1 |
BRÅVES |
"A Toast" |
BRÅVES |
CHVRCHES + Twin Shadow. |
2 |
Trementina |
"Please, Let's Go Away" |
single |
Uplifting, borderline-uplooking Chilean shoegaze. |
3 |
TeraBrite |
"Heavy" |
single |
Embarrassing to be a nu metal band who has to have a Youtube cover-duo make your song "Heavy" actually be heavy. |
4 |
Nightbringer |
"Misrule" |
single |
Well, heavy-ish. |
5 |
Immolation |
"The Distorting Light" |
Atonement |
Did you know you can get feedback from earthquakes? |
6 |
Ghost Bath |
"Thrones" |
single |
Sometimes it's reassuring to know that the sound of the universe dying in torment can be cheeringly cathartic. |
7 |
No Joy |
"Hellhole" |
Creep - EP 4 |
Sometimes you know from the band name, song title and cover art exactly what the music is going to sound like. But not always. |
8 |
Kindling |
"Someday Soon" |
No Generation 6 |
Sometimes your transits stall pensively behind lumbering dreams, |
9 |
Funeral Advantage |
"The Hanging Cage" |
Please Help Me - EP 6 |
and then wriggle free. |
10 |
Bloodbound |
"Tears of a Dragonheart" |
War of Dragons |
Dragons. Metal. |
11 |
Place Vendome |
"Falling Star" |
Close to the Sun |
You may think you need re-recorded versions of heroic pop-metal anthems of your youth, but you really do not. |
12 |
Ayreon |
"Everybody Dies" |
single |
Mood dissonance: florid, expansive power-metal epic about total hopeless nihilism. |
13 |
Sinner |
"Tequila Suicide" |
single |
Or a bounding party-metal romp about terminal alcoholism. |
14 |
Lionville |
"I Will Wait" |
A World of Fools |
Kansas, I've a feeling we're not in Toto anymore. |
15 |
Art Nation |
"The Real Me" |
single |
But that's no reason to assume that a foreigner |
16 |
Unruly Child |
"Sunlit Sky" |
Can't Go Home |
will make bad company on your journey. |
17 |
Born Of Osiris |
"Rosecrance" |
The Eternal Reign |
Styx wasted a perfectly good death-metal name, |
18 |
Death Come Cover Me |
"Let Me Love You" |
Let Me Love You +1 |
but there is always room for more in the underworld, |
19 |
Coast To Coast |
"Heredity" |
single |
or whatever you call it where roaring Brit-rock goes, |
20 |
Balancing the Different |
"Somethings Wrong" |
Villain |
even if it comes from Los Angeles. |
21 |
Arca |
"Piel" |
single |
It takes patience to fabricate in the mist world. |
22 |
Sigha |
"Down" |
Metabolism |
And a comprehensive familiarity with the zoning rules, |
23 |
Grebenstein |
"Gloss" |
Gloss +3 |
and the properties of corrosion. |
24 |
Persefone |
"No Faced Mindless" |
Aathma |
But if you make it through, majestic arcologies of destruction await. |
25 |
Uneven Structure |
"Incube" |
single |
Is there a version of yoga with sharp swords? This would be good for that. |
26 |
Nightrage |
"In Abhorrence" |
single |
The yoga part, of course, is hard to do in armor, and thus not strictly neccessary. |
27 |
Vitja |
"Heavy Rain" |
single |
Studies have shown that you get exactly the same karmic benefits from screaming in righteous rage, |
28 |
Petroglyphs |
"Veil (Unmasked)" |
single |
unprovoked, |
29 |
Disperse |
"Stay" |
Foreword |
when the math indicates. |
30 |
Felix Martin |
"Cosmo Basket" |
Mechanical Nations |
The manifest destiny of progress arises from the inherent way technique transcends inherited constraints. |
31 |
Skyfire |
"Ungeteilt" |
single |
The serpents only look like serpents when you're too hungry to think of anything but danger. |
32 |
Ravenscry |
"In Collision" |
The Invisible |
But even when you narrow it down to best Finnish metal band with a female singer, you are still besieged. |
33 |
Cadaveria |
"Christian Woman" |
single |
Defeated enemies rise again, only stronger. |
34 |
The Mountain Goats |
"Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds" |
single |
You only change the progress of the battle when you start refusing to fight this way, |
35 |
The New Pornographers |
"This Is The World Of The Theater" |
single |
when you stop distinguishing so insistently between protest marches and parades, |
36 |
Celldweller |
"Electric Eye" |
Electric Eye +1 |
when you let the robots join your side. |
37 |
RichaadEB |
"Strike the Earth" |
single |
Look: until the dragons come, none of this mild disarray qualifies as actual carnage. |
38 |
Little Jinder |
"Kvicksand" |
single |
If you think Sweden has problems, you're right, because there are problems everywhere there's music, |
39 |
Linnea Olsson |
"Gone" |
For Show 5 |
everywhere there's people or air. |
40 |
FO&O |
"Gotta Thing About You" |
single |
I've long suspected the air is the fundamental problem, because you never hear about rising crime-rates in airless towns. |
41 |
Junius |
"A Mass for Metaphysicians" |
single |
But the corrupt weasels in the government will never fund my giant air-removal machine. |
42 |
Daniel Kvammen |
"Ingenmannsland" |
Vektlaus |
Fucking Big Air. No wonder things never get fixed. |
43 |
Johndoe |
"Takk og farvel" |
single |
Half the air in Sweden is probably illegal air from Norway. |
44 |
Staubkind |
"Das Beste kommt noch" |
single |
If your wall doesn't form an airtight seal against the surface of the sky, it's a waste of perfectly good bodies. |
45 |
Havok |
"Intention to Deceive" |
single |
They won't tell you this, and they have their reasons, and I think you understand that. |
46 |
Unearthly Trance |
