| 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. |
| 2022-08-05 | 33 | Amon Amarth | "Saxons and Vikings" | The Great Heathen Army | I dreamed of songs; |
| 2022-08-05 | 34 | Fallujah | "Soulbreaker" | Soulbreaker +2 | I had no idea. |
| 2022-08-05 | 35 | Cosmophobe | "Consuming Isolation" | single | I signal ahead to have bubble-tea prepared in my path, |
| 2022-08-05 | 36 | Walg | "Daar Waar We Komen Om Te Sterven" | single | forward along these hurriedly replaced bricks. |
| 2022-08-05 | 37 | Liminal Shroud | "Mists Along Florencia" | All Virtues Ablaze | We are all connected, |
| 2022-08-05 | 59 | Wildness | "Tragedy" | single | Thank you, I tell them. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh no, thank you for telling me. Thank you. |
| 2022-08-05 | 60 | H.E.A.T | "Tainted Blood" | Force Majeure | For a moment that seems to be enough. |
| 2022-08-05 | 61 | Alter Bridge | "Silver Tongue" | Silver Tongue +1 | I put my phone back in my pocket. Just listen. |
| 2022-08-05 | 62 | Chez Kane | "I Just Want You" | single | Another songs plays. I get too distracted by listening to remember that mindfulness is a euphemism for monopolized attention. I check my phone for messages. |
| 2022-07-29 | 20 | Frayle | "Bright Eyes" | single | But you can be euphoric, too, amidst maelstroms |
| 2022-07-29 | 21 | Brutus | "Liar" | Liar +1 | and against backdrops of fire or fear, |
| 2022-07-29 | 22 | Edenbridge | "The Call of Eden" | The Call of Eden +2 | and measuring the boundary of heaven. |
| 2022-07-29 | 23 | The Erinyes | "Betrayed" | single | Vengeance is a delusion formed in the absence of introspection. |
| 2022-07-29 | 24 | Crystal Gates | "Alive for the Journey" | Torment & Wonder: The Ways of the Lonely Ones | You won't heal your own heart |
| 2022-07-29 | 25 | Ranthiel | "Sleeping sun" | single | by any change to other hearts, |
| 2022-07-29 | 26 | Alwaid | "Alghavil Altannin" | Lacus Somniorum | including reducing their number. |
| 2022-07-29 | 27 | OU | "Farewell" | one | You do not become gods, |
| 2022-07-29 | 28 | Vermilia | "Tuonen Joki" | single | you make a more-eternal kingdom out of just these rocks and this air. |
| 2022-07-29 | 29 | Daedric | "Only" | Only +3 | There is nothing else, |
| 2022-07-29 | 46 | Asunojokei | "Heavenward" | Island | until we are burned a more appealing color |
| 2022-07-29 | 47 | Grima | "Gloomy Heart of the Coldest Land" | Frostbitten | without ever learning how to fly any closer to it. |
| 2022-07-29 | 48 | Firtan | "Amor Fati" | single | We can forget all of this tomorrow, |
| 2022-07-29 | 49 | ColdWorld | "Walz" | single | or whenever we are ready. |
| 2022-07-29 | 50 | Woewarden | "The Name Of Suffering" | single | We do not bring about the dawn by an assiduous application of misery to darkness, |
| 2022-07-29 | 51 | Gaerea | "Mantle" | Mantle +1 | but it's just as wrong to imagine that nothing we do in darkness matters in light. |
| 2022-07-29 | 52 | Hadal Maw | "Scourge of Iron" | single | Gods fall, temples survive. |
| 2022-07-29 | 53 | Ars Onirica | "Daydream" | single | Their floorplans become insignia, |
| 2022-07-29 | 54 | Breathelast | "Ne ajunge nimic" | single | first for new squatter sects among their ruins, |
| 2022-07-29 | 55 | Brymir | "Herald of Aegir" | Herald of Aegir +1 | later for the psychogeography of outliving the illusions of providence |
| 2022-07-29 | 56 | Sahg | "Fall into the Fire" | Fall into the Fire +2 | and corruptions. |
| 2022-07-29 | 57 | Dragonland | "Flight from Destruction" | Flight from Destruction +1 | Streets are made of rubble, |
