1 |
Facing West |
"Carry on Wayward Son" |
single |
Any attempt at transcendence is a gesture of humility, |
2 |
TeraBrite |
"King of the Clouds" |
single |
an admission of the inherent enduring limits of whatever you already know |
3 |
Tiffany |
"Beautiful" |
single |
and an invitation to the infinite to pour over you. |
4 |
Deafheaven |
"Glint" |
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
Of course you will have fears. |
5 |
Madder Mortem |
"Moonlight over Silver White" |
single |
You will dread losing what has made you great, |
6 |
Khôrada |
"Seasons of Salt" |
single |
all the more gnawingly if it has actually ceased making you great, |
7 |
Imperial Triumphant |
"Swarming Opulence" |
Vile Luxury |
and maybe really ceased before it began, |
8 |
Firtan |
"Nacht verweil" |
Okeanos |
and maybe you were not yet actually great. |
9 |
End Of You |
"Bird on the Wire" |
Bird on the Wire +1 |
And if you weren't great yet, can you be sure you will ever be? |
10 |
Rebel Wizard |
"The Poor and Ridiculous Alchemy of Christ and Lucifer and Us All" |
single |
What if this is all we have? |
11 |
Kły |
"Irovar (Drzewo bratem)" |
Taran-Gai |
There are only three ways to live: |
12 |
Pig Destroyer |
"Army of Cops" |
single |
this life doesn't matter; |
13 |
Powerwolf |
"Incense & Iron" |
single |
this life is a test that will be scored by unseen and unknowable judges; |
14 |
Redemption |
"Someone Else's Problem" |
single |
this is all we have. |
15 |
Terror Jr |
"Heaven Wasn't Made For Me" |
single |
You have the abstract personal right to choose any of these, |
16 |
Von Grey |
"Dawn" |
single |
but on a shared planet, only the last one makes sense. |
17 |
Bright Light Bright Light |
"Tough Love" |
single |
There is only one defensible moral way to live, |
18 |
Lotic |
"Power" |
Power |
and it begins with the stipulation that morality is collective, |
19 |
Real Friends |
"From The Outside" |
Composure |
and that every human begins with equal cosmic standing, |
20 |
June Divided |
"Firestarter" |
single |
and forfeits it through only irredeemable transgressions against the collective soul. |
21 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Venator" |
single |
The valkyries will not come and release us from this, |
22 |
Dan Bull |
"Sacred Sword Princesses" |
Sacred Sword Princesses +1 |
but if they did, this is what they would say: |
23 |
Arctic Lake |
"Sight of You" |
single |
We gave you billions of each other, how many more faces did you need in which to see your possible selves? |
24 |
lynch. |
"THIRTEEN" |
XIII |
We gave you profusion licking the event horizons |
25 |
Faky |
"four" |
single |
and air that auto-coallesces into the shapes of your secret wishes |
26 |
Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
"青と夏" |
single |
and the capacity for self-calibrating crescendo, |
27 |
Seiko Oomori |
"ZOC実験室" |
クソカワPARTY |
what more did you imagine an afterlife could append? |
28 |
LM.C |
"ChainDreamers" |
single |
We made the fractal stories of your mortality |
29 |
Happy Heads NANIYORI |
"We will luck you" |
We will luck you +3 |
out of tessellations of your awe, |
30 |
Cam |
"Road To Happiness" |
Road To Happiness +2 |
did you never run your fingers along the grain to see which direction it pointed? |
31 |
Obscura |
"Ekpyrosis" |
Diluvium |
Every texture was always a map. |
32 |
Tengger Cavalry |
"Heart" |
Heart +1 |
Every map was a love song |
33 |
Crywolf |
"QUIXOTE (i am alone, and they are everyone)" |
single |
from the void, |
34 |
RL Grime |
"Pressure" |
single |
dreaming of being filled with voices. |
35 |
Cowboy Junkies |
"All That Reckoning, Pt. 2" |
All That Reckoning |
