| 1 | Magnum | "Without Love - Single Edit" | single | You can paint the darkness any colors that you need. |
| 2 | Coronatus | "Howling Wind" | Secrets of Nature | This is both the power and the obligation of darkness as a canvas. |
| 3 | Shining | "Svart Ostoppbar Eld" | single | They found a tall rock in the water, and built a castle on it, |
| 4 | Harakiri for the Sky | "You Are the Scars" | single | and I walk through its courtyards in the dark, |
| 5 | Ulver | "Bring Out Your Dead" | Sic Transit Gloria Mundi EP 3 | dreaming of methods for organizing lights. |
| 6 | Sinistro | "Abismo" | single | Without the relentless waves of darkness, we would be some other different creatures. |
| 7 | Wildernessking | "And the Night Swept Us Away - Live in Studio, 2016" | ... And the Night Swept Us Away / The Devil Within | We are moral recurrence rendered sentient, |
| 8 | Orphaned Land | "Like Orpheus" | single | and never more so than in songs. |
| 9 | Buffalo Tom | "All Be Gone" | single | The song begins, another encapsulated life begins. |
| 10 | Boston Manor | "Drowned in Gold" | single | Nostalgia and discovery and anticipation and possibility and surrender all derive from finity repeated, |
| 11 | In Her Own Words | "Nothing Left" | Unfamiliar (Deluxe Edition) | from iterations of the variously familiar, |
| 12 | Moose Blood | "Talk In Your Sleep" | single | from sleeping and waking, |
| 13 | Marianas Trench | "Rhythm of Your Heart" | single | from resonant hum and organs beating. |
| 14 | Social Repose | "Cute without the E (Cut From The Team)" | single | Trust nobody who celebrates finality, |
| 15 | HAERTS | "The Way" | single | or can't dwell in transient joys. |
| 16 | Visible Cloaks | "Frame" | Lex | How is this song different from other songs? |
| 17 | Aidan Baker | "Transgenic Three" | Aberration | It's the one we are listening to now. |
| 18 | Rachel Grimes | "Eights" | single | It's the one that proves the universe did not yet collapse, |
| 19 | Aaron Martin | "Wings In The Grass" | Seeker | or at least no more than usual, |
| 20 | GoGo Penguin | "Raven" | single | no more than we can endure. |
| 21 | Eraldo Bernocchi | "Kangoo" | Rosebud | Nothing in this courtyard is so different from every other courtyard. |
| 22 | IVVVO | "Until I Die" | Prince of Grunge 6 | The guards are real, the guns might be real, but the uniforms and patrol loops are cheerfully ceremonial. |
| 23 | Antti Martikainen | "Northern Steel" | Northern Steel | But then again, most clothes are make-believe uniforms for something, |
| 24 | Cloudjumper | "Jet Set Run - Orchestral Arrangement" | single | even if it's the thing you're doing. |
| 25 | Black Foxxes | "Sæla" | single | What would you really wear if you were you? |
| 26 | Harms Way | "Human Carrying Capacity" | single | Now imagine advancing hordes dressed in sinister caricatures of your clothes, |
| 27 | Beneath | "Ephemeris" | Ephemeris | singing hoarse battle anthems, |
| 28 | Desolate Shrine | "The Waters of Man" | Deliverance from the Godless Void | and then passing roaringly by |
| 29 | The Mirraz | "image" | RED JACKET | on a private mission of their own. |
| 30 | uchuu, | "Magic" | WHITE 5 | The unknown knows itself fine. |
| 31 | Do As Infinity | "化身の獣" | 化身の獣 +1 | The guards go home to other nearby rocks in this faraway chain of islands and painted horses, |
| 32 | Hitorie | "Nai." | Ai/Solate 6 | and replace these uniforms with whatever they really wear when they're their other elves. |
| 33 | Wind Walkers | "End Game (feat. Mark Pfromm)" | single | You decide whether to walk your own private patrols with meticulous ceremony or a desultory limp. |
| 34 | Seanzy | "Untitled" | single | You decide this. |
| 35 | Sleeping At Last | "December 13, 2017: Geminid Meteor Shower" | single | Consult the stars, if you wish, |
| 36 | Awake At Last | "Congratulations" | single | or any falling debris; |
| 37 | Thomas Rhett | "Castle On The Hill - Recorded at Sound Stage Nashville" | Spotify Singles 2 | any city can be yours. |
| 38 | Haley & Michaels | "Me Too" | single | You can misunderstand its insignias and still belong, |
| 39 | Davide Petrella | "Non può fare male" | single | like you can dance to this. |
| 40 | Honningbarna | "Født feig/dø bleig" | Voldelig lyd | You can dance to your enemies' martial cadences |
| 41 | Schwarzer Engel | "Sinnflut" | Sinnflut +3 | until it makes them laugh |
| 42 | Hämatom | "Mörder" | single | or you run out of enemies |
| 43 | The Animal In Me | "Heathens" | single | and you have to make new ones, |
| 44 | 柯有倫 | "飛" | single | or go somewhere new to be half- or quarter- or barely surprised. |
| 45 | Dani Mata | "Cásate Conmigo - Pop Version" | single | They built a castle on the next rock, too, lower. |
| 46 | Nitro | "Buio Omega" | single | Somebody will one day build a fantastic castle on the moon, |
| 47 | SLUMBERJACK | "Vision" | single | and devise new spacesuit uniforms for its patrol loops, |
| 48 | NEFER NEFER | "Aamu Koittaa" | single | and they can't stop us from wearing them now, here, already. |
| 49 | Jaykae | "Headache" | Where Have You Been? | New styles are a dream about futures in which everything looks like that. |
| 50 | 67 | "Banging out (feat. Liquez)" | single | Dystopianisms are dreams of horrors we will survive until, |
| 51 | Attila Syah | "Alcyone" | single | and stagings for glitterball Ragnaroks, |
| 52 | Gabriel & Dresden | "You" | You +1 | and new blank rocks, |
| 53 | Hyuna | "Lip & Hip" | Lip & Hip +1 | and ideas for excellent impractical shoes. |
| 54 | This Is Turin | "When God Bleeds" | single | Never trust an implausible belief system without a destruction myth. |
| 55 | Kyo | "Plan A" | Dans la peau | The implausibility itself is fine. If it were plausible, it would be a bureaucracy, not a belief. |
| 56 | Club 8 | "Swimming With The Tide" | single | Morality is the performance of generalizable actions, |
| 57 | Sons Of Maria | "Epica" | single | art is the performance of irreproducible ones; |
| 58 | Diztord | "Modern World" | Silverline 4 | but these are two ways of saying the same thing, |
| 59 | HUNGER | "Bubbles" | Amused - EP 6 | and anything there is two ways of saying has a billion ways of singing, |
| 60 | Majk Spirit | "Samurai" | single | not in total but in each of uncountable languages. |
| 61 | Son Lux | "Dream State (Brighter Night)" | single | Terror is a mordant rephrasing of joy; |
| 62 | Antoni Maiovvi | "My Moon" | single | joy is an exigesis of time. |
| 63 | Crater | "Unearth" | single | In the castles on the moon, just like here, |
| 64 | Cocktail | "ปรารถนาสิ่งใดฤๅ" | single | darkess is an excuse for new lights. |