| 1 | Emerald Mind | "Genetic Paradise" | single | There are no neutral fonts, no neutral voices. |
| 2 | Cellar Darling | "Pain" | The Spell | Everything you say carries an inherent lineage of failure and misguided attempts at dominance |
| 3 | MoonSun | "Hearing Your Screams" | single | and every kind of love we ever halfway learned. |
| 4 | Battle Beast | "Unbroken" | No More Hollywood Endings | All language is heraldry, |
| 5 | Frozen Crown | "In The Dark" | Crowned In Frost | and "anthem" is what they call a song when they want to believe you believe something they need. |
| 6 | Bloodbound | "Skyriders And Stormbringers" | Rise Of The Dragon Empire | But this is true of all words, and all worlds. |
| 7 | Rage Of Light | "Battlefront" | single | We exchange connected needs thinly disguised as phonemes that exist somehow between us, |
| 8 | Aephanemer | "Prokopton" | Prokopton | pretending to be isolated by air |
| 9 | Aoratos | "Of Harvest, Scythe and Sickle Moon" | Gods Without Name | when of course air is exactly what unites us. |
| 10 | Novarupta | "Mare Tranquillitatis" | single | Hatred aspires inchoately to both displace and hoard the atmosphere, |
| 11 | Ghost Ship Octavius | "Turned to Ice" | Delirium | which is why it turns your face bad colors. |
| 12 | Full Of Hell | "Burning Myrrh" | single | The living fetishization of death is a longing for release from this complexity, |
| 13 | Little Comets | "Alive at All" | single | for a solipsist's redemption in which your eternal reward depends on no other person's heresies or weaknessnes, |
| 14 | Anteros | "Afterglow" | When We Land | only your own. |
| 15 | Ex Hex | "Another Dimension" | It's Real | You can imagine a universe that works like this, |
| 16 | Sleeper | "Paradise Waiting" | The Modern Age | if you aren't that good at imagining. |
| 17 | pronoun | "temporary tantrum" | single | But there's a reason that no cult's idea of heaven has ever sounded like it would be interesting for longer than three minutes. |
| 18 | The Dollyrots | "Everything" | Everything +1 | We can think of a million worlds worse than this, |
| 19 | Mecca Normal | "Revival of Cruelty - Live" | Brave New Waves Session | and practical methods to bring half of them about, |
| 20 | Geographer | "Stolen Liquor" | New Jersey | but given a bucket of bare atoms and told to set them into a divine orbit, |
| 21 | Roosevelt | "Everywhere" | single | we make heartbroken homages to how we used to think we wanted to feel, |
| 22 | BLACKNAZARENE | "stray straight" | single | and allegories of the limits of symmetry, |
| 23 | WILL-O' | "Identity" | single | and towers to nowhere, |
| 24 | SCANDAL | "マスターピース" | single | and that's how we got these cities. |
| 25 | HYDE | "HONEY" | MAD QUALIA 2 | "Anthem" is a name for what you feel when somebody hits a drum and you think "Yes, better to be alive than dead, so far, |
| 26 | Maneki Kecak | "さよならなんて" | いつかどこかで / ワンチャンス | with all of these frailties and confusions and constant losses, |
| 27 | Reol | "たい" | 文明EP 4 | but moments of dizzy certainty |
| 28 | Lizzo | "Tempo (feat. Missy Elliott)" | Tempo (feat. Missy Elliott) +2 | and blunt elegance." |
| 29 | Amon Amarth | "Raven's Flight" | single | Are your transformations intended for hunting enemies or gathering information? |
| 30 | The Animal In Me | "11 Minutes" | single | The things you push away collect around you in concentric circles, |
| 31 | Halocene | "Bury a Friend" | single | gradually poisoning your breath; |
| 32 | Yours Truly | "I Can't Feel" | I Can't Feel +2 | the things you pull close grab your hand and lift you into the open sky, |
| 33 | SAINTE | "Back 2 Me" | single | out of all clutches. |
| 34 | Dave Hause | "Saboteurs" | single | Our masterstroke will be their heart attack. |
| 35 | Martha | "The Void" | single | Their abyss will be our hidden valley. |
| 36 | Tamaryn | "Path to Love" | single | Our delirious haze will be their agenda of dismay |
| 37 | Veronica Maggio | "Kurt Cobain" | single | and performative betrayal, |
| 38 | Nightcore Reality | "Clarity" | single | but we do not have to bear this weight. |
| 39 | Crywolf | "MEPHISTOPHELES" | widow [OBLIVIØN Pt. I] | That is not how our gravity is organized. |
| 40 | Roulette | "Never Enough" | Now! | The narcissist has one answer for every one of our questions, |
| 41 | Sarah Longfield | "Now" | single | which is the most pitiful of impoverishments, |
| 42 | Pathogenic | "Suicide Itch" | single | self-deprivation crudely relabeled as self-confidence. |