Did you never notice how silence swells into a roar? |
36 |
The Amorettes |
"What Ever Gets You Through the Night" |
Born to Break |
Did you trust no instincts, |
37 |
The Secret Society |
"Deciduous" |
single |
mistrust no fears, |
38 |
ZSK |
"Hallo Hoffnung" |
single |
covet no alluring othernesses? |
39 |
Emma Louise |
"Mexico" |
single |
There are days for stepping out from behind your walls, |
40 |
Soreption |
"Children of the Automaton" |
single |
into |
41 |
Hadal Maw |
"White Elephant" |
single |
coruscating |
42 |
Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx |
"Invoke the Smoke" |
single |
nihilating |
43 |
Ancestors |
"Gone" |
single |
reverie. |
44 |
Byzantine |
"Husk" |
Lobotomy 5 |
We call them "days", |
45 |
Lil' Kim |
"Nasty One" |
single |
and of course "days" is our diurnalistic way of saying days and nights, |
46 |
Wild Pink |
"Love Is Better" |
single |
but nights forgive us, |
47 |
Beach Bunny |
"Painkiller" |
single |
and maybe we can learn instead to say "now", |
48 |
Paty Cantú |
"Déjame Ir" |
single |
and know that "here" means "everywhere", |
49 |
Machinedrum |
"Heart Game" |
single |
and "again" means "still". |
50 |
Max Cooper |
"Identity" |
Identity +1 |
Did you notice no patterns? |
51 |
Metric |
"Dark Saturday" |
single |
Seeker of truth, |
52 |
Swingin' Utters |
"Human Potential" |
single |
follow all of the paths at once. |
53 |
Saltatio Mortis |
"We Drink Your Blood" |
single |
Every story encodes some kind of truth. |
54 |
Omnia |
"CYBERPUNK" |
single |
Globalism is not an annihilation of individual stories, |
55 |
Dan Stone |
"Mahon" |
Mahon +1 |
but a celebration of the simple idea that all stories can coexist |
56 |
Hopesfall |
"H.A. Wallace Space Academy" |
Arbiter |
if and only if you acknowledge them as stories. |
57 |
Oubliette |
"Elegy" |
The Passage |
Any attempt at humility is a gesture of transcendence, |
58 |
Chini and The Technicians |
"Arriba" |
Arriba Es Abajo |
an invitation to the universe to raise you up, |
59 |
Cyantific |
"Labyrinth" |
single |
to give you complexity as an agent of liberation instead of paralysis, |
60 |
Niteworks |
"Air Fàir an Là - Radio Edit" |
single |
time's tick as a rhythm, |
61 |
The Mirraz |
"TEN BILLION DREAM" |
夏を好きになるための6の法則 Part.2 6 |
desperation as an energy, |
62 |
Black Fast |
"Scarecrow and Spectre" |
Spectre of Ruin |
terror as self-awareness. |
63 |
Satellite Mode |
"Terrified" |
single |
Your rictus is a mask. |
64 |
We Deserve This |
"Stroke" |
single |
Your followers appear numb, they can raise only anger, your speech is impaired, your name begins with T. |
65 |
Michael Neil |
"Stratosphere" |
Atmosphere |
But we are surrounded by air. Breathe. |
66 |
Spirit Animal |
"Painkiller" |
single |
You have hope, you have the rest of us. |
67 |
Theatre Of Delays |
"Memories" |
Memories +2 |
You have the beckoning nostalgia of everything everybody else knows, |
68 |
Chelsea Grin |
"Dead Rose" |
Eternal Nightmare |
the dust of everything other people have smashed, |
69 |
Karma Fields |
"CODE 10-31" |
single |
the remainders of their divisions, |
70 |
Iglooghost |
"Clear Tamei" |
single |
the divisions of their foreign distinctions. |
71 |
Karen Zoid |
"Beloofde land" |
single |
They offer you outstretched joys. |
72 |
Francois van Coke |
"Ek Lewe, Ek Belowe" |
En Vriende 4 |
This is all we have, |
73 |
Delilahs |
"This Is Our Time" |
single |
but we can learn to say "now", and "yes", |
74 |
Lapingra |
"Devo dirty di Luca" |
single |
and trust instincts as impetuses for storytelling. |
75 |
Miss Red |
"Memorial Day" |
K.O. |
There are a million indistinguishable ways to live, |
76 |
LiSA |
"Will Mushoku Toumei" |
LiSA Best |
but only one way to choose. |