| 2022-11-25 | 18 | Brightstorm | "Deep Higher Thoughts" | single | and as a result there must also be a decision-tree of some defined cardinality. |
| 2022-11-25 | 19 | Season of Ghosts | "In Hubris" | single | Thus the usual insulation between joy and agony is stripped away. |
| 2022-11-25 | 20 | Oceandvst | "Nme" | single | A single goal in a single tournament game can change the fate |
| 2022-11-25 | 21 | ODC | "The Lie" | single | not only of the two teams playing that game, |
| 2022-11-25 | 22 | Ad Infinitum | "Somewhere Better" | Somewhere Better +1 | but of others, innocently standing by, |
| 2022-11-25 | 23 | ILLUMISHADE | "Elegy" | Elegy +1 | or playing in their own matches of incomplete agency, |
| 2022-11-25 | 24 | Thy Shade | "Never Enough" | single | or standing in the center circle after doing everything under their own control, |
| 2022-11-25 | 25 | Circus of Fools | "Head of Medusa" | A Broadcast from GEN .0 | waiting to be doomed or raptured |
| 2022-11-25 | 26 | Carved | "Red Dwarf" | Ares | into the next round. |
| 2022-11-25 | 27 | Walk in Darkness | "Ships to Atlantis" | Leaves Rolling in Time | It is tempting to believe that the possibility of joy justifies the risk of agony, |
| 2022-11-25 | 28 | Molllust | "Uranus - The Butterfly and the Spider" | Mother Universe | and even more insidiously, that joy cannot exist without agony, |
| 2022-11-25 | 29 | Oceans | "Hell Is Where The Heart Is" | Hell Is Where The Heart Is | that love and hate are subjective polarities imposed on an inevitable spectrum, |
| 2022-11-25 | 30 | Winter | "Into The Void" | Into The Void +2 | inescapable except by obliteration. |
| 2022-11-25 | 31 | In The Woods... | "We Sinful Converge" | Diversum | Distrust all such self-righteous dualities. |
| 2022-11-25 | 32 | Astral Experience | "Reloj de Arena" | single | The cynical know that two wrongs can be counterposed |
| 2022-11-25 | 33 | ACME | "Resisted temptation" | Resisted temptation | to offer a false choice of rights. |
| 2022-11-25 | 34 | Elder | "Catastasis" | Innate Passage | Government, and every other social construct, ought to be a system of consensus and consent, |
| 2022-11-25 | 35 | Djevel | "Afgrundsferd" | Naa skrider natten sort | not an exhausting fight to be the least-bad anti-hero. |
| 2022-11-25 | 36 | Violet Cold | "Sülh" | single | We can see this in an occasional syzygy of circumstantial alignment, |
| 2022-11-25 | 37 | Zetra | "Hopeless Odyssey" | single | when the fight is both meticulously photographed and |
| 2022-11-25 | 38 | Lykotonon | "The Apocryphal Self" | Promethean Pathology | happily far away from us: |
| 2022-11-25 | 39 | Istårn | "Dawn" | Eschatology | a far-foreign city under draconian quarantine; |
| 2022-11-25 | 40 | Monolithe | "Voskhod" | Kosmodrom | a sand-glossed arena built by slave-tantamount labor; |
| 2022-11-25 | 70 | I Built the Sky | "Push Play" | single | There is a champion, but at least they do not suffer a resulting burden of power. |
| 2022-11-25 | 71 | Outrun The Sunlight | "Ambivalence 2.0" | Ambivalence 2.0 +1 | Thus ambivalence may be revised and refined. |
| 2022-11-25 | 72 | Dav Dralleon | "Dark Gates Ov R'lyeh" | Kthullu | We do not leave ourselves in the arena. The game ends, and we go back: |
| 2022-11-18 | 1 | Tulip | "Ghost of Kyiv" | single | Learn the names things call themselves, |
| 2022-11-18 | 2 | Dark Sarah | "Warning Sign" | single | and you become more than yourself. |
| 2022-11-18 | 3 | Averlanche | "Killing Floor" | single | Nihilism seeks to erase distinctions |
| 2022-11-18 | 4 | Cold Kingdom | "Blackout" | Life//Love | out of a desperate evangelical emptiness. |
| 2022-11-18 | 5 | Shattered Vessels | "Exile" | single | The temporary retreat from the shores of the leaking void |
| 2022-11-18 | 6 | Blackbriar | "Crimson Faces" | single | cedes no natural rights, |
| 2022-11-18 | 7 | Sisters of Suffocation | "Cordon Sanitaire" | Cordon Sanitaire +2 | but merely establishes a moral boundary |
| 2022-11-18 | 8 | The Inferno Doll | "Renfield" | single | in order to quantify its current displacement from the physical one. |
| 2022-11-18 | 9 | Dark Moon Lilith | "Eclipse" | single | We are called to stand in the way of the gaze of evil. |
| 2022-11-18 | 10 | Evol Walks | "Sleeping with a Ghost" | single | Learn the names things try to hide from themselves |
| 2022-11-18 | 11 | Violet | "Blame It on the Night" | Illusions | and you gain the power to redeem them, |
| 2022-11-18 | 12 | Disturbed | "Don't Tell Me (feat. Ann Wilson)" | Divisive | but not necessarily the will. |
| 2022-11-18 | 13 | BABYMETAL | "Monochrome" | Monochrome +1 | The light has no colors of its own, |
| 2022-11-18 | 14 | Underbeasty | "Nyx" | single | and we have innumerable colors but no internal fire, |
| 2022-11-18 | 15 | ELFENSJóN | "DAWN" | single | and these two things meet and the day begins: |
| 2022-11-18 | 16 | Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai | "Sound Of My Heart" | 連星アスペクト 3 | with thanks and forgiveness, |
| 2022-11-18 | 17 | IBUKI | "Disappear" | My Life | with illusions and protractions, |
| 2022-11-18 | 62 | Candlemass | "Wizard of the Vortex" | Sweet Evil Sun | Our cities are made of erratic magic |
| 2022-11-18 | 63 | Enslaved | "Congelia" | Congelia +2 | accumulated over prismatic aeons. |
| 2022-11-18 | 64 | Neopera | "A New God" | single | Ah, no, wait. Now I remember. |
| 2022-11-18 | 65 | Threshold | "Haunted" | Dividing Lines | This is exactly how half of all our other history happened, too: |
| 2022-11-18 | 66 | Retrospective | "Log Out" | Introvert | as the manifest destiny of cynical concentrations of power, |
| 2022-11-18 | 67 | Arc Of Life | "Real Time World" | Don't Look Down | built by conscripted and systematically betrayed labor, |
| 2022-11-18 | 68 | Soen | "Modesty" | ATLANTIS | and at least initially lorded over. |
| 2022-11-18 | 69 | Arctic Rain | "Fire in My Eyes" | single | So maybe these soon-useless venues will be liberated the same way, |
| 2022-11-18 | 70 | Arogya | "Supernatural" | single | by the inexorable repatriation of blood and loyalty, |
| 2022-11-18 | 71 | SpellBlast | "The Dancing Plague" | Classified - V | and by the same ironic regard sought. |
| 2022-11-18 | 72 | Grimner | "Där Fröet Skall Spira" | Urfader | You invite the world to witness your majesty, |
| 2022-11-18 | 73 | Heidevolk | "Klauwen Vooruit" | single | while wearing open-toed shoes, |
| 2022-11-18 | 74 | Leipa | "01.09.2015" | single | and then refuse to sell them beer. |
| 2022-11-18 | 75 | Dead Crown | "The Particle Of Gods" | single | They will see you exactly as you are: |
| 2022-11-18 | 76 | Rise to the Sky | "A Time I Was Loved" | Stay With Me When You're Gone | crude, and rich only in the ways that will not long matter. |
| 2022-11-18 | 77 | Imha Tarikat | "Brute Majesty" | single | You cannot earn royalty. |
| 2022-11-18 | 78 | Fortíð | "Fimbulvetur" | Dómur Um Dauðan Hvern 2 | You can defer your abdication for a little longer, maybe, |
| 2022-11-18 | 79 | Harakiri for the Sky | "Homecoming: Denied!" | Homecoming: Denied! +1 | but you can't buy the world's adoration, |
| 2022-11-18 | 80 | Mindless Paradise | "Anemoia" | Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz | and you can't buy a team that represents any aspect of you but your entitlement. |
| 2022-11-18 | 81 | Grave Circles | "Disintegrated Suns" | Pestilence and Death 4 | I know the names your people call themselves, |
| 2022-11-18 | 82 | 16 | "Dead Eyes" | Into Dust | the people that built your doomed city |
| 2022-11-18 | 83 | Jours Pâles | "Ecumante de rage" | single | and fill it for a few weeks |
| 2022-11-11 | 9 | Skar | "Anti-Hero" | single | of the kiss-off anthem "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", |
| 2022-11-11 | 13 | Amberian Dawn | "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" | Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) +1 | on the way somewhere else: |
| 2022-11-11 | 14 | Epica | "Wake The World (feat. Phil Lanzon & Tommy Karevik)" | The Alchemy Project | into the gleeful quadruple rhyme-schemes |
| 2022-11-11 | 15 | Tigersclaw | "Joan of Arc" | Titan's Dawn | that are technically AABCCC, |
| 2022-11-11 | 16 | Kassogtha | "Save Us" | rEvolve | but she wedges extra As and Cs into the middles of the lines too; |
| 2022-11-11 | 17 | Crown Solace | "Inside My Mind" | single | into the delirious disarming choruses of "It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me", |
| 2022-11-11 | 18 | REMINA | "The Endless City" | STRATA | with the rhymes bracketing the line, |
| 2022-11-11 | 19 | Fate DeStroyed | "47" | single | accepting blame and attention in the same glamorously self-conscious swirl; |
| 2022-11-11 | 20 | Chase the Comet | "Broken Toys" | single | into the elegiac sub-lede "I stare directly into the sun but never in the mirror", |
| 2022-11-11 | 21 | Rioghan | "Home" | single | which could be a chorus in any other song, |
| 2022-11-11 | 22 | Everfrost | "A Cruel Angel's Thesis" | Frostbites 4 | or the end of any other story; |
| 2022-11-11 | 23 | LIV MOON | "El Dorado" | single | into the almost-everything-stops missing-bridge verse about |
| 2022-11-11 | 24 | FATE GEAR | "Unbreakable Wings" | Killers in the Sky Part 2 | murder and wills and hell, where the camera flips around and-- |
| 2022-11-11 | 79 | The Dark Atom | "Wormhole" | Luminescence | Taylor, you'll be fine. |
| 2022-11-11 | 84 | About Us | "Lead My Heart" | About Us | but nobody should have that much power. |
| 2022-11-11 | 85 | Conquest | "Man on the Silver Mountain" | single | We do not gather around the bejeweled firepits of billionaires, |
