1 |
High Tension |
"Red White Shame" |
Purge |
Bury the red and white hats, |
2 |
Candlemass |
"The Omega Circle" |
single |
restart the ancient engines of justice and truth, |
3 |
Venom |
"I Dark Lord" |
Storm The Gates |
send more guardians to the walls that face the northern abysses and holds. |
4 |
Vanum |
"Jaws of Rapture" |
single |
We are done for now with gifts |
5 |
Ancient Bards |
"Impious Dystopia" |
single |
and carollers' performative reverence. |
6 |
Mob Rules |
"Way Back Home" |
Beast Reborn |
Repack the uneaten, |
7 |
Avantasia |
"The Raven Child (feat. Hansi Kürsch & Jorn Lande)" |
single |
we return now to our homes |
8 |
Secret Rule |
"The Endless" |
single |
and unwon battles, |
9 |
Myrath |
"Dance" |
single |
reunbowed. |
10 |
Arwen |
"Us or Them" |
The Soul's Sentence |
Time to redraw all the lines: |
11 |
Ruelle |
"Where We Come Alive" |
single |
intrinsic and illusory, |
12 |
Slayyyter |
"Alone" |
single |
broken and titanial, |
13 |
Nola Wren |
"Bloodbath" |
Scream into the Void, Pt. 1 5 |
ribboned and razor-wired, |
14 |
Lemuria |
"A Plague Upon the Land - Video Edit" |
single |
retributive and restorative. |
15 |
Crossfaith |
"Soul Seeker" |
single |
Time to find our selves again, |
16 |
coldrain |
"REVOLUTION" |
single |
and our powers, |
17 |
Discrepancies |
"Let It Go" |
single |
and their triumphs. |
18 |
Atena |
"Det Var Ikke Sånn Det Skulle Ende" |
single |
You think you command the encroaching frost, |
19 |
Joseph |
"Sister Winter" |
Sister Winter B/W Rest 2 |
but the winter draws us closer together. |
20 |
androp |
"Blanco" |
daily |
Your only strategy has ever been division. |
21 |
LiSA |
"ADAMAS" |
Akai Wana (Who Loves It?) / ADAMAS 4 |
We multiply. |
22 |
シイナナルミ |
"努力は必ず報われない" |
single |
You feel surrounded, |
23 |
AOP |
"yurerumaifantaji" |
Y |
but this is just what it feels like to be forced to acknowledge other humans |
24 |
Valleyheart |
"Agnosia" |
Everyone I've Ever Loved |
when all you understand about them is that they can see through your clothes. |
25 |
Find Me |
"No Tears in Paradise" |
single |
Time to remember all the ways in which we were ever actually great, |
26 |
La rappresentante di lista |
"Alibi" |
Go Go Diva |
none of which were methods of petulance and untruth. |
27 |
Trollfest |
"Kjettaren mot strømmen" |
single |
Time to retell legends of fearsome defeated monsters, |
28 |
Aktarum |
"Trolls in the Fog" |
Ragnatroll |
so we remember the rhythms of how this will go, |
29 |
Bucovina |
"Septentrion" |
Septentrion |
not so that we will win, because we will win regardless, |
30 |
Furor Gallico |
"The Phoenix" |
single |
but so that the character of the victory will redeem as many of these losses as possible. |
31 |
Cruadalach |
"Earth Café" |
Rebel Against Me |
Inhumanity cannot be subdued by margins, |
32 |
Irfan |
"More Ta Nali" |
Roots |
it must be revealed. |
33 |
Fiddler's Green |
"No Anthem" |
single |
Evil is not outvoted, |
34 |
RÁN |
"Blodbylgje" |
single |
it is reforged into its opposite with fire and hammers at dawn. |
35 |
Eli Young Band |
"Where Were You" |
single |
Every time you lie to hear people cheer, |
36 |
Sarah Darling |
"Call Me" |
single |
you make the day you lose them come later, but with more certainty. |
37 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Shadowless" |
single |
You only need to keep checking your list twice when it's filled with shit you made up. |
38 |
Jeff Rona |
"Crimson Cloud" |
single |
Nobody needs a teleprompter to remember that we rely on the Earth remaining habitable. |
39 |
Nika |
"Takkan Ku Lupa" |
Melody |
