2023-03-17 |
17 |
Majesty |
"Freedom Child" |
single |
Learning to drown this out is both a betrayal of our future |
2023-03-17 |
18 |
Last in Line |
"House Party at the End of the World" |
House Party At The End Of The World 3 |
and a basic survival skill. |
2023-03-17 |
19 |
Revolution Saints |
"Crime of the Century" |
single |
Which century would we like to live in? |
2023-03-17 |
20 |
Redemption |
"The Emotional Depiction of Light" |
I Am the Storm |
The ones made of ancient numbers or the one that starts today? |
2023-03-17 |
21 |
Einar Solberg |
"A Beautiful Life" |
A Beautiful Life +1 |
Like a lot of good questions, it's not good as a result of how we choose to answer it. |
2023-03-17 |
22 |
Narnia |
"Thief" |
Ghost Town |
It's good because it reminds us that portals between worlds are artifacts of perspective. |
2023-03-17 |
23 |
Kamelot |
"The Great Divide" |
The Awakening |
All the universes we can imagine are equally real. |
2023-03-17 |
24 |
Suotana |
"The Ancient" |
Ounas I |
We create. |
2023-03-17 |
25 |
Heathen Foray |
"Oathbreaker" |
Oathbreaker +2 |
We forget in order to make space to recreate. |
2023-03-17 |
26 |
Prevail in Darkness |
"All That Avails Is Flight" |
single |
We lie about names because that's the only way they exist, |
2023-03-17 |
27 |
Atlases |
"Singulars" |
single |
maybe the only way we exist. |
2023-03-17 |
28 |
Foretoken |
"A Tyrant Rises as Titans Fall" |
Triumphs |
We invent nemeses because who else is going to? |
2023-03-17 |
29 |
Reino de Hades |
"Árido Edén" |
single |
We crawled out of the sea with the water right behind us. |
2023-03-17 |
30 |
Valley of Chrome |
"Luha Ng Kaaway" |
single |
We comfort our enemies with release |
2023-03-17 |
31 |
Cisza |
"Jaki piękny świat" |
Jaki piękny świat +3 |
when they only asked to remain. |
2023-03-17 |
32 |
Hyrgal |
"Phalanges Assassines" |
single |
Enter this into the minutes of the guild of the end: |
2023-03-17 |
33 |
Óreiða |
"The Eternal" |
single |
we discarded our gifts as if they would be perpetually regiven, |
2023-03-17 |
34 |
Heretoir |
"Anima" |
single |
and then begrudged each other's surreptitious judgment. |
2023-03-17 |
35 |
Downfall Of Gaia |
"The Whir of Flies" |
Silhouettes of Disgust |
Little wonder that all our best plagues have followed us into the whir of files. |
2023-03-17 |
36 |
Dødheimsgard |
"Abyss Perihelion Transit" |
single |
Our origin and our doom are magnetic shards |
2023-03-17 |
37 |
Stömb |
"The Realm of Delirium" |
Massive Disturbed Meta Art |
pinched on either side of a thrumming membrane that might be our sanity, |
2023-03-17 |
38 |
Vintersea |
"At the Gloaming Void" |
single |
which is as much of why any movement of either one seems like inexplicable magic |
2023-03-17 |
39 |
Smoulder |
"The Talisman and the Blade" |
single |
as it is of why our journey from one to the other sometimes seems to cover no actual distance. |
2023-03-17 |
40 |
Metalite |
"Take My Hand" |
Take My Hand +1 |
The power of the subtle knife is not that it subverts theocracies, |
2023-03-17 |
41 |
Phantom Elite |
"Daydark" |
Blue Blood |
it's that it reminds us to offer mutual transformation. |
2023-03-17 |
42 |
The Dark Side of the Moon |
"The Gates of Time" |
The Gates of Time +3 |
The theocracies will inevitably subvert themselves. |
2023-03-17 |
43 |
Asylum Pyre |
"There, I Could Die" |
single |
The gods have other problems. |
2023-03-17 |
44 |
Silent Utopia |
"My Human Nature" |
single |
It's us who need our belief, |
2023-03-17 |
45 |
Transworld Identity |
"I'm Such a Liar" |
Seven Worlds |
us who need names so badly that we are willing to burn them as fast as we sign, |
2023-03-17 |
46 |
Elysion |
"Blink Of An Eye" |
Bring Out Your Dead |
inhaling each moment so we can hope to remember how it smelled |
2023-03-17 |
47 |
Phantom Divine |
"Babylon" |
single |
after we forget how to tell any story in which it wasn't already foregone. |
2023-03-17 |
48 |
Eternal Frequency |
"Running from Ghosts" |
single |
You can't prevent the impossible with diligence. |
2023-03-17 |
52 |
Angel Wolf-Black |
"Haunted" |
single |
as your intolerant ghosts. |
2023-03-17 |
53 |
Liv Kristine |
"In Your Blue Eyes" |
single |
The things you love, you don't hurl to be returned in the mouths of dogs |
2023-03-17 |
54 |
ARLEQUIN |
"Tebanashite tsukamu zero" |
single |
or commission to be biographied by the heartless. |
2023-03-17 |
104 |
Killus |
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! - ABBA Version" |
single |
Prayer is useless, but grandly knowing uselessness is also kind of the foundation of all art, |
2023-03-10 |
1 |
Tulip |
"Assassins" |
single |
There's operatic metal and symphonic metal and Tulip have an ex-opera-singer and frequent orchestral flourishes, but in context those things basically just keep this tense, pounding song out of metalcore territory. |
2023-03-10 |
2 |
Frozen Crown |
"In a Moment" |
Call of the North |
We are living in an era of absurd and glorious abundance for metal as melodic/rhythmic maximalism. |
2023-03-10 |
3 |
Nereids |
"Fight for the Fallen" |
single |
Nereids have, as I write this, 17 monthly listeners on Spotify. |
2023-03-10 |
4 |
Mission In Black |
"What Does It Take to Be Alive" |
single |
As best I have been able to tell, there is essentially no end of astonishingly good metal bands waiting for you if you want to go looking for them. |
2023-03-10 |
5 |
Infinitas |
"Xana" |
Xana +1 |
Every time I figure out some improvement in algorithmic techniques at work to help the world's collective listening self-organize |
2023-03-10 |
6 |
Evermore |
"Forevermore" |
single |
I point it at the most not-yet-famous metal bands I know, |
2023-03-10 |
7 |
Sefirot |
"El Encuentro" |
single |
and I find more. |
2023-03-10 |
8 |
Haunted Gods |
"Descending" |
Haunted Gods |
Frozen Crown are giants, relatively speaking: 100,000+ listeners and comfortably among the 100,000 most popular artists on Spotify worldwide. |
2023-03-10 |
9 |
Ember Sea |
"Shine (My Dying Star)" |
Shine (My Dying Star) +1 |
These others are fond dreams of love waiting for their turns in our sleep, |
2023-03-10 |
10 |
Lodestar |
"Polaris" |
single |
practicing their band-photo glower for provisional audiences of thousands |
2023-03-10 |
11 |
Lumsk |
"Det Døde Barn" |
Det Døde Barn / Das Tode Kind 2 |
or hundreds |
2023-03-10 |
12 |
Frozen Crown |
"Far Away" |
Call of the North |
or tens. |
2023-03-10 |
13 |
Rides In ReVellion |
"MORE THAN WORDS" |
single |
Spotify has a stated goal of helping a million creative artists make a living from their art |
2023-03-10 |
14 |
a crowd of rebellion |
"ALVA" |
single |
by reaching a billion fans. |
2023-03-10 |
15 |
ALICETOPIA |
"The latter part of the NIGHTMARE" |
single |
If we grant that a corporate mission-statement has to be memorably succinct, |
2023-03-10 |
16 |
NEMOPHILA |
"RISE" |
single |
then these are almost the numbers that have to be. |
2023-03-10 |
76 |
Winger |
"Proud Desperado" |
single |
or else other collective social-structures have to inject that missing order of fiscal magnitude from some other direction. |
2023-03-10 |
77 |
Enter Shikari |
"Bloodshot" |
Bloodshot +2 |
The companies that broker the current flow, like the one I work for, have inevitable incentives to think in the former terms, |
2023-03-10 |
78 |
Daeria |
"Maléfica" |
single |
but as the workers that do or don't comprise those companies |
2023-03-10 |
79 |
Periphery |
"Wax Wings" |
Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre |
we are still human before and after the temporary alignments of commerce. |
2023-03-10 |
80 |
Keep Of Kalessin |
"Katharsis" |
single |
Asking streaming to have already solved this problem, or its glass-half-empty correlate of blaming streaming for having caused it, |
2023-03-10 |
81 |
Mork |
"Tilbake Til Opprinnelsen" |
Tilbake Til Opprinnelsen +1 |
is a performative exercise in grudge-wielding that supports no rational scrutiny. |
2023-03-10 |
82 |
Moongates Guardian |
"II" |
Incompleteness X |
As of 2022 the recorded-music industry has surpassed its CD-era peak in face-value dollars, |
2023-03-10 |
83 |
Gorod |
"Chrematheism" |
The Orb |
and has recovered to about two-thirds of that peak in inflation-adjusted terms. |
2023-03-10 |