| 2022-11-11 | 86 | Stormburner | "Burn the Storm" | single | on their skyscraper parapets, |
| 2022-11-11 | 87 | Lion's Share | "Run for Your Life" | single | we stand here on the ground, waiting for walk lights under the glow of Targets, |
| 2022-11-11 | 88 | Galderia | "Answer The Call" | Endless Horizon | trading smiles that want to remind us of something and we let them. |
| 2022-11-11 | 89 | Freternia | "Elvenstar" | single | I have this thing where I get older |
| 2022-11-11 | 90 | Warkings | "Hellfire (feat. Morgana le Fay)" | Morgana | but there's never any less music. |
| 2022-11-11 | 91 | Obituary | "The Wrong Time" | single | All of the bands I've ever loved |
| 2022-11-11 | 92 | Twilight Force | "Twilight Force" | single | are there waiting to be loved again. |
| 2022-11-11 | 93 | Mantric Momentum | "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena - Bonus Track" | Trial by Fire | I used to dream of devices: |
| 2022-11-11 | 94 | Powerwolf | "Blood for Blood (Faoladh) (feat. Melissa Bonny)" | Missa Cantorem II | towering stacks of components and pulsing monoliths at carefully calibrated angels. |
| 2022-11-11 | 95 | Grimner | "Ur Vågorna" | single | Instead I have invisible angels holding themselves against the sides of my ear canals. |
| 2022-11-11 | 96 | NanowaR of Steel | "Armpits of Immortals" | single | The methodical anticipation of other people's criticisms is just an operationalization of doubt. |
| 2022-11-11 | 97 | Kampfar | "Dødens aperitiff" | Til Klovers Takt | We are all monstrous if you stare directly at us. |
| 2022-11-11 | 98 | Oak Pantheon | "Listen!" | single | Mirrors reverse the vertical axis, but not the judgment. |
| 2022-11-11 | 99 | Woods of Desolation | "Illumination" | Illumination +2 | The anti-hero is what's left of the hero after the costume is chewed off by rats. |
| 2022-11-11 | 100 | Drudkh | "Нічний - The Nocturnal One" | All Belong to the Night | It's a popular hobby to infer romantic revelations into Taylor's songs, |
| 2022-11-11 | 101 | Fvnerals | "For Horror Eats The Light" | single | but the main thing you learn from this one |
| 2022-11-11 | 102 | Ahab | "Prof. Arronax' Descent into the Vast Oceans (Feat. Ultha)" | single | is that Taylor has not lost her parents. |
| 2022-11-11 | 103 | Imperium Dekadenz | "Memories ... a Raging River" | single | Of course we root for the anti-hero. |
| 2022-11-11 | 104 | Alles Wird In Flammen Stehen | "Traurigkeit I" | III - Traurigkeit | We respond to need. |
| 2022-11-11 | 105 | Sabackthanny | "River Dream" | River Dream +3 | All of the people we let down fall where we drop them, |
| 2022-11-04 | 36 | Free As Birds | "Strike Masses" | single | Bring all the world's music together doesn't make it indistinguishable, |
| 2022-11-04 | 37 | BabyKingdom | "dakuramento" | dakuramento +3 | it just makes it free. |
| 2022-11-04 | 38 | OMNI666 | "Jigoku-Matsuri" | single | You can go to Japan, but songs are faster. |
| 2022-11-04 | 39 | JAMBINAI | "from the place been erased" | single | I've never seen JAMBINAI, but I first started paying attention to them because my friend Erich saw them at WOMAD and had to tell somebody. |
| 2022-11-04 | 40 | Xandria | "Ghosts" | Ghosts +2 | Be the person that your friends think of when they see something wonderful that they don't understand. |
| 2022-11-04 | 41 | Carpathia | "Everstone" | The Mooring | When I discover a particularly good gothic symphonic metal band, I tell my friend Paul, |
| 2022-11-04 | 42 | Crimson Sun | "My Revolution" | single | and then later we know how to cross-check any work things designed to measure what two listeners have in common, |
| 2022-11-04 | 43 | Unleash The Archers | "Acoustipex" | Acoustipex +1 | and how to commiserate about projects that treat us as if we exist in sealed vats, |
| 2022-11-04 | 44 | Deathless Legacy | "Absolution" | single | fed by tubes, |
| 2022-11-04 | 45 | Stoned Statues | "Until Falling" | single | and can only be explained to each other by intermediation and coincidence. |
| 2022-11-04 | 46 | Halocene | "Hold Me, Help Me" | Hold Me, Help Me 5 | I hear the new Halocene, and remember a thread John started about Lacuna Coil and time. |
| 2022-11-04 | 47 | The Nearly Deads | "Relentless" | single | Context isn't a sticker-backing we peel songs off of, |
| 2022-11-04 | 48 | Molllust | "Sun - Journey of Icarus" | Sun - Journey of Icarus +3 | it's a world we make by allowing music into everything else we do, |
| 2022-11-04 | 49 | Loz Campbell | "Beautiful Liar" | single | or by tolerating everything other than music as accompaniment |
| 2022-11-04 | 50 | Cassidy Paris | "Danger" | single | or a tractably limited distraction from listening and singing. |
| 2022-11-04 | 51 | About Us | "Our Fairyland" | single | I bet you don't think this song is about you, |
| 2022-11-04 | 52 | Under Threat | "Impermanence" | Impermanence | and you're right, but you've asked a backwards question. |
| 2022-11-04 | 53 | Disillusion | "From the Embers" | Ayam | Songs are born, embodying potential, |
| 2022-11-04 | 54 | Silent Cry | "Pactum Earth" | Terra | and then they lead lives among us. |
| 2022-11-04 | 55 | Devin Townsend | "Celestial Signals" | Lightwork | I saw Mimi Parker play, |
| 2022-11-04 | 56 | Earthside | "We Who Lament" | single | and it made Low my favorite band for a while, |
| 2022-11-04 | 57 | Indigo Storm | "Duplicity" | single | and now they don't remain, |
| 2022-11-04 | 58 | Sisters of Suffocation | "Pay My Dues" | Pay My Dues +1 | except they do. |
| 2022-11-04 | 59 | Mob Rules | "Ghost Town" | single | The songs she gave us are ours to keep, unconditionally, |
| 2022-11-04 | 60 | Insomnium | "Lilian" | single | or maybe not quite without conditions, really, but the conditions |
| 2022-11-04 | 61 | Amorphis | "The Well" | single | are not rules that march ahead, they are contexts that pursue, |
| 2022-11-04 | 62 | Mandragora Thuringia | "Ausbruch" | Rex Silvarum | or circle overhead in drones, |
| 2022-11-04 | 63 | Tyrmfar | "Supreme Justice" | Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious | or buzz in your ears like a physical memory of drones |
| 2022-11-04 | 64 | Equilibrium Falls | "Fractured Reality" | Fractured Reality +1 | or an overdriven intimation of death. |
| 2022-11-04 | 65 | Second To Sun | "North Metal Legion" | Nocturnal Philosophy | I saw Juliana Hatfield play with the Blake Babies in my college dining hall. |
| 2022-11-04 | 66 | Karg | "Generation ohne Abschied" | single | I saw Jewel do an in-store at Newbury Comics, backed up against the New Release rack with just an acoustic guitar. |
| 2022-11-04 | 67 | Jours Pâles | "Jour de pluie, jour de fête" | single | I saw Big Country play on a barge in the fake lagoon behind the CambridgeSide Galleria. |
| 2022-11-04 | 68 | Harakiri for the Sky | "02:19 AM, Psychosis" | single | These moments of presence don't just linger, |
| 2022-11-04 | 69 | Iffernet | "Waiting" | Silences | they expand. |
| 2022-11-04 | 72 | VV | "The Foreverlost" | single | but having seen Low play I can now listen to other bands recordings and feel transported by analogy. |
| 2022-11-04 | 109 | Carpathia | "Telepathy" | The Mooring | and in return you discover your superpowers. |
| 2022-11-04 | 110 | Palace | "Kyrie" | single | When I was young I thought my heart was a vessel |
| 2022-11-04 | 111 | Glass Tides | "Unholy" | single | to be filled |
| 2022-11-04 | 112 | Our Last Night | "Unholy" | single | and then measured, |
| 2022-11-04 | 113 | The Animal In Me | "Unholy" | single | but you assert humanity by allowing joy to flow into and throughout you and then away again, |
| 2022-10-28 | 19 | KAMIJO | "Habsburg" | OSCAR | or a notional Europe hidden in ornate tunnels under Tokyo. |
| 2022-10-28 | 20 | Liv Sin | "Antihero" | single | I want to hear covers of 3:20 Taylor Swift songs somehow completed within 6:40 of their release. |
| 2022-10-28 | 21 | Carved | "Sovereign" | single | I want to dance with creatures of iron and flesh, |
| 2022-10-28 | 22 | Docker's Guild | "Machine Messiah" | The Mystic Technocracy - Season 2: The Age of Entropy | our mutual divinity conferred by proximity and regard. |
| 2022-10-28 | 23 | MindAhead | "Beautiful Mistake" | 6119, Pt. 1 | I want to wave at clouds flashing overhead on their own guardian missions. |
| 2022-10-28 | 24 | Nevena | "Too Late" | single | I want infinite chances |
| 2022-10-28 | 25 | Tulip | "The Hanged Man" | single | for all of us, |
| 2022-10-28 | 26 | Nereids | "A Message from Beyond" | single | stories that arc only onwards, |
| 2022-10-28 | 27 | Solitude Within | "When Kingdoms Fall" | When Kingdoms Fall | downfall relegated to legend. |
| 2022-10-28 | 28 | Kliodna | "Wind of Freedom (Hymn for Nations)" | Way of Heroes | I want to follow no flags into battles |
| 2022-10-28 | 29 | Memoira | "Autumn´s Heart" | single | on perfect November afternoons, |
| 2022-10-28 | 30 | Hoaxed | "Where Good Won't Go" | Two Shadows | not by defiant will but by the ardent properties of cooperative identity |
| 2022-10-28 | 32 | Megara | "Oxígeno" | Truco o trato | I give you this air and then stand there, breathing too quickly, |
| 2022-10-28 | 49 | Sebastien | "Odkaz bojovníka" | single | and Adams comes a long way before Asimov. |
| 2022-10-28 | 50 | Pomegranate Tiger | "The Cryptographer" | single | This is why trading clear and unenforceable strictures for inscrutable sigils |
| 2022-10-28 | 51 | Binary Creed | "Air" | Inferno | is never prudent and always wise. |
| 2022-10-28 | 52 | Maladie | "Dying Immortality" | single | Dignity and indignity are sewn into a reversible cloak, |