"Into the Spiral" |
Stalking the Ghost |
They need the bodies, |
47 |
Misaruka |
"What Do You Want?" |
What Do You Want? |
and they really don't want to have to explain why. |
48 |
AAA |
"WAY OF GLORY" |
WAY OF GLORY |
You can't make walls out of bodies if they won't stop dancing, |
49 |
BiS |
"If tomorrow comes" |
Re:STUPiD |
and won't stop making those chirpy not-dying noises. |
50 |
BIGHEAD |
"Reharmony" |
Relove |
We fortified to stop the robots shaped like boxy fanged camels, because that's what they looked like in movies, |
51 |
Utsu-P |
"ブラック・ショータイム" |
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
and they showed up looking like teenage girls who move faster than we can shift stones. |
52 |
Blondie |
"My Monster" |
single |
And they came in and stood behind us and tapped us on our shoulders instead of cutting off our heads. |
53 |
Benighted |
"Reptilian" |
Necrobreed (Deluxe) |
And cutting off our heads does kind of seem like the easier approach, |
54 |
Little Big Town |
"Night On Our Side" |
The Breaker |
but if you don't settle for the easy destructive cop-outs, |
55 |
Trollfest |
"Hen of Hades" |
Helluva |
you get a pagan ball instead of a tedious hazmat cleanup. |
56 |
Fjoergyn |
"Lucifer Es" |
Lucifer Es |
How about this: for every new toxin you want to release, you have to clean up two existing ones? |
57 |
Yggdrassil |
"All Shall Burn" |
All Shall Burn |
You should probably realize that it's a bad sign when the trees are invoking fire. |
58 |
Maga |
"Juego" |
Salto Horizontal |
You want us to feel pride when we look at your shitty MAGA shirts? Start sending trucks full of them to people who need clothes. |
59 |
Stormzy |
"Cold" |
Gang Signs & Prayer |
What kind of miserable coward has their own plane but only uses it to go where there are golf courses? |
60 |
Jammz |
"Hit Then Run" |
single |
There's a reason your daughter's business "makes" rebranded non-essentials. |
61 |
Kingdom |
"Each & Every Day" |
Tears in the Club |
You looked at bottles of water in a world of drought and thought "How can I sell those for higher prices to richer people?" |
62 |
Methyl Ethel |
"L'heure des Sorcières" |
single |
That's what you taught her. |
63 |
Slingshot Dakota |
"Grudge" |
Broken 2 |
You taught her to use your name to avoid responsibility. |
64 |
Deforesters |
"The Topiary Animals Are Telling Me to Do Terrible Things" |
Leonard |
What's she going to do after you've bled it of this power? |
65 |
Mobina Galore |
"Start All Over" |
Feeling Disconnected |
What are the people who believed in you going to do after you finally declare your moral bankruptcy? |
66 |
Hopsin |
"All Your Fault" |
single |
They don't have moral savings, or they wouldn't have been cheering you in the first place. |
67 |
Acceptance |
"Colliding By Design" |
Colliding By Design |
But they're going to see you without makeup at the end of this. |
68 |
School '94 |
"Off To Live" |
Off To Live +1 |
It doesn't end in glory. Fascist pyramid-schemes never do. |
69 |
Koffi Olomide |
"Nyataquance - Koffi Trump" |
single |
It ends in rueful cartoons and cliché. |
70 |
Second to Sun |
"Alyoshenka" |
single |
It ends with everything you care about fallen, |
71 |
Blaudzun |
"Outside The Lights Of The City" |
single |
and burned in tiny bonfires people won't even toast s'mores over, because they make the marshmallows taste like hair. |
72 |
Antropomorphia |
"Suspiria De Profundis" |
Sermon Ov Wrath |
Monsters achieve greatness in defeat. |
73 |
Light of the Morning Star |
"Black Throne Ascension" |
Cemetery Glow 3 |
Most pathetically, you are not even monstrous. |
74 |
Yvonne Catterfeld |
"Tür und Angel" |
single |
This is the superhero movie in which the villain's secret power is a limping dog who shits on your stoop because he treats it badly. |
75 |
Vindata |
"Right Now (feat. Njomza and Alex & Alex)" |
single |
And if none of this scares you, here's one more thought: your kids are smarter than you. |
76 |
Road |
"Újra nézz rám" |
Tizenhét |
Reversion to the mean, you know? This is why immigration alwys works better than inbreeding. |
77 |
Robyn Hitchcock |
"Mad Shelley's Letterbox" |
single |
So they're going to figure you out. |
78 |
ASC |
"Solar Reaction" |
Zone of Avoidance |
Probably they figured you out long ago, of course. But it's going to get to the point where they're going to have to admit what they know. |
79 |
Marakesh |
"Try Heart" |
199X (Deluxe Version) |
You thought an unsecured email server and a live mic on a set-trailer were bad? |
80 |
Lethe |
"Teaching Birds How to Fly" |
The First Corpse on the Moon |
The highest imperative and greatest capacity of privilege is self-preservation, and you are going to fuck that one simple thing up beyond retrieval. |
81 |
Skies Collide |
"Run Wild" |
single |
The country will survive you. The planet will survive you. The day you go, this will stop being The Democracy Who Elected a Shithead. |
82 |
Templars |
"Hope" |
single |
But the stains on the things your little hands cradled will remain. |
83 |
Egyptrixx |
"We Can be Concrete" |
Pure, Beyond Reproach |
The ones who embraced you will remember the feeling every time they try to breathe. |
84 |
Limit |
"Limit#01" |
Limit |
And the enemies you have made? We will be the ones to care for those you leave behind. |