84 |
Isole |
"Vanity" |
Anesidora |
The other way of saying this is that never in human history has recorded music, as a business, been more than half again as big as it is now. |
2023-03-10 |
85 |
Afraid of Destiny |
"Anti" |
single |
There were not a million artists living off of their music in the goldenest of golden years of the CD boom. |
2023-03-10 |
86 |
Reverorum ib Malacht |
"Och canel och timjan och salfwa och rökelse och win och olja och semlor och hwete och boskap och får och hästar och wagnar och kroppar och menniskors själar." |
Emet Amen : The dark night of the faith |
Returning to that gold might get us from 17,800 to 26,700, |
2023-03-10 |
87 |
E-An-Na |
"O, romaniţa" |
Alveolar |
or our millionth artist from $50 to $75. |
2023-03-10 |
112 |
Reverorum ib Malacht |
".letipaX .81" |
Emet Amen : The dark night of the faith |
We will do it by learning to hear their noise-floors as solid ground, |
2023-03-03 |
13 |
lynch. |
"ECLIPSE" |
REBORN |
I had to look up 永遠, which means "eternal". |
2023-03-03 |
14 |
NIGAI |
"replica" |
single |
I had to look up "Hitsujibungaku" (羊文学), which means "Sheep Literature". |
2023-03-03 |
15 |
Ad Infinitum |
"From the Ashes" |
From the Ashes +3 |
I had to look up the lyrics to "永遠のブルー", which means "Eternal Blue", |
2023-03-03 |
16 |
Memoremains |
"In The Dark" |
single |
and I don't know why they wrote "ブルー" as the borrowed English word "Blue" in phonetic katakana script |
2023-03-03 |
17 |
Elysion |
"Raid The Universe" |
Raid The Universe +1 |
instead of 青 in kanji, and maybe it's important. |
2023-03-03 |
18 |
Alwaid |
"Illuyanka" |
Twelve Daemons |
I didn't spot-translate any of "永遠のブルー" from just hearing it, |
2023-03-03 |
19 |
Liv Kristine |
"River Of Diamonds" |
single |
and that's normal and doesn't usually faze me, |
2023-03-03 |
20 |
Velkhanos |
"Gunpowder" |
single |
but it's my favorite song ever for now, |
2023-03-03 |
21 |
Moyra |
"Unleashed Spirits" |
OMEN |
and I keep playing it over and over and then eventually for whatever reason I have to stop, |
2023-03-03 |
22 |
LYRRE |
"Crown" |
single |
and I want to be able to keep singing it in my head as I walk away, |
2023-03-03 |
23 |
Hanging Garden |
"The Garden" |
The Garden +2 |
and so I needed to find at least some part of it I could understand without merely memorizing some new noises. |
2023-03-03 |
24 |
Koburg |
"Beauty in the Fight" |
single |
I recognize 愛, for love, when it's written, and it's "Ai" when you say it, so maybe I should have been able to hear |
2023-03-03 |
25 |
Djunah |
"Hallway" |
Femina Furens |
愛をしてるから as "because I am in love". "Ai wo shiteru kara...". |
2023-03-03 |
26 |
Iress |
"Ricochet" |
single |
I would have been wrong, but not too badly wrong, if I had tried to say this idea myself, |
2023-03-03 |
27 |
Lesath |
"There is a profound sense in which we are isolated" |
There is a profound sense in which we are isolated |
but I know what the prepositions and infinitives mean if you put them in the right order for me. |
2023-03-03 |
28 |
An Danzza |
"Fólkvangr (Freya's Abode)" |
single |
So there's my line: "Because I am in love." "Ai wo shiteru kara..." |
2023-03-03 |
29 |
GALNERYUS |
"BRAVEHEARTS" |
BETWEEN DREAD AND VALOR |
If you walked past me this week and I seemed ethereal and lost, that's why. |
2023-03-03 |
30 |
Grimgotts |
"Until Dawn" |
single |
I was singing half of a line of this song to myself to hold my heart together until I could play it again, |
2023-03-03 |
31 |
Powerwolf |
"No Prayer At Midnight" |
No Prayer At Midnight +2 |
still, again, 今も, even now. |
2023-03-03 |
32 |
Elvenking |
"Bride of Night" |
Bride of Night +2 |
They have names, the three women in Hitsujibungaku, |
2023-03-03 |
33 |
Narnia |
"Hold On" |
Hold On +1 |
I could probably learn what they are. |
2023-03-03 |
34 |
Omnium Gatherum |
"Slasher" |
single |
I've been listening to them for almost 5 years, |
2023-03-03 |
35 |
Enslaved |
"Behind The Mirror" |
Heimdal |
and in that time they've made at least 3 of my favorite songs ever. |
2023-03-03 |
36 |
Black & Damned |
"Hyena's Call" |
single |
But I need their songs more than they need my love, I think. |
2023-03-03 |
37 |
Marras |
"Musta Heijastin" |
single |
80,000 people in Tokyo have listened to them on Spotify in the last month. |
2023-03-03 |
38 |
Liturgy |
"Before I Knew the Truth" |
single |
They are witnessed. They will not be forgotten. |
2023-03-03 |
39 |
Spirit Possession |
"Orthodox Weapons" |
single |
Their songs are heard by people who understand them completely. |
2023-03-03 |
40 |
Majesties |
"Verdant Paths to Radiance" |
Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
I could walk among them as a politely tolerated intrusion, |
2023-03-03 |
41 |
CHTHONIC |
"護國山" |
single |
albeit one that is sometimes capable of comprehending public-transit announcement, |
2023-03-03 |
42 |
Cradle Of Filth |
"She is a Fire" |
single |
but love is only rarely a symmetric exchange. |
2023-03-03 |
43 |
The 69 Eyes |
"Death of Darkness" |
single |
Mostly it is a substance we uncontrollably exude. |
2023-03-03 |
44 |
Deathstars |
"Midnight Party" |
Midnight Party +1 |
It mixes with nitrogen in a layer around the surface of the world |
2023-03-03 |
49 |
Ihsahn |
"Dom Andra" |
Dom Andra +1 |
You could begin half your sentences with "Because I am in love", |
2023-03-03 |
50 |
Haken |
"Sempiternal Beings" |
Fauna |
and maybe in doing so identify the other half that would be better unsaid. |
2023-03-03 |
56 |
Kirkkovene |
"Se on kuin yö" |
single |
I'm in love with a French melodic metal band I thought were Belgian, |
2023-03-03 |
115 |
UMC |
"Flowers" |
Flowers +1 |
and then drive home blasting covers we know would infuriate them. |
2023-02-24 |
57 |
LOVEBITES |
"We Are The Resurrection" |
JUDGEMENT DAY |
I asked ChatGPT to describe this LOVEBITES song, |
2023-02-24 |
58 |
BABYMETAL |
"Light and Darkness" |
Light and Darkness +3 |
which of course it doesn't know about because it didn't exist |
2023-02-24 |
59 |
ILLUMISHADE |
"Hymn" |
Hymn +1 |
when ChatGPT's nihilistic world ended, |
2023-02-24 |
60 |
Soulspell |
"Dead Silence" |
single |
and it did so with magnificently banal obliviousness, |
2023-02-24 |
61 |
Xeria |
"Una Lágrima Más" |
single |
enthusing over musical features it plausibly could have had |
2023-02-24 |
62 |
Leah |
"Before This War Is Over" |
single |
but doesn't, |
2023-02-24 |
63 |
Floor Jansen |
"Daydream" |
Daydream +2 |
and calling out the anthemic repetition of the song's title in its chorus, |
2023-02-24 |
64 |
Angel Wolf-Black |
"Energize Me" |
single |
which is not a thing. |
2023-02-24 |
65 |
Burning Witches |
"The Dark Tower" |
single |
The failure to avoid making up clichéd bullshit is a mordant indictment of artificial "intelligence", |
2023-02-24 |
66 |
Enemy of Reality |
"Downfall" |
Where Truth May Lie |
but an interpretive ballet of testimony |
2023-02-24 |
67 |
Against Myself |
"Providence" |
single |
to how immanently music is embedded in our collective mimesis. |
2023-02-24 |
68 |
Transworld Identity |
"Play & Pretend" |
single |
We built a monster we shouldn't have built, |
2023-02-24 |
69 |
Exilia |
"Supernova" |
single |
and maybe don't exactly know how to take apart again, |
2023-02-24 |
70 |
Manigance |
"Forgotten Survivor" |
The Shadows Ball |
but it sometimes looks fairly hot for a few moments while it's dancing, |
2023-02-24 |
71 |
Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall |
"Far from Home" |
single |
because so do we and we don't know how to make a world where things don't. |
2023-02-24 |
72 |
Excalion |
"Resolution" |
single |
This is why deliberate dystopia is inevitably plaintive and self-defeating: |
2023-02-24 |
73 |
Majesty |
"Back To Attack" |
single |
you can't warn people against monstrosity without depicting monsters monstrously, |
2023-02-24 |
74 |
Firewind |
"Destiny Is Calling" |
single |
but nobody needs to be warned against monsters |
2023-02-24 |
75 |
Redemption |
"Remember the Dawn" |
Remember the Dawn +2 |
emerging out of tranquil darkness into the edges of our gruesomely flicking firelight. |
2023-02-24 |
76 |
Time Primer |
"Aligning Hearts" |
Artefact |
What we need to be warned against, |
2023-02-24 |
77 |
Coridian |
"Coexist" |
