1 |
Astronoid |
"Human" |
Human +2 |
Nothing good ends in prayer. |
2 |
Mutiara Damansara |
"Réminiscences" |
Annual Winter Depression |
You can't pray for the families of murdered third graders. |
3 |
Spheric Universe Experience |
"Final Fate" |
Back Home |
If your gods exist |
4 |
Azure |
"Spark Madrigal" |
single |
and have any power, |
5 |
Evergrey |
"Ominous" |
A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament) |
they already chose not to use it. |
6 |
Jorn |
"One Man War" |
single |
You are not praying for the parents of dead children, |
7 |
Эйдол |
"Пропасть разума" |
single |
you are praying that you will be allowed |
8 |
YYNOT |
"Living Proof" |
single |
to keep hoarding |
9 |
Edenbridge |
"The Road To Shangri-La - Single Edit" |
single |
what you believe to be the guilty treasure |
10 |
Magica |
"Little Girl" |
single |
of moral piracy. |
11 |
Chaos Magic |
"In the Depth of Night" |
single |
You are praying for a way to keep believing that you are special, |
12 |
Whispering Tales |
"Embers" |
A Matter of Time |
and that your petty, uncritical urges |
13 |
Avantasia |
"The Wicked Rule The Night" |
single |
have inherent divinity. |
14 |
Graveshadow |
"The Swordsman (feat. Chelsea Murphy)" |
single |
You are praying to be forgiven for your fears, |
15 |
Deep Sun |
"Killer In A Dream" |
single |
but confusing forgiveness for exoneration. |
16 |
Volturian |
"Stay" |
Red Dragon |
Your prayers are a desperately disingenuous attempt at a selfish alibi |
17 |
NUMENTO |
"Scarlet Haze" |
single |
for crimes in which we are all ultimately complicit. |
18 |
RedHook |
"Jabberwocky" |
single |
We are all here. |
19 |
Oxidize |
"Stand up for the Masses" |
Stand up for the Masses |
What currently passes for civilization is only whatever illusion |
20 |
Ксюша на Марсе |
"Я здесь" |
single |
we collectively sustain. |
21 |
Ibridoma |
"Ti ho visto andare via" |
Norimberga 2.0 |
It doesn't just go inexplicably |
22 |
A Sound of Thunder |
"Orb Weaver" |
single |
and occasionally |
23 |
Victorius |
"Mighty Magic Mammoth - Radio Edit" |
Mighty Magic Mammoth 4 |
and unrepresentatively awry, |
24 |
Ember Falls |
"Cloud Connected" |
single |
it goes miserably and laboriously wrong |
25 |
Arch Enemy |
"Sunset over the Empire" |
single |
as an inevitable result of our deliberate practices. |
26 |
Amiensus |
"Gehenna" |
All Paths Lead to Death |
We don't merely tolerate the unfortunate possibility |
27 |
Vaamatar |
"Medievalgeist" |
Medievalgeist |
of 18-year-olds with assault rifles |
28 |
Septicflesh |
"The Collector" |
Modern Primitive |
murdering even-younger children, |
29 |
Exocrine |
"Dying Light" |
single |
we meticulously optimize the rifles for only and exactly this purpose, |
30 |
Serpent Sermon |
"Anka" |
single |
and an economy for treating ammunition as productivity, |
31 |
Blut Aus Nord |
"Chants Of The Deep Ones" |
Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses |
and a legal system for treating laws as "enforcement" |
32 |
Hyrgal |
"Diablerie" |
Hyrgal |
and thus both valorizing and militarizing defiance, |
33 |
Imperial Triumphant |
"Maximalist Scream" |
single |
and a media for grimly picking at wounds |
34 |
Luminous Vault |
"Invoke Radiant Gleam" |
Animate the Emptiness |
to make them feel more familiar |
35 |
Boris |
"She is burning" |
single |
instead of treating them, |
36 |
Scarlxrd |
"Grxwth." |
