| 1 | My Own Ghost | "Believe" | single | Yes to more grandiose metal songs about allowing yourself to appreciate a held hand. |
| 2 | Shereign | "Dark Waters" | single | Yes always to guitars like engines, and English choruses in Finnish accents. |
| 3 | Future Palace | "Paradise" | single | Yes to dreaming of futures without problems as a tactic for forcing the problems to confront their own precarity, |
| 4 | Kandia | "Fight or Flight" | single | and then screaming back into the contested now. |
| 5 | Divided Island | "Radiating Light" | Radiating Light +2 | We produce no light, but see everything in it. |
| 6 | Starkill | "Walk Through Fire" | single | Our ridiculous ideas are tremendous, |
| 7 | Evereal | "Fear" | single | which makes up a little for how our tremendous ideas sometimes prove to be loathsome. |
| 8 | Aeternitas | "Shadows" | single | Courage is the ability to sing a song like you believe it, |
| 9 | Kissin' Dynamite | "Good Life (feat. Saltatio Mortis, Charlotte Wessels & Guernica Mancini)" | Good Life (feat. Saltatio Mortis, Charlotte Wessels & Guernica Mancini) +2 | knowing that you can't possibly be sure. |
| 10 | Evol Walks | "Gun & a Crucifix" | single | Faith is like this, too, |
| 11 | Jim Peterik And World Stage | "Taller" | Tigress - Women Who Rock the World | in the way that cages are like stages. |
| 12 | Saxon | "Carpe Diem (Seize the Day)" | single | Today slips away from a trillion grasping hands, but if you can seize an autumn afternoon from 122 C.E. |
| 13 | Opera Diabolicus | "Bring out Your Dead" | Bring out Your Dead +2 | you will have a loaned treasure you don't have to immediately return. |
| 14 | Xiphea | "Witchcraft" | Witchcraft | This is how there is still new power to be found in old spells, |
| 15 | Theatres Des Vampires | "Death in Venice" | single | and doomed immortality in drowning cities. |
| 16 | Hanging Garden | "Neither Moth nor Rust" | single | The prize of the Ancient Wonders isn't the one that survived, it's the one that we're not certain ever existed. |
| 17 | AfterTime | "Forge Your Destiny" | Infinite Legacy | The purest legends originate somewhere outside of time, |
| 18 | Haast | "Antipodean" | Made of Light | thus exempt from our expectations and limits. |
| 19 | Sarke | "Funeral Fire" | Allsighr | We conjure pyres and apocalypses to justify beginning again, |
| 20 | Dwell in Doom | "Gallows Hill" | single | or to imagine rebirth as a triumphant return, |
| 21 | Omnium Gatherum | "Prime" | Origin | instead of a tattered Elven ship limping back to New Mithlond. |
| 22 | Frozen Shield | "Canvas of Snow" | Ínia | The harbormaster takes his pipe out of his mouth, and squints with one eye. |
| 23 | Erdling | "Fimbulwinter" | Leuchtfeuer 4 | "What did you forget?" |
| 24 | Hypocrisy | "Children of the Gray" | Children of the Gray +2 | The answer, of course, is that what they forgot to take away with them, |
| 25 | Merta | "Palanut maa" | Minä | into the blessed realms, is us, |
| 26 | MØL | "Fraktur" | Diorama | and they didn't exactly forget. |
| 27 | Bornholm | "My Evangelium" | Apotheosis | Half-honest legends pause to wonder why the gods |
| 28 | Aquilus | "Lucille's Gate" | single | would strand us on this hopeless, distant rock. |
| 29 | Mroh | "Whispers from Nowhere" | XII | Fully-honest legends probably go no further, |
| 30 | Ars Magna Umbrae | "Beyond the Stellar Gates" | single | which is why only the ridiculous legends have any analogic power. |
| 31 | MUCC | "GONER" | GONER/WORLD 3 | The Elves, of course, never actually left. |
| 32 | D | "Zmei ~Fumetsu ryuu~" | single | They stayed, and formed visual kei bands. |
| 33 | ZERO[Hz] | "RENDEZVOUS" | RENDEZVOUS +2 | They sent home for their capes and neon, |
| 34 | SCAPEGOAT | "scar-let" | single | and made up a language you can only write with brushes. |
| 35 | Damian Hamada's Creatures | "嵐が丘" | single | If you listen closely to their songs, you can tell that the guitars that sound like engines |