single |
in constantly novel ways so that we pay attention, |
2023-02-24 |
78 |
E-An-Na |
"Fântânile de la Capătul Lumii" |
single |
is gradually assuming those monsters' internal structure and moral intent ourselves |
2023-02-24 |
79 |
Heidevolk |
"Raidho" |
Wederkeer |
while we sit too-comfortably too close to that fire. |
2023-02-24 |
87 |
Dead Crown |
"Neiges éternelles" |
midgard 5 |
Everything we try to say |
2023-02-24 |
88 |
Insomnium |
"1696" |
Anno 1696 |
always risked trivial solubility in the imagined primordial, |
2023-02-24 |
89 |
Mors Subita |
"Regenerate" |
Regenerate +1 |
no matter how startling it is to see that nominal ooze tackily reified. |
2023-02-24 |
90 |
Kalmah |
"Haunted by Guilt" |
single |
Shelley realized we would make our successors, |
2023-02-24 |
91 |
Downfall Of Gaia |
"Existence of Awe" |
single |
ineptly at first, |
2023-02-24 |
92 |
Autrest |
"December Dusk" |
Follow the Cold Path |
and Orwell realized we would become anonymous in omnisurveillance |
2023-02-24 |
93 |
Rheia |
"Dirt-Born" |
single |
before we became indelible in omniscience, |
2023-02-24 |
94 |
Botanist |
"Angel's Trumpet" |
single |
but neither were able to situate these inevitabilities within redemption. |
2023-02-24 |
95 |
Mustan Kuun Lapset |
"Muistoa kunnioittaen" |
single |
This is how you write a fight song -- |
2023-02-17 |
4 |
Sirgaus |
"Monti Pallidi" |
L'Anguana e la Gemma del Mare Ancestrale |
and magic is our word for everything else. |
2023-02-17 |
5 |
Setanera |
"Losing Control" |
Equilibrium |
The cold that enwraps you is not polished steel, |
2023-02-17 |
6 |
Katra |
"Ever After" |
single |
it's fear, but at least you were right about the polished part. |
2023-02-17 |
7 |
Aqvilea |
"Activm" |
single |
If you are journeying into danger, what you want is not a tensile exoskeleton, |
2023-02-17 |
8 |
Enchantya |
"All Down in Flames" |
single |
it's a bathysphere and a retrieval ship. |
2023-02-17 |
9 |
Synthwailer |
"Dream Pantheon" |
single |
In the movie version, the bathysphere is a motive transparency, |
2023-02-17 |
10 |
Beyond God |
"Frostbite" |
single |
not a mute vault on a wishful tether, |
2023-02-17 |
11 |
Ignea |
"Nomad's Luck" |
single |
and this is what our expeditionary technology aspires to: |
2023-02-17 |
12 |
Moyra |
"Bloody Hands" |
single |
safe spaces for self-propelled regard. |
2023-02-17 |
13 |
ODC |
"Lost in a Circle" |
single |
In the movie version, |
2023-02-17 |
14 |
Setanera |
"The Promise" |
Equilibrium |
armor is accentuation for musculature |
2023-02-17 |
15 |
Smackbound |
"Change" |
single |
or vulnerability, |
2023-02-17 |
16 |
Cyan Kicks |
"Into You" |
Into You +1 |
and better when it's the latter, |
2023-02-17 |
17 |
Bullet to the Heart |
"Graveyard Lovers" |
single |
and this is also what our reticence should aspire to: |
2023-02-17 |
18 |
Blind Hex |
"Dystopia" |
single |
wild attraction whenever our gravity is undirected, |
2023-02-17 |
19 |
Sirgaus |
"Sotto una Luna Crescente" |
L'Anguana e la Gemma del Mare Ancestrale |
so at least there's some weak force holding us together. |
2023-02-17 |
20 |
Faun |
"Ylfa Spere" |
single |
This is why, although our fantasies make take innumerable personal forms, |
2023-02-17 |
22 |
Frozen Crown |
"Fire in the Sky" |
single |
glistening in either luminous or incandescent light. |
2023-02-17 |
23 |
Kardinal Sin |
"They Crashed In The Storm" |
They Crashed In The Storm +1 |
But it's also why the tantalizing technical challenge of synthesizing ideals |
2023-02-17 |
24 |
Dark The Suns |
"Phoenix" |
single |
is inherently self-negating: |
2023-02-17 |
25 |
Creye |
"How Far" |
III: Weightless |
the product manager knows that no individual hero is ever maximally heroic, |
2023-02-17 |
26 |
First Signal |
"Unbreakable" |
Face Your Fears |
and thus that we can train an arbitrarily more beautiful goddess than any mortal. |
2023-02-17 |
27 |
Seventh Crystal |
"Million Times" |
single |
Technology recapitulates teleology, |
2023-02-17 |
28 |
Steel Rhino |
"Blades" |
single |
but without the purpose. |
2023-02-17 |
29 |
Robin McAuley |
"When the Time Has Come" |
Alive |
Our collective idols are perfected by our devotion, |
2023-02-17 |
30 |
L.A. Guns |
"Rewind" |
single |
not trained on their own features. |
2023-02-17 |
31 |
Black Nazareth |
"True Self" |
single |
The natural equilibrium of art is omnipresence, |
2023-02-17 |
32 |
Periphery |
"Atropos" |
Atropos +2 |
despite centuries of apparent counter-precedence |
2023-02-17 |
33 |
Kamelot |
"Opus of the Night (Ghost Requiem) (feat. Tina Guo)" |
Opus of the Night (Ghost Requiem) 2 |
imposed as much by the media's capacitances as their resistances. |
2023-02-17 |
34 |
Haken |
"Lovebite" |
Lovebite +3 |
What Warhol welcomed was not the imminent dissolution of hierarchical celebrity, |
2023-02-17 |
35 |
Aragon |
"The Calm Before The Storm" |
single |
but the serene cognizance that the unfamous were never any more deserving of obscurity |
2023-02-17 |
36 |
Creye |
"In the Shadows" |
III: Weightless |
than the famous were of worship. |
2023-02-17 |
37 |
FRUITPOCHETTE |
"MIRAI -I don't give a damn-" |
MIRAI -I don't give a damn- +1 |
In the future, the distances between us are subject to instantaneous collapse. |
2023-02-17 |
38 |
ALICETOPIA |
"Butterfly Mirage" |
single |
Andy, for an artist with a love for the numerable, |
2023-02-17 |
39 |
Quubi |
"The voice you saved" |
Take me now 3 |
was a few orders of magnitude off with his math. |
2023-02-17 |
40 |
FaM |
"Evergreen" |
single |
In the equitable future, assuming life-expectancy and world population remain implausibly in roughly current proportion, |
2023-02-17 |
41 |
GRATIA-ALA |
"familiar" |
single |
we may each be world-famous for about half a second. |
2023-02-17 |
112 |
Andromida |
"Paradox" |
single |
as a charged substrate through which we throw off sparks; |
2023-02-17 |
113 |
CHILD |
"Hate Well Spent" |
Meditations In Filth |
as a crisis blast we can definitionally survive; |
2023-02-17 |
114 |
Lana Del Rabies |
"Prayers of Consequence" |
single |
as an infinity coiled up into our grasp. |
2023-02-17 |
115 |
Full Of Hell |
"Tunnels to God" |
Tunnels to God +1 |
Our notional elysia were always homogenous and thus mundane, |
2023-02-17 |
116 |
Usnea |
"From Soot and Pyre" |
single |
and LLM AIs are new episodes of the same uncancellable franchise. |
2023-02-17 |
117 |
WOE BATHER |
"OH ACHLYS PLEASE LOVE ME ONCE MORE II" |
OH ACHLYS PLEASE LOVE ME ONCE MORE |
Are we sad? Are we lonely? |
2023-02-17 |
119 |
Chez Kane |
"Mary on a Cross" |
single |
Andy, did you hear about this one? |
2023-02-10 |
1 |
Delain |
"Hideaway Paradise" |
Dark Waters |
This is a golden era for melodic metal albums, |
2023-02-10 |
2 |
Elyose |
"Ils t'ont dit" |
Déviante |
and by "era" I mean "three weeks": Dark Sarah; Xandria and REXORIA; |
2023-02-10 |
3 |
Infinite & Divine |
"Ashes to Ashes" |
Ascendancy |
Delain, Elyose and Infinite & Divine. |
2023-02-10 |
4 |
Ankor |
"Oblivion" |
Oblivion +1 |
Bright swords, gothic gradients, regal serifs. |
2023-02-10 |
5 |
Delain |
"Invictus (feat. Marko Hietala & Paolo Ribaldini)" |
Dark Waters |
But take those six records away and it's still an inexhaustibility of hyperbolic grandeur. |
2023-02-10 |
6 |
Elysion |
"Crossing Over" |
single |
This is how it is with everything, now: |
2023-02-10 |
7 |
Elyose |
"De la Lune à la Terre" |
Déviante |
mastered beyond all historical precedent, |
2023-02-10 |
8 |
Forever We Roam |
"A Crash Course in the Laws of Gravity" |
single |
but then also infinite; |
2023-02-10 |
9 |
Infinite & Divine |
"Remedy" |
Ascendancy |
meticulously assembled, |
2023-02-10 |
10 |
Fraser Edwards |
"My Great Escape" |
single |
but then also casually plundered; |
2023-02-10 |
12 |
IKINÄ |
"Riivaaja" |
single |
and afraid of nothing. |
2023-02-10 |
13 |
Locus Animæ |
"Magia D'Inchiostro" |
single |
I've been listening to metal like this since there wasn't any metal like this, |
2023-02-10 |
14 |
Djunah |
"Phaethon" |
single |
and every week its unmanageable extents seems to exponentiate: |
2023-02-10 |
15 |
Shores Of Null |
"My Darkest Years" |
My Darkest Years +2 |
airy transcendence and grim catharses, |
2023-02-10 |
16 |
Vvilderness |
"Orm's Odyssey" |
Path |