Lxlwut? 4 |
and a politics for interpreting every plaintive human need |
37 |
Blvc Svnd |
"LIKE A BEAST" |
single |
as an opportunity for the arbitrage of nominal power, |
38 |
Skorn3896 |
"Will the World Forget my Name" |
Will the World Forget my Name +2 |
and morality as a zero-sum |
39 |
Lil Xtra |
"Yes I Know I'm Always Late, No I Won't Be Getting Better About It" |
single |
capture-the-flag |
40 |
Jared Anthony |
"Old Ways" |
single |
for a flag in which colors have been replaced by pathogens. |
41 |
slen |
"BEFORE I FALL" |
single |
We will not fix this by arming third-grade teachers |
42 |
Mimi Barks |
"DEADGIRL" |
single |
or fortifying elementary schools |
43 |
xo_willow archive |
"im not incelcore" |
single |
or firing back. |
44 |
xPropaganda |
"The Night" |
The Heart Is Strange |
We will not silence this hideous noise |
45 |
Antichrisis |
"Wasted Time" |
single |
with more hideous noise |
46 |
Everything Everything |
"Jennifer" |
Raw Data Feel |
in a different polarity. |
47 |
Clock Opera |
"Houses of Novelty" |
Houses Of Novelty 2 |
We will not find the love and courage |
48 |
Marina Herlop |
"lyssof" |
Pripyat |
cowering inside our calloused souls |
49 |
Zola Jesus |
"The Fall" |
The Fall +2 |
with a slightly more-diligent background check. |
50 |
baṣnia |
"Run North" |
single |
We already know it's there. |
51 |
iamamiwhoami |
"Thunder Lightning" |
single |
We already know there is no reason to own that gun. |
52 |
Veronica Veronico |
"ADATARA" |
single |
Arguing over the logistics of buying the gun |
53 |
Uffie |
"mvp" |
Sunshine Factory |
is like trying to hold back a tidal-wave of sewage |
54 |
Santigold |
"High Priestess" |
single |
with your tongue, |
55 |
BLÜ EYES |
"rest in peace" |
single |
as if your proclamations of its deliciousness |
56 |
Beren Olivia |
"Tomorrow" |
single |
will keep us from noticing that you try not to swallow, |
57 |
Eliza & The Delusionals |
"All the Time" |
Now and Then |
but always fail and choke. |
58 |
The Number Zero |
"Reanimation" |
single |
There is no reason to sell that gun. |
59 |
Yws Gwynedd |
"Dau Fyd" |
single |
There is no reason to make it. |
60 |
Bouwer Bosch |
"Soos Ek Doen" |
single |
There is no reason to tolerate a society that makes guns. |
61 |
Franja Du Plessis |
"Los Jou Hart" |
Los Jou Hart |
There is no reason to tolerate a political party that defends guns over children, |
62 |
Jennifer Zamudio |
"Jy het my vergeet" |
single |
and claims that any alternative is inimical to freedom |
63 |
Maggie Szabo |
"Don't Give Up" |
single |
as if this is an argument. |
64 |
Sarah Darling |
"Get to Me" |
Darling 5 |
It's the same argument that defends theocracy |
65 |
Veronica Maggio |
"Låt mig gå" |
Och som vanligt händer det något hemskt |
or any hereditary privilege. |
66 |
Ha*Ash |
"Supongo Que Lo Sabes" |
single |
It's the same argument that made human slavery into a confederacy. |
67 |
Carla Lourdes |
"Platónico" |
El Querer de las Flores 5 |
It's the same argument that made anti-semitism into a reich. |
68 |
Ainoa Buitrago |
"JAQUE MATE" |
single |
It's the same argument that flew airplanes into skyscrapers or drops bombs on theaters or houses. |
69 |
Nena Daconte |
"Despiértame, Madrid" |
single |
Every song and every meal is profoundly and inspiringly different; |
70 |
Mafalda |
"desquererte" |
single |
every evil is wearingly and dehumanizingly the same: |
