| 1 | Ulsect | "Fall to Depravity" | single | Part of Ulsect are also in Dodecahedron. In the future, everyone will be in 15 metal bands at once. |
| 2 | Scuorn | "Virgilio Mago" | Parthenope | Italian metal doesn't have to be pretty. |
| 3 | Nightbringer | "Of the Key and Crossed Bones" | single | Symphonic black metal can be time-smeared on an event horizon. |
| 4 | Anomalie | "Vision III: A Monument" | Visions | Wormholes connect all the midnights of all the planet's black-metal forests, |
| 5 | Skyforest | "I Wish the Dawn Would Never Come" | Aftermath Remastered | and all of their soaring lightless skies, |
| 6 | Alfahanne | "Avgrundsgravitation" | single | but you can still make somber, bounding rock music in the dim glow of your amplifier LEDs. |
| 7 | Last Leaf Down | "Purple Skies" | single | I don't know if you get here from metal by losing vehemence or gaining diffidence, |
| 8 | Woe | "Drown Us With Greatness" | Hope Attrition | but you can get back with force. |
| 9 | Frances | "Drifting" | Things I've Never Said | What it takes to walk a ridge in armor isn't fundamentally different from what it takes to walk a quiet line in your own self-belief, |
| 10 | Bright Light Bright Light | "Causing a Commotion" | single | but without the armor you preserve more of the element of surprise. |
| 11 | Signum Regis | "Unfold the Mystery" | Decennium Primum | Metal, arguably, contends that surprise is a cheat. |
| 12 | Labyrinth | "Bullets" | single | Supposedly we used to consider jousting a sport, |
| 13 | One Desire | "This Is Where the Heart Break Begins" | single | but maybe this was only ever an excuse for sunlight gleaming on polished chrome, |
| 14 | Betty Who | "Mama Say" | single | and now we have fabrics that can do that against bare skin, |
| 15 | Breathe Carolina | "Up All Night" | single | and special lights that can do it in mid-air. |
| 16 | The Bunny The Bear | "Love Lies" | The Way We Rust | We have the technology now to virtualize emotion. |
| 17 | For The Win | "G Series" | single | Maybe we always did, |
| 18 | Sinners Are Winners | "Reap What You Sow" | single | and it's just that self-awareness has pealed a protective layer off of our accountability. |
| 19 | Tinashe | "Flame" | single | But aren't revealed layers inherently beautiful? |
| 20 | Delta Rae | "A Long And Happy Life" | single | Isn't that why we return obsessively to the same points of pain and joy? |
| 21 | Aeverium | "What About Me" | single | Isn't that we keep trying to build higher towers? |
| 22 | Kobra And The Lotus | "You Don't Know" | single | Maybe the next spire will pierce whatever shell has kept us here, |
| 23 | Arca | "Reverie" | single | and release us into a viridian expanse |
| 24 | Lydia Ainsworth | "Into the Blue" | single | governed by less-intransignent principles, |
| 25 | Lord RAJA | "Streets of Rage" | single | and fewer relentless recursions. |
| 26 | Clark | "Hoova" | single | But the grand purpose of dreaming is not to find a simpler reality, |
| 27 | Colin Stetson | "In the clinches" | single | any more than the appeal of nostalgia is its pragmatic applicability to the present. |
| 28 | Mary Lattimore | "Wawa by the Ocean" | single | We dream to add magic, not elide complexity. |
| 29 | Secret Shine | "To the Well" | There Is Only Now | We dream to reward complication, not avoid it. |
| 30 | Epic Score | "The Fight for Freedom" | Epic Sci Fi: Fate of the Earth | The difference between escapism and oblique strategy is only conclusively determined in retrospect. |
| 31 | J2 | "I've Got You Under My Skin (Epic Trailer Version) [feat. Blu Holliday]" | single | Some obviously terrible ideas will turn out to be merely counter-intuitive, |
| 32 | RichaadEB | "The Hero" | single | and maybe the most exciting thing about intuition is its fallibility. |
| 33 | tiasu | "Raw (feat. The8BitDrummer )" | single | Or speed. Maybe the most exciting thing about intuition is that it can take you somewhere else without having to trudge across every bit of the intervening terrain. |
| 34 | Simon Viklund | "Out of My League" | single | Maybe this is also the most exciting thing about nostalgia |
| 35 | Obituary | "End It Now" | Obituary | or dissent, |
| 36 | Turmion Kätilöt | "Kyynelten Tanssi" | Dance Panique | or whatever you call it when they fuse. |
| 37 | 回音哥 | "模仿遊戲" | 模仿遊戲 +1 | What would you do with the power to teleport? You have that power. |
| 38 | Per Gessle | "Småstadsprat" | single | Zap. You are in an empty chapel vestibule in the Swedish countryside. |