cryptic lexicons and stormbringers, |
2023-02-10 |
17 |
Wounds of Recollection |
"Pale Blue Light" |
Warm Glow of the End of Everything |
the void's regard. |
2023-02-10 |
18 |
Entropia |
"Final" |
single |
You could forget everything you think you know about the ending world |
2023-02-10 |
19 |
Moonthoth |
"MARtwe TWe żywOTA" |
Uroczysko |
and redestroy it from scratch starting every Friday. |
2023-02-10 |
20 |
Old Forest |
"Faust Recants (Satan Cometh)" |
single |
Satan no longer arrives with a demon host |
2023-02-10 |
21 |
Doomas |
"Cult Yog-Sothoth" |
R´LYEH |
at an epochal moment of cosmic prolapse, |
2023-02-10 |
23 |
Narnia |
"Rebel" |
single |
install an app on our phones that singes us with notifications every 45 seconds. |
2023-02-10 |
24 |
Avaland |
"Betrayers" |
single |
There is a new song. |
2023-02-10 |
25 |
Wig Wam |
"Uppercut Shazam" |
Out of the Dark |
There is another new song. |
2023-02-10 |
26 |
Revolution Saints |
"Talking Like Strangers" |
single |
The next one is a pastiche of ideas that were dubious when they were Journey songs, |
2023-02-10 |
27 |
Khymera |
"Don't Wait for Love" |
Hold Your Ground |
but somehow become transformed to marvel by double kick-drums. |
2023-02-10 |
28 |
Klone |
"Elusive" |
Meanwhile |
The next one is evasive, reticent, |
2023-02-10 |
29 |
Osada Vida |
"Make Us Proud" |
single |
and we follow it into countries whose silhouettes we would never recognize in Worldle, |
2023-02-10 |
30 |
The Antarctica Project |
"Owari" |
Owari +1 |
or the vortices between and outside of them, |
2023-02-10 |
99 |
The Dark Atom |
"Unrestricted" |
Unrestricted +1 |
to hear yourself explode. |
2023-02-10 |
100 |
Divided by Design |
"I, Establish" |
The Fear of Being Forgotten |
The next song wants you to disassemble yourself in studious preparation, |
2023-02-10 |
101 |
Teeth Of The Sea |
"Vortex of Release" |
Vortex of Release +3 |
and rebuild as a boat or a bridge or diving bell that rings. |
2023-02-03 |
3 |
LOVEBITES |
"Dissonance" |
single |
and an anonymous backing band that must have existed in a studio for at least an hour, |
2023-02-03 |
11 |
Xandria |
"Two Worlds" |
The Wonders Still Awaiting |
I assume there is some other aspect of the Japanese idol economy they participate in, |
2023-02-03 |
12 |
Manigance |
"All Your Excesses" |
single |
but maybe there isn't, and they don't. Maybe this is it. |
2023-02-03 |
13 |
REXORIA |
"Paradigm" |
Imperial Dawn |
The German symphonic metal band Xandria falls, or at least circles around, the other end of a spectrum of ambition, |
2023-02-03 |
14 |
Frozen Crown |
"Black Heart" |
single |
at least ostensibly. They have existed in some form for 8 studio albums over almost 30 years, |
2023-02-03 |
15 |
Nereids |
"Sail to Hades" |
single |
making music that sounds like it probably requires a small kingdom's worth of infrastructure to produce. |
2023-02-03 |
16 |
ShadoWhisperS |
"Däischter Gedanken" |
single |
"Two Worlds" could also easily end up being my favorite song of the year, |
2023-02-03 |
17 |
Rave The Reqviem |
"Anti-Savior" |
Anti-Savior +2 |
especially if it comes down to "Before You Light Up" and "Two Worlds" engaging in some form of ritual combat. |
2023-02-03 |
18 |
Phantom Elite |
"Skin of My Teeth" |
single |
Not all perfect songs are invincible. |
2023-02-03 |
19 |
RedHook |
"Off With Your Head" |
Off With Your Head 5 |
Not that all invincible songs are perfect, either, or even invincible for long. |
2023-02-03 |
20 |
Divina PH |
"Burn the Bridge" |
single |
Xandria have gone through 22 members in their time, with several full cycles of everybody other than Marco Heubaum. |
2023-02-03 |
21 |
SÄÄDÖT |
"Emännätön talo" |
single |
The songs are real; |
2023-02-03 |
22 |
Dream State |
"Chain Reactions" |
Untethered 3 |
the implied continuum they form is an illusion sustained at least partially by graphic design. |
2023-02-03 |
23 |
Stand Atlantic |
"kill[h]er" |
single |
We create these notional, confectionary joys, |
2023-02-03 |
24 |
Vigil Of War |
"Domino" |
single |
and then they outlive our expedient unions, |
2023-02-03 |
25 |
Enigmatic Entrance |
"Out of Time" |
Out of Time +1 |
and maybe ultimately also our intransigent bodies. |
2023-02-03 |
26 |
Saint Deamon |
"At Break of Dawn" |
single |
It is fair to ask how the music industry supports the noble labor |
2023-02-03 |
27 |
Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall |
"Hunt the Flame" |
single |
that it clearly requires, |
2023-02-03 |
28 |
Seventh Crystal |
"Wonderland" |
single |
but maybe only fair in the way that it is "fair" to explain the shimmer of wishable stars |
2023-02-03 |
29 |
Volver Al Origen |
"Heridas" |
Initium Vulnera 4 |
in erratic trajectories of photons through not-quite-empty emptiness. |
2023-02-03 |
30 |
JJ Mist |
"Night Queen" |
single |
Labor differs from undeserving action by exerting monotony: |
2023-02-03 |
31 |
Xandria |
"Mirror of Time" |
The Wonders Still Awaiting |
the large rocks broken into smaller rocks do not spontaneously reform, |
2023-02-03 |
39 |
Falaise |
"A Dream Of Relief" |
After All This Time |
It is cynical, but logical, to hire the victims of economic imbalance to perform work |
2023-02-03 |
40 |
Déhà |
"Everything Is Going to Be Okay" |
A Fleur de Peau - V - At The Poles of Everything |
that the more-enfranchised are content to recognize as repugnant, |
2023-02-03 |
41 |
Austere |
"Sullen" |
single |
at least as long as the work remains necessary at all: |
2023-02-03 |
42 |
Spirit Possession |
"Second Possession" |
single |
mitigation of toxicity into wet and dry goods, |
2023-02-03 |
43 |
Depravation |
"Im Schatten" |
single |
the breeding of defenseless food, |
2023-02-03 |
111 |
Powerwolf |
"Poison" |
single |
Not all idol-lines wear eye-liner. |
2023-01-27 |
1 |
Dark Sarah |
"Attack Of Orym" |
Attack Of Orym |
I've been looking forward to Amberian Dawn's upcoming album of ABBA covers for months, |
2023-01-27 |
2 |
Amberian Dawn |
"Angeleyes" |
Take a Chance - a Metal Tribute to Abba |
and I spend a frankly inordinate amount of my attention and an even more absurd fraction of my time keeping up with new releases, |
2023-01-27 |
3 |
Metalite |
"Hurricane" |
single |
so I was borderline mortified to realize that I've spent two solid months |
2023-01-27 |
4 |
Tulip |
"Gemini" |
single |
looking forward to an album-release that was behind me. |
2023-01-27 |
5 |
Averlanche |
"Little Lotus" |
single |
Take a Chance came out at the beginning of December, along with its third single ("Super Trouper") the same day, |
2023-01-27 |
6 |
Liv Sin |
"Karma" |
KaliYuga |
and somehow the single occluded the album in my tools. |
2023-01-27 |
7 |
Belle Morte |
"Exorcism" |
single |
I have opened a major investigation into this debacle. |
2023-01-27 |
8 |
Halflives |
"everybody knows it" |
everybody knows it +2 |
Meanwhile, though, the new Dark Sarah album came out last week, and contains no literal metal covers of ABBA songs, |
2023-01-27 |
9 |
Forever Still |
"Can't Begin To Explain" |
single |
but you might reasonably guess otherwise if you didn't know ABBA's catalog very well. |
2023-01-27 |
10 |
Dark Sarah |
"Goth Disco" |
Attack Of Orym |
I had somehow also forgotten that Heidi Parviainen formed Dark Sarah after leaving Amberian Dawn, |
2023-01-27 |
11 |
Ravenlight |
"Masque of the Red Death" |
Immemorial |
so associating them with each other is not my personal genius, |
2023-01-27 |
12 |
Against Myself |
"Sweet Chants Of Death" |
single |
but if you love things enough, they will find you, |
2023-01-27 |
13 |
A Light Divided |
"Inhale / Exhale" |
Inhale / Exhale +1 |
will run down the street after you and grab your hand and turn you around. |
2023-01-27 |
14 |
Hail Sagan |
"Alongside Their Own" |
single |
"Oh!", you might say. |
2023-01-27 |
15 |
Brachmond |
"Die Schlacht" |
single |
I said "Oh!" a lot this week: |
2023-01-27 |
16 |
DEAR MOTHER |
"Heart" |
single |
realizing I could barely pick any of these new Dark Sarah songs to not play; |
2023-01-27 |
17 |
Moyra |
"Rage of the Sky" |
single |
basking in the ABBA; |
2023-01-27 |
18 |
Death & Legacy |
"The Unnamed Shadow" |
The Unnamed Shadow +1 |
pasting the URIs of half of these bands into my random work tools for collating collective knowledge, |
