| 1 | Kensington | "Do I Ever" | single | Do you have a favorite moody Dutch guitar-rock band? You should. If you don't, feel free to borrow mine until you find some other one you like better. |
| 2 | V for Volume | "Howling" | Gravity | What about Chilean pop-punk? I don't presume to make your choices for you, but I offer you the opportunity to voluntarily adopt my choices as your own. |
| 3 | Scavenger Hunt | "Never Enough" | single | There are new shimmery-whooshy LA electro-pop bands |
| 4 | The Naked And Famous | "The Runners" | single | that sound like New Zealand indie-pop that sounds like an invented New Wave nostalgia that has become ever more heroic in our memory. |
| 5 | Carousel | "See You Go" | single | There are British guitar-bands with the sense to wrap their Oasisisms more generously in power-pop guitar warmth. |
| 6 | Epica | "Edge of the Blade" | The Holographic Principle | There are German gothic symphonic metal bands that can render your Tarja/Nightwish ambivalence moot. |
| 7 | Arkona | "Pod mechami" | single | There are elves in full-panic flight, |
| 8 | Skálmöld | "Útgarður" | Vögguvísur Yggdrasils | and gleeful trolls in pursuit, |
| 9 | The Agonist | "The Moment" | Five | and banshees stalking them both from above, |
| 10 | Civil War | "Road To Victory" | single | and yet still enough obliviously bookish power-metal bands for the History Channel to start a music show. |
| 11 | Winterfylleth | "The Dark Hereafter" | The Dark Hereafter | Nihilism is fundamentally a force for evil, but one of the most important things to realize about nominal evil is that there are many paths through the abyss that lead you back into unexpected places in the living world, |
| 12 | Netherbird | "Pillars of the Sky" | Pillars of the Sky +1 | many forms of beauty that come from untwisting the contorted, |
| 13 | Noctem | "Blind Devotion" | Haeresis | or twisting it so much further that it ruptures and you can suddenly see how it works. |
| 14 | Eastern Front | "Husks Of Kursk" | EmpirE | Or, sometimes, the art is in the task of piling up the wreckage and setting it grimly alight. |
| 15 | Khonsu | "A Jhator Ascension" | single | The reverse of church-burning: shaping a temple out of flames. |
| 16 | Twilight | "No War - Original Mix" | single | And not everything that returns from the underworld is scarred or seared the same way. |
| 17 | Oathbreaker | "Immortals" | Rheia | Do you have a favorite Belgian black-post-doom-metal band? Yet? |
| 18 | Raven Tide | "Lies" | single | The richest mythologies resist the temptation to oversimplify their moral opposition, |
| 19 | NeraNature | "Słowiańska łza" | single | and allow Virtue to be as flawed and specific as Venom. |
| 20 | Hardline | "In the Dead of the Night" | single | Glam metal is now long enough ago that we can separate melodic diligence from time spent evaluating hair products. |
| 21 | Memphis May Fire | "This Light I Hold (feat. Jacoby Shaddix)" | single | And even fight-club-raw aggression can be clock-synched, |
| 22 | Erik Ekholm | "Quantum" | Quantum | and re-rendered in desaturated slow motion. |
| 23 | Gemelli Diversi | "La fiamma" | single | Maybe your next personal anthem is actually Italian arena-pop hip-hop. |
| 24 | Calls Landing | "Souvenir" | Souvenir / Patrick 2 | Maybe you're actually emo after all. |
| 25 | Bendik | "Fortid" | single | Maybe inside you're Norwegian. |
| 26 | Asphyx | "It Came From the Skies" | Incoming Death | You have until the apocalypse to resolve your identity. Or maybe until a few seconds after that. |
| 27 | Sithu Aye | "The Andromedan, Pt. IV: The Darkness Within" | Set Course for Andromeda | When we launch our generation ships, will you board the ones heading away from the event horizon, or towards it? |
| 28 | Auras | "Solar Pulse" | Heliospectrum | Possibly it doesn't actually matter, and the fleets will meet each other again in the folds, having each explored half the universe and concluded that it's more interesting to keep flying. |
| 29 | Pariisin Kevät | "Hei mä soitan sulle ihan kohta" | single | Do you have a favorite moody Finnish art-rock band named after a French social uprising? I know, it's a lot of categories to fill. |
| 30 | Poets of the Fall | "Drama for Life" | Clearview | Finland is so small and so far away. Can we really ignore nothing? |
| 31 | AS IT IS | "Drowning Deep In Doubt" | Never Happy, Ever After | Can the new kids really not make do with the things we loved when we were already young? |
| 32 | Crayon Pop | "Dancing Queen" | Evolution Pop | Does everything have to be so brightly lit? |
| 33 | Cape Cub | "Lifeline" | single | Do we have to be heroic even when we're alone? |
| 34 | Anicon | "Through Portals Shed" | Split 3 | Is it strictly necessary to grind every last sparkle into a fine, sands-of-time glitterdust? |
| 35 | ITCHY | "Throw Me Away - Six Bonus Track" | single | Can't we just label our fears and revulsions and simply be done with them? |
| 36 | Bürdel King | "En la boca no!" | single | Do you have a favorite Spanish folk-groove-rock-metal band? Here, take this one, I don't need it back until the morning. |
| 37 | IKINÄ | "#elämää" | single | Did your complaint about Finnish pop-punk-metal bands used to be that none of them sounded quite neon-Japanese enough? |
| 38 | Halshug | "Sort Sind" | Sort Sind | Did you object to Kvelertak because they were slightly too fast and slightly not Danish enough? |
| 39 | Sharon Doorson | "You Know What" | single | Can you dance to energy when it's still spinning through coils? |
| 40 | June 1974 | "Discover" | single | While it is lost in its own thoughts? |
| 41 | Pigs | "Vos y Yo" | Corazón 4 | While it is chewing holes in your favorite old T-shirts? |
| 42 | IRRITA | "Through the Envious Eyes (feat. Ilya Kuzubov)" | Irrita (Extended Edition) | While it is building skyscrapers out of labyrinths? |
| 43 | Real Friends | "Looking Back" | single | While it is falling in love with your sister? |
| 44 | Intimate Stranger | "Extraño Íntimo" | Just | While it is falling in love with the precise vertigo of the moment the fall discovers its own distinctive inertia? |
| 45 | Dalshabet | "FRI. SAT. SUN" | FRI. SAT. SUN 5 | With the lights of a new city? |
| 46 | Royal Teeth | "Amateurs" | single | With how ravishing it will be by some tomorrow's sunset? |
| 47 | Sibling | "Rearview" | single | With how perfect it was, somewhere, always, right now? |