No non-terrible human needs to be constantly reminded that we live on the shores of the remorseless seas |
40 |
Caleb Hyles |
"Defying Gravity" |
single |
of a planet we are not yet ready to escape, |
41 |
Ann Bai |
"離開後" |
1990s |
and that this, like literally everything else, unites us. |
42 |
Hurula |
"Självmedicinering" |
Självmedicinering +1 |
If you get through a whole day without having to translate anything, |
43 |
Charlotte Perrelli |
"Under vinrankan" |
single |
or without being willing to, |
44 |
Perikles |
"Lämna mig inte i sticket nu" |
single |
you are gloriously qualified to remain silent, |
45 |
Meridian Dan |
"Fatality" |
single |
or to read other people's stories aloud. |
46 |
Kerretta |
"Uncapital" |
Exiscens |
There is no shame in this, |
47 |
Demon Hunter |
"Peace" |
single |
other than the shame you bring with you everywhere you step. |
48 |
Los Romanticos de Zacatecas |
"El Costo" |
Parques |
There are countless stories. |
49 |
It's for us |
"Stay" |
single |
Your worst and most desperate sentences begin "Only I", |
50 |
Be Forest |
"Bengala" |
single |
and end with you having to decide, |
51 |
Legion Of The Damned |
"Slaves of the Southern Cross" |
single |
with a frankly stunning consistency of error, |
52 |
Fury Weekend |
"Gamechanger" |
single |
whether their profound incorrectness is a matter of horror or relief. |
53 |
Öed |
"Öhuloss" |
single |
People demand new things, |
54 |
RUANN |
"READY TO GO" |
single |
moments of joy and comfort and renewal, |
55 |
Nomy |
"RUN!" |
RUN! |
and all you have is distorted memories of moments when you got away with things. |
56 |
Bassekou Kouyate |
"Deli" |
single |
When you only know how to talk out of your ass, |
57 |
Ahmed Saad |
"يا تمر حنه" |
single |
even your magnificent home ends up sounding like a shithole. |
58 |
Yuri Mrakadi |
"Toot" |
single |
And therein lie fundamental errors to which you will have, |
59 |
Khors |
"Through the Realm of Unborn Stars" |
Beyond the Bestial |
in accidental magnanimity, which is the only kind you know, |
60 |
Elitania |
"Cuando la Noche Abraza el Cielo" |
single |
donated your name. |
61 |
Cole Rolland |
"Circles" |
single |
Digestion is a means, not an end, |
62 |
Louna |
"Hearts of Steel" |
Panopticon |
and all that expensive steak and cheap ketchup is supposed to give you strength |
63 |
Teeth Of The Sea |
"Hiraeth" |
single |
to form interestingly non-flatulent noises. |
64 |
Thelem |
"Informers" |
Informers +2 |
The "real" in "real estate" is real, and the "estate" is an elaboration on the real, not vice versa. |
65 |
Intars Busulis |
"Saproti Mani Kā Gribi" |
single |
A perfume bottle is a product of branding, but what happens when you open it is a result of chemistry, and products and results are different. |
66 |
Blood On The Dance Floor |
"Shiver" |
single |
Thus "To Trump: |
67 |
G.E.M. |
"光年之外(熱愛版)" |
single |
1) to consume expensive resources and produce toxicity that pollutes not only those resources but the whole system by which resources are valued; |
68 |
Marina Fages |
"Hardcore Disnei" |
single |
2) to soil yourself during an attempt to shit on others due to being too embarrassed to take off your pants; |
69 |
Michael Neil |
"Beneath the Quiet City" |
Six Pieces of Orchestra |
3) to cover decay with thin and obviously-fake veneers having worse material properties than what they cover; |
70 |
Cryo Chamber |
"Shub-Niggurath 1" |
Shub-Niggurath |
4) to boast about negotiating a deal with the devil in which you get to pose with the devil's fork for a picture, and then the devil gets your name and your children ever after. And he also gets his fork back." |