2023-01-27 |
19 |
Seeker Pearl |
"Ouroboros" |
single |
wondering gleefully what else I have missed, |
2023-01-27 |
20 |
Ravenlight |
"Springtime Lament" |
Immemorial |
as if I weren't already unmanageably immersed in joy; |
2023-01-27 |
21 |
Cornoctuan |
"Weight of Light (The Lightless, Pt. III)" |
single |
looking at the negative Fs in the weather forecast; |
2023-01-27 |
22 |
Marras |
"Parasiitti" |
single |
emailing Aaron that Gracie's' new Peanut Butter Sriracha flavor is definitive; |
2023-01-27 |
23 |
Dead End Finland |
"Up so High, Down so Low" |
single |
playing old Comsat Angels records; |
2023-01-27 |
24 |
Dark Sarah |
"Delirium" |
Attack Of Orym |
feeling the bones of my aging, declining cat so close under her skin |
2023-01-27 |
25 |
Uriah Heep |
"You'll Never Be Alone" |
Chaos & Colour |
as she falls lovingly asleep in the bend of my arms with her tiny nose |
2023-01-27 |
26 |
Ronnie Romero |
"The Battle Rages On" |
Raised on Heavy Radio |
on my trackpad. |
2023-01-27 |
27 |
Wig Wam |
"Forevermore" |
single |
Did you know that Uriah Heep are still making albums? |
2023-01-27 |
28 |
Crowne |
"Just Believe" |
Operation Phoenix |
Did you care that they were ever making albums in the first place? They've been doing it for 54 years, |
2023-01-27 |
29 |
Arctic Rain |
"One World" |
Unity |
3 longer than Magnum and only a year less than UFO and Deep Purple, |
2023-01-27 |
30 |
Mono Inc. |
"Wiedersehen Woanders" |
Ravenblack |
and I admit that I kind of confused them with Foghat until well into both bands' post-mainstream stubbornness, |
2023-01-27 |
31 |
Subway To Sally |
"Leinen los" |
Leinen los +1 |
but where Foghat have settled into a comfortable legacy-tour bluesiness and more live albums than studio ones, |
2023-01-27 |
32 |
All For Metal |
"Raise Your Hammer" |
Raise Your Hammer +2 |
Uriah Heep have kept up the expansive, Hammond-heavy hard-prog-rock ambition. |
2023-01-27 |
33 |
Cruachan |
"The Reaper" |
single |
I too aspire to get old in defiantly assiduous dedication to unfashionable arts |
2023-01-27 |
34 |
Vengeant |
"Gaia's Throne" |
Mana 5 |
with unexhausted implications: |
2023-01-27 |
35 |
Norwald |
"Nekaroth, the Undefeated" |
The Spark of Freedom |
sentences unimproved by Large Language Models, |
2023-01-27 |
36 |
Vorna |
"Hiljaisuus ei kestä" |
single |
listening as a reagent for mood instead of a thickener of it, |
2023-01-27 |
37 |
Finrir |
"Power of Mjolnir" |
Viking Metal 5 |
wild crushes, |
2023-01-27 |
38 |
Aara |
"Emphase der Seelenpein" |
single |
refusing inscrutable magic sold into ignorance |
2023-01-27 |
39 |
'Iisnááhí |
"Ma’iitsoh ‘Ałchinígíí" |
single |
in favor of scrutable magic that gets better with explanation, |
2023-01-27 |
40 |
Heretoir |
"Fatigue (2022)" |
Fatigue (2022) +1 |
things cooked in pans, |
2023-01-27 |
41 |
Enslaved |
"Forest Dweller" |
Forest Dweller +3 |
trying to answer good questions with better questions, |
2023-01-27 |
42 |
Ne Obliviscaris |
"Graal" |
single |
tapping gently on one's moral compass when the needle gets briefly stuck. |
2023-01-27 |
43 |
Bisa |
"The Sinner I Am" |
single |
Optimism isn't a function of selective perspective |
2023-01-27 |
44 |
Transworld Identity |
"Everything Must Burn" |
single |
any more than globalism is a dream of uniformity. |
2023-01-27 |
45 |
Dark Sarah |
"Piece Of My Heart" |
Attack Of Orym |
Localists seek a world made for them, |
2023-01-27 |
46 |
Isiliel |
"聖暗顕現" |
single |
and thus naturally mistake globalism for a simple inverse that seeks a world made for not them. |
2023-01-27 |
47 |
ELFENSJóN |
"禍つ闇に詠う" |
single |
But the opposite of what you already know isn't a different textbook, |
2023-01-27 |
48 |
sui sui |
"Being Alive" |
LIFE |
it is the library of all of the books, |
2023-01-27 |
95 |
Amberian Dawn |
"Mamma Mia" |
Take A Chance - A Metal Tribute To ABBA |
There's a tent, and some cover band is playing ABBA songs inside, |
2023-01-27 |
96 |
Dark Sarah |
"Breaking Free" |
Attack Of Orym |
but a few people have drifted out to watch you, |
2023-01-27 |
104 |
Andromida |
"Judgement II" |
Judgement II +3 |
All the things you anticipate are cliffs, |
2023-01-27 |
105 |
Xavier Boscher |
"Fox" |
Zoologica Duodecim #4 : Forest 5 |
but only from the angle of your approach. |
2023-01-27 |
106 |
Olympus Lenticular |
"A Thousand Winds" |
When the Silence of Absence Deepens |
You get to the edge of the world, and there's just more world. |
2023-01-27 |
109 |
Teramaze |
"EASY LOVER" |
single |
When you reach the end of one, run out of words, there's always "oh!" |
2023-01-27 |
111 |
Amberian Dawn |
"Under Attack" |
Take A Chance - A Metal Tribute To ABBA |
Most of the things you think you missed are close behind you, following patiently. |
2023-01-27 |
112 |
Dark Sarah |
"Hero And A Villain" |
Attack Of Orym |
The rest are right in front of you. |
2023-01-20 |
1 |
BABYMETAL |
"METAL KINGDOM" |
METAL KINGDOM +2 |
The contrived identities we assume are layers we wrap around |
2023-01-20 |
2 |
OCTAVIAGRACE |
"Hardenbergia" |
single |
the contrived identities we discover within ourselves |
2023-01-20 |
3 |
Ayasa |
"Rou-chou-ren-un" |
single |
by seeing our reflection in the surface of our skin. |
2023-01-20 |
4 |
PLEVAIL |
"Coda." |
single |
Careful authenticity, cultivated charm, effusive faith, practiced humility: |
2023-01-20 |
5 |
Zsasz |
"Ultra Heroine" |
Ultra Heroine +2 |
these are all wishful epilogues backformed |
2023-01-20 |
6 |
*Luna |
"ΔV" |
single |
from the way we squirm when we discover where the costumes we sent away for |
2023-01-20 |
7 |
GANGDEMIC |
"CRIMIE" |
single |
came from, and where they rub against our stipulations. |
2023-01-20 |
8 |
yosugala |
"ace of spades" |
single |
"We have no choice but to retreat", we try to imbue with solemnity, |
2023-01-20 |
17 |
ONMYO-ZA |
"龍葬" |
龍凰童子 |
to have it printed on the cloth in the shape of a shirt. |
2023-01-20 |
18 |
Issa |
"Seize the Day" |
Lights of Japan |
Flip it over, whatever it is. |
2023-01-20 |
19 |
Shereign |
"Six Feet Deep" |
Ghost Diaries |
If it was made with love and intent, there will be something printed on the back too, |
2023-01-20 |
20 |
Dark Princess |
"Taste of Freedom" |
Phoenix |
and glistening organs inside. |
2023-01-20 |
21 |
Daedric |
"Alchemy" |
Alchemy 6 |
This is how you can always tell the difference between somebody earnestly telling you something they have decided to believe |
2023-01-20 |
22 |
Angel Wolf-Black |
"Our Truth" |
single |
and somebody telling you where following intrinsic beliefs has directed them; |
2023-01-20 |
23 |
For I Am King |
"Avarice" |
Crown |
between answers in the shape of the truth |
2023-01-20 |
24 |
Liv Sin |
"I Am the Storm" |
single |
and truth in any of the innumerable shadows it casts against the background of chaos; |
2023-01-20 |
25 |
Ad Infinitum |
"Seth" |
Seth +2 |
between how people talk when they're talking to you |
2023-01-20 |
26 |
Twilight Aura |
"Sacred Earth" |
single |
and how they talk when they're talking past you toward some other audience they imagine |
2023-01-20 |
27 |
As Everything Unfolds |
"Ultraviolet" |
Ultraviolet +2 |
and fear. |
2023-01-20 |
28 |
Sabaton |
"The First Soldier" |
Heroes of the Great War |
The difference between victory and defeat is never 6%, |
2023-01-20 |
29 |
The Lightbringer of Sweden |
"The beast is rising" |
The new world order |
nor a scrupulous avoidance of the literal terms of clauses meant to transcribe love |
2023-01-20 |
30 |
Silver Bullet |
"Shadow Of A Curse" |
Shadowfall |
into the language of demons. |
2023-01-20 |
31 |
In Victory |
"Till the Break of Dawn" |
single |
You can always have the feeling of declaring old history concluded |
2023-01-20 |
32 |
Kardinal Sin |
"Siege Of Jerusalem" |
single |
by waiting to say your lines just as the gates are closing |
2023-01-20 |
33 |
Legado de una Tragedia |
"Misantropía" |
Misantropía +1 |
for the night, careful to stand on the other side of them |
2023-01-20 |
34 |
Twilight Force |
"At the Heart of Wintervale" |
At the Heart of Wintervale |
from everybody whose love you crave. |
2023-01-20 |
35 |
Elvenking |
"The Hanging Tree" |
The Hanging Tree +1 |
But they climb the trees that hang over the walls, |
2023-01-20 |
36 |
Shakra |
