| 1 | Eleine | "Story Untold" | Until the End | There are many reasons to have death metal, but one is that it pulled a pendulum back |
| 2 | Last Days of Eden | "Falling in the Deep" | single | and released it towards life metal. |
| 3 | Sebastien | "Act of Creation" | Act of Creation | I'm not sure this kind of metadestructive exuberance was already implicit in Black Sabbath, but by "Smoke on the Water" and Sad Wings of Destiny is was at least obvious in retrospect, |
| 4 | Necrophobic | "Lamashtu" | Mark Of The Necrogram | and we're now well into the imperial period during which metal can be simultaneously nihilistic and viridian, |
| 5 | Lustre | "The First Snow" | single | apocalyptic and utopian, |
| 6 | Ihsahn | "Arcana Imperii" | single | routinely progressive the same way pop songs are now all permitted skittery trap drum-loops, |
| 7 | In Vain | "Seekers of the Truth" | Currents | periodically inundated by joy the way cities can now just flood, |
| 8 | Thy Catafalque | "Szamojéd Freskó" | single | even in landlocked countries. |
| 9 | Dimmu Borgir | "Interdimensional Summit" | single | We struggle with the atmosphere, but we definitely have the technology to polish obsidian to a mirrorglow, and maybe these two things aren't unrelated. |
| 10 | Svrcina | "Whispers" | single | So stay with me now. |
| 11 | Zola Jesus | "Bound" | single | A song may close its eyes and fall into your arms, so are you ready? |
| 12 | Ratboys | "GL" | GL +3 | Ours is a rueful universe |
| 13 | Twin Shadow | "Saturdays (feat. HAIM)" | single | coopted by sentient ebullience. |
| 14 | 3LAU | "Worlds Away" | Ultraviolet | Our angels are among us, are us. |
| 15 | New Shack | "Cherry" | single | Hesitance is the negative space around resolve, |
| 16 | Screaming Females | "I'll Make You Sorry" | All at Once | and don't tell me you can't play "God Save the Queen" now and hear it without irony. |
| 17 | RÓSA | "Don't Force It" | The Taste of Another 4 | Hearing without irony is the emotional version of noise-cancelling, |
| 18 | Can't Swim | "In Between" | single | built into every pair of headphones at the point where they connect to heads, |
| 19 | Mattia Cupelli | "Farewell" | Farewell // Iteration 2 | patiently wordlessly arguing for outliving this quiet moment and then this one until it starts seeming like a pattern. |
| 20 | NateWantsToBattle | "Howling" | single | Howling is one of the minor important sins, |
| 21 | AmaLee | "Hope (One Piece)" | single | hope the first of the major ones, |
| 22 | Efisio Cross | "Invincible Messiah" | single | and belief systems can be categorized by how self-awarely they oppose omniscient fatalism, |
| 23 | JT Music | "A Tenno's Dream" | single | or how conversationally. |
| 24 | Secrets | "Last Time" | SECRETS | There is an event horizon where the soaring voice breaks, |
| 25 | Falling In Reverse | "Losing My Mind" | single | or vice versa, |
| 26 | Underoath | "On My Teeth" | single | where we disintegrate or take flight, |
| 27 | Hylian | "The Queen Paradigm" | Raison D'etre | or explode to find a way off the ground, |
| 28 | Zaxx | "Belong" | single | away from all this gravity. |
| 29 | Starkill | "The Pretender" | single | It is perfectly possible to be slightly epic, |
| 30 | IKINÄ | "Turbounelmii" | single | and pretty much every symbolic cathartis beyond sunsets derives from this creative truth. |
| 31 | Joshua Hyslop | "Say It Again" | Echos | Some things we soften |
| 32 | Alex G | "Perfect Mess" | In the Still & Homespun, Pt. II - EP 4 | or simplify, |
| 33 | From Sorrow To Serenity | "Supremacy" | single | some we crush for pigment |
| 34 | Mike Gianelli | "Balance 5150" | Chapter One | or just to crush. |
| 35 | Keep Shelly In Athens | "Denial" | Denial / Tokyo Lane 2 | And yet, here we are still, fragile and alive and uncrushed, |
| 36 | Rothko | "If You Don't Leave We Will Kill You" | For The Displaced 2 | painting more searching shapes, |
| 37 | Inferi | "Behold the Bearer of Light (feat. Trevor Strnad)" | single | lovingly grooming our demons, |
| 38 | Jonas Lundqvist | "Helt perfekt" | Affärer | waiting for friends or shipments |
| 39 | Block 44 | "Dominobrickor" | Dominobrickor +1 | or whatever we think will be the beginning of something new. |