| 36 | SLOTHREAT | "Harmonize" | single | sound like the engines you imagine if you have always been able to fly with your mind, |
| 37 | 己龍 | "yukikokugounitsuki" | yukikokugounitsuki +2 | and thus fell in love with the flickering of ebulliently needless fire. |
| 38 | XANVALA | "聖戰" | 聖戰 +3 | The gods give themselves away by speaking to us, |
| 39 | ZOC | "BEGGiNG" | BEGGiNG/STUPiD 2 | by all this desperate scripture beseeching us to devote or dread, |
| 40 | BiS | "割礼GIRL" | 割礼GIRL / family name 2 | by the suspiciously specific rituals they coincidentally require. |
| 41 | CODE OF ZERO | "Human-Emo" | single | Yes to legends that start now, with our own conjectural selves. |
| 42 | nano.RIPE | "リリリバイバー" | 小さな祈りの書 4 | Yes to songs that say nothing in unfamiliar languages. |
| 43 | LEVEREVE | "Timid eyes" | single | Yes to the mysterious and the timid, conflated. |
| 44 | Lucie,Too | "Fool" | single | Yes to guitars that sound like chain-link fences wrapped tightly around the wind, |
| 45 | チョーキューメイ | "涙と羽根のピアス" | いたくないイヤリング 5 | and half-heard wispsounds telling you that it doesn't help to reach the end. |
| 46 | アスノポラリス | "あの日のまま" | 夕暮れの道を振り返れば 3 | Yes to finding something you once left behind, |
| 47 | NOSE GRIND | "Far from Home" | Far from Home 6 | but the people who found it have made it into what they thought it was supposed to be, |
| 48 | cinema staff | "I melted into the Void" | Kaitei | and it's only when they see your eyes |
| 49 | SEPTALUCK | "CRAZY" | CRAZY +1 | that you both realize you both always had the wrong idea. |
| 50 | BUMP OF CHICKEN | "Small world" | single | Where did the Elves think they were going to go? |
| 51 | MADKID | "LINKAGE" | single | If you sail West, you end up East. |
| 52 | sumika | "Babel" | single | One day the tracks of their new bullet trains reach Rhûn from the uncharted lands off the right side of JRR's map, |
| 53 | Charli XCX | "New Shapes (feat. Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek)" | New Shapes (feat. Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek) +1 | and it finally occurs to us to wonder why he didn't bother even sketching an edge there. |
| 54 | Talltale | "Tennis Club" | single | All myths are magic spaces in the middle of our cities, |
| 55 | Hyd | "The One" | Hyd 4 | transcribed into hidden compartments in the middle of our hearts. |
| 56 | Nicola Cruz | "O Sea, Sí te Quiero" | single | Yes to buried atria |
| 57 | CXLOE | "New Trick" | New Trick +2 | and crusader tunnels retrofitted with tracklights and handrails. |
| 58 | Dorian Electra | "My Agenda (feat. Village People & Pussy Riot) [Anamanaguchi Remix]" | My Agenda (Deluxe) | Yes to the seditious agenda |
| 59 | valyri | "One of My High School Science Teachers Was Demoted to a Middle School Science Teacher for Calling Student a Slur" | Mosaic II | of survival and love. |
| 60 | Yandere | "2ouch it" | crying silence 3 | The inkless parts off the sides of the maps are definitionally peaceful and irrelevant |
| 61 | Wstdyth | "n(n)irvana" | Technom4ncer | until they get drawn and redrawn for centuries. |
| 62 | Goffie | "Selfish" | single | Yes to guitars in our half-sung rap songs, |
| 63 | Backxwash | "ROSEMARY'S REVENGE" | single | and the roiling ichor-tongues of the void. |
| 64 | Ashley Purdy | "After Midnite" | single | Yes to anthems that launch their choruses with "take my hand", |
| 65 | Stand Atlantic | "molotov [OK]" | single | and words that take over from weapons. |
| 66 | Young Guv | "Lo Lo Lonely" | single | I don't mean that the harbormaster only has one eye. |
| 67 | Neptune Rain | "Rise" | Chaos & Light (Extended Edition) | He's just had the pipe clamped in one corner of his mouth all morning, |
| 68 | Porcupine Tree | "Harridan" | single | so when he takes it out, the muscles have to rearrange themselves. |
| 69 | Boris | "Reincarnation Rose" | single | Also, how do you get the job as the harbormaster of a decomissioned port? |
