| 1 | Temperance | "Pure Life Unfolds" | single | I have been waiting, since the invention of death metal, for life metal. |
| 2 | Ignea | "Mermaids" | single | Rebellions always clarify the powers they resist, |
| 3 | The Dead Deads | "Sea Beast" | Tell Your Girls It's Alright | whether this ends decisively or digressively. |
| 4 | Anette Olzon | "Bye Bye Bye" | Strong | But I mean more by "life" than gothic-symphonic- or pop-melodic-: |
| 5 | Seven Spires | "Ghost of Yesterday" | Gods of Debauchery | something intrinsically viridian, |
| 6 | Averlanche | "Archiv der Liebe" | single | inflected by vitality in exactly the way gothic is limned in melancholy; |
| 7 | The Number Zero | "Reverse Magic" | single | something that takes the reversal of doomed grimness into epic magnificence |
| 8 | Eva Under Fire | "Comatose (feat. Jonathan Dörr of Ego Kill Talent)" | single | and completes the transition by also reversing the fall of angels |
| 9 | Fallcie | "Alone with the Beast" | single | so that they rise, |
| 10 | The Agonist | "Remnants in Time" | single | and that they are us. |
| 11 | Tali Dennerstein | "Apathy" | single | We have had anthems of reconciliation, |
| 12 | Dead Sara | "Hypnotic" | single | delivered from a devil pose, |
| 13 | LiSA | "rapid lady ハレーション" | HADASHi NO STEP 4 | until we are ecstatically breathless; |
| 14 | BAND-MAID | "Sense(TV Size Ver.)" | single | we have inlayed superflat ribbon-engines |
| 15 | LEIWAN | "SHINKIBA" | single | into guitar bodies and the heels of boots; |
| 16 | Hakubi | "辿る" | era | we have made suspended centuries of promise |
| 17 | Gacharic Spin | "Dear_____" | Gacharic Spin | out of moments of irresolution. |
| 18 | a crowd of rebellion | "DISTRESS" | single | We have made bright swords out of melting ice. |
| 19 | Ai Otsuka | "GO" | single | We have learned to mostly-freeze time just long enough to walk away |
| 20 | AliA | "Onigokko" | single | in barely unsuspended slow-motion, |
| 21 | kankakupiero | "HIBANA" | single | but have not yet unlearned our insistence on compositing in explosions behind us. |
| 22 | shiranui | "monokuronomamade" | single | These unruly noises channeling chaos, |
| 23 | Kaneyorimasaru | "Kyo no Uta" | single | claiming only to be songs for today, |
| 24 | NILKLY | "DAY DREAM" | DAY DREAM +3 | are of course also songs of how tomorrow becomes. |
| 25 | ZOC | "りこりこ☆くろまじゅつ" | single | All of these songs are about life, |
| 26 | Vinnie Camilleri | "Freya's Path" | single | in the same way that they have always been, translating our understanding of our own power through the throats of ravens |
| 27 | The Sidh | "Osiris" | Nigredo | and the rituals of gods. |
| 28 | The Body | "Blackest Crow" | single | We have walked up to the gates of the abyss |
| 29 | Pentakill | "Lost Chapter" | III: Lost Chapter | with ambivalent legions at our back, |
| 30 | Bloodred Hourglass | "Kings & Queens" | Kings & Queens +3 | and itemized our usurpational claims. |
| 31 | Exist Immortal | "Dive" | single | You can be forgiven for taking this as validation of the structures of rule. |
| 32 | Teramaze | "Modern Living Space" | single | Most of our social innovations have been ways to ship these structures around |
| 33 | Cosmophobe | "To Mourn Forever" | single | in flat packs, requiring only cartoon instructions for self-assembly; |
| 34 | Scarlet Aura | "The Book of Scarlet" | Genesis of Time | ways to reconceive your own viable luxuries as entitlements |
| 35 | Asuryan | "Eternal Crusade" | single | in order to forgive the systemically entitled for the system; |