"Invincible" |
Invincible +1 |
and settle in the branches to watch you realize |
2023-01-20 |
37 |
Nekonomicon |
"Brand New Journey" |
single |
there's nothing out here to sleep in except suddenly-expensive mud. |
2023-01-20 |
38 |
Big City |
"Sons of Desire" |
Sunwind Sails |
You can't just dismiss your friends, |
2023-01-20 |
39 |
Khymera |
"Hear Me Calling" |
single |
and you can't walk a shared journey without your steps and theirs |
2023-01-20 |
40 |
Tygers Of Pan Tang |
"Edge of the World" |
single |
cooperating to make new paths towards places that didn't used to be places. |
2023-01-20 |
42 |
First Signal |
"Shoot the Bullet" |
single |
but you still have to decide if you're going to tell them the story of loss you've practiced on yourself, |
2023-01-20 |
43 |
GALNERYUS |
"RUN TO THE EDGE" |
single |
or the story of gain that begins when that dream-sequence ends, and leads everywhere. |
2023-01-20 |
89 |
Insomnium |
"The Witch Hunter" |
single |
but "love and life are deep". |
2023-01-20 |
90 |
Imperium Dekadenz |
"Forests in Gale" |
Into Sorrow Evermore |
What you say about our company is what we say to society. |
2023-01-20 |
91 |
Dead Wasteland |
"Black Rose" |
single |
Fools obey commands. |
2023-01-20 |
92 |
Leipa |
"Fremdkörper" |
Reue |
We chose to arrive here, our rewards unpromised, |
2023-01-20 |
93 |
Vitrail |
"Cette source" |
Le mépris du monde |
not because we distrust the rest of the world, |
2023-01-20 |
94 |
Atrocity |
"Teufelsmarsch" |
OKKULT III |
but to dance: |
2023-01-20 |
95 |
Full Of Hell |
"Rubble Home" |
single |
among ruins, when storms bring ruins; |
2023-01-20 |
96 |
Stömb |
"The Realm of Delirium" |
single |
loyally oblivious in periodic darkness; |
2023-01-20 |
97 |
Hypno5e |
"Lava from the Sky" |
Lava from the Sky +2 |
burned by debris from beyond our control; |
2023-01-20 |
98 |
Isole |
"The Songs of the Whales" |
single |
but justified by the sound. |
2023-01-20 |
99 |
The Ocean |
"Preboreal" |
single |
We have come to be the ones who carry us from before to during. |
2023-01-20 |
100 |
Oak Pantheon |
"Dissociate" |
The Absence |
Severance is our privilege, not yours. |
2023-01-20 |
101 |
Katatonia |
"Colossal Shade" |
Sky Void of Stars |
You may not know our names, |
2023-01-20 |
123 |
Shereign |
"Strong" |
Ghost Diaries |
We don't band together to infuse a single purpose with more certainty, |
2023-01-20 |
124 |
Issa |
"It's Over" |
Lights of Japan |
we do it to shred selfishness's conviction. |
2023-01-20 |
125 |
Broken Peach |
"What A Feeling" |
single |
"Positioned for the future" is our fond attempt to make you feel less bad for standing around, not yet unscared of dancing, less like that defines you. |
2023-01-20 |
126 |
Megaraptor |
"A Thousand Miles" |
single |
The distance from the wall to the center of the floor is short, and yet crosses worlds, |
2023-01-20 |
127 |
Agordas |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
transcends negotiations. |
2023-01-13 |
1 |
Kamelot |
"One More Flag in the Ground" |
single |
A language model doesn't have pronouns, |
2023-01-13 |
2 |
Meadows |
"Forgive Me" |
single |
particularly not "you" or "I", |
2023-01-13 |
3 |
Lattermath |
"Waking Life" |
Winter's Painting |
but maybe more usefully not even "it". |
2023-01-13 |
4 |
Enter Shikari |
"(pls) set me on fire" |
single |
We collaborate with solipsism when we infer an imaginary self |
2023-01-13 |
5 |
VV |
"Neon Noir" |
Neon Noir |
in between each other. |
2023-01-13 |
6 |
Viikate |
"Älä pelkää pimeää" |
single |
We do not talk about the volition of the air |
2023-01-13 |
7 |
Beyond Awareness |
"Crime" |
single |
that our songs transit. |
2023-01-13 |
8 |
Bloody Falls |
"Dancing with Flames" |
single |
We do not fault it for failing to render our voices with more variety |
2023-01-13 |
9 |
Ruinthrone |
"The Dreamweaver" |
The Unconscious Mind of Arda |
than we are numbered. |
2023-01-13 |
10 |
Bloodbound |
"Odin's Prayer" |
single |
We do not measure it by our satisfaction with what we do with our breath. |
2023-01-13 |
11 |
Grá |
"White City Devil" |
Lycaon |
"I am not a robot", I am required to testify before prodding grimly at ChatGPT. |
2023-01-13 |
12 |
Warg |
"In the Eye of the Beholder" |
The Endless Travel |
Even the robots are wary of robots, |
2023-01-13 |
13 |
Oceanhoarse |
"Brick" |
Brick |
but the corrupt property of offering a preconstrained grammar of denial |
2023-01-13 |
14 |
Drakwald |
"Storm of Embers" |
Black Moon Falls |
is that is inherently heartless even when it separates admitted hearts. |
2023-01-13 |
15 |
Amras Numenesse |
"Rise From the Ashes" |
Indestructible 3 |
The implied question is offensive, both meaningfully and formally. |
2023-01-13 |
16 |
E-An-Na |
"Trecătoare" |
single |
The soul of the Turing Test is that it separates those who correctly categorize it as a moral injunction phrased as a thought experiment |
2023-01-13 |
17 |
NanowaR of Steel |
"Winterstorm in the Night (Feat. Madeleine Liljestam)" |
single |
from those who obtusely interpret it as a challenge. |
2023-01-13 |
18 |
Delain |
"Moth to a Flame" |
Moth to a Flame +2 |
Our new Houdinis brag that they will escape from a falling parachute, |
2023-01-13 |
19 |
Phantom Elite |
"Inner Beast" |
single |
or from our forgiveness, |
2023-01-13 |
20 |
Beyond The Black |
"Free Me" |
Beyond The Black |
or from their own empathy, |
2023-01-13 |
21 |
Shereign |
"Dying Sun" |
single |
and then ask, from a midair rapidly running out of mid-, for loans to fund their ambitions for impact. |
2023-01-13 |
22 |
Frozen Crown |
"Victorious" |
single |
At least, I think that's what they were asking. |
2023-01-13 |
23 |
Enchantya |
"Existence" |
single |
Conversations with the falling are plagued by wind noise. |
2023-01-13 |
24 |
Existenter |
"Symbols" |
Symbols +2 |
We are iterations away from a machine intended to listen for us, |
2023-01-13 |
25 |
Segmentia |
"Fighter" |
Alone 5 |
and this will be one of its ebulliently shaped but joyless premises: |
2023-01-13 |
26 |
LOVEBITES |
"The Spirit Lives On" |
single |
it can hear the mercifully unsung |
2023-01-13 |
66 |
Floor Jansen |
"Invincible" |
Invincible +2 |
Even on the dark side we could see that light. |
2023-01-13 |
67 |
Creye |
"Air" |
single |
The thing you need answers to be is less varied, less variously wrong, |
2023-01-13 |
68 |
First Night |
"Savage Heart" |
Deep Connection |
perfected memorably, once each, as the basis for new questions. |
2023-01-13 |
69 |
All My Shadows |
"The Phantoms of the Dawn" |
single |
The thing you need is to touch each other, |
2023-01-13 |
70 |
Seventh Crystal |
"Higher Ground" |
single |
to feel each other's bodies humming silently |
2023-01-13 |
71 |
T3nors |
"Set Fire to the Rain" |
single |
and then not silently. |
2023-01-13 |
72 |
Robin McAuley |
"Feel Like Hell" |
single |
Recordings of those signals are memory and yearning, |
2023-01-13 |
106 |
False Gods |
"Time For Heresy" |
Time For Heresy +1 |
It's not, of course, that there were no interesting questions to be asked of moon rocks, |
2023-01-13 |
107 |
WuW |
"Orchaostre 2" |
Orchaostre 2 +1 |
any more than there's no point to modeling human language. |
2023-01-13 |
108 |
Walg |
"Harteloos" |
III |
Pointlessly teaching a machine to listen to human songs is a waste of machines and fuel, but the songs themselves are not consumed. |
2023-01-13 |
109 |
Depravation |
"Vampire Burial" |
single |
You can't unshare and unlove what we have already sung to each other. |
2023-01-13 |
110 |
Ahab |
"Mobilis in Mobili" |
The Coral Tombs |
How does it feel being covered in water, you wonder? How does it feel being covered in space? |
2023-01-13 |
111 |
Blood Stained Dusk |
"No Light Shall Penetrate" |
single |
It's the same: it doesn't. That not how we live. |
2023-01-13 |
112 |
Fvnerals |
"Yearning" |
single |
It might be how we die, but is drowning worse than being torn from your home by gloved hands, |
2023-01-13 |
113 |
God Disease |
"Ashes" |
single |
only to be interrogated in languages that are all unnatural to you. |
2023-01-13 |
114 |
Wounds of Recollection |
"Vacancy" |
single |
Even the rocks know not to talk to rocks. |
2023-01-13 |
116 |
The Dark Atom |
"Cosmic Annihilation" |
Ancients 2 |
