| 1 | Cara Neir | "Spiteful Universe" | Perpetual Despair Is the Human Condition | I don't believe in any way that despair is our natural condition, but I do believe that sustaining joy requires the contemplation of despair. |
| 2 | Alluvial | "The Deep Longing for Annihilation" | The Deep Longing for Annihilation | The trick, of course, is to maintain a lovingly, yearningly contemplative distance from the event horizon of giving up, |
| 3 | Battle Beast | "Familiar Hell" | single | or a giddy orbit |
| 4 | Place Vendome | "Light Before the Dark" | single | through starry glittering galaxies that haven't quite been inevitably obliterated yet. |
| 5 | Xandria | "Call Of Destiny" | single | The trick is to regard unearned encroaching adversity as if you have journeyed leagues for the chance to see it in person, |
| 6 | House Of Lords | "Oceans Divide" | single | as if the most ignominious collapse is a bet you just won and survived. |
| 7 | Lancer | "Dead Raising Towers" | Mastery | Those shrieks? No, no, they are not of pain. We just wanted to see what that would sound like. |
| 8 | Eclipse | "Vertigo" | single | Intense. And yet, I bet we could dance to it. After we defeat these zombies, I mean. |
| 9 | Mind Over Mirrors | "Glossolaliac" | single | When the zombies finally attack, it has a natural way of focusing things. It's the lulls before the attack that are the most unnerving. |
| 10 | Prides | "It Must Have Been Love" | single | There is no room for self-pity during the righteous survival fight, so we have to get that out of the way ahead of time. |
| 11 | Beyond Rare | "Open / Close" | single | We quietly sketch notional trellises on the sides of the blades of swords while we wait. |
| 12 | Anna Of The North | "Oslo" | single | We visit colder cities in winter. |
| 13 | GEMS | "Free Fall" | single | What if it never got any better than this? |
| 14 | Lusine | "Just a Cloud" | single | Considering this question empathetically is an inexorable method for unasking it. |
| 15 | FLORIO | "Wait" | single | Project yourself into the past, and realize that at every teetering moment before horrible grief exploded we could have asked this. |
| 16 | Lydia Ainsworth | "The Road" | single | And then again afterwards. |
| 17 | Grace Mitchell | "Kids (Ain't All Right)" | single | This will pass, no matter what we do, which is not an excuse to avoid resistance, it is why we fight. |
| 18 | Knox Hamilton | "Never My Love" | single | We fight because we know what it will feel like when we win again. |
| 19 | The Menzingers | "After the Party" | single | And we want the rest of our lives after this pain to start as soon as possible. |
| 20 | Born Of Osiris | "Glorious Day" | single | Expressed pain is diminished. |
| 21 | Deaf Havana | "Fever" | single | But some days we may get impatient and help diminish it with hammers, |
| 22 | Unearthly Trance | "Famine" | single | and with summoned demons we don't exactly control, |
| 23 | Grails | "Pelham" | single | and with methodical subterfuge, because anything methodical is a counter to cynical chaos. |
| 24 | Blanck Mass | "Please" | single | 4 is a small number, and math is not daunted by anybody's ignorance. |
| 25 | Emptyset | "Border" | single | Imaginary things pseudo-exist at the tenuous mercy of belief; true things serenely and solidly await. |
| 26 | wosX | "Negative Thought" | Deconstruction of Mind | The progress of human civilization is from superstition into science, from homeopathy into technology, |
| 27 | Pharmakon | "Transmission" | single | from peaceful faith into terrifying understanding, |
| 28 | Beyond The Black | "Beyond The Mirror" | Lost In Forever | from helpless silence into redolent anthems. |
| 29 | Thomas Gold | "Better Versions Of Myself" | single | You can take a stand against progress, just like you can take a jump against gravity. |
| 30 | yh | "Separate (Autumn Creatures)" | single | Go ahead, we'll watch. |
| 31 | Hauschka | "Familiar Things Disappear" | single | We will write a story about how you can stay in the air, |
| 32 | Erik Ekholm | "Master of the Universe" | Empire | about how you will buy an invisible pedestal to hold you up above us, |
