| 1 | BØRNS | "God Save Our Young Blood (with Lana Del Rey)" | single | Young is the opposite of dead. |
| 2 | Visions of Atlantis | "Return to Lemuria" | single | The realms in between are legendary and dreaded, and our fastest ships never reach them. |
| 3 | Rebellion | "A Fool's Tale" | single | Shakespeare would have one tragic metal band |
| 4 | Victorius | "Lazer Tooth Tiger" | single | and one comic one, |
| 5 | Heavatar | "Purpose of a Virgin Mind" | single | and we would gather in open theaters to debate which one is which, |
| 6 | Watain | "Nuclear Alchemy" | TRIDENT WOLF ECLIPSE | the losers to be set upon by beasts, |
| 7 | Shining | "Gyllene Portarnas Bro" | X Varg Utan Flock | the victors remanded into the dark custody of their own misled dreams. |
| 8 | Orphaned Land | "We Do Not Resist" | single | To sing an anthem of invulnerability, you must stand helplessly still. |
| 9 | Sinistro | "Cravo Carne" | Sangue Cassia (Deluxe Edition) | To imagine apocalypse, you must consume an encyclopedia of every thing to be destroyed. |
| 10 | D.A. Stern | "Bluedgenes" | Aloha Hola | But to crush a single vial of sadness, you have only to take a step, |
| 11 | Terror Pigeon | "Whatever They're Loving You I'll Double It" | Yucksongs 2! Haley Makes the Cover! 2015-2017 | willing to live in a brighter world, |
| 12 | Tiny Moving Parts | "Applause" | single | willing to believe that the sadness you release will rise, |
| 13 | The Dangerous Summer | "Ghosts" | single | if not exactly away, |
| 14 | Social Repose | "Emperor's New Cloths - Acapella" | single | then at least from underfoot to where we can look at it without bending. |
| 15 | Arkona | "V pogonie za beloj ten'yu" | single | If you can look a thing in the eyes, you can hit it with an axe, |
| 16 | Heidevolk | "A Wolf in My Heart" | single | or your teeth, |
| 17 | Tengger Cavalry | "Cian-Bi (Fight Your Darkness)" | single | or the teeth of somebody else's ancestors. |
| 18 | Allegaeon | "Animate" | single | Imagine how they must have lived, |
| 19 | Alesana | "Fits and Starts" | single | thankful that now we have better machines, |
| 20 | Tonight Alive | "Disappear (Feat. Lynn Gunn)" | single | paved roads to joy, |
| 21 | Dima Lancaster | "Фейерверк" | single | stories of how we came here and what we escaped. |
| 22 | Lowercase Noises | "Of Course It's All Things" | single | You never really escape, of course, but you are never wholly held, |
| 23 | Lights & Motion | "Vanilla Sky" | single | not as long as you can hum and inhale. |
| 24 | Elskavon | "Imagination" | single | There is a grove of specific imperfections |
| 25 | Massimo Di Cataldo | "Domani chissà" | single | down an overgrown path where there may once have been an aqueduct |
| 26 | Dream Wife | "Hey Heartbreaker" | single | or maybe not. But that's the story they tell here, and it's their story, and their road or whatever, |
| 27 | 孫子涵 | "萬裡挑一 - 前任攻略網劇《嗨!前任》片頭曲" | single | until the day we arrive in self-driving cars, and then it belongs to everyone, |
| 28 | L'âme Immortelle | "Unendlich" | single | subject to all our earnest or cynical laws. |
| 29 | Judas Priest | "Lightning Strike" | single | The difference between rebellion and assimilation is mostly a shift in emphasis from anticipatory manifesto to conciliatory bureaucracy. From promise-keeping to record-keeping, and thus from miracles to choruses. |
| 30 | Simple Minds | "Magic - Edit" | single | The difference between innovation and nostalgia is that you already know how you want to talk about one. |
| 31 | Radio Havanna | "Utopia" | single | Young is the opposite and integral of dead. |
| 32 | Chakuza | "Neben mir" | single | Aloud is the opposite and foundation of assent. |
| 33 | Karliene | "Red Right Hand" | Walk with the Devil 3 | Evil is whatever lives in the cave before our eyes adjust, |
| 34 | Xavier Boscher | "Cells" | single | or outside of it, afterwards. |
| 35 | dodie | "Party Tattoos" | single | Stand in the doorway, and keep your eyes open, and trust that everything has a secret shadow heart. |
| 36 | Bleed American | "Comic Sans" | It Probably Isn't | Walk back to town, as dusk and dust settle, and trust that we can find rhetorical purposes for terrible ideas. |
| 37 | MILCK | "This Is Not The End" | single | Methodical hope is the opposite and embodiment and constant culmination of relentless inevitable defeat. Or maybe that's grandly foolish and wrong, but by the time you figure out how to prove it, all these roads will be ours. |