1 |
Delain |
"Hunter's Moon" |
single |
Will you use your power to lend inevitability to grace? |
2 |
Avantasia |
"Starlight" |
Moonglow |
If that sounds hard or like it misses the point, |
3 |
Cellar Darling |
"Death" |
single |
then your power is unearned |
4 |
Tigersclaw |
"Walpurgis Night" |
Force Of Destiny |
and your nominal grace mislabeled. |
5 |
The Lust |
"You'll Never Be Mine" |
You'll Never Be Mine |
The delirious irony is that grace is a state you need only allow. |
6 |
Infected Rain |
"Passerby" |
single |
Don't fight yourself. |
7 |
Rotting Christ |
"Dies Irae" |
The Heretics |
To not fight yourself, you have to not hate yourself, |
8 |
Saor |
"Forgotten Paths" |
Forgotten Paths +3 |
which in turn requires that you understand the complex responses you simplify as hate, |
9 |
Violet Cold |
"Mamihlapinatapai" |
Kosmik |
or else that you externalize hate. |
10 |
Samael |
"In The Deep" |
single |
This is more challenging, but takes much less effort. |
11 |
Numenorean |
"Coma" |
single |
The plentiful existence of hard things that are hard because they require monumental effort |
12 |
Candlemass |
"Splendor Demon Majesty" |
single |
can lead you to the understandable misapprehension that difficulty is a measure of effort, |
13 |
Vanum |
"Eternity" |
Ageless Fire |
and from there to the further-astray delusion that reward is a measure of what you deserve. |
14 |
YONAKA |
"Bad Company" |
single |
Thus we get billionaires who conclude they must be important, |
15 |
Cathedrals |
"Jump In" |
single |
and parkways lined with their names and small houses |
16 |
Ladytron |
"Tower of Glass" |
Ladytron |
sending away for elevator catalogs. |
17 |
Jai Wolf |
"Your Way (feat. Day Wave)" |
single |
Thus we are given perfect moments and squander them |
18 |
HÆLOS |
"Boy / Girl" |
Boy / Girl +2 |
to watch useless summaries of things that other people must alter. |
19 |
Sleaford Mods |
"O.B.C.T" |
single |
Belief is epic and resonant; doubt is its larval state. |
20 |
Slow Dakota |
"Canticle 69" |
single |
Give it time. |
21 |
Vanir |
"The Final Stand" |
Allfather |
Learn the Greek words for the changes you seek, |
22 |
Starkill |
"The Real Enemy" |
single |
and their Platonic shapes. |
23 |
Kaunis Kuolematon |
"Aseista riisuttu" |
Elämä ei tarvitse minua 4 |
Learn who else has ruins, |
24 |
MUCC |
"サイコ" |
壊れたピアノとリビングデッド |
so you imagine who else one day might, |
25 |
ONE OK ROCK |
"Grow Old Die Young" |
Eye Of The Storm |
so you can imagine your own. |
26 |
Diaura |
"嘘とワルツを" |
DEFINITION Atype |
Everything you excavate once stood; |
27 |
Aimyon |
"Present" |
Momentary Sixth Sense |
standing is a movement from ground to ground, |
28 |
PANORAMAPANAMATOWN |
"めちゃめちゃ生きてる" |
情熱とユーモア |
or a passageway through. |
29 |
YARUNE SONOUCHI |
"走り出せ凡人" |
single |
It's pointless to stand still |
30 |
熊川みゆ |
"Ancient story" |
single |
without some idea of where you're trying to go. |
31 |
In Her Own Words |
"Serotonin" |
single |
"Trapped" is the application of blame to being lost. |
32 |
WVNDER |
"The Mess You Made" |
single |
Don't fight the things you don't know yet. |
33 |
Jetty Bones |
"To Know You..." |
single |
Not knowing yet is how everything starts: |
34 |
Tacocat |
"Grains of Salt" |
single |
everything mundane but true, |
35 |
Potty Mouth |
"Starry Eyes" |
single |
everything hopeful but frail, |
36 |
Amarionette |
"Chemistry" |
single |
everything built in deserts |
37 |
Boston Marriage |
"Man Who Wasn't There" |
single |
or the snow, |
38 |
Our Hollow, Our Home |
"Wraiths" |
In Moment / / In Memory |
everything we lash together with fears and restless rage. |
39 |
First to Eleven |
"Close to Me" |
single |
Each grimace is a new disguise, |
40 |
Young Ghosts |
"Drowning" |
single |
which is how revulsion leaves you alone. |
41 |
Pentatonix |
"The Sound of Silence" |
single |
Lots of amazing ideas sound terrible in concept |
42 |
Inter Arma |
"Citadel" |
single |
if you have surrounded yourself with ramparts of terribleness |
43 |
Cold Cave |
"Promised Land" |
single |
and sentries who won't tell you honestly what gathers outside of them |
44 |
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard |
"The Spaceships Of Ezekiel" |
single |
and skies your neck can't flex towards. |
45 |
East Of The Wall |
"Clapping on the Ones and Threes" |
single |
But the road to your fortress leads also away. |
46 |
Odd Nosdam |
"Cookies" |
single |
There are drawers full of maps in the rooms you never show people, |
47 |
Gobby |
"Trunks Nett" |
Beats By Gobby 2 |
and sometimes try to forget |
48 |
Bryte |
"1, 2, 3, 4" |
single |
because they remind you that you came upon your demesnes by accident, |
49 |
Fallujah |
"Dopamine" |
single |
or maybe even your parents' accident, |
50 |
Queensrÿche |
"Blood of the Levant" |
single |
