz. |
| 34 | Torn Hawk | "With My Back To The Tower" | single | Clattering broken-gear collage-abstractro. |
| 35 | We Will Fail | "Trouble With Language" | Hand That Heals / Hand That Bites | Musique concrete rubble. |
| 36 | Interiors | "Recalibrate" | single | Jerky instrumental-djent interstitial. |
| 37 | Rydell | "Running Back to You" | single | Howling post-rock emo. |
| 38 | Izegrim | "White Walls" | The Ferryman's End | Sputtering zombie-sprint Dutch thrash-death-metal. |
| 39 | Red Cell | "Vial of Dreams" | single | Beepy Swedish electro-goth. |
| 40 | Blaqk Audio | "Waiting to Be Told" | Material | Neo-industrial neo-new-romantic electro-pop. |
| 41 | Sig:Ar:Tyr | "Helluland" | Northen | Onrushing Canadian viking metal. |
| 42 | Jönne | "Es wär' mal an der Zeit" | single | Raspy bedroom-shred-metal lapsing inexplicably but repeatedly into comedy-polka gallop. |
| 43 | Lauris Reiniks | "Pasaule Stāj" | single | Magisterial, Eurovision-grade Latvian electro-pop. |
| 44 | Oscar | "Good Things" | single | A meticulously-measured midpoint between the Magnetic Fields and Morrissey. |
| 45 | Vanessa Falk | "Running" | First | Ebulliently florid Swedish diva-pop. |
| 46 | Bass Sultan Hengzt | "Anonyme Anabolika" | single | German hip hop is an dark, clanging underworld of its own. |
| 47 | KMPFSPRT | "Intervention" | single | Remember when Killing Joke was a punk band? |
| 48 | Mimikry | "Brinner" | Alla sover | Remember when everything was a punk band? |
| 49 | Sunstorm | "Edge of Tomorrow" | single | Remember reading paperback sword-and-sorceries and listening to Magnum albums? |
| 50 | Prophet | "Nuclear Icebreaker" | Nuclear Icebreaker / Iceberg 2 | Remember the robots chasing us? |
| 51 | Marie Osmond | "Music Is Medicine" | Music Is Medicine | If I don't know how I'm going to explain to my 30-year-old self that I grew to adore Shania Twain, where am I ever going to start with my 10-year-old self to explain that Marie Osmond would make a record like I wanted Shania to keep making? |
| 52 | Judith Mateo | "More than a feeling" | Rock is my life | Can't-look-away violin-added covers of (mostly) album-rock classics. |
| 53 | LEA | "Die Segel sind gesetzt" | single | Glassy, humming, meditative German alt-pop. |
| 54 | Thorsteinn Einarsson | "Free to Roam" | single | Austrian/Icelandic adult-rock sounds more than a little like American bro-country without the smugness. |
| 55 | Bombino | "Akhar Zaman (This Moment) - Big Data Remix" | single | Post-world problems: Big Data remixing a reeling Bombino desert-blues anthem. |
| 56 | Lush | "Out of Control" | Blind Spot 4 | Reunion is the new career arc. |
| 57 | Withem | "The Pain I Collected" | single | Brisk, dextrous Norwegian melodic progressive metal. |
| 58 | Lady Pank | "Miłość" | Miłość I Władza | Unhurried once-punk Polish album-rock. |
| 59 | Reni Jusis | "Bejbi Siter" | BANG! | Angular, inventive Polish electro-pop. |
| 60 | Farväl till ungdomen | "Tonårsrymdskepp" | Tonårsrymdskepp +1 | Boomy Stockholm post-punk boot-gaze. |
| 61 | Fatherson | "Just Past the Point of Breaking" | single | Please, please tour with Frightened Rabbit. |
| 62 | Boban Rajovic | "Kisa Lije" | single | Fabulous, hook-fussilading turbo-folk. |
| 63 | Dynazty | "The Human Paradox" | Titanic Mass | Maximum-pomp minimum-self-consciousness hypermelodic power-metal. |
| 64 | Hannah | "Himmelwärts" | single | Nigh-ungooglable hard-rock euro-pop. |
| 65 | Vanessa Mai | "Ich sterb für dich" | Für dich | German arena euro-pop. |
| 66 | MDC | "Az Élet Vár" | Edge of the Night | Soaring Hungarian anthemic power-pop-rock. |
| 67 | Acwl | "Oxc de l'étrange" | Internel | Sprawling French gothic half-post- art-metal. |
| 68 | DJ Marfox | "Kassumbula" | Chapa Quente | Lisbon evasion-as-propulsion fluxwork. |
| 69 | Acrassicauda | "The Cost Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing" | GILGAMESH | Powerful, crunching, uncluttered Iraqi heavy metal. |
| 70 | Monte del Oso | "Puede Que Me Pase a Verte" | Existen Moscas Que Se Relajan Durante el Vuelo | Sun-drunk Pamplona power-pop blur. |
| 71 | Sara Marín | "Incendio" | single | Twangy Spanish pop-rock summer-anticipation. |
| 72 | Deep Creek Road | "Anchor" | single | You don't have to retreat into Americana to avoid bro-country truck-grit. |
| 73 | Nira K | "13 år" | single | Song of the week 1: pristinely sparkly neo-synthpop discipline. |
| 74 | Kristin Kontrol | "Show Me" | single | Song of the week 2: instant neo-new-wave electro-pop classic. |
| 75 | Jon Hopkins | "Journey" | Balance Presents Patrice Bäumel | Album of the week: a mesmerizing, sprawling dream-state Patrice Bäumel mix-set blurring composition and compilation. |
| 76 | Aedliga | "The Weight of Accumulated Sky" | single | Self-referential postscript of the week: A quick, nervous, tenous, arpeggiator wreck that turned out better than I expected, but I try to expect nothing at all. |