| 33 | Night Ranger | "Somehow Someway" | single | upon which you and only you can stand. |
| 34 | Temples | "Strange or Be Forgotten" | single | Like, maybe has sensors on it, and they scan upwards and detect your ass, |
| 35 | Mono Inc. | "The Banks Of Eden" | Together Till The End | and they recognize it as your ass by its unique sagging moral floppiness, |
| 36 | ONE OK ROCK | "Start Again" | Ambitions | and if it's anybody else's earnest ass, the whole thing shuts down. Only you and your ass can save us. |
| 37 | Wolfchant | "Anthems of Revenge" | Bloodwinter | Only your ass can feed these wolves. |
| 38 | Sara | "Hyvä sää" | Hyvä sää +1 | Only your fine speeches can reassure us that we don't need to care about anything we can't immediately understand. |
| 39 | Sepultura | "Machine Messiah" | Machine Messiah | What? There's a little man under that wispy curtain? No, no, WE ARE MAKING IT GREAT AGAIN. Put that hair back. |
| 40 | Funambulista | "Eres Aire" | single | But here's the thing: you can only get away with telling your own story, a few words at a time, for a little while. |
| 41 | Corizonas | "Malditos Refranes" | single | Eventually, the story will insist on supplying a moral for your moral vaccuum. |
| 42 | Lethal Bizzle | "Round Here" | single | And you will be the former villain with the shittiest costume we've ever seen. |
| 43 | Wiley | "Like It Or Not (feat. Breeze)" | Godfather | A misfit suit and an idiot cap. No matter how much you pay for it, nobody is going to want that statue in their square. |
| 44 | Western Addiction | "Masscult, Vulgarians, And Entitlement" | single | Let the rats and the living flee your fetid tower. |
| 45 | Ella Vos | "Down in Flames" | single | Let the rooms in your shitty hotels go anonymously unclaimed at any price on last-minute horror-tourism sites. |
| 46 | Keshia Chanté | "Fuck It Tho" | single | Let your disgraced university be a notional anti-Wonder, the latest cautionary honoree on the UNESCO World Embarrassment list. |
| 47 | Betontod | "Revolution" | Revolution | Evil is often insidious and elusive. But not always. |
| 48 | Rantanplan | "D" | Licht und Schatten | Sometimes it can't help but piss its name all over everything it can barely reach, |
| 49 | Pyogenesis | "Every Man For Himself … And God Against All" | single | and we are left to dodge this tiny, limp, trickle-down stream, |
| 50 | Lujuria | "Autopista" | Rockeando el Pavimento | and apologize to our guests for the awful smell. |
| 51 | Philipp Poisel | "Zum ersten Mal Nintendo" | single | But here's the thing: I think you think those thin, rancid layers of gold are your grand legacy. |
| 52 | EMMA6 | "Kapitulieren" | single | In this, and maybe only this, you are exactly correct. |
| 53 | Jeden Tag Silvester | "Geisterjägerstadt" | single | You win this much: you will not be forgotten. |
| 54 | Talisco | "Before the Dawn" | single | You wanted to be a part of history, and this much you will be granted. |
| 55 | Majeure | "A Few More Pieces of Eight" | single | You are now enshrined in allegory and fable. |
| 56 | Tabor Radosti | "Archont" | Egregor | You will be a new heat-death state for internet arguments. |
| 57 | Code Orange | "Real" | Forever | You will be a new rejection standard for bobble-head likenesses. |
| 58 | Skipinnish | "Alive" | single | You embody our worst nature, |
| 59 | June 1974 | "Distances" | single | and thus allow us to step out of it. |
| 60 | Derya Uluğ | "Canavar" | single | The crust we have accumulated by listening to you detaches from our human skin, and can be discarded like a furry plastic bag of warm poor-diet shit and puked-up taco bowls, revealing us unscathed and every bit as jubillantly foreign as you fear. |
| 61 | Sjowgren | "Now & Then" | single | After this is over, we may have to start some things again from the beginning, |
| 62 | Model Snake | "Serpientes de la Noche" | Massif or Monument | but you will be done. |
| 63 | Yoga Lin | "巨人的肩膀" | single | Your concession speech will be left untranslated as a momument to the fragility of justice, |
| 64 | Beach Slang | "Bored Teenagers" | single | and while we dance with our children, you will be left to apologize to yours, because nobody else will care any more about what you say. |