| 36 | Majestica | "Metal United" | single | ways to unite around aesthetic flags |
| 37 | The Lightbringer of Sweden | "Free the Angels" | single | and freedom as an assertional vibe instead of an aspirational hypothetical; |
| 38 | Mägo de Oz | "Al Abordaje" | Bandera Negra | ways to join inertiae in progress. |
| 39 | 616 | "Lidwin" | single | We have long had the technology to romanticize despair, |
| 40 | Seraphim Shock | "Angel Grey" | single | to diminish suffering by sharing it, |
| 41 | Zeolite | "Sculpture of Torment" | Sculpture of Torment +2 | but in the process reifying it, |
| 42 | Hypocrisy | "Chemical Whore" | single | or at least encouraging it to think of itself as real, |
| 43 | Inferi | "No Gods but Our Flesh" | Vile Genesis | and thus to have claim to all of our privileges. |
| 44 | Calugarul | "Drag the Storms Along" | single | Claims, privileges, limited resources, impending storms: |
| 45 | Anomalie | "Trance II: Relics" | single | this is the cosmology of the demonic, |
| 46 | Ghostheart Nebula | "Mira" | single | the perverse canonization of grandeur as funereal, |
| 47 | La Mer | "Man Has A Hole In His Heart" | Everything Is Falling Apart | the divination of flaws. |
| 48 | LLNN | "Desecrator" | single | Enter into no scam elysium scored by endless peaceful pianos. |
| 49 | ONI INC. | "I've Been Home The Whole Time" | I've Been Home The Whole Time +1 | There is no promised land |
| 50 | Fire-Toolz | "≈ In the Pinewaves ≈" | single | because there are no promises, |
| 51 | 6obby | "out of time" | single | no grounds for faith. |
| 52 | RILEY THE MUSICIAN | "Iced Out (Reloaded)" | single | Ask only for somewhere to stand, |
| 53 | 7ru7h | "Last First Date" | single | or maybe even ground is too material. |
| 54 | illiomote | "No kidding!" | single | We are still ourselves when barely tethered, |
| 55 | Nothing’s Carved In Stone | "Beautiful Life" | single | silhouetted elegantly against glittering stars, |
| 56 | ACIDMAN | "innocence" | single | stripped of gravity, |
| 57 | NETH PRIERE CAIN | "Flow of time -yakusoku-" | Prophecy dream, apocalypse of the end 6 | choosing barely how to spin. |
| 58 | Emma Ruth Rundle | "Return" | single | We have been waiting, in exile, |
| 59 | Rethabile Khumalo | "Uvalo" | single | for eternal homelands that are just like our temporary places. |
| 60 | Ydegirl | "Valley Song" | single | Our most hidden valleys are not hidden from teardrops or other floods. |
| 61 | Low | "White Horses" | HEY WHAT | Rebellions perfect the implicit imperfections of the empires they defy, |
| 62 | Carissa Johnson | "The Sound" | single | whether this grounds them or elevates them, defeats or defines them. |
| 63 | MUNA | "Silk Chiffon (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)" | single | But we mean more by life than pain relief |
| 64 | LÉON | "Dancer" | single | or fevers we find ways to accept as metaphor |
| 65 | Martina Topley-Bird | "Collide" | Forever I Wait | and thus excuse ourselves from curing. |
| 66 | MacKenzie Porter | "Unlonely Me" | single | The angels fall and we catch them and set them on the balls of their feet with hidden posts to hold their heels up, |
| 67 | Christia Visser | "Kaapse Blou" | single | and dress them in whatever we're currently trying to sell, |
| 68 | Franja Du Plessis | "Bring Dit" | single | trying to get people to feel exposed without. |
| 69 | Yumi Zouma | "Give It Hell" | single | And the angels, if they're honest, say |
| 70 | Amyl and The Sniffers | "Hertz" | Comfort To Me | "We were not falling, and didn't intend to stop here", |
| 71 | Sincere Engineer | "Hurricane of Misery" | Bless My Psyche | and we say "There is no promised land, |