| 2022-07-29 | 88 | Exilia | "Blinding Lights" | single | Judgment is a conceit formed in the absence of purpose. |
| 2022-07-29 | 90 | Violet Orlandi | "B.Y.O.B." | single | and they say that wishes are temporarily out of stock, but we have these hypnotic computers, freshly refurbished, |
| 2022-07-22 | 13 | B.O.L.T | "BY MY SIDE" | single | The armorer sells you metal skin as an apology to themselves, |
| 2022-07-22 | 26 | XANVALA | "DAYS" | single | but long after we imagine. |
| 2022-07-22 | 27 | Oceans of Slumber | "Just a Day" | Starlight And Ash | It's not really us who is waiting for them, |
| 2022-07-22 | 28 | Oknos | "Haven of Tranquility" | From Ashes | imaginary angels of virtualized purity, |
| 2022-07-22 | 29 | Edge Of Paradise | "Go Higher" | single | but our diaphanous notion of our own souls |
| 2022-07-22 | 30 | Empress | "Eventide" | single | that has to be discretized before we can |
| 2022-07-22 | 31 | ELYSATIUM | "My Nothingness" | single | measure anything else in its units: |
| 2022-07-22 | 32 | Crystal Gates | "Moonshine & Sorrow" | single | grief coiled around pride; |
| 2022-07-22 | 33 | Onyria | "Price Of Souls" | Feed The Monster | allowing our dreams for others to become |
| 2022-07-22 | 34 | Powerwolf | "Call of the Wild" | single | practices for ourselves; |
| 2022-07-22 | 35 | Megadeth | "Night Stalkers" | Night Stalkers / We’ll Be Back 2 | the abuses we intend to condone |
| 2022-07-22 | 36 | Ozzy Osbourne | "Degradation Rules (feat. Tony Iommi)" | Degradation Rules (feat. Tony Iommi) +1 | only provisionally and purposefully, |
| 2022-07-22 | 37 | Valborg | "Hektor" | single | but end up bargaining with |
| 2022-07-22 | 38 | Lamori | "Valley of Great Dismay" | single | to ransom our sense of self; |
| 2022-07-22 | 39 | Violet Cold | "Stellvr" | single | the emotional dimension of moments; |
| 2022-07-22 | 40 | A Pregnant Light | "Hysterectomy" | Hysterectomy / Too Pure 2 | fear. |
| 2022-07-22 | 41 | Dressed In Streams | "The Queen of Awadh Addresses Her Fighters from an Elephant on the Battlefield" | लड़ाई का मैदान 2 | A woman on an elephant berates us for ten minutes in a ravishing and unintelligible language. |
| 2022-07-22 | 42 | Breath Of Wind | "The Place Where The Sun Rises" | The Place Where The Sun Rises +1 | We are not fighters. This isn't a battlefield, it's only a field, |
| 2022-07-22 | 43 | Wake | "Mourning Dirge (Repose of the Dead)" | Thought Form Descent | and the blood we poor into it is as poor a solution for nitrogen fixing, |
| 2022-07-22 | 44 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Everything is Beautiful but Us" | single | as it is for fixing anything else. |
| 2022-07-22 | 45 | Imperial Triumphant | "In the Pleasure of Their Company" | Spirit Of Ecstasy | My pronouns are a state-machine, |
| 2022-07-22 | 71 | Seas on the Moon | "Titanium" | single | or let go of indelible ones. |
| 2022-07-15 | 7 | Avantasia | "The Moonflower Society" | The Moonflower Society +1 | and play in my head without requiring external accompaniment. |
| 2022-07-15 | 8 | Kaledon | "The Eye of the Storm" | single | Comfort, when I need it, comes more readily from revisiting later things, |
| 2022-07-15 | 9 | Arch Enemy | "In the Eye of the Storm" | single | music that I know I love, but feel like I haven't yet loved fully, |
| 2022-07-15 | 10 | Naufragant | "The Black Corsair" | A Short Life | songs that suggest I could still have more first loves, |
| 2022-07-15 | 11 | Vaasa Palaa | "hvrmvvtv" | single | that the whole span between birth and death is all a first life. |
| 2022-07-15 | 12 | Here on Earth | "Drzewo i Kwiat" | single | Mostly this is