71 |
Da Igual |
"A Brindar" |
single |
corrosively terrified shame |
72 |
Morat |
"París" |
single |
eating through nerve sheaths |
73 |
Pignoise |
"Gotas" |
single |
until it makes a hand clench and jerk forward |
74 |
The Mills |
"Respiro Lento" |
single |
towards soft skin |
75 |
Playa Limbo |
"Eclipse de Luna - Edición Especial" |
single |
with an unappreciative surface. |
76 |
Maryland |
"Volver a Nacer" |
single |
Bullets, obviously, are one such surface, |
77 |
DualInsomiNa |
"欲见" |
HELICON |
but left to their own gleaming motives |
78 |
Hitsujibungaku |
"OH HEY" |
single |
they do not fly into the bodies of children, |
79 |
RAINASH |
"Even" |
Fade 5 |
but collect themselves into meticulous order |
80 |
Roselia |
"FLASHLIGHT" |
ROZEN HORIZON 4 |
to quantify their own existential dismay. |
81 |
EXiNA |
"DONUT" |
SHiENA |
Every manufactured bullet is a song not sung. |
82 |
東京初期衝動 |
"トラブルメイカーガール" |
えんど・おぶ・ざ・わーるど |
Every read psalm is a stranger's face |
83 |
KAMEN RIDER GIRLS |
"We Are GIRLS !!!" |
Re:incarnation |
not greeted as a friend. |
84 |
HARUKATOMIYUKI |
"BREATHING" |
BREATHING 5 |
Not everything that begins in prayer |
85 |
fripSide |
"Regeneration" |
dawn of infinity 4 |
ends badly, |
86 |
鈴木杏奈 |
"Chasing the dream" |
Chasing the dream 6 |
nor even everything that begins in fear. |
87 |
Dramatic Alaska |
"ISHITSUBUTSU" |
single |
The potential for a life begins in a fertile moment. |
88 |
Miyuu |
"ride on" |
single |
But everything that happens after that is complicated. |
89 |
PRSMIN |
"given" |
single |
Somewhere between one wriggling union |
90 |
MAN WITH A MISSION |
"Blaze" |
single |
and us losing the resulting kid |
91 |
Hollow Suns |
"Deep Down" |
single |
and then arming him |
92 |
Earthists. |
"Lost Grace" |
single |
to take more kids with him |
93 |
Weimar |
"Geistige Minen" |
Auf Biegen & Brechen |
into the dark, |
94 |
Rockwasser |
"C'est la vie" |
single |
we have to stop uselessly praying |
95 |
Schandmaul |
"Niamh" |
Niamh +2 |
for this to be somebody else's problem, |
96 |
Perfect Average |
"Wala Na Ba" |
single |
for the rules of responsibility |
97 |
Spielbergs |
"When They Come for Me" |
When They Come for Me / Get Lost 2 |
to somehow explain only how other people |
98 |
Camp Trash |
"Pursuit" |
Pursuit +2 |
are not important enough for us to reluctantly question our complacencies, |
99 |
Isaurian |
"Árida" |
Deep Sleep Metaphysics |
not real in the way that we are real. |
100 |
Silent Runners |
"No Place In Time" |
single |
These panopticons that bring every scattered misery |
101 |
The Wedding Present |
"X Marks The Spot" |
X Marks The Spot +1 |
close |
102 |
MOG |
"Outlaw" |
single |
can, if we let them, |
103 |
WARGASM (UK) |
"D.R.I.L.D.O" |
single |
show not that warfare is universal, |
104 |
Wiley |
"Can't Take It" |
single |
but that it only overcomes peace |
105 |
N-Dubz |
"Charmer" |
single |
through the coordinated antiheroic efforts of us all. |
106 |
Skweletu |
"Imfene sezindala" |
Imbecile berth |
It doesn't actually take a whole village to raise a child, |
107 |
Khaza |
"Hellow" |
Khaza 3 |
but it takes a military-industrial complex |
108 |
Lindani Gumede |
"Ungamthemb'umuntu" |
single |
to stop the raising of 19 of them with an assault rifle in a third-grade classroom, |
109 |
Abidoza |
"Nomayinini" |
single |
and a capitalist-theological complex |
110 |
Ubuntu Brothers |