| 2022-10-28 | 53 | Antipope | "Rex Mundi Aeternum" | Rex Mundi | which sounds inspired until you realize that this means neither side will have decent pockets. |
| 2022-10-28 | 54 | Norrsköld | "Witness The Illusion" | single | Shards of epics will wedge themselves into the treads of your shoes |
| 2022-10-28 | 55 | Golgotha | "My Burden" | Mors Diligentis | and click against the surfaces of rainbows |
| 2022-10-28 | 56 | Callejon | "Eternia" | Eternia | so that the gods turn from their kouign-amann to watch you as you limp past. |
| 2022-10-28 | 57 | Katatonia | "Atrium" | single | We are mesmerizing already in our uncertain balance |
| 2022-10-28 | 58 | Teramaze | "Dangerous Me" | single | and our least daring clothes; |
| 2022-10-28 | 59 | Divided by Design | "IV, Legacy" | single | wait until you see us tonight. |
| 2022-10-28 | 60 | Cantu Ignis | "Acquisition of Telekinesis" | Euphoric Divination | You will not remain unmoved. If necessary, we will move you with our hands, |
| 2022-10-28 | 61 | Devin Townsend | "Lightworker" | Lightworker +2 | cupping illumination onto the shadowlines between your muscles, |
| 2022-10-28 | 62 | Morbikon | "In Ritual Isolation" | Ov Mournful Twilight | pulling you up against your skin. Up, out. Anywhere but back into loneliness. |
| 2022-10-28 | 63 | Varjola | "Kaipuu" | single | The next folder will have drawings of a boat you never built, |
| 2022-10-28 | 64 | Timor et Tremor | "A Hundred Days of Rain" | Realm of Ashes | but we are usually saved from drowning by movements of our bodies |
| 2022-10-28 | 65 | Vintertodt | "Tongues" | Under Endless Invented Night | long before their new hulls can be fabricated. |
| 2022-10-28 | 66 | Darkthrone | "Impeccable Caverns of Satan" | Astral Fortress | Our dreamships displace more water |
| 2022-10-28 | 67 | Noctem | "SOVEREIGN PROVIDENCE" | CREDO CERTE NE CRAS | than our fears pour into the ocean, |
| 2022-10-28 | 68 | Moonthoth | "Wołchwowe widziadła" | single | and anyways the difference between an ocean and a lake |
| 2022-10-28 | 69 | Saħħar | "Fl-għajnejn Għomja tal-Anġli" | Difna Fl-Infern | is that sometimes we remember that the world extends beyond our immediate sight. |
| 2022-10-28 | 70 | Fugit | "Electromagnetic Lucifer" | Electromagnetic Lucifer +1 | There's a box in the basement full of compasses so old that we hadn't even discovered the fourth cardinal direction yet. |
| 2022-10-28 | 71 | Dwell in Doom | "The Sign of Doom" | single | We used to believe that there was an edge of the world, and we would reach it in 2000 or 2038 or 1984. |
| 2022-10-28 | 72 | Forlesen | "Black Terrain" | Black Terrain +3 | It's not that we were wrong, exactly, |
| 2022-10-28 | 73 | dArtagnan | "Teufelsgeiger" | Felsenfest | because we rarely do anything exactly, |
| 2022-10-21 | 1 | BABYMETAL | "Divine Attack - Shingeki -" | single | It's fairly undeniably true that BABYMETAL is a terrible name, a permanent commitment to an initial gimmickry that has long since become just another magnificent variation on kinetic joy, |
| 2022-10-21 | 2 | Hikicomoteikoku | "Empire" | single | but you probably don't know what Hikicomoteikoku means, and thus maybe that's even worse. |
| 2022-10-21 | 5 | Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai | "シャルル feat.松下" | single | but learning enough to understand how kanji are constructed isn't nearly as intractable. |
| 2022-10-21 | 10 | CALETWOLF | "AVALON" | single | you just have to be willing to walk up and down it |
| 2022-10-21 | 11 | Sede Vacante | "Mistaken" | Conium | until it becomes fond of your weird shoes, |
| 2022-10-21 | 12 | Ann My Guard | "Martyrium" | single | curious about how you decide where to stop, |
| 2022-10-21 | 13 | Antillia | "Из пепла" | single | brave enough to ask you what's playing in your mint-green earbuds |
| 2022-10-21 | 14 | Tarja | "Eye of the Storm - Single Version" | single | that makes you micro-oscillate at wait lights. |
| 2022-10-21 | 15 | Neopera | "Tuba Mirum" | single | Now you have something to trade. |
| 2022-10-21 | 16 | BREAK ME DOWN | "The Other Life" | single | In this way quiet tourism modulates into audibility, |
| 2022-10-21 | 17 | As Everything Unfolds | "Felt Like Home" | single | but your presence was already never silent. |
| 2022-10-21 | 19 | SCARLET | "In And Out" | single | Sometimes, when you can't read the signs, |
| 2022-10-21 | 20 | In This Moment | "Burn 1983" | Blood 1983 5 | you have to duck through doorway curtains into warm darkness |
| 2022-10-21 | 21 | Chez Kane | "Children of Tomorrow Gone" | Powerzone | to find out whether this is a ramen restaurant |
| 2022-10-21 | 23 | Brutus | "Brave" | Unison Life | but neither enterprise is abstruse on its own terms. |
| 2022-10-21 | 24 | The Otolith | "Ekpyrotic" | Folium Limina | The unfamiliar does not exist to mock you |
| 2022-10-21 | 25 | The Lord | "Rise to Diminish" | Devotional | the way the familiar does, |
| 2022-10-21 | 26 | BIG|BRAVE | "carvers, farriers and knaves" | single | but you can learn. |
| 2022-10-21 | 27 | Black Math Horseman | "Black Math Horseman" | Black Math Horseman +3 | Be generous with your ignorance |
| 2022-10-21 | 28 | Avatarium | "Nocturne" | Death, Where Is Your Sting | and you end up with less of it. |
| 2022-10-21 | 29 | Ruby the Hatchet | "The Change" | Fear Is a Cruel Master | All of our cities reach towards each other, |
| 2022-10-21 | 30 | Brutus | "Dreamlife" | Unison Life | like all of our hands, |
| 2022-10-21 | 31 | Avantasia | "Welcome To The Shadows" | A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society | because there is nothing else. |
| 2022-10-21 | 32 | MindAhead | "Burning Horizon" | single | Other people's cryptic symbols |
| 2022-10-21 | 33 | Orden Ogan | "December" | Final Days | are just their way of saying the same things you would say if you were here: |
| 2022-10-21 | 34 | SpellBlast | "The Dyatlov Pass" | single | "Recruitment is also an empire", |
| 2022-10-21 | 35 | Grimner | "Hämtad av Valkyrior" | single | or "Now we push the wolves into the sea", |
| 2022-10-21 | 36 | Galderia | "Striking The Earth" | single | or "Angels were always really meteors". |
| 2022-10-21 | 37 | The Division Red | "Chroma" | Chroma +1 | Different linguistic systems arrange their compositely conserved complexities into different internal configurations. |
| 2022-10-21 | 38 | Sullen | "Locust" | single | You can't really change the things you need to say, |
| 2022-10-21 | 39 | Avantasia | "Kill The Pain Away" | A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society | but there are infinite ways to say them, |
| 2022-10-21 | 40 | Iron Kingdom | "Queen of the Crystal Throne" | single | in which the infinite is variously evident or elided. |
| 2022-10-21 | 41 | Elder | "Endless Return" | single | I think, in general, because I believe in the infinite only as a literal abstraction, |
| 2022-10-21 | 42 | Bloodred Hourglass | "In Lieu of Flowers" | single | I would rather hear it celebrated than assumed. |
| 2022-10-21 | 43 | Marras | "Poissaoleva" | single | Or maybe that's pointing causation in the wrong direction. |
| 2022-10-21 | 44 | Iskandr | "Knagend Zout" | single | The pious warned us that black metal was driving the lost into the disciplines of Satan |
| 2022-10-21 | 45 | Darkthrone | "Caravan of Broken Ghosts" | single | but disciplines were the only religious impulses I actually understood. |
| 2022-10-21 | 46 | Abduction | "Dismantling The Corpse Of Demeter" | Black Blood | I remember when we found the gods stretched out dead, |
| 2022-10-21 | 47 | Ggu:ll | "Voertuig der Verlorenen" | Ex Est | or rocks that looked like they might once have been gods, |
| 2022-10-21 | 48 | Mroh | "Whispers from Nowhere" | XII | or pictures from the surface of Mars that appear to show HM-2 pedals. |
| 2022-10-21 | 49 | Full Of Hell | "Swarming Hornets" | Aurora Leaking from an Open Wound 3 | None of these other planets are real until we can stomp on them. |
| 2022-10-21 | 50 | Imha Tarikat | "Streams Of Power - Canavar" | single | Here before the colonies are planted in the sky, |
| 2022-10-21 | 51 | Gothminister | "Sinister" | Pandemonium | all our cities glower at each other |
| 2022-10-21 | 52 | Avantasia | "Arabesque" | A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society | across whatever distances and boundaries separate them |
| 2022-10-21 | 53 | HYDE | "PANDORA" | single | until there no longer are any. |
| 2022-10-21 | 99 | Byrdy | "Running Up That Hill" | single | into the gods that looked like rocks from which all of our moments are stolen |
| 2022-10-21 | 100 | Rage Of Light | "Running Up That Hill" | single | and the recruited empire of the rest of us who are ready to not be unhappy. |
| 2022-10-14 | 1 | My Own Ghost | "Remember" | Shadow People | I would probably distrust myself. |
| 2022-10-14 | 2 | Dream State | "Taunt Me" | single | I love a lot of things, |
| 2022-10-14 | 3 | Falconshield | "Death To The King" | single | and individual humans who don't love many unrelated things puzzle and sadden me, |
| 2022-10-14 | 4 | The Spider Accomplice | "Fire The Sorrow" | The Venomous Montage 6 | but I instinctively expect authority and creativity to be diverse |
| 2022-10-14 | 5 | Epica | "The Great Tribulation (feat. Fleshgod Apocalypse)" | The Great Tribulation (feat. Fleshgod Apocalypse) +1 | only in aggregate. |
| 2022-10-14 | 6 | Carpathia | "Beloved" | single | My dream world, |
| 2022-10-14 | 7 | Victoria K | "Raptum" | Kore | and in this case I mean this literally, as there is a city that recurs in my dreams |
| 2022-10-14 | 8 | Antonamasia | "Kinesis" | single | and as best I know exists there alone, |
