| 1 | Issa | "The Night It Rained Forever" | Queen of Broken Hearts | The universes are inside of us, |
| 2 | Secret Sphere | "Against All the Odds" | Lifeblood | endless and tireless and restless, |
| 3 | Orden Ogan | "Interstellar" | Final Days | infinite and empty and lit by faint but innumerable sources. |
| 4 | Arion | "I Love to Be Your Enemy" | I Love to Be Your Enemy +3 | Blood careens around, |
| 5 | Bloodbound | "Creatures of the Dark Realm" | Creatures of the Dark Realm +1 | frenetic gyroscopy inclining us out of our planes of rest, |
| 6 | Dark The Suns | "The Secrets of Time" | single | humming in demon whispers. |
| 7 | In Victory | "The Pulse of the Heart" | single | We are the prevalent fauna of rhythm and recurrent vertigo, |
| 8 | Secret Rule | "Black Swan" | single | defined and united by the terrified conviction that we are each unique, |
| 9 | Heart Healer | "Awake" | The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson | and thus irreplaceable, |
| 10 | Skarlett Riot | "Stronger" | single | and thus entitled to ludicrous deference. |
| 11 | Against The Current | "weapon" | weapon +1 | And so we fight these silent involute wars |
| 12 | Air Drawn Dagger | "My Murder of Crows" | single | inside the tenuous boundaries of our selves: |
| 13 | Lovebites | "NO TIME TO HESITATE" | GLORY, GLORY, TO THE WORLD | against the tendency to measure our own anticipatory fears against other people's accomplished fates; |
| 14 | Vertex in Origin | "rewind" | Side-by-Side | against hesitation on the event horizon; |
| 15 | MeltnooM | "madakimito" | single | against sentimental capitulation where braver love could have saved us; |
| 16 | #2i2 | "SCAR" | single | against manic grace. |
| 17 | Wolpis Carter | "Overseas Highway" | single | Difference binds us. |
| 18 | INUWASI | "Burnt sienna" | Thanatos 5 | We sing to each other primarily of the shared permeability of air, |
| 19 | FINLANDS | "Love song" | single | and thus inherently of how we are each not yet doomed, |
| 20 | Ivy to Fraudulent Game | "御伽" | single | and so we are most human in the moments when we strain to hear the notes of a distant unfamiliar song, |
| 21 | RADWIMPS | "Hakujitsu - 10 years version" | 2+0+2+1+3+1+1= 10 years 10 songs | and most receptive to rapture when we realize it is coming closer. |
| 22 | Fullkawa Honpo | "yol" | single | Joy nears. |
| 23 | Twin Shadow | "Johnny & Jonnie" | single | Joy surrounds, contracts, infuses. |
| 24 | Finde Fantasma | "Telarañas" | single | If we have learned to welcome joy, these moments are perfect. |
| 25 | La Mafia Canalla | "Buffy Cazavampiros" | single | If we have learned to recognize joy, we may be rewarded with a near-constant thrill. |
| 26 | From the Abyss | "PERSONA" | CURES 4 | But recognizing and welcoming joys are acquired skills, not genetic traits, |
| 27 | UNMASK aLIVE | "KARMA" | UNMASK aLIVE II (My mother is "CAT") | and negotiating this teeming semi-civilization without them is tenuous and terrifying. |
| 28 | the GazettE | "BLINDING HOPE" | single | How do we reach someone whose only coping mechanism, |
| 29 | Gyze | "Voyage of the Future" | Voyage of the Future +1 | in every moment of possible contact, |
| 30 | VOLA | "24 Light-Years" | 24 Light-Years +2 | is DON'T TOUCH ME? |
| 31 | Thy Catafalque | "Erdgeist" | single | We know how to write songs about fearing change |
| 32 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Äschä" | single | more than fearing death, |
| 33 | Tales of Dhvaras | "Three Winters Black" | single | but we don't know how to change a mind |
| 34 | Stortregn | "Timeless Splendor" | Impermanence | that thinks change is the worse option. |
| 35 | The Crown | "Beyond the Frail" | Royal Destroyer | And this is how we can be so beautiful, |
| 36 | Rise to the Sky | "See Me Fall Down" | Let Me Drown With You | each and in every combination, |
| 37 | Dust Moth | "Annular Eclipse" | Rising // Sailing | and yet end up with racists and murders and solipsists and nihilists |
| 38 | Naevius | "BITCH" | single | among us, shattered, |
| 39 | Dead by April | "Heartbeat Failing" | single | tearing through us where their broken edges |
| 40 | Amartia | "Lose Control" | Daylight Beauty | touch and dim our radiant skin. |
| 41 | Ronnie Atkins | "Subjugated" | One Shot | The only weapon we really have is love, |