"Barcadi WayY" |
Everlasting - 5th Musical Episode |
to establish the social structure |
111 |
Blaqnick |
"Hey Siri" |
single |
in which none of the hundred morbidly obvious dysfunctions |
112 |
One Blood Namibia |
"Mundu Uamama" |
One Blood Collection, Vol. 2 |
that culminate in this |
113 |
King Monada |
"Reya Mojolong (feat. Dr Malinga & LEON LEE)" |
single |
or grievously countable other |
114 |
Maajo |
"Better Days (Kumba)" |
Better Days 2 |
catastrophic endings |
115 |
Lil Kesh |
"Vanilla Bottega (feat. Joeboy)" |
single |
have been treated as intolerable. |
116 |
Nandy |
"Siwezi (Choir Version)" |
single |
We didn't need the village to raise those dead children. |
117 |
HYMALAYA |
"Wada" |
Earth |
19 of them were doing fine: |
118 |
Bjorth |
"Valkyrjur" |
Annarr 6 |
in third grade, |
119 |
xPropaganda |
"Ribbons Of Steel" |
The Heart Is Strange |
unarmed. |
120 |
Brothel |
"ALONEWITHU" |
single |
It's the 20th dead child we needed to raise differently, |
121 |
Mansur |
"Salome" |
single |
and the we here is not a small town in Texas |
122 |
Hereafter |
"And Suddenly, We Became Strangers" |
single |
that will now be known for more than Matthew McConaughey, |
123 |
Vampillia |
"Nostalgic Tomorrow" |
Nostalgic Tomorrow +3 |
it's a whole planet that deserves to aspire to be known to galactic society |
124 |
Monolithe |
"Sputnik-1" |
single |
for more than Matthew McConaughey and cilantro. |
125 |
Alanis Morissette |
"safety—empath in paradise" |
single |
We are not safe |
126 |
Deena Abdelwahed |
"Hyaluron" |
single |
yet. |
127 |
Salamanda |
"Coconut Warrior" |
single |
This world is not an eternal paradise, |
128 |
Caterina Barbieri |
"At Your Gamut" |
single |
inertially perfect and unchanging, |
129 |
Valentina Goncharova |
"Return to the Ocean (2021)" |
Ocean, Symphony for Electric Violin and Other Instruments in 10+ Parts |
into which we are passively reimmersed |
130 |
Shameless |
"Does Your Mother Know" |
So Good, You Should... |
as a delirious reward |
131 |
Brass Against |
"Toxicity" |
single |
for our mere and faithful and thoughtless existence. |
132 |
First to Eleven |
"The Great Escape" |
single |
These songs are not prayers |
133 |
Halocene |
"Lithium" |
single |
or memoria. |
134 |
Rain Paris |
"Psychofreak" |
single |
They are attempts to connect, |
135 |
Blinding Sunrise |
"Bring Back" |
single |
to bind pairs or arenas of us together |
136 |
FalKKonE |
"This Will Be the Day (From "RWBY")" |
Intense Symphonic Metal Covers: Crescent Rose Edition |
until we all recognize that we are not divided up into isolatable towns |
137 |
xo_willow archive |
"all the small things" |
single |
where evil can go to kill other people. |
138 |
Tombs |
"Killed by Death" |
single |
You can't send away prayers to echo around in other people's walls. |
139 |
Loveless |
"MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT" |
single |
All of these towns and children are ours. Their names are our names. |
140 |
Gina And The Eastern Block |
"Freak on a Leash" |
single |
The blood we leave in these Uvalde classrooms and Mariupol basements is our blood. |
141 |
Violet Orlandi |
"All Star" |
single |
This world on fire is the only one our streets reach. |
142 |
Shameless |
"Pretty In Pink" |
So Good, You Should... |
It's beautiful. We're beautiful. Some of us are gone, but they are not the last. We are not the last. |