| 40 | Editors | "Hallelujah (So Low)" | single | We argue with our muses, |
| 41 | Ashley McBryde | "Radioland" | single | or push them just far enough away that we can pretend they are out of our control, |
| 42 | Megaherz | "Scherben bringen Glück" | Komet | and thus offer redemption, |
| 43 | Schwarzer Engel | "Meerflucht" | Kult der Krähe | not just recursion, |
| 44 | RADWIMPS | "Mountain Top" | Mountain Top / Shape Of Miracle 2 | as if those ever represent independent concepts. |
| 45 | ayaka | "ハートアップ" | single | Can you listen to a waterfall and hear a love song? |
| 46 | Winnie | "who's dreaming deep" | Greatful 15years Dead | You can learn to hear nothing else, |
| 47 | SpecialThanks | "SImple Space" | HEART LIGHT 5 | and it's surprising how little trouble that causes, |
| 48 | Tengger Cavalry | "The Old War" | Cian Bi | other than the obvious invading barbarian hordes |
| 49 | Siberia | "Nuovo pop italiano" | Si vuole scappare | with their absurdly awesome hair. |
| 50 | Cucineremo Ciambelle | "Horror" | Fingere di essere ciò che si è | The point of mathrock is that anybody can do math, |
| 51 | Written by Wolves | "Follow Me" | single | of post-hardcore is that afterwards, everything is possible, |
| 52 | Mallory Knox | "Black Holes" | single | and thus it must always have been. |
| 53 | Art Nation | "Infected" | single | There is The The, and then there are all the other articles, |
| 54 | Last Autumn's Dream | "Shadows Of The Night" | Fourteen | echoed and refracted, |
| 55 | Issa | "Come Back Again" | single | more dreamlike with each distortion, |
| 56 | Midas Fall | "Soveraine" | single | and isn't that what you hoped would happen when you stomped on that pedal? |
| 57 | Mia Dyson | "Diamonds" | single | Put up a forcefield around our hearts, |
| 58 | Novelist | "Nov Wait Stop Wait" | single | and then paint it |
| 59 | Filthy Gears | "Shift" | Portals 6 | so the cameras can't see us. |
| 60 | Belly | "Shiny One" | single | We return under cover of darkness and neglect, |
| 61 | Usurpress | "Late in the 11th Hour" | Interregnum | insidious and ethereally caustic, |
| 62 | Callejon | "Das gelebte Nichts" | Fandigo | insistent and evocatively bruised, |
| 63 | Sarkodie | "Devil in Me" | single | summoning our flashmobs |
| 64 | Adekunle Gold | "IRE" | single | and taking the time to dance a figure with each soul included, |
| 65 | Dotman | "Iyawo" | single | until the patterns of our steps sketch our collective likeness, |
| 66 | Bloody Hammers | "What's Haunting You" | single | and you think "oh, is that what I look like?" |
| 67 | Mr.Busta | "Bohócképző" | single | Maybe it's what you look like in a landlocked country, |
| 68 | I AM THEY | "The Water (Meant for Me) [feat. David Leonard]" | single | or somewhere where they believe things you think of as a superstitions, |
| 69 | Elevation Worship | "Overcome" | There Is a Cloud | or doubt things you assume. |
| 70 | The Glitch Mob | "How Could This Be Wrong (feat. Tula)" | single | All of these are tactics of self-disruption |
| 71 | Carpenter Brut | "Leather Teeth" | Leather Teeth | cloaked as shields of surety. |
| 72 | Linn Koch-Emmery | "Wires" | single | All of these are ways to walk on uncertain streets, |
| 73 | Jelena Karleusa | "Bankina" | single | or to dance on ice or air. |
| 74 | Red Sleeping Beauty | "Top Love" | single | Don't you want this? |
| 75 | Shay | "The Convo" | single | Didn't we make it seem glamorous, |
| 76 | Armored Dawn | "Beware of the Dragon" | Barbarians in Black | or perilous, |
| 77 | Blender | "Hello" | single | or one of those words? |
| 78 | Kalle Moraeus | "Min dröm" | single | And oh, oh!, what if we all got matching jackets |
| 79 | Paola | "Logia" | De Se Fovamai Ourane | and all walked from here to the stadium, spinning around in sync every 4 or 8 steps? |
| 80 | The People The Poet | "Kids on the Corner" | single | Isn't it true that our hearts can never break? |
| 81 | For Esmé | "Doubtmouth" | single | That ours is a universe methodically instrumented for radiance? |
| 82 | PILOTZ | "Memang Aku" | Let's Fly | That the radiance is actually and essentially us? |