| 72 | Yumi And The Weather | "New Way" | single | we can promise that much and no more. |
| 73 | A Swift Farewell | "Sunburn" | Sunburn +1 | You stop here, but you started here. |
| 74 | Hot Milk | "Woozy" | I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I'M DEAD - EP 5 | We have been waiting, in exile, for you to join us. |
| 75 | Sleigh Bells | "SWEET75" | Texis | We have written these songs about exile, or about home, |
| 76 | The Churchhill Garden | "Grounded" | single | imagining that we would know the difference when we heard you sing them |
| 77 | Slow Crush | "Swoon" | Swoon +1 | in voices that we also imagined. |
| 78 | Deserta | "Lost In The Weight" | single | The irony of this is only obvious now that you're here. |
| 79 | L'âme Immortelle | "Angst" | Angst - EP 4 | 'Angel' is just the word for an ethereal fantasy that burns up as it enters the atmosphere. |
| 80 | Murakami | "Среди акул" | Среди акул | Do you identify as incendiary and momentary, |
| 81 | Anilah | "Serpentine" | Chrysalis | or do you want to try singing this?" |
| 82 | Low | "Hey" | HEY WHAT | These swirling noises made out of the strayest energies, |
| 83 | Manic Street Preachers | "Still Snowing in Sapporo" | The Ultra Vivid Lament | trying plaintively to tell stories in which weather is allegory, |
| 84 | Sam Fender | "Get You Down" | Get You Down +2 | or in which allegory can take over some of weather's functions |
| 85 | Corizonas | "Brindo por Ti" | single | so that rain can concentrate on falling straight downwards, |
| 86 | Sleigh Bells | "Hummingbird Bomb" | Texis | are reparational logics |
| 87 | Starless | "Helvetii" | Hope Is Leaving You | that at their best might show us inductive paths out of darkness. |
| 88 | Lawrence English | "The Torso" | Observation of Breath | We have long had the technology to romanticize emptiness, |
| 89 | Pauline Oliveros | "SILENCE" | single | but have not yet been willing to use it to forget our assumed curses. |
| 90 | Menzi | "Uyangithanda" | Awuyi Lapho | There is no silence, not if we have the tiniest willingness to sing about anything. |
| 91 | Somcimbi | "Ivolovolo" | Isethembiso | We have walked up to the edge of the abyss |
| 92 | Ballaké Sissoko | "Nan Sira Madi" | A Touma | and taken pictures of it stretched out in front of us, |
| 93 | BREAK ME DOWN | "Army Of Me" | single | and then a couple where we're making goofy faces and the abyss is behind us, |
| 94 | Ankor | "Gurenge - Demon Slayer - Kimetsu No Yaiba" | Gurenge - Demon Slayer - Kimetsu No Yaiba +1 | not even in focus. It could be anything, a culvert or a parking lot and we're standing on a low wall. |
| 95 | The HU | "Through the Never" | single | All these misleading perspectives are ways of retrieving problematic histories and trying to do them over. |
| 96 | Mon Laferte | "Nothing Else Matters" | single | Half of these neighborhoods were abysses once, or lush vales mislabeled on conquerers' maps. |
| 97 | Cherry Glazerr | "My Friend of Misery" | single | The angels land lightly, among us, just as the verses start. |
| 98 | Mickey Guyton | "Nothing Else Matters" | single | We want to tell them what to sing, and we have centuries of instructions for exactly how, |
| 99 | Alessia Cara | "Enter Sandman" | single | and they say, kindly, "Yes, we've heard it that way. You've sung it that way already, and you can play it on those pianos again after we're done, if you want. |
| 100 | !!! | "Fast Car" | Fast Car / Man on the Moon 2 | But we burned off our wings in your tattered atmosphere to be here, and now we're going to sing why." |