| 42 | dArtagnan | "Feuer & Flamme" | single | and it has the power to cut through any armor wrapped around an open heart, |
| 43 | Chez Kane | "All of It" | Chez Kane | but nothing more. |
| 44 | Sunstorm | "One Step Closer" | Afterlife | If you love nothing, you are lost, but invulnerable in consolation. |
| 45 | Gary Numan | "I Am Screaming" | I Am Screaming +2 | The essential gothic impulse is the rueful yearning |
| 46 | Laura Les | "Haunted" | single | of the romantic |
| 47 | i9bonsai | "a buhgs ##lyf" | single | for the unattainable imaginary perfection |
| 48 | Sullii | "completely" | me and my absent mind again | of needing no love, |
| 49 | Emma Blackery | "Crying" | single | and being loved for exactly that. |
| 50 | Future Teens | "Bizarre Affection" | Deliberately Alive 5 | The rest of us remember indelible nights in majestically unremarkable neighborhood parks, |
| 51 | pizzagirl | "car freshener aftershave" | single | and new songs that remind us of old songs about the passwords to our shell accounts, |
| 52 | Sŵnami | "Theatr" | Theatr / Uno, Cydio, Tanio 2 | and the five Welsh words you can use in Scrabble where "w" is a vowel. |
| 53 | Neoni | "Where We Rise" | single | In our weakest moments, we may take the villain's proffered hand, |
| 54 | KEiiNO | "UNBREAKABLE" | single | but even in our strongest moments we cannot occupy their vacated throne. |
| 55 | Processor | "Through This" | single | The marble is smooth and cold, |
| 56 | Rey Pila | "Steps, Pt. 1 - Plano Remix" | single | better as floor than chair, |
| 57 | Odonis Odonis | "Salesmen" | Salesmen / Get Out 2 | better for reverb and dancing |
| 58 | Individualist | "Lakydoe Bit" | Lakydoe Bit +2 | than austerity and dominance. |
| 59 | Hidden Citizens | "Goin' In" | Construo 5 | Joy is unruly, |
| 60 | Angusraze | "For Everyone" | single | and thus antithetical to autocracy. |
| 61 | Youth Code | "Claw / Crawl" | A Skeleton Key in the Doors of Depression | Justice marches, |
| 62 | Tony Allen | "Cosmosis" | single | but then it hears a distant song, coming closer, |
| 63 | Chinko Ekun | "Jafafa" | single | and the assembled hosts of truth disperse, |
| 64 | Semi Tee | "Lomshini" | single | flashmobbing in reverse, |
| 65 | Mbosso | "Yes" | Definition of Love | distracted from our tasks by how we look in our bright armor, |
| 66 | Nina Roz | "Mbikooye" | single | metal against skin, |
| 67 | Ballaké Sissoko | "Kora" | single | by exactly how we move as we approach and retreat, |
| 68 | Toumani Diabaté | "Mamadou Kanda Keita" | Mamadou Kanda Keita +1 | and by how we imagine each other without this armor after the war. |
| 69 | Lisa Gerrard | "Noyalain (Burn)" | single | Joy is also our sporadic momentary weakness. |
| 70 | Erik Ekholm | "Apeiron" | single | But the universes are inside of us, still. |
| 71 | Ronski Speed | "Roxy" | Roxy +1 | As fast as we scatter, |
| 72 | Omnia | "Elektra" | Elektra +1 | we recur. |
| 73 | Alessandro Cortini | "CHIAROSCURO" | single | Our spinning blood resets us, |
| 74 | Hallelujah The Hills | "More of a Comet Than a Quasar" | single | and we look into each other's fantastically unexpected and unanticipatable eyes, |
| 75 | Blutengel | "Down in the Park" | Fountain of Destiny | and remember that we are lovers |
| 76 | K-OS | "Just What I Needed" | single | in perfume and ribbons. |
| 77 | Tkay Maidza | "Where Is My Mind?" | single | Our fears will collapse, |
| 78 | Anbaric | "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" | single | will retreat, |
| 79 | Deine Lakaien | "Dust in the Wind" | single | will give us back our moments. |
| 80 | Left Hand Solution | "Jolene" | single | It is not that we yearn for heartbreak, |
| 81 | Our Last Night | "willow" | single | it's that we accept the consequences of awe. |
| 82 | Fly By Nightcore | "Such Great Heights (Switching Vocals)" | single | This is how we can even be beautiful in reductive pixelation |
| 83 | Blutengel | "Nobody's Diary" | Fountain of Destiny | and bombastic exaggeration, |
| 84 | Secret Sphere | "Life Survivors" | Lifeblood | and joylessness can be light-swallowingly dull in any amount of pointlessly leaved gold. |
| 85 | Issa | "Queen of Broken Hearts" | Queen of Broken Hearts | Don't walk away. Let me hear you. Let us hear each other. |
| 86 | Aedliga | "Don't Leave" | Don't Leave +1 | Every word we say is true, and they all say don't leave. |