not by conquest or right. |
51 |
The Omnific |
"The Stoic" |
single |
There are no exceptional rights. |
52 |
The Great Discord |
"Heart" |
single |
The first habit of highly successful people is self-reflexivity. |
53 |
Alice B |
"Allting går över" |
Allting går över +1 |
There are not successful people and the rest, |
54 |
AMWIN |
"DeLorean" |
single |
but it's true that transformation arises most generally from habit. |
55 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Ionized" |
single |
Not stentorian motivational habits |
56 |
Phil Rey |
"The Miracle of Life" |
single |
or formulae of domination, |
57 |
Enrico Nigiotti |
"La ragazza che raccoglieva il vento" |
Cenerentola e altre storie... |
but the patient insistence to spend moments unmoored, |
58 |
Beba |
"Morosita" |
single |
moments finding the sources of bright colors, |
59 |
XanduIsBored |
"Irony" |
single |
moments in sudden inexplicable ecstasy. |
60 |
Dan Bull |
"Wynona's Big Brown D.Va" |
Wynona's Big Brown D.Va +1 |
Confusion is an enticement, |
61 |
Fly By Nightcore |
"Castle On The Hill" |
single |
not a weakness. |
62 |
Apartamentos Acapulco |
"Camino de Ronda" |
single |
Or not not a weakness, |
63 |
Neus Ferri |
"La Calma" |
single |
but not a flaw. |
64 |
Pom Poko |
"My Work Is Full of Art" |
single |
Or not not a flaw, |
65 |
We Are the Catalyst |
"Coming Home" |
Ephemeral |
but a flaw as usable as any other structural element in Minecraft or teleology. |
66 |
LEDGER |
"Completely" |
single |
Your past was not ordained, |
67 |
Methyl Ethel |
"Real Tight" |
Triage |
your destiny is not assured; |
68 |
Ceres |
"Me & You" |
Me & You +2 |
this and so much other good news secretly awaits |
69 |
Dear Seattle |
"Try" |
Don't Let Go |
any earnest research. |
70 |
Millencolin |
"Sour Days" |
SOS |
Days are themed in colors and flavors, |
71 |
Turnspit |
"So Long & Good Luck" |
single |
but written in wind. |
72 |
Modeselektor |
"Who - Single Version" |
Who 2 |
There are even machines for discovery, |
73 |
Amon Tobin |
"On a Hilltop Sat the Moon" |
single |
and immanent methods |
74 |
Schattenmann |
"Kopf durch die Wand" |
single |
of shuddering progress. |
75 |
Florian Grey |
"Bluecifer - We out Here" |
RITUS |
Break up with your god, I'm bored. |
76 |
Ayben |
"Seçin" |
single |
Disown your language, change your shoes. |
77 |
Kolera |
"Bana Sorabilirsin" |
single |
Ask some questions whose answers you aren't prepared to understand. |
78 |
Melis Kar |
"Everest" |
Everest +2 |
Joy can twitch. |
79 |
pronoun |
"stay" |
single |
Persistence is |
80 |
我儘ラキア |
"We'll Keep Raising The Frag" |
We'll Keep Raising The Frag / Leaving 3 |
magnificent in itself, |
81 |
FTISLAND |
"God Bless You" |
single |
and all these Korean boys are only trying to tell you that you are too. |
82 |
DREAMCATCHER |
"Piri" |
The End of Nightmare 6 |
Joy sometimes learns phrases phonetically at first, |
83 |
Nyte |
"Finding My Way" |
single |
distracted by how they sound as echoes, |
84 |
Hora Zulú |
"Cave Ventum" |
La Voz del Amo |
and the empty spaces implied. |
85 |
Avalanch |
"El Oráculo" |
single |
But what you forget is that you learn to hear |
86 |
Sabbath Assembly |
"Solve Et Coagula" |
single |
just as lurchingly as you learn to explain. |
87 |
Skraeckoedlan |
"Tentakler & Betar" |
Eorþe |
These uneven footfalls are the sound of your eventual demise, |
88 |
SayWeCanFly |
"Pavement" |
single |
but we still make sidewalks |
89 |
Andy Black |
"Westwood Road" |
single |
and then explore them like we didn't just put them there ourselves, |
90 |
Brightr |
"New Years" |
single |
or like we did but that changes nothing. |
91 |
Kaylee Bell |
"Keith" |
single |
These songs are limitless gifts for each other, |
92 |
Nomy |
"I once had a heart" |
single |
an economy of beaming universal love |
93 |
Diabolical |
"Black Sun" |
Eclipse |
often refracted |
94 |
Rebeka |
"Fale" |
single |
but rarely recessed. |
95 |
Son Lux |
"Sleep" |
single |
The moments you try to remove yourself from it |
96 |
Picture This |
"Modern Love" |
MDRN LV |
are the ones in which the rest of us reach to pull you back in. |
97 |
Tragedy |
"Fame" |
Tragedy Goes to the Movies |
Take any of the outstretched hands. |
98 |
Kings Destroy |
"Barbarossa" |
single |
In order to help you, they have learned not to fight themselves. |
99 |
Thundermother |
"Da Igual" |
single |
You must have questions about their habits. |
100 |
Merely |
"Crazy Heart" |
Hatching The Egg |
The answers won't help, but the questions might. |
101 |
Jadudah |
"Never Look Back" |
single |
Close your eyes. No, open your eyes. |
102 |
Alfenic |
"Nuestra Peor Versión" |
Atemporal |
All these Catalan boys are only trying to tell you that both of these are bad habits, but anything that changes your state sets you a little bit more free. |