| 2022-10-14 | 9 | Eternal Frequency | "War" | single | in which the subterranean layer beneath the buildings is an endless irregular labyrinth |
| 2022-10-14 | 10 | Carmilla | "Hear My Voice" | single | of hyperspecialized food stalls: |
| 2022-10-14 | 11 | Defueld | "Saints & Sinners" | single | makers of a single perfect burrito; |
| 2022-10-14 | 12 | KiaRa | "We Are the Stardust" | Archangel | bakers of one otherwise-unattainable caramel-oatmeal donut; |
| 2022-10-14 | 13 | Molllust | "Venus - Poems of Love" | Venus - Poems of Love +2 | embowlers of ramen who offer you only the choice between too much garlic and way too much garlic; |
| 2022-10-14 | 14 | Debler Eternia | "Catrina" | Perversso | Liege waffletiers who hand you a gleaming, crackly waffle in a fold of thin velum if you get anywhere near them. |
| 2022-10-14 | 15 | Everfrost | "Hacking to the Gate" | single | The notional corresponding nightmare, which I mercifully don't actually have, |
| 2022-10-14 | 16 | My Own Ghost | "Home" | Shadow People | is a suburban office-park Cheesecake Factory that has run out of cheesecake, |
| 2022-10-14 | 17 | Eluveitie | "Exile Of The Gods" | Exile Of The Gods +1 | in which every culinary precedent is reduced to a hashtag aesthetic |
| 2022-10-14 | 18 | E-An-Na | "Suit în Nor" | single | applied to ponderous calorie overload with a willful distaste for actual culture |
| 2022-10-14 | 19 | Lodestar | "Show Me A Sign" | Wanderers 4 | and a comprehensive style-guide of brand identity. |
| 2022-10-14 | 20 | Hoaxed | "The Knowing" | The Knowing +2 | I recoil with a flourish from the telltale clues of audient commodification: |
| 2022-10-14 | 21 | Bloody Hammers | "And Soon the Darkness" | Washed In the Blood | pervasive stock photography; |
| 2022-10-14 | 22 | Powerwolf | "My Will Be Done" | My Will Be Done +2 | swellingly emotive music that sounds like somebody peeled the backing off of a real song you can't quite place, |
| 2022-10-14 | 23 | Dreamtale | "Powerplay" | Wellon 3 | and then dropped the rest of it in the street; |
| 2022-10-14 | 24 | Dragonland | "Resurrecting an Ancient Technology" | The Power Of The Nightstar | aspirational labeling intent on telling you the kind of person it wants you to want to be |
| 2022-10-14 | 25 | Freternia | "Dark And The Light" | single | instead of admitting what it's selling |
| 2022-10-14 | 26 | Gomorra | "Stand United" | Stand United +1 | or celebrating what it emits; |
| 2022-10-14 | 27 | Onward | "Onward We Sail" | Onward We Sail +1 | carefully curated anonymity designed not only to keep you from seeking other sources, |
| 2022-10-14 | 28 | Induction | "Go To Hell" | Go To Hell +2 | but to render "other sources" structurally suspicious. |
| 2022-10-14 | 29 | White Skull | "Ad Maiora Semper" | single | Why do you think Amazon cheerfully buries you in endless nonsensically-named vendors you've never heard of |
| 2022-10-14 | 30 | Molotov Train | "Worlds Together" | Worlds Together 5 | all claiming very unapologetically to be selling the same exact image |
| 2022-10-14 | 31 | Saltatio Mortis | "Odins Raben" | single | of an uncannily compelling color-block hoodie |
| 2022-10-14 | 32 | U.D.O. | "Wilder Life" | Wilder Life +1 | that may or may not even exist? |
| 2022-10-14 | 33 | Alter Bridge | "Dead Among the Living" | Pawns & Kings | They have turned online shopping into a two-sided casino |
| 2022-10-14 | 34 | Soen | "Snuff" | Snuff +1 | in which the self-employed operators of rigged games are allowed |
| 2022-10-14 | 35 | Astral Experience | "Marioneta de Cristal" | single | to cheat themselves out of business by quantifying gamblers' gullibilities, |
| 2022-10-14 | 36 | Scars of Solitude | "Cruelty has a Human Heart" | single | after which they can be rehired as minimum-possible-wage suppliers |
| 2022-10-14 | 37 | Gothminister | "Star" | Star +2 | of the same thing to be re-sold under the only brand anybody is allowed to still trust. |
| 2022-10-14 | 38 | The Sade | "King and Queen" | single | My dream food-maze is a two-sided marketplace, too, in at least some underlying sense. |
| 2022-10-14 | 39 | Timor et Tremor | "Voices from the Coffin" | single | Somebody dream-owns the dream buildings above it. |
| 2022-10-14 | 40 | Gevurah | "At the Orient of Eden" | Gehinnom | Each stall must be rented, dream-logistically. |
| 2022-10-14 | 41 | Firtan | "Lethe" | Marter | Some nights, when it appears again, there are differences. |
| 2022-10-14 | 42 | Oferwintran | "Prince Kelyddon" | It Often Befalls Those | The enchilada kiosk has been replaced with corn dogs sold over a counter shaped, |
| 2022-10-14 | 43 | Cornoctuan | "Leaden Star (The Lightless, Pt. I)" | single | for reasons that are not immediately obvious, like a komodo dragon |
| 2022-10-14 | 44 | envy | "Seimei" | single | in brocaded slippers. |
| 2022-10-14 | 99 | Vandroya | "Heaven" | single | This should not be all that you want. It's not even all I want, it's just all that I've had time to integrate |
| 2022-10-14 | 101 | SMR LVE | "Time After Time" | single | The clock ticks; confusion is always a clue or a call |
| 2022-10-14 | 103 | Harakiri for the Sky | "Mad World" | single | Informed enthusiasm shares more with naive glee than with studied disdain. |
| 2022-10-14 | 104 | The Animal In Me | "I2I" | single | I don't even remember this song. I don't know what's in these dumplings. |
| 2022-10-14 | 105 | Sunday Friend | "We Are Never Getting Back Together" | Throwback - EP 4 | I turn a corner of the maze and the girl at the chai stand is playing "Take the Money and Run" on a pink bluetooth speaker, and I love everything I have ever loved and it doesn't stop. |
| 2022-10-14 | 106 | Halocene | "Unholy" | single | We draw arbitrary boundaries in order to make it easier, and thus safer, |
| 2022-10-14 | 108 | For I Am King | "Running Up That Hill" | single | and then we look at each other across them as if our positions encode choices we cannot unmake without divine intervention. |
| 2022-10-14 | 109 | My Own Ghost | "Dark River" | Shadow People | I'm not asking for your trust. I pull you into the next world and then I let go of your hand. I don't need you to want these songs, no matter how perfect they seem to me. We too are perfect. Perfection is not scarce. I just want you to believe that and want to follow any paths that lead towards even more of it. |
| 2022-10-07 | 1 | Amberian Dawn | "SOS" | single | I usually describe Amberian Dawn as ABBA-in-metal, so another Amberian Dawn ABBA cover feels like a little personal gift. Until I realize that it's the advance single for a full album of Amberian Dawn ABBA covers, at which point I become dangerously suspicious about solipsism again. |
| 2022-10-07 | 2 | Ad Infinitum | "Upside Down" | single | This is the reward for curiosity, though: |
| 2022-10-07 | 3 | Rave The Reqviem | "God, Demon, Machine" | single | the more you learn to love, the more the universe seems conceived for your joy, |
| 2022-10-07 | 4 | Amaranthe | "Find Life" | single | and if it doesn't feel like this to you yet, it's probably not because the universe has work to do. |
| 2022-10-07 | 5 | Beyond The Black | "Winter Is Coming" | Winter Is Coming +2 | Few of the enemies we hold still to imagine are as powerful as inertia, |
| 2022-10-07 | 6 | Elyose | "Retour au réel" | single | or as cheerfully unconcerned with our movements. |
| 2022-10-07 | 7 | IKINÄ | "Hattara" | single | Move, and you change the air you displace. |
| 2022-10-07 | 10 | Deathless Legacy | "Moonless Night" | single | or it won't, because of course it doesn't |
| 2022-10-07 | 11 | Charlotte Wessels | "The Phantom Touch" | Tales from Six Feet Under Vol. II | until you take the gleaming steps that make paths. |
| 2022-10-07 | 12 | Sede Vacante | "Conium" | single | If you hate self-actualizing circularity, you should have chosen a squarer planet. |
| 2022-10-07 | 13 | Seas on the Moon | "The Waiting" | single | The Amberian Dawn ABBA-covers album is called Take a Chance, but the published track-listing claims it doesn't include a cover of "Take a Chance on Me". |
| 2022-10-07 | 14 | Sleeping Romance | "Resemblance of Light" | We All Are Shadows | We name things according to our intentions, |
| 2022-10-07 | 15 | Debler Eternia | "Afrodissia" | single | and they become historiographies of how we have intended. |
| 2022-10-07 | 16 | NUMENTO | "The Vile Entity" | single | We walk over dry grass in flaming boots. |
| 2022-10-07 | 17 | Dorothy Polonium | "Goat" | single | Maybe "gleaming" is not quite the right word for the resulting paths, |
| 2022-10-07 | 18 | Circus of Fools | "Orgy of Indulgence" | single | or "paths" an aspirational way to describe scars. |
| 2022-10-07 | 22 | LEIWAN | "Aburakatabura" | single | All these frissons of metal and other elements are invitational alchemistries |
| 2022-10-07 | 23 | PRSMIN | "eve" | single | that recruit us as boundary technicians |
| 2022-10-07 | 33 | Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai | "だれかの心臓になれたなら feat.榊原ゆい" | single | by patiently leading us through searing radiance |
| 2022-10-07 | 34 | NEMOPHILA | "Seize the Fate" | single | until we notice where we are, |
| 2022-10-07 | 35 | Borealis | "My Fortress" | Illusions | where we have always been. |
| 2022-10-07 | 36 | SpellBlast | "The Flannan Lighthouse" | single | We learn to lose ourselves |
| 2022-10-07 | 37 | Aara | "Phthonos I" | Phthonos 2 | by triangulating wildly on a single point at a time. |
| 2022-10-07 | 38 | The Antichrist Imperium | "The Sweetest Juice" | Volume III: Satan in His Original Glory | Bad ideas are usually good ideas worn down by earnest use. |