| 70 | Zetra | "The Raven's Game" | single | Easier, I guess, to see why you might want it. |
| 71 | A Pregnant Light | "The Ghost of Sab Grey" | All Saints' Day 2 4 | Either you get to do nothing but chew on a pipe and think, |
| 72 | Portrayal of Guilt | "The Sixth Circle" | CHRISTFUCKER | or you get to be there when the Elves return. |
| 73 | Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik | "Heim til Yggdrasil" | Hardanger 2 | So there's no bad outcome. |
| 74 | Völur | "Enclosure" | Zwischen den Wäldern | This is the point the legend-writers always write right past. |
| 75 | Converge | "Coil" | single | The stories that sustain us do so by carrying us from any sudden moment to another. |
| 76 | Black Country, New Road | "Bread Song" | Bread Song +1 | Yes to songs that find loveless emptinesses and fill them up with longing, |
| 77 | Dan Reeder | "When Ditmar Cometh Home" | When Ditmar Cometh Home +1 | and songs that pour the longing out again like oat milk. |
| 78 | Cold Night For Alligators | "Thin Line" | Thin Line +3 | We produce no darkness, |
| 79 | Nation of Language | "Whatever You Want" | A Way Forward | but can't stop demanding to be swallowed by it |
| 80 | Jónsi | "Ambrox" | Obsidian | long enough to cough it all back out of our lungs. |
| 81 | Mary Mortem | "Dysphoria" | Do You Believe In Thelema | Doubt and fear are like this, too, |
| 82 | Emma Ruth Rundle | "Body" | Engine of Hell | coiled inside of us in exactly the shapes of our veins and gestures, |
| 83 | El Cuervo de Poe | "Berenice" | single | waiting to be our hideous strength. |
| 84 | Monica Naranjo | "Lágrimas de un Ángel" | Lágrimas de un Ángel +1 | Gods, Elves, angels; tears, light. |
| 85 | Little Mix | "Between Us" | single | There's no bad outcome |
| 86 | Kaylee Bell | "Living Free" | single | because nothing exactly ends. |
| 87 | Tenille Townes | "Villain in Me" | single | You land a blow, or a torch, but the eyes don't cut away like cameras. |
| 88 | Ruby Amanfu | "All This Love" | single | The smoke clears, if it's smoke this time, and somebody is there again with a hand. |
| 89 | Saskilla | "Sarge" | Shirley | It has a person on one end, and something bright and sharp on the other. "We knew you'd come back for this. |
| 90 | DJ Lycox | "Rapaz Sinistro" | Lycoxera 6 | We saved it for you. We improved it a little bit while we were waiting for you, too: |
| 91 | Jesse Clegg | "Waiting on the Outcome" | single | you were scatterlings, and we brought you back; |
| 92 | Onbeskaamd | "My God Veg Vir My" | My God Veg Vir My | you were separatists, and we learned your songs; |
| 93 | Ama Double SS | "Sbiya No Thuthani" | Sbiya No Thuthani | we learned to sing them like this." |
| 94 | Mashelela | "Emajuba" | 1-1 Aziyemashendeni | This is the moment in the legends when all the interesting decisions get made. |
| 95 | SHENA SKIES | "Kuwubaala" | single | Someone offers you their past, |
| 96 | The Sound That Ends Creation | "I Tried To Be A Programmer, But Couldn't Hack It" | Boomers, Zoomers, Desperate Coomers | and it makes sense to offer them your future in return, |
| 97 | ABBA | "When You Danced With Me" | Voyage | but they aren't proposing a bargain, they're holding out a hand. |
| 98 | Parry Gripp | "Woodchuck Eating a Donut" | single | Or they are and aren't, but you get to decide what new truths your response creates by implying: |
| 99 | Fly By Nightcore | "When You Were Young (Switching Vocals)" | single | that you grew up together in some simpler and more radiant version of this, |
| 100 | VK Lynne | "It Hurts" | single | that the pain closed its grip around something that we don't even have any more, |
| 101 | Virus of Ideals | "Nymphetamine Fix" | single | more sugar trails than pillars of salt. |
| 102 | Crimson Day | "Immigrant Song" | single | We drive our ships to the other side of the same lands, and come back to our homes from the other direction, holding out hands that have been away. |