| 1 | Amberian Dawn | "Sky Is Falling" | Darkness of Eternity | If I had a religion, this would be my worship music. |
| 2 | The Dark Element | "Last Good Day" | The Dark Element | Probably there's a sense in which I do. |
| 3 | Secret Rule | "Imaginary World" | The Key to the World | At least: I believe things I can't explain, |
| 4 | Evanescence | "The End Of The Dream" | Synthesis | I recognize immanent grandeur in rough idols, |
| 5 | The Lust | "Nail in My Wound" | single | I face in notional directions. |
| 6 | Elvenking | "Petalstorm - Bonus Track" | Secrets of the Magick Grimoire | I attribute stories to people I have not met or questioned, |
| 7 | Tonight Alive | "Without You" | single | and claim to learn oblique lessons from things they have not exactly said. |
| 8 | Svrcina | "Steady" | single | I am transfixed by grace |
| 9 | Sjowgren | "Waiting Room" | single | and reanimated by tiny gestures |
| 10 | Auðn | "Ljósaslæður" | Farvegir Fyrndar | that repetition could so easily render as ritual. |
| 11 | Pianos Become The Teeth | "Charisma" | single | I covet and catalogue noises of commitment. |
| 12 | Toy Cars | "Bjork" | Sleeping Patterns 5 | How is this anything but catechistic? |
| 13 | SHXCXCHCXSH | "Stämma #7" | Rösten 2 | How different are scriptures and technical manuals and seismograph trails? |
| 14 | M.E.S.H. | "Coercer" | Hesaitix | We barricade ourselves in prefaces to choreography |
| 15 | Ninos Du Brasil | "Animais Soar O Alarme" | Animais Soar O Alarme +1 | until the day we dance |
| 16 | ASC | "Collider" | Point of Origin | away, |
| 17 | Anenon | "Verso" | single | the day we escape pages and learn, ourselves, to flutter. |
| 18 | Rameses B | "Moonlight" | single | But this is always what sky has promised and threatened, |
| 19 | Aidan Baker | "Noplace II" | Noplace | a legacy we have assumed by evolving helplessly on surfaces |
| 20 | Niklas Paschburg | "Spark" | single | we do not control. |
| 21 | Voicians | "Holograms" | single | Our structures are parodies of emptiness. |
| 22 | Future Heroes | "Apex" | Arise | Our triumphs are evasive pastiches of tenuous survival. |
| 23 | Mattia Cupelli | "Free / / Rebirth" | single | Our aspirational quiet is never the same as silence. |
| 24 | Dan Terminus | "Fall of the Ancient World" | Automated Refrains | Idols behind, robots ahead, |
| 25 | Second to Sun | "The Owls" | The Owls +1 | demons approaching, |
| 26 | The Staves | "The Way Is Read" | single | imps unconcerned: |
| 27 | Novo Amor | "Silvery" | Heiress | we are painting meticulous abstracts of patience in the path of storms, |
| 28 | Gleemer | "Pressure" | single | from sentimental vantages |
| 29 | Kindling | "Everywhere" | Hush | where we have always come amidst and after revelations. |
| 30 | Mode Moderne | "Gastown Nights" | single | Here we fell in love. |
| 31 | Glaare | "Desiree" | single | Here we mended, or at least convalesced. |
| 32 | The Unguided | "Anchor Stone (of the World)" | And The Battle Royale | Here, before they built condos, was where we dreamed they would put our statues. |
| 33 | Ilari Hämäläinen | "Askel Kerrallaan" | single | Tourists will stand here, not quite correctly dressed, not quite understanding what we once represented, |
| 34 | Carlos Vives | "La Preferida" | VIVES | and then go home and tell the story wrong. |
| 35 | MIYAVI | "Forget You" | Samurai Sessions Vol.2 | But travel is distortion by its nature, and distortion is power. |
| 36 | lynch. | "CREATURE" | BLOOD THIRSTY CREATURE 3 | Only demons approach; humans disperse. |
| 37 | Gomma | "Foresteria" | Vacanza 4 | Evil has nothing else to promise except that in torment and exile you will at least not be lonely. |
| 38 | Metavari | "Futura" | Symmetri (Deluxe Edition) | And yet, even that math fails under scrutiny. |
| 39 | Vetusta Morla | "El Discurso del Rey" | Mismo Sitio, Distinto Lugar | Betrayal is a pyramid scheme |
| 40 | Julma Henri | "Raja" | single | based on a pyramid long since disassembled and sold as provenant brick. |
| 41 | The Stunning | "Always You" | single | Where pilgrimmages used to terminate, we have poorly-signposted roundabouts and chain stores |
| 42 | Imarhan | "Azzaman" | single | and all the irrefutable history of the world. |
| 43 | Leyenda | "Alma Errante" | Cibernetica | We have segregated neighborhoods of Elysium, |
| 44 | La Scelta | "Alieno" | Colore Alieno | but then turned them into excuses for more flags. |
| 45 | Nedeljko Bajic Baja | "Kljuc" | single | You look around and think "where am I?", |
| 46 | Audrey Assad | "Wounded Healer" | single | but how far can you have possibly gone? |
| 47 | Demy | "Kontra Ston Chrono" | Kontra | You were home only a minute ago. |
| 48 | Maître Gims | "Caméléon" | single | In a moment, you are lost, |
| 49 | New Arcades | "Irreparable (feat. Nina)" | single | but how far can you stray in wonder? |
| 50 | Pussy Riot | "Police State" | single | You think none of this could have happened where you are from, |
| 51 | amenoto | "So So" | So So 5 | but you, like all of us, |
| 52 | Pale Waves | "New Year's Eve" | single | are from here. |