| 2022-10-07 | 39 | Liturgy | "93" | As the Blood of God Bursts the Veins of Time 4 | Arguably this is literally what we mean by utility |
| 2022-10-07 | 40 | Illyria | "Let Me Take You Somewhere Beautiful And We'll Never Want To Leave" | Take Me Somewhere Beautiful | as an antithesis to art: |
| 2022-10-07 | 41 | A Pregnant Light | "The Master" | The Master B/W the Mail 2 | actions that abrade the joyful surfaces before the miserable ones. |
| 2022-10-07 | 42 | Cloud Rat | "Imaging Order" | Threshold | Pragmatic dogma is entropy's favorite disguise, |
| 2022-10-07 | 43 | Counterparts | "A Eulogy for Those Still Here" | A Eulogy for Those Still Here | a preacher invoking every color's divine right to converge upon gray, |
| 2022-10-07 | 44 | Judicator | "Ursa Major" | single | and inviting us to look up at the gray gods they draw over the brightest points in the dark. |
| 2022-10-07 | 45 | Maraton | "In Syzygy" | Unseen Color | Let their voices recede to resonance. |
| 2022-10-07 | 46 | Threshold | "Complex" | Complex +2 | Let your eyes unfocus until you can look where they describe gates and eternity |
| 2022-10-07 | 47 | Teramaze | "In the Ruins of Angels" | Flight of the Wounded | and see a sailboat that can take you away. |
| 2022-10-07 | 48 | Parius | "Arecibo" | The Signal Heard Throughout Space | The deepest scars you find on your body are karsts for the most delicate sensors: |
| 2022-10-07 | 49 | Queensrÿche | "Tormentum" | Digital Noise Alliance | speculative dystopia, |
| 2022-10-07 | 50 | Alter Bridge | "This is War" | This Is War 4 | speculative capitulation, |
| 2022-10-07 | 51 | Heavy Metal Perse | "Uusi Alkemia" | Jumalia Paossa | new alchemy, |
| 2022-09-30 | 2 | My Own Ghost | "Somebody Else's Sky" | single | We write songs about moments |
| 2022-09-30 | 3 | Cowherence | "Maybe" | single | because it's easier to explain a single feeling at a time |
| 2022-09-30 | 4 | Silentlie | "Taste Of Solitude" | Equilibrium | than it is to stop having all the other ones at once. |
| 2022-09-30 | 52 | HEXED | "Pagans Rising" | Pagans Rising | We yearn not for mythical eras when we knew better, |
| 2022-09-30 | 53 | April Art | "Leave It Behind" | P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E. | but for the way we are scoured clean by the atmospheric reentry |
| 2022-09-30 | 54 | Motive Black | "Fight Alone" | single | of orbital nostalgia. |
| 2022-09-30 | 55 | Kuolemanlaakso | "Kuolleiden laulu" | single | Sometimes the look in someone's eye only really says |
| 2022-09-30 | 56 | Nekonomicon | "Midnight Danger" | single | "you and I are ordinary in different commons". |
| 2022-09-30 | 57 | Kassogtha | "Complacency" | Complacency +2 | We confuse surprise with allure, |
| 2022-09-30 | 58 | Therion | "Marijin Min Nar" | Marijin Min Nar +3 | in order to feel chosen, |
| 2022-09-30 | 59 | White Skull | "Metal Never Rusts" | single | but we misunderstand chosenness as scarcity. |
| 2022-09-30 | 60 | Majesty Of Revival | "The Newborn Sun" | Battlefield | We are ordinated each into dubious orthodoxies declaimed in funny accents, |
| 2022-09-30 | 61 | Dark Forest | "Skylark" | Ridge & Furrow | our own the funniest and most glorious of them, |
| 2022-09-30 | 62 | Candlemass | "Sweet Evil Sun" | Sweet Evil Sun +1 | of course. |
| 2022-09-30 | 63 | Kampfar | "Rekviem" | Rekviem +1 | Imagine yourself in robes, flanked by censers. |
| 2022-09-30 | 64 | Imha Tarikat | "Son Of Ultradevotion" | single | That's how cults endure: |
| 2022-09-30 | 65 | Karg | "Grab der Wellen" | single | not by relying on your specific submission |
| 2022-09-30 | 66 | Jordfäst | "Abortologen, Pt. 3" | single | but by invoking your secret awes |
| 2022-09-30 | 67 | Labyrinth of Stars | "Vacuum" | Spectrum Xenomorph | as their shields. |
| 2022-09-30 | 68 | Doedsvangr | "The Drewl from Their Mouths" | Koinonia 3 | Atheists sustain theologies by cherishing their icons, |
| 2022-09-30 | 69 | Strigoi | "United in Viscera" | Viscera | and thus we are freed from our atavistic imperatives not through convulsions of defiance |
| 2022-09-30 | 70 | Forlesen | "Harrowed Earth" | single | but embrace. |
| 2022-09-30 | 71 | Sinister Downfall | "Souls Enslaved" | The Last Witness | We defeat our enemies by singing their songs, |
| 2022-09-30 | 77 | Lunar Mercia | "Leaving the Fragile Space" | Leaving the Fragile Space +3 | until all the people are on one side, |
| 2022-09-30 | 78 | Soul Dissolution | "SORA II" | SORA | and all the hatreds are on the other, |
| 2022-09-30 | 79 | ColdWorld | "Hymnus" | Isolation | and then we snap the blades of the equals sign shut |
| 2022-09-30 | 80 | NYGMA | "Nygma" | NYGMA | and walk away. |
| 2022-09-30 | 81 | Kuggur | "حَصَادِ الْخرِيفِ" | حصاد ضَوْءٌ النُّجُومِ | The lines that connect us run straight through the Earth, |
| 2022-09-30 | 84 | Avatarium | "Stockholm" | Stockholm +2 | Halfway through falling, we change our minds and fly, |
| 2022-09-30 | 85 | The Otolith | "Hubris" | single | heedless of the canonical literature of how foolish and inevitable this renders our doom. |
| 2022-09-30 | 86 | Ruby the Hatchet | "Deceiver" | single | But did you ever actually try to melt yourself in the dangling sun? |
| 2022-09-30 | 87 | Sammary | "219" | single | It looks like you could touch it, |
| 2022-09-30 | 110 | Devin Townsend | "Call of the Void" | Call of the Void +1 | but so is the ground. So is the useless core of our temporarily only planet. |
| 2022-09-30 | 111 | Infinitome | "Day I Lost You" | Beyond the Beyond | We do not lose or lack hope. |
| 2022-09-30 | 112 | Hourglass | "Void Within" | single | Our stories of our own fears are screenplays for epics of redemption. |
| 2022-09-30 | 113 | Mokita | "Color Me In" | Color Me In +3 | We do not find or deserve redemption, |
| 2022-09-30 | 129 | Nestor | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" | Kids in a ghost town | Loneliness calls. I understand that. I hear it, too. That's what one of the looks in my eyes would mean, if you had time to write it down. |
| 2022-09-30 | 130 | Sergio Rodríguez | "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" | single | We don't wait for futures, we hurl ourselves forward slowly in time. |
| 2022-09-23 | 29 | THE UNCROWNED | "COLD SIGH" | WITNESS | We fear that in other people's future, |
| 2022-09-23 | 30 | Daedric | "Coldharbour" | Coldharbour 5 | we ourselves will be obsolete, |
| 2022-09-23 | 31 | Sleeping Romance | "Ghost Shadows" | Ghost Shadows +3 | and thus that the fight for control of the future is existential. |
| 2022-09-23 | 32 | Eva Under Fire | "Ghost" | Love, Drugs & Misery | Manic convolutionary self-reference, however, is logistically complicated to sustain. |
| 2022-09-23 | 33 | Sede Vacante | "Raindrops" | single | It's a lot easier to write a song and then not fabricate a matchingly glossy |
| 2022-09-23 | 34 | Avantasia | "The Inmost Light" | The Inmost Light +3 | energy drink that didn't and maybe still doesn't exist. |
| 2022-09-23 | 35 | Loch Vostok | "Black Neon Manifesto" | single | And thus hyperpop as hypercollaborational Pop |
| 2022-09-23 | 36 | Teramaze | "For the Thrill" | single | necessarily and self-preservationally became hyperpop as hyperactive pop, |
| 2022-09-23 | 37 | Borealis | "Ashes Turn to Rain" | Ashes Turn to Rain +1 | a mercifully and tractably musical style instead of a Whole Art performance. |
| 2022-09-23 | 38 | Bloody Hammers | "Phantasmagoria" | single | Pop Art becomes a color palette; |
| 2022-09-23 | 39 | Disturbed | "Unstoppable" | Unstoppable +1 | Poptimism becomes another canon we drag into the same battles |
| 2022-09-23 | 40 | Grimner | "Helvandrarna" | single | we already know how to fight. |
| 2022-09-23 | 41 | Frosttide | "Warrior" | single | But this is what happens to everything, |
| 2022-09-23 | 42 | Bakahira | "They Are Coming" | single | is how cults are liberated, |
| 2022-09-23 | 43 | Petbrick | "Arboria" | Liminal | is how secrets become resonant wisdom |
| 2022-09-23 | 44 | Timor et Tremor | "Of Wolf and Sun" | single | and then ominous legends |
| 2022-09-23 | 45 | OTUS | "Through the Flesh" | Torch | and then diffident myths. |
| 2022-09-23 | 46 | Nordjevel | "I Djevelens Skygge" | Gnavhòl | Dancing carefully in the careless footprints of elves |
| 2022-09-23 | 47 | Firtan | "Fadir" | Faðir 3 | is how we learn to approximate their grace, barely. |
| 2022-09-23 | 48 | Mo'ynoq | "Effigies Adorned in Fire" | A Place for Ash | Except of course it's the other way around. Our feet are the first. |
| 2022-09-23 | 49 | Imha Tarikat | "Radical Righteousness" | single | The elves we imagine are our exaggerated selves. |
| 2022-09-23 | 50 | Kuggur | "يَا لَيْلِ" | single | We dream of futures |
| 2022-09-23 | 51 | Gaerea | "Ebb" | Mirage | in which our constricting twinges have vanished, |
| 2022-09-23 | 52 | Hoaxed | "Guilty Ones" | Guilty Ones +1 | and been replaced with attentive crowds, |
| 2022-09-23 | 53 | Frayle | "Ipecac" | Skin & Sorrow | and thus that the choreography of the future is improvisational |
| 2022-09-23 | 80 | Gaerea | "Laude" | Mirage | The good news, if you're scared of the future, is that it's not scheduled to happen today, and tomorrow has probably been booked and danced already, too. |
| 2022-09-23 | 81 | Anchors & Hearts | "Running up That Hill (a Deal with God)" | single | The good news, if you miss the things you used to think were the future, is that they're all still as possible and inevitable as they were when you fell in love with them. |
| 2022-09-23 | 82 | Eva Under Fire | "With or Without You" | Love, Drugs & Misery | You have been given it all. You are right to want more. |