| 39 | Río Roma | "Princesa" | single | Zap. You are on a Pacific cliffside with warm updrafts trying to lift you into a cloudless sky. |
| 40 | Jotdog | "Compartamos Tumbas" | single | Zap. The distance between Sweden and Mexico is erased, is meaningless, is no grounds for policy or hestitation. |
| 41 | BRIDEAR | "Remedy" | Rise 4 | Zap. We already have every superpower we've ever claimed as an excuse. |
| 42 | himekyun fruits kan | "Guru Guru" | Nouten Drop -Present for Himekyun- | Put on the costume you'd wear. |
| 43 | Angelo | "rêve collègue" | single | Dance like the air exists to accomodate your movements. |
| 44 | ZILcoNIA | "Compass" | anew | What else was it going to do? |
| 45 | Erdling | "Es gibt dich nicht" | Supernova (Deluxe Edition) | It spent a billion interminable years waiting to have this chance. |
| 46 | Børge Rømma | "Dyrebare Tid" | single | The rocks have spent every one of their collected aeons trying to invoke alchemists who could transmute sediment into sentiment, |
| 47 | Hekla Stålstrenga | "DU" | single | and we, in all our fragility and helplessness and incomprehension, are them. |
| 48 | Levante | "Io ti maledico" | single | The rocks don't look at us and see our flaws, they look at us and see the impossible brought alive. |
| 49 | Night Ranger | "Truth" | single | This is how we have to learn to see ourselves, |
| 50 | The Swon Brothers | "Pretty Cool Scars" | Pretty Cool Scars 6 | and music is a thing we have invented |
| 51 | The Moon & The Nightspirit | "A Hajnal Köszöntése" | Metanoia | for magical reflection. |
| 52 | Ithilien | "If Only" | Shaping the Soul | Anthems are stories of who we are. |
| 53 | Jonne | "Vieras" | single | Folk anthems are stories of who we have always been. |
| 54 | Cartoon Theory | "Heptaedium Nuker" | Heptaedium Versus Cartoon Theory | Robot deconstructions are stories of how we could have been assembled. |
| 55 | Marteria | "Aliens" | single | Anything you don't understand is potentially a story of a different way. |
| 56 | Sookee | "Bilderbücher Konferenz" | Mortem & Makeup | What do you allow yourself to hear? |
| 57 | Niños Mutantes | "NM" | single | What do you sing that only you will initially understand? |
| 58 | The Dopamines | "Ire" | single | Narcissism is the enemy of progress because self-consciousness is the antithesis of contribution. |
| 59 | Amy Shark | "Weekends" | single | Violence is inherent nihilism. |
| 60 | Birol Giray | "Görev İcabı (Radio Edit)" | Görev İcabı 2 | Dancing is the opposite of fighting. |
| 61 | Sizzy Rocket | "Still" | single | Today, take an energy you were going to apply to fighting something you know, and spend it dancing to something you don't know. |
| 62 | Miss Montreal | "Writing Stories" | single | Don't figure out why first. Dance first, figure out why later. |
| 63 | Szabyest | "Emlékezz" | single | Nostalgia can be a solvent for fears. |
| 64 | Blood Command | "Quitters Don't Smoke" | single | The strange things you collect, if you explore, become not just things you have once done, but elements of what you know to be possible. |
| 65 | Marakesh | "Не люби" | single | Music doesn't render evil impossible, but it builds up what you find underneath an evil when it's gone. |
| 66 | Lastkaj 14 | "Konsumera mera" | Becksvart | This is why we resist. |
| 67 | Hyrda Knektar | "Sänka Skepp" | Vi Kommer Dö Men Först Ska Vi Leva 5 | This is probably why evil has survived evolution. |
| 68 | Debrah Scarlett | "Blurry" | DYS(U)TOPIA 4 | This is why we run towards the things which threaten us. |
| 69 | Vieux Farka Touré | "Homafu Wawa" | single | This is why should allow ourselves to be drawn towards deserts |
| 70 | Tamikrest | "Erres Hin Atouan" | Kidal | or oases, whichever we didn't grow up in. |
| 71 | ANOHNI | "Ricochet" | Paradise 6 | What we don't turn away from, we can absorb. |
| 72 | un1no | "Dominique" | single | This is why immigration is not a regional policy issue, but a human-emotional imperative. |
| 73 | Social Repose | "LA Devotee - Acapella" | single | This is why tolerance is a minimal precondition for humanity, |
| 74 | Sykes | "Glimmer" | Glimmer Remix - EP 6 | not a special interest. |
| 75 | Rebel and a Basketcase | "Today" | single | We are the changes that you fear. We have been all the changes you once feared that now seem like how it was when it was great. |
| 76 | Deena Abdelwahed | "Jalel Brick Rrumi" | Klabb - EP 4 | We are the mesmerizing inextricability of curiosity and survival, |
| 77 | Kamixlo | "Bloodless Y" | Angélico 6 | and you have, every moment, a new terrifying incomprehensible opportunity to choose life. |