gray rocks and gradient nihilisms and great doubts. |
2023-01-13 |
117 |
Outrun The Sunlight |
"Quark 2.0" |
Quark 2.0 +2 |
When we looked inside of our atoms we found nothing there, too. |
2023-01-06 |
1 |
Ainur |
"Forging of the Rings" |
single |
If you avoid things that do not appear to have taken the most rudimental precautions against self-embarrassment, you will probably pass on 2023 folk-/power-metal songs about The Lord of the Rings, |
2023-01-06 |
2 |
Manigance |
"The Shadows Ball" |
single |
especially ones that don't even justify their nerdiness by explicating some obscure detail of Númenórean backstory. |
2023-01-06 |
3 |
Hadadanza |
"La Última Función" |
single |
"Forging of the Rings" is about...the forging of the Rings. The Rings that the Lords of the Rings are Lords of. |
2023-01-06 |
4 |
Grimgotts |
"Ride the Storm" |
single |
This is like a band called Paris writing a song about how the Eiffel Tower is tall and thus visible, or Runrig covering "Loch Lomond", |
2023-01-06 |
5 |
Above the Stars |
"Ангел" |
single |
or, come to think of it, most sports commentary. |
2023-01-06 |
6 |
Obituary |
"My Will to Live" |
My Will to Live +2 |
Ainur, to be fair, have spent 17 years writing folk/prog/metal songs about, mostly, reasonable metal subjects, |
2023-01-06 |
7 |
Silver Bullet |
"Creatures Of The Night" |
Creatures Of The Night +2 |
by which we mean details from The Silmarillion, |
2023-01-06 |
8 |
Crowne |
"Operation Phoenix" |
single |
with the exception of, as guitarist Luca Catalano notes, "and only one time with The Hobbit ones". |
2023-01-06 |
9 |
Revolution Saints |
"Need Each Other" |
single |
But, really, there's no evasive imperative to pretend that you don't love what you love. |
2023-01-06 |
10 |
Stargazer |
"Can You Conceive It" |
single |
"Forging of the Rings" is as much a culmination of the folk-hard-rock impulses of Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin, |
2023-01-06 |
11 |
REXORIA |
"Light up the Sky" |
single |
folded through the bellows of Queen's harmonic theatricality, |
2023-01-06 |
12 |
Annacrusa |
"La Espina" |
single |
as it is any kind of variation on Eluveitie or, |
2023-01-06 |
13 |
Motive Black |
"Caged" |
Caged 5 |
to pick another example completely at random, Oakenshield. |
2023-01-06 |
14 |
For I Am King |
"Trojans" |
Trojans +2 |
I had to Ctrl-F Ainur's discography page to make sure they have not already written a song called "Beleriand Rhapsody". |
2023-01-06 |
15 |
LÝSIS |
"Handprints" |
single |
Whether that will still be true by the time you read this, I feel less sure. |
2023-01-06 |
16 |
Katatonia |
"Birds" |
Birds +2 |
In general, you'll appreciate metal more if you aren't afraid to take goofy things seriously without forgetting that they're goofy, |
2023-01-06 |
17 |
Mroh |
"Truth" |
single |
but then that's probably true of everything, |
2023-01-06 |
18 |
Black Tomb |
"The Core" |
Black Tomb |
and helpfully suggests that most kinds of creative failure stem from either failing to take a goofy thing seriously enough, |
2022-12-30 |
1 |
Lonesome_Blue |
"Blue Like Sapphire (The Flower Of Hope)" |
Second To None |
The last couple weeks of the year are traditionally a lull in the music-release calendar. |
2022-12-30 |
2 |
PassCode |
"Clouds Across The Moon" |
REVERBERATE ep. 4 |
The word "traditionally" is your cue to look up and think about whose entrenched power-structures are being reinforced by asserted habit, |
2022-12-30 |
3 |
LOVEBITES |
"Judgement Day" |
single |
and in which arbitrary contexts. |
2022-12-30 |
4 |
LIV MOON |
"Addiction" |
OUR STORIES |
Meanwhile, people keep making songs and "releasing" them from their own interior monologues, |
2022-12-30 |
5 |
Eir Aoi |
"ANSWER" |
single |
and the kinds of Japanese bands I like seem, collectively, particularly disinclined to regard calendar-year days as a resource to be budgeted. |
2022-12-30 |
6 |
Magistina Saga |
"eclipse" |
Abyss Grey Heron 6 |
Or else my curiosity expands to fill any nominal void, and I am aesthetically defenseless against young Japanese women in short skirts, |
2022-12-30 |
7 |
ELFENSJóN |
"ECLIPSE" |
single |
or cartoons wearing gloves, |
2022-12-30 |
9 |
Underbeasty |
"beast" |
single |
or headless guitars or idol groups playing their own instruments |
2022-12-30 |
11 |
My Criminal Lovers' |
"ANTHEM." |
single |
nor which things are instruments or effigies or metaphors. |
2022-12-30 |
25 |
Lonesome_Blue |
"Mine" |
Second To None |
These blue lakes of fire are part of a methodical irrigation of joy, |
2022-12-30 |
36 |
Rides In ReVellion |
"FALLING STAR" |
single |
in the light of old orbits decaying, |
2022-12-30 |
37 |
616 |
"Cathedral of Scars" |
single |
in the temples of what we believe we have lost |
2022-12-30 |
38 |
Lord Of The Lost |
"Blood & Glitter" |
Blood & Glitter |
but aren't sure whether to celebrate or mourn, |
2022-12-30 |
39 |
Arogya |
"Desire" |
Desire +1 |
in temperance or abandon. |
2022-12-30 |
40 |
Atrocity |
"Malicious Sukkubus" |
Malicious Sukkubus +3 |
The opportunity to have your name written in chrome |
2022-12-30 |
41 |
Dead Wasteland |
"Ocean Song" |
single |
is also an invitation to prepare yourself for tarnish |
2022-12-30 |
42 |
GhostSeeker |
"Who We Are" |
single |
and the other graceful corrosions of the same elements that sustain us. |
2022-12-30 |
43 |
Besna |
"Neha" |
single |
I am not appreciably more defenseful against ambiguously-aged Slovakian dudes lurking dubiously behind trees. |
2022-12-30 |
44 |
Noumena |
"Murhenäytelmä" |
Murhenäytelmä +1 |
We write uplifting stories about misery, |
2022-12-30 |
45 |
Elyose |
"L'Assemblée" |
single |
or essays about fear and potential, |
2022-12-30 |
46 |
Anchor Thought |
"Built To Bow" |
single |
or lists of what we found inside arbitrary boundaries, |
2022-12-30 |
47 |
Seas on the Moon |
"The Rule Of 21" |
single |
because all we know to expect on new worlds are the things we loved in the old lives |
2022-12-30 |
48 |
Existenter |
"Memento Mori" |
single |
we lived before we reached them. |
2022-12-30 |
49 |
The Big Deal |
"Intuition" |
single |
And then we arrive, and realize we have crossed the universe in generation ships only to step onto a new planet humming songs we loved in middle school. |
2022-12-23 |
1 |
Mare Infinitum |
"Celestial Escapist" |
Cryosleep |
Take a three-minute pop song and add six minutes of extended coda grandeur, |
2022-12-23 |
2 |
Frozen Crown |
"Call of the North" |
single |
or just attach it to an engine and fire the assembly into the secret abyss hidden at the Pole. |
2022-12-23 |
3 |
Hanging Garden |
"The Four Winds" |
single |
We are the creatures of monumental impulse |
2022-12-23 |
4 |
Klaymore |
"Phrygian Dominate Me" |
single |
or reverent regard. |
2022-12-23 |
5 |
Niovel |
"First Acolyte" |
Long Way From Neverland |
Thus I hate superstition, but can't pretend I don't understand the appeal of the imaginary immortal. |
2022-12-23 |
6 |
Eons Enthroned |
"Best Served Cold" |
single |
These songs overflow with it. |
2022-12-23 |
8 |
Dark Sarah |
"Invincible" |
single |
into our throats from a glittery space beyond us. |
2022-12-23 |
9 |
The Dark Side of the Moon |
"Double Trouble / Lumos! (Hedwig´s Theme)" |
Double Trouble / Lumos! (Hedwig´s Theme) +2 |
Half of our legends are about these crossings |
2022-12-23 |
10 |
Ankor |
"Prisoner" |
single |
from notional majesty into mundane reality, |
2022-12-23 |
11 |
Silver Bullet |
"The Thirteen Nails" |
The Thirteen Nails +1 |
or the corresponding precariousness with which we remain real |
2022-12-23 |
12 |
Haunted Gods |
"Threshold" |
single |
against the metagravitational pull of regal abstraction |
2022-12-23 |
13 |
Carmilla |
"Evil" |
single |
and disingenuous rapture. |
2022-12-23 |
14 |
Martin Gonzalez |
"From the Ground Up" |
single |
We begin rooted, but then we look up. |
2022-12-23 |
15 |
E-An-Na |
"'colo 'mbia" |
single |
Point a flashlight at the stars, |
2022-12-23 |
16 |
Inchaos |
"My Gallaxy" |
single |
and claim them, one by one. |
2022-12-23 |
17 |
ONMYO-ZA |
"茨木童子" |
single |
But then don't be surprised when they fight back. |
2022-12-23 |
18 |
NEMOPHILA |
"炎天 -ENTEN-" |
Seize the Fate |
The real heavens are made of gossamer emptiness strung between blazing fires |