| 2022-09-16 | 1 | Vrylnia | "Invocation" | The Other World | I got a new pair of earbuds for running, |
| 2022-09-16 | 2 | The Erinyes | "On My Way to Love" | The Erinyes | and also a new pair of supposedly slightly fancier shoes. |
| 2022-09-16 | 3 | Epica | "The Final Lullaby (feat. Shining)" | single | The thing about running gear is that running is hard, |
| 2022-09-16 | 4 | Edenbridge | "At First Light" | Shangri-La | and bad gear can make it even harder, |
| 2022-09-16 | 5 | ELYSATIUM | "Destiny" | single | but good gear doesn't really make it easier. |
| 2022-09-16 | 6 | Ghosther | "Resistance" | Immersion | Nor would you want it to. |
| 2022-09-16 | 7 | Ксюша на Марсе | "Колыбельная" | Колыбельная +1 | Running is not a transportation mode. |
| 2022-09-16 | 8 | RedHook | "SAY" | single | If I wanted to reach a destination with less effort, |
| 2022-09-16 | 9 | Evol Walks | "Back Where You Belong" | single | I would use pretty much any other method. |
| 2022-09-16 | 10 | The Erinyes | "Where Do We Go" | The Erinyes | I run to force my body to expend energy it would otherwise unimaginatively conserve, |
| 2022-09-16 | 11 | Praise the Sun | "The Curtain of Life" | The Proffer of Light | and to confront my brain with a provocation of effort |
| 2022-09-16 | 12 | LOST NEBULA | "Doomsday" | single | that offers emotional potential for essentially no risk. |
| 2022-09-16 | 13 | Reliqa | "Second Nature" | I Don't Know What I Am 6 | If I stop in the middle of a loop, the sudden reduction in centripetal force does not fling me from the route to my grisly demise. |
| 2022-09-16 | 14 | E-An-Na | "Cenuşiu" | single | The new shoes do not make this unlikely outcome differently unlikely. |
| 2022-09-16 | 15 | RAVDINA | "Капли" | single | I'm trying them, instead of the supposedly slightly unfancier model I've been running in for a couple years, |
| 2022-09-16 | 16 | Molllust | "Saturn - Human Clockwork" | Saturn 2 | because the company that makes both models describes the fancier one as the running shoe they would make if they only made one running shoe, |
| 2022-09-16 | 17 | Unleash The Archers | "Falsewave" | single | and I know a veiled warning when I hear one. |
| 2022-09-16 | 18 | Debler Eternia | "Eternia" | single | As with all choices, I want to know if I'd be sad to have only this one |
| 2022-09-16 | 19 | The Erinyes | "Take Me" | The Erinyes | while I still have others. |
| 2022-09-16 | 20 | OCTAVIAGRACE | "追想列車" | single | Are they better? Maybe. |
| 2022-09-16 | 21 | 猫の眼に宇宙 | "再生のアンセム" | 再生のアンセム / I:Do:l 2 | Are they $25 better? Maybe. |
| 2022-09-16 | 22 | Finally | "WILD BRAVE" | single | If I replace running shoes after 500 miles, a $25 more-expensive pair only has to be $.05 better per mile, |
| 2022-09-16 | 63 | Jesus Jones | "Wired and Windburned" | single | They do not appear to degrade from the act of playing anthemic symphonic metal |
| 2022-09-16 | 83 | Sahg | "House of Worship" | House of Worship +3 | There have been only four transformational advances in music playback in my lifetime, I think, unless I'm forgetting one, which would be embarrassing: |
| 2022-09-16 | 84 | Wolfheart | "Knell" | King of the North | - the shift from LPs to CDs making essentially-full-fidelity playback possible in portable devices; |
| 2022-09-16 | 85 | In Flames | "Foregone Pt. 1" | Foregone, Pt. 1 3 | - the shift from CDs to iPods making collections as portable as individual albums; |
| 2022-09-16 | 86 | Stratovarius | "Frozen in Time" | Frozen in Time +3 | - the shift from downloads to streaming making collecting no longer a prerequisite of listening; |
| 2022-09-16 | 87 | Ginevra | "Masquerade" | We Belong to the Stars | - and the shift from wires to wireless closing, at least provisionally, the unencumbered distance between the music-control interface and our heads. |
| 2022-09-16 | 88 | Perfect Plan | "Can't Let You Win" | single | I assume the next one will involve implants and/or angels. |
| 2022-09-16 | 89 | House Of Lords | "Take It All" | Saints and Sinners | This new running set belongs to the same era as the previous ones, |
| 2022-09-16 | 90 | Hartmann | "Remedy" | Get Over It | so they only sound better and weigh less and fit better and make track- and volume-changes more easily, |
| 2022-09-16 | 91 | Mentalist | "Tears Within A Paradise" | Empires Falling | and I would have been surprised if I didn't like them better than their predecessors. |
| 2022-09-16 | 92 | Somehow Jo | "Rush" | Scales and Details | The surprise, though only mild, is that I also like them notably better than the fancier pair of less ear-adhering and more "professional" (in predictably both good and bad senses) earbuds I was previously using for non-exercise purposes. |
| 2022-09-16 | 93 | Virtual Symmetry | "The Paradise of Lies" | Virtual Symmetry | Progress elides tradeoffs. |
| 2022-09-16 | 94 | MCC [Magna Carta Cartel] | "This Is My Life" | Savantgarde 2 | The tiny camera in my phone is better than all my previous cameras at everything but extreme zoom, |
| 2022-09-16 | 95 | For Absent Friends | "Little Things" | The Big Room | and one of the many interesting things I learned from my questionable choice of majoring in photography at college was that walking closer is almost always better than zooming closer, anyway, |
| 2022-09-16 | 96 | Destrage | "A Commercial Break that Lasts Forever" | SO MUCH. too much. | especially (and I learned this in college too, albeit with different magnitudes) if you don't have to carry a giant camera with you. |
| 2022-09-16 | 97 | Marras | "Viiva" | single | The noise-reduction in these mid-tier 2022 "sport" earbuds is more or less as good as the noise-reduction in my much-clunkier 2020 specialty noise-cancelling earbuds, |
| 2022-09-16 | 98 | The Antichrist Imperium | "Misotheist" | single | and the reproduction of misotheism is cheerfully superior. |
| 2022-09-16 | 99 | Ifernach | "A Winter Tree Clad in Black Frost" | single | It's a little weird to say that my earbuds are the most important piece of technology in my life |
| 2022-09-16 | 100 | Ellende | "Freier Fall" | single | when they need a phone or computer to do anything and those gadgets can do many other interesting things, |
| 2022-09-16 | 101 | Second To Sun | "The Divine Voice" | Voices of Obscurantism | but I already routinely say that I think putting all the world's music online together is the greatest cultural achievement of my lifetime |
| 2022-09-16 | 102 | Behemoth | "Once Upon A Pale Horse" | Opvs Contra Natvram | even though we had to invent the internet to make it among a billion other things possible. |
| 2022-09-16 | 103 | Cloud Rat | "Corset" | single | We're still just beginning to understand the constraints and possibilities of music streaming, I think, |
| 2022-09-16 | 104 | ChuggaBoom | "No Rules, No Limits" | No Rules, No Limits +2 | and simultaneously the implications of so much of music moving from shared air directly into our bodies. |
| 2022-09-16 | 105 | Callejon | "Sternenstaub" | Sternenstaub +2 | Music is joy, and this was no less true when I was 12 and it was coming out of a tinny 1979 clock-radio speaker |
| 2022-09-16 | 106 | Décembre Noir | "Small.Town.Depression" | single | turned to its literal lowest volume against the side of my head because it had no headphone jack, never mind Bluetooth, |
| 2022-09-16 | 107 | Violet Cold | "Shazam the Void" | single | and the Great American Radio Show aired in Dallas after my bedtime. |
| 2022-09-16 | 108 | Lybica | "Ascend" | Lybica | Our spirits have always flown with our available wings. |
| 2022-09-16 | 112 | Bakahira | "My Mother Told Me" | single | Earbuds are a technology of immersion, not isolation; |
| 2022-09-16 | 118 | A.A. Williams | "The Echo" | single | If we can reach each other with a whisper, |
| 2022-09-16 | 119 | REZN | "Possession" | single | what other seemingly intractable distances exist to limn diversity |
| 2022-09-16 | 120 | No Devotion | "No Oblivion" | No Oblivion | instead of inviting the void? |
| 2022-09-16 | 136 | Ana Black Orchid | "Running Up That Hill - Metal Version" | single | Look into someone's eyes until you can tell the song they're hearing. |
| 2022-09-16 | 137 | Patty Gurdy | "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" | single | If you move one step apart, once you know, that is not running. Not running away. |
| 2022-09-09 | 51 | SHIN | "ECHO" | single | and the way the people tried so earnestly to help you find what you were looking for, |
| 2022-09-09 | 52 | CrowsAlive | "Neo Romancers" | single | even though it was not at all unclear if you had explained it well enough. |
| 2022-09-09 | 53 | ASTERISM | "空に歌えば" | Animetic | How do you say, in a language you have only borrowed, |
| 2022-09-09 | 54 | Xandria | "You Will Never Be Our God" | You Will Never Be Our God +1 | that you wish to stand in the doorways of their temples, |
| 2022-09-09 | 55 | Allen/Olzon | "Look at Me" | Army of Dreamers | waiting for your life to adjust to the darkness? |
| 2022-09-09 | 56 | Cassyette | "September Rain" | single | without calling their interior light "darkness"? |
| 2022-09-09 | 57 | Seas on the Moon | "The Warrior" | single | How do you move, when moving requires you to admit that you measure other people's origins |
| 2022-09-09 | 58 | Cold Kingdom | "Finally" | Finally +3 | in steps from yours? |
| 2022-09-09 | 59 | South Haven | "Lost in the Feeling" | Lost in the Feeling +1 | How do we meet, in either of our spaces or any other space neutral only to our myopic perspectives, |
| 2022-09-09 | 60 | September Mourning | "Guardian" | single | without merely pressing together the shinily non-porous surfaces of mirror solipsisms? |
| 2022-09-09 | 61 | Lunarian | "Burn the Beauty" | Burn the Beauty | We offer our names to each other as descriptions of how we change by meeting, |
| 2022-09-09 | 62 | Splitmind | "The World Will Never Be the Same" | single | and thus your name becomes the first name of everything you allow to reach you, |
| 2022-09-09 | 63 | Morphide | "Catharsis" | Anhedonia | and the last name of everything you let go. |
| 2022-09-09 | 64 | One Morning Left | "Tonight" | Tonight +1 | Nothing is ever so perfect that it cannot be improved by movement, |
| 2022-09-09 | 65 | Vermilia | "Marras" | Ruska | by the next movement, by any movement, |
| 2022-09-09 | 66 | Psideralica | "Better Than Us" | single | by being willing to contemplate new movements. |
| 2022-09-09 | 67 | Wednesday | "Bull Believer" | single | We ask for change |
| 2022-09-09 | 68 | Brutus | "Victoria" | Victoria +2 | in order to give ourselves the opportunity to accept the possibility of it. |
| 2022-09-09 | 69 | Victoria K | "Tower" | single | Civilization is a not a result or description or context of an increased speed of change, |
| 2022-09-09 | 70 | A Sound of Thunder | "The Golden Age" | The Krimson Kult | it is the name of it. |
| 2022-09-09 | 71 | Osyron | "Beyond the Sun" | single | We move away from doom, from destiny, |
| 2022-09-09 | 72 | Teramaze | "The Thieves Are Out" | single | or we reach them in a detonational impact; |
| 2022-09-09 | 73 | Virtual Symmetry | "The Paradise of Lies" | single | the opposite of impact is transcendence, |
| 2022-09-09 | 74 | Fallujah | "Artifacts" | Empyrean | both of them only nominally nouns. |
| 2022-09-09 | 75 | Revocation | "Lessons in Occult Theft" | Netherheaven | This is your lesson in rejecting divine gifts: |
| 2022-09-09 | 76 | U.D.O. | "Dust and Rust" | single | anything immortal is useless to you while you are alive. |
| 2022-09-09 | 77 | Winter | "Pray - Single Edit" | Pray 3 | Prayer is the name we give to the weak moments in which we can't face this, |
| 2022-09-09 | 78 | Ozzy Osbourne | "Immortal (feat. Mike McCready)" | Patient Number 9 | in which our frailties seem too present, |
| 2022-09-09 | 82 | JAMBINAI | "once more from that frozen bottom" | single | Sinking does not cede victory to deeper attractors |
| 2022-09-09 | 83 | Blackbraid | "The River of Time Flows Through Me" | Blackbraid I | we will anyways never reach. |
| 2022-09-09 | 84 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Rose of Jericho" | Banefyre | There is always more story: |
| 2022-09-02 | 13 | VV | "Echolocate Your Love" | single | This is what we never know about each other, |
| 2022-09-02 | 14 | Lesbian Bed Death | "The Antichrist" | single | the third or the seventh of the uncountable things we are always still learning: |
| 2022-09-02 | 15 | My Own Ghost | "Shadow In Your Room" | single | what fates we believe ourselves to deserve |
| 2022-09-02 | 16 | The Darling Fire | "Hers" | Hers 5 | in stories. |
| 2022-09-02 | 17 | HEXED | "Stigma Diaboli - Radio Edit" | single | This is how theologies allow themselves to become mired in guilt, |
| 2022-09-02 | 18 | NOILION | "Break All Chains" | single | or free themselves for allegory. |
| 2022-09-02 | 19 | Carpathia | "Low Tides" | single | We are at our most obtuse and pedantic |
| 2022-09-02 | 20 | Gallia | "Return of Time" | Obscura | when we attempt to measure a journey |
| 2022-09-02 | 21 | Sede Vacante | "Dead New World" | single | by where we are when we think it's over. |
| 2022-09-02 | 22 | Ranthiel | "Je Veux Vivre" | single | All of these waypoints are more beginning than end, |
| 2022-09-02 | 23 | Pin Up Went Down | "Porcelain Hours" | 342 | like all steps are falling. |
| 2022-09-02 | 52 | Main-De-Gloire | "One Step Closer" | One Step Closer +1 | is the process of trying to explain the broken and silent world |
| 2022-09-02 | 53 | The Untold | "Albatross" | Thunder and Water : Act One | aloud. |
| 2022-09-02 | 54 | Queensrÿche | "Behind the Walls" | single | I'm not going to tell you whether they approve the ocean in the end. |
| 2022-09-02 | 55 | House Of Lords | "Saints and Sinners" | single | This is what we rarely remember, as we watch other people confront their own opportunities |
| 2022-09-02 | 56 | Opera Magna | "Where Once Was Beating My Dark Heart" | Where Once Was Beating My Dark Heart +2 | for grandeur or grief: |
| 2022-09-02 | 57 | The HU | "Bii Biyelgee" | Rumble Of Thunder | we are at our most human and serene |
| 2022-09-02 | 60 | Striborg | "An Unfamiliar Journey" | single | when the demons appear on our doorsteps in simmering robes |
| 2022-09-02 | 61 | Violet Cold | "Ehtiras Hisslər / Ehtiyat Hissələr" | single | and we say "demons! come in, come in!", |
| 2022-09-02 | 62 | Starer | "Five Minutes Before Dawn" | Remorse Defines Me 3 | and take the dish of whatever it is from them. |
| 2022-09-02 | 63 | Panychida | "Pustina" | Říruřec - Dreisessel 5 | "Vegan takoyaki...", they explain, |
| 2022-09-02 | 64 | Walg | "Geselberg" | single | in a tone that suggests they are ready to apologize |
| 2022-09-02 | 65 | Foraoisí gan Iniúchadh | "See The Sun Rise" | Isolation | for either the "vegan" part or the history of octopus slaughter, |
| 2022-09-02 | 66 | Einsamkeit | "The Owl Eyes (Chapter. I)" | The Owl Eyes 5 | if taking unearned responsibility for either one will help. |
| 2022-09-02 | 67 | Alles Wird In Flammen Stehen | "Sunset over the river-I" | II - Sunset over the river | The octopi are upstairs at the moment, anyway. They found the shower. |
| 2022-08-26 | 1 | The Erinyes | "Death by a Broken Heart" | single | I assume if I were a better fan, I could have recognized the three singers in the Erinyes from either their voices or their pictures, since they're each also in bands I already knew and liked: Justine Daaé in Elyose, Mizuho Lin in Semblant, Nicoletta Rosellini in both Walk In Darkness and Kalidia. |
| 2022-08-26 | 2 | The Spider Accomplice | "Fight" | single | In the version of the world where every band lives on the patronage of 1000 true fans, I am not the fan you want. |
| 2022-08-26 | 3 | Allen/Olzon | "So Quiet Here" | single | We were cross-checking a data thing at work last week, and I knew it was broken because it said I had listened to over 800 artists so far this year. |
| 2022-08-26 | 4 | Beyond The Black | "Is There Anybody Out There?" | Is There Anybody Out There? +1 | I was right that it was wrong. My correct number was 5685 with four months still to go in the year, and that's only counting artists if I listened to at least :30 of one of their songs. |
| 2022-08-26 | 5 | Inferiority Complex | "Till Death Do Us Part" | single | I've heard at least 2 seconds of songs by thousands more in the process of scanning new releases. |
| 2022-08-26 | 6 | Sever The Light | "Blinded & Miserable" | single | 800 was the number of bands where I've listened to at least 3 different songs, and on 3 different days. |
| 2022-08-26 | 7 | Silentlie | "On My Skin" | single | The 1000-fan model is predicated on getting each of those fans to spend $100 on you. |
| 2022-08-26 | 8 | Imperial Age | "Distant Shores" | New World | I do not have $586,500 to spend supporting these bands, never mind $852,750 scaled to the whole year. |
| 2022-08-26 | 9 | Circus of Fools | "Primal Force Humanity" | single | I do not have $80,000 to spend on the 800 bands I've played repeatedly. |
| 2022-08-26 | 10 | Kassogtha | "Eclipse" | Eclipse +1 | I go to concerts occasionally in non-plague times, |
| 2022-08-26 | 11 | Therion | "Pazuzu" | Pazuzu +2 | and I bought a Zola Jesus T-shirt when her new record came out. |
| 2022-08-26 | 12 | Dynazty | "All the Devils Are Here" | Final Advent | I do not buy "vinyls". |
| 2022-08-26 | 13 | Kaledon | "The Story Comes to an End?" | single | I am not a patron. |
| 2022-08-26 | 14 | Induction | "Queen Of Light" | Queen Of Light +1 | I love you but I have chosen the infinite. |
| 2022-08-26 | 15 | Brymir | "Fly with Me" | Voices in the Sky | I will listen to this song, but then |
| 2022-08-26 | 16 | Enigmatic Entrance | "Time & Tide" | single | the next one. |
| 2022-08-26 | 17 | Grimner | "Västerled" | single | And while I don't think anybody else should listen this way unless you want to, |
| 2022-08-26 | 18 | Tad Morose | "Witches Dance" | March of the Obsequious | in which case you should because we can, |
| 2022-08-26 | 19 | Kampfar | "Flammen fra Nord" | Flammen fra Nord +1 | I also don't want a world whose culture is predicated on patronage, either. |
| 2022-08-26 | 20 | ColdWorld | "Soundtrack to Isolation" | Soundtrack to Isolation +1 | The peril of relying on 1000 fans is that you have to get $100 out of each of them, |
| 2022-08-26 | 21 | Weltenbrandt | "Apotropaion" | single | and that's assuming you're a solo artist with negligible production costs |
| 2022-08-26 | 22 | All The Cold | "Zero Coordinates" | single | and don't want to live in an expensive city. |
| 2022-08-26 | 23 | Gaerea | "Mirage" | Mirage +2 | Maybe it assumes your fans don't live in an expensive city, either. |
| 2022-08-26 | 24 | Hexis | "Letum" | Aeternum | Most music-buyers in the CD age spent a lot less than $100/year on CDs, |
| 2022-08-26 | 25 | Valborg | "Asbach" | single | so the number of potentially-true fans available has to be small. |
| 2022-08-26 | 26 | Cloud Rat | "Kaleidoscope" | single | You have to find somebody who is temperamentally willing and financially able to spend $100/year on a single artist, |
| 2022-08-26 | 27 | Sigh | "Kuroi Kage" | Shiki | but who despite this willingness and ability hasn't already pledged their truth to some other artist. |