| 43 | El Lado Oscuro de la Broca | "Las Naves de Tolosa" | Oeste 3 | The proper goal of question-answering is forming empathy with doubt, |
| 44 | 831 | "一事無成的偉大" | 「一事無成的偉大」自選作品輯 | which is how conversation can transcend idiom, |
| 45 | Kedr Livanskiy | "Ivan Kupala (New Day) (Иван купала)" | single | and idiom can transcend language, |
| 46 | Warforged | "Voice" | single | and language can transcend divinity. |
| 47 | Ida Jenshus | "That Morning" | single | Memory and hope are rotations of a single imperative, |
| 48 | ISÁK | "Máze" | Ealán | which is how maps can exhort you into unknowns |
| 49 | Grand Magus | "Brother of the Storm" | Brother of the Storm +1 | without revealing the location of your rebellion's base. |
| 50 | GOLD | "Taken by Storm" | single | We tender offers to chaos, |
| 51 | Aseethe | "No Realm" | single | knowing its reponses are not subject to our consent, |
| 52 | Sasha | "Polaroid - Radio Mix" | single | because terrifying surprises are better than thinking there's nothing more |
| 53 | Seraphim System | "Mark of the Void" | Xibalba | than what we already know. |
| 54 | Touch Sensitive | "Unconditional" | single | These are our brandished secrets, |
| 55 | Toyah | "Telepathic Lover" | single | and the volumes written about what they conceal, |
| 56 | Brutus | "Django" | single | and the implied consumed libraries |
| 57 | Blood Command | "S01E02.Return.Of.The.Arsonist.720p.HDTV.x264" | single | we notionally architect to take this seriously |
| 58 | Only Shadows | "Cowboys" | single | so that we can not do that long enough to walk outside before it starts raining, |
| 59 | Tanzwut | "Gib mir noch ein Glas" | single | or during, |
| 60 | Stahlmann | "Vom Himmel verloren" | Kinder der Sehnsucht | in the giant boots we've been saving for just this day. |
| 61 | UMC | "Without Me (Metal Version)" | single | The ways to be lonely are factorials of permutations of everything possible. |
| 62 | MajorVoice | "Shot in the Silence" | The Newer Chapter | The ways to be awed are additive and multiplicative and relentless. |
| 63 | Death Angel | "Humanicide" | single | If you really believed in doom, you wouldn't spend a month learning a guitar solo, |
| 64 | AstroPilot | "Inverted Worlds" | Solar Walk II | or ten minutes inside the substructure of a single note, |
| 65 | DJ Arafat | "Lékilé" | single | or three minutes in somebody else's dreams. |
| 66 | Futurecop! | "We Belong" | Voltrana | But you do, |
| 67 | All Tvvins | "Better Than Here" | single | this and a hundred other helpless wards against hopelessness, |
| 68 | Kardinal Synd | "Svåra år" | single | invoked by your slightest movements, |
| 69 | Spotlights | "The Particle Noise" | single | scattering trolls to the margins of firelight |
| 70 | Moon Tooth | "Awe at All Angles" | single | or weak attractors, |
| 71 | Mozgi | "Digitalization" | single | proving that, despite our elaborate systems of denial, we care a lot. |
| 72 | Amon Tobin | "Vipers Follow You" | single | Anxiety can be productive, |
| 73 | Windfaerer | "A Glimpse of Light" | Solar | which is like saying that light can be illuminating, |
| 74 | The Range | "Carole" | Providence 4 | but you can't live on darkness, |
| 75 | Lafawndah | "Storm Chaser" | Ancestor Boy | and anyway those things we call darkness are mostly made out of light anyway. |
| 76 | The Great Discord | "Afterbirth" | Afterbirth +3 | Everything begins in triumph, |
| 77 | The Foreign Resort | "Obsessing" | single | but eventually gets more relevant than that. |
| 78 | Destrage | "The Chosen One" | single | A good travel guide would say "Go there. Leave this book at home." |
| 79 | K-X-P | "Hex Bag - Single Edit" | single | and then try to answer some practical questions about the use of your time and the environmental impact of airplane fuel. |
| 80 | Parting Gift | "Pale" | Ensom 5 | There's a square with a fountain. All fountains are kind of the same, but none of them are neutral, |
| 81 | PYLOT | "Alice" | Solai | and the more of them you sit beside, the less neutral you become. |
| 82 | Dominanz | "Let The Death Enter" | Let The Death Enter | The didact wants to be right, the narcissist wants to be central, the nihilist wants to be left; |
| 83 | 7xvn | "Smxle" | single | I just want to be happy, or some shattered thing we call Happy as a rueful pet name. |
| 84 | RVNSXMWVRE | "I GOT IT" | single | This is a strange way to live, but also the one that every desperate blaring noise is trying to explain to us at once. |