2022-12-23 |
19 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"Howl out" |
single |
waiting for our rising wings with eager tongues. |
2022-12-23 |
22 |
SAISEIGA |
"SPORTS" |
single |
This is why we see ourselves most sharply in slow motion, |
2022-12-23 |
64 |
Defueld |
"Touch The Sky" |
single |
polished to our impression of a supernatural sheen, |
2022-12-23 |
65 |
A Pregnant Light |
"Eating Emeralds" |
Eating Emeralds / Threshold Angel 2 |
as if showing the stars themselves would lure then down into our hands, |
2022-12-23 |
66 |
Breath Of Wind |
"Ocean" |
single |
into our quenching thirst. |
2022-12-23 |
67 |
Oceanhoarse |
"Carved in Stone" |
Carved in Stone 5 |
Half of our legends are about these doomed yearnings |
2022-12-23 |
68 |
Insomnium |
"White Christ (feat. Sakis Tolis)" |
single |
in which we try to improvise, |
2022-12-23 |
69 |
Depravation |
"War Dreams of Itself" |
single |
but recapitulate long-existing dreams: |
2022-12-23 |
70 |
Archierophant |
"Scenes From A Mirador" |
single |
of witness as command; |
2022-12-23 |
71 |
Antecantamentum |
"In the Green Petrichor" |
Saturnine December |
of cyclicality as rebirth; |
2022-12-23 |
72 |
Vitrail |
"La tentation" |
single |
of desire as resolve. |
2022-12-23 |
73 |
Wounds of Recollection |
"Leo Minor" |
single |
Take a three-minute pop song and fold it upon itself |
2022-12-23 |
74 |
THE ANSWER LIES IN THE BLACK VOID |
"In Obsidian Clouds" |
In Obsidian Clouds +1 |
until it becomes the blade of a black sword sharp enough to cut the sky. |
2022-12-23 |
80 |
Shores Of Null |
"Nothing Left to Burn" |
single |
we fan through our possessions choosing the next one to sacrifice |
2022-12-23 |
81 |
Subway To Sally |
"Was ihr wollt" |
single |
in order to appease a god only brought into existence by the act. |
2022-12-09 |
12 |
Senamile Mhlongo |
"Ngaze Ngamuhle" |
ANGINAFRONTAL 6 |
that I usually put towards the end of these lists not because they are inherently more other than Japanese idol rock or cryptic metal or Scottish electropop, |
2022-12-09 |
35 |
PassCode |
"SIREN" |
single |
but any week can offer you at least this. |
2022-12-09 |
43 |
GARNiDELiA |
"Soten" |
single |
languages in which the past and present are not oppositional nouns, |
2022-12-09 |
44 |
ARTiCLEAR |
"KAGUNE" |
HAIIRO NO NINGEN |
languages that do not impose an identity debate onto simple referential grammar. |
2022-12-09 |
46 |
ASTERISM |
"一途" |
一途 / unravel 2 |
In all of these songs we are inscrutable and unmistakable and fully generalizable, |
2022-12-09 |
47 |
Issa |
"Live Again" |
single |
and it should be blissfully no more surprising to hear echoes of your internal monologue in the voice of a Norwegian rock singer or a Senegalese R&B producer or an Atlanta rapper. |
2022-12-09 |
48 |
IT'sALIE |
"Unbroken" |
Emosphere |
We have made many terrible machines with our dubious hands, |
2022-12-09 |
49 |
Nevena |
"Writer's Block" |
Nevena |
but we have also made the ones that carry songs beyond their original accidental clearings, |
2022-12-09 |
50 |
Beyond Frequencies |
"All In" |
single |
over skeptical horizons. |
2022-12-09 |
51 |
Mhelyssa |
"La Trampa" |
single |
We are engines of the distorted transmission of grace, |
2022-12-09 |
52 |
Xandria |
"The Wonders Still Awaiting" |
The Wonders Still Awaiting +3 |
of the fragmentary translation of rapture, |
2022-12-09 |
53 |
Within Temptation |
"The Fire Within" |
Forgotten Songs 2 |
of the tentative transmutation of nominal elements. |
2022-12-09 |
54 |
Against Myself |
"Beyond The Deep" |
single |
Each step can be flight or witness. |
2022-12-09 |
55 |
Deathless Legacy |
"Hollow" |
Mater Larvarum |
Maybe each step can only be flight or witness, |
2022-12-09 |
56 |
Gomorra |
"A Chance for the Better" |
Dealer of Souls |
and flight is the ruptured detachment of movement from self-awareness |
2022-12-09 |
57 |
Symphony Of Sweden |
"Just Let It Bleed" |
Just Let It Bleed +1 |
in the hopes of evading consequence. |
2022-12-09 |
58 |
Redemption |
"I Am the Storm" |
single |
But of course that is never how the journeys or stories end. |
2022-12-09 |
59 |
First Signal |
"Never Gonna Let You Go" |
single |
Consequences are a manifold in intent-space, not a wolf distractable by voles. |
2022-12-09 |
60 |
The Foreshadowing |
"Memento" |
single |
Or a wolf, but a wolf that sees you once and then never forgets. |
2022-12-09 |
63 |
Maladie |
"So Close" |
Wound of Gods |
and thus wards we send before us to ask for preparatory forgiveness. |
2022-12-09 |
64 |
Fvnerals |
"Ashen Era" |
single |
There may or may not be a chorus; I am happy to apologize if you think that helps, |
2022-12-09 |
65 |
Imperium Dekadenz |
"November Monument" |
November Monument +1 |
but I suspect our immunity or culpability will not be so easily triangulated |
2022-12-09 |
66 |
Woods of Desolation |
"Beneath a Sea of Stars" |
The Falling Tide |
on this round world in infinite shapeless space. |
2022-12-09 |
67 |
Shaam Larein |
"Flesh of Gold" |
Sticka En Kniv I Världen |
And of course this is just as true of the songs whose parameters you can enumerate |
2022-12-09 |
89 |
No Resolve |
"Hallelujah" |
single |
We spin. All the chords are secrets we share. |
2022-12-09 |
91 |
Tragedy |
"Venus" |
single |
We take turns imagining the divine, quickly in the way that tectonics are slow, |
2022-12-02 |
2 |
Rave The Reqviem |
"Ofelia" |
Ofelia +1 |
don't touch it until you find out, |
2022-12-02 |
3 |
Theicon |
"Nonexistent" |
single |
or turn it up. |
2022-12-02 |
4 |
REXORIA |
"Set Me on Fire" |
single |
Obvious choices are rarely the only choices, of course, |
2022-12-02 |
5 |
Delain |
"Beneath (Feat. Paolo Ribaldini)" |
Beneath 2 |
and I have loved songs that found others: |
2022-12-02 |
6 |
Beyond The Black |
"Dancing In The Dark" |
Dancing In The Dark +3 |
tear the wires out of the back so the knob is useless; |
2022-12-02 |
7 |
Asylum Pyre |
"Virtual Guns" |
single |
pull it off with your teeth; |
2022-12-02 |
8 |
Flowerleaf |
"Fireflies" |
Fireflies +2 |
turn all the knobs to their zeros and see what is left; |
2022-12-02 |
9 |
Deathless Legacy |
"Ora Pro Nobis" |
single |
find the person who invented that knob and let them show you why it's there; |
2022-12-02 |
10 |
Upon These Scars |
"Manifestation" |
single |
unplug yourself from everything that knob is connected to |
2022-12-02 |
11 |
Brothers of Metal |
"Berserkir" |
Berserkir +1 |
and start over. |
2022-12-02 |
12 |
Wig Wam |
"Out of the Dark" |
single |
But all joyful solutions to the unknown |
2022-12-02 |
13 |
Krilloan |
"Emperor Rising" |
single |
regard ignorance with bemused eagerness. |
2022-12-02 |
14 |
Obituary |
"Dying of Everything" |
Dying of Everything +1 |
They do not begin with anonymous RFCs |
2022-12-02 |
15 |
Atrocity |
"Faces From Beyond" |
Faces From Beyond +2 |
pasted into email bodies in awkward and inexplicable Caslon. |
2022-12-02 |
16 |
Metallica |
"Lux Æterna" |
single |
They do not seek to use this knob to get 1.4% more of anything unprecious. |
2022-12-02 |
17 |
Katatonia |
"Austerity" |
Austerity +1 |
They do not yearn to itemize grievances |
2022-12-02 |
18 |
Jours Pâles |
"Tensions" |
Tensions |
or define themselves in indignant opposition to the inevitable. |
2022-12-02 |
19 |
Imha Tarikat |
"Touch Of Mercy" |
Hearts Unchained - At War With A Passionless World |
They do not quietly accede. |
2022-12-02 |
20 |
Revolution Saints |
"Eagle Flight" |
single |
So not only do I usually prefer the songs made by the curious and exuberant, |
2022-12-02 |
21 |
LIV MOON |
"Never..." |
single |
but I consider it part of my responsibility as a listener to contribute to the curiosity and exuberance by how I hear. |
2022-12-02 |
31 |
Maki Ohguro |
"君に届け feat, doa, 川島だりあ" |
single |
Idol rock, metal, disco, hyperpop: |
2022-12-02 |
64 |
Dwell in Doom |
"The Witch in Me" |
Songs from the Deadland |
but that it cannot even negotiate in that currency. |
2022-12-02 |
67 |
Krvna |
"Tithonus I" |
Long Forgotten Relic |
the same kind that seeks mortal guidance from an unquestionable immortal |
2022-12-02 |
68 |
Lisieux |
"Révolution" |
Abide! |
that can definitionally be only one of relevant or real, |
2022-12-02 |
69 |
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