| 2022-08-26 | 28 | Enslaved | "Kingdom" | single | The patronage model, conveniently, is always described in artificial isolation: |
| 2022-08-26 | 29 | Choronzon | "Madness Swallows This Flesh" | ...and Battlements Rose Out of Hallowed Ground | one artist, reaching out to an attentive audience of casual fans |
| 2022-08-26 | 30 | Lacrimas Profundere | "Nebula" | How to Shroud Yourself with Night | eager to become loved |
| 2022-08-26 | 31 | Dwell in Doom | "Nevermore" | Forest of Mourning Souls | and thus devoted. |
| 2022-08-26 | 32 | Bloody Hammers | "Black Sunday" | single | It sounds a bit less appealing |
| 2022-08-26 | 33 | Teramaze | "Gold" | single | and a lot less indie |
| 2022-08-26 | 34 | Threshold | "King Of Nothing" | King Of Nothing +1 | if you describe it as a tiny audience of the idle barely-rich |
| 2022-08-26 | 118 | The Giant Void | "Billie Jean" | single | We are the ones who will follow all of them at once. |
| 2022-08-26 | 119 | Edge Of Paradise | "Welcome to the Jungle" | single | We can find whatever we need: |
| 2022-08-26 | 120 | RichaadEB | "Running Up That Hill - Instrumental" | single | one true fan who won't give us money and walk away, or offer, no more helpfully, to trade roles, |
| 2022-08-19 | 19 | DAIDA LAIDA | "象牙色の嘘" | single | and truth against expedience. |
| 2022-08-19 | 20 | Empress | "Legion" | Fateweaver | Make decisions as if you were you. |
| 2022-08-19 | 21 | Kalah | "The River" | Descent into Human Weakness | Act as if you were you. |
| 2022-08-19 | 22 | ELYSATIUM | "Who We Are" | single | That's the only way any of this ever gets better, |
| 2022-08-19 | 23 | Liliumdust | "Compliant Masks" | Our Deepest Hollows | or stays better. |
| 2022-08-19 | 24 | Avatarium | "Death, Where Is Your Sting" | Death, Where Is Your Sting? 2 | That's the only reason to put off the impatiently awaiting forever. |
| 2022-08-19 | 25 | Kalah | "Crows Calling at Night" | Descent into Human Weakness | Entropy doesn't need your love, |
| 2022-08-19 | 26 | Empress | "Beyond the Sleep" | Fateweaver | and will not reward your fealty, |
| 2022-08-19 | 27 | Wings of Destiny | "Never Surrender" | single | but will greedily accept your capitulation. |
| 2022-08-19 | 28 | Splintered Throne | "The Crossing" | The Greater Good of Man | Maps on the back of your hands draw out your loss |
| 2022-08-19 | 29 | Borealis | "Pray for Water" | single | until it shines into the sky |
| 2022-08-19 | 30 | Oceanhoarse | "Nails" | single | like a beacon meant not to warn of weather |
| 2022-08-19 | 31 | Wolfheart | "The King" | The King +1 | but to invite it. |
| 2022-08-19 | 32 | Candlemass | "Scandinavian Gods" | single | Fame and longitude both appear to converge, |
| 2022-08-19 | 33 | Behemoth | "Thy Becoming Eternal" | Thy Becoming Eternal +3 | appear to be defined by that convergence, |
| 2022-08-19 | 34 | Nordjevel | "Of Rats and Men" | Of Rats and Men +3 | until you stand unchanged at the coordinates of a vertex. |
| 2022-08-19 | 35 | Noctem | "CREDO CERTE NE CRAS" | single | We will not escape geography with geometry, |
| 2022-08-19 | 36 | Sabackthanny | "Setsuna Plus" | single | will not triangulate our way to a portal out of all of this joy and doubt. |
| 2022-08-19 | 82 | 616 | "Everything Dies" | single | Fall in love like you're still able, and willing, to get back up again afterwards. Leave the love there for other people to fall in. |
| 2022-08-19 | 83 | Spirit Adrift | "Everything Dies" | 20 Centuries Gone | It takes courage to walk around on the fragile surface of this place, a thin layer of constructed composure over sinkholes of love and sewage and fire, |
| 2022-08-12 | 1 | Avantasia | "Misplaced Among The Angels" | single | There's a line in this song, "Misplaced Among the Angels", where Floor Jansen is asked to sing "Trying to scream yet unbearably mute". |
| 2022-08-12 | 2 | Dynazty | "The White" | single | The whole song is gloriously oversolemn, because that's the Avantasia aesthetic and one not often executed more ruthlessly. |
| 2022-08-12 | 3 | Orden Ogan | "Inferno" | Inferno +1 | The melody of the line curves around elegantly into that final word, the "muuuuuuuuu" hanging effortlessly in the air, waiting to dissipate, to escape. |
| 2022-08-12 | 4 | Terra Atlantica | "The Scarlet Banners" | single | You have this decision to make in a song, in an artwork, in a life: |
| 2022-08-12 | 5 | Volver Al Origen | "No Más" | single | to follow the obdurate yearnings of the form in which you find yourself, |
| 2022-08-12 | 6 | Varjola | "Viaton ihminen" | single | or to say what you came to say. |
| 2022-08-12 | 7 | Lacrimas Profundere | "To Disappear in You" | single | The note wants to die. |
| 2022-08-12 | 8 | Mono Inc. | "Princess of the Night" | single | The word wants to end. |
| 2022-08-12 | 9 | Sylosis | "Heavy Is The Crown" | single | Tobias Sammet wrote them both, and so Floor sings them both, |
| 2022-08-12 | 10 | Dress the Dead | "Painless Injection" | single | even though the "t" breaks spell, |
| 2022-08-12 | 11 | Arch Enemy | "The Watcher" | Deceivers | or maybe because of it. |
| 2022-08-12 | 12 | Marlene Mendoza | "Empty Soul" | Insanity 3 | This is the decision you have to make every time you say anything, |
| 2022-08-12 | 13 | Reliqa | "Safety" | single | every time you move: |
| 2022-08-12 | 14 | Delain | "The Quest and the Curse" | single | are you completing a pattern of expectation, |
| 2022-08-12 | 15 | Lunarian | "Endless Sleep" | single | or are you dancing towards a goal? |
| 2022-08-12 | 16 | Nereids | "Pandora" | single | The best songs do not arrive at iterative perfection, |
| 2022-08-12 | 17 | Molllust | "Mars - The Game is Over" | single | they remind you, even in lament, to demand joy. |
| 2022-08-12 | 18 | Zio | "Close" | single | They demonstrate, in a memento mori of awkwardness, |
| 2022-08-12 | 19 | Sharm | "Fly with the Dragons" | single | the idea that the will to live comes from a belief in the uncertainty of the future. |
| 2022-08-12 | 20 | HEXED | "Resurrection" | single | Maybe we will be triumphant. |
| 2022-08-12 | 21 | Cold Kingdom | "Apologies" | Apologies +2 | Maybe by feeling triumphant we will let go of some plaintive need to feel like we are winning |
| 2022-08-12 | 22 | Forever May Fall | "Undertow" | Undertow +2 | long enough to see another way to resolve our story logic. |
| 2022-08-12 | 23 | New Years Day | "Hurts Like Hell" | single | This is not a war. |
| 2022-08-12 | 24 | Rinrin | "Guns and Grenades" | single | Even our wars are not really wars any more, |
| 2022-08-12 | 25 | April Art | "Headline" | single | proxy nihilism for ideologies of denial |
| 2022-08-12 | 26 | Enter Shikari | "The Void Stares Back" | single | hoping somebody will believe that they can die for a cause |
| 2022-08-12 | 27 | 塞壬唱片-MSR | "All hail Savior!" | All hail Savior! +1 | without invalidating it. |
| 2022-08-12 | 28 | 花冷え。 | "NEET GAME" | single | Any game is serious to its pieces, |
| 2022-08-12 | 67 | FEST VAINQUEUR | "Earendel" | single | that you always had. |
| 2022-08-12 | 68 | Boris | "Cramper" | Heavy Rocks (2022) | Every piece can always move in any direction. |
| 2022-08-12 | 69 | GUHTS | "Burn My Body" | single | Try it. |
| 2022-08-12 | 70 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Bonefire" | single | We line the streets for the passage of royalty, |
| 2022-08-12 | 71 | Sigh | "Satsui - Geshi No Ato" | single | but afterwards their carriages remain where the route leads |
| 2022-08-12 | 72 | Shining | "Ugly and Cold" | single | and we go home, |
| 2022-08-12 | 73 | Cosmophobe | "Fractional Velocity" | Moons of Jupiter 3 | or out for ice cream and then |
| 2022-08-12 | 74 | Vananidr | "Awake" | single | to Target for cat litter and AAA batteries. |
| 2022-08-12 | 75 | Lustre | "Thirst" | single | There is no war to win. |
| 2022-08-12 | 76 | Thessa | "The Devil's Lair" | Losing Sleep | We take turns in armor to remember what it feels like to guard each other, |
| 2022-08-12 | 77 | The Dark Atom | "Dystopia" | single | to give unarmoredness as a gift. |
| 2022-08-12 | 99 | Wave Break | "Running Up That Hill" | single | These songs, once recovered, don't want to disappear again. The world doesn't want to end. |
| 2022-08-05 | 17 | Empress | "Chimera" | single | It's not like that. |
| 2022-08-05 | 18 | Arvandil | "Sirens Calling" | single | It's sunny and old. |
| 2022-08-05 | 19 | Season of Ghosts | "The Great Unknown" | single | The sidewalks aren't maglev conveyor-belts, |
| 2022-08-05 | 20 | Dystopica | "For You" | single | they're battered bricks forever in the process of being dug up to fix something buried underneath: |
| 2022-08-05 | 21 | Slaverty | "Blue" | single | legacies of regret, |
| 2022-08-05 | 22 | Upon Wings | "Last Love" | single | the other side of the world, |
| 2022-08-05 | 23 | Allen/Olzon | "All Alone" | single | drainage. |
| 2022-08-05 | 24 | Clödie | "Mój jest ten kawałek podłogi" | single | I never got the armor. |
| 2022-08-05 | 25 | Stratovarius | "Firefly" | Firefly +2 | Why did I want armor? |
| 2022-08-05 | 26 | Symphony Of Sweden | "Lay Them Down (A broken son's cry)" | single | Why did I think I would be wearing it in a sealed electronic monitoring nest? |
| 2022-08-05 | 27 | Mentalist | "If You Really Want" | single | By the time technology becomes ubiquitous, |
| 2022-08-05 | 28 | Virtual Symmetry | "Butterfly Effect" | single | it has already had to become mundane. |
| 2022-08-05 | 32 | In Flames | "The Great Deceiver" | The Great Deceiver +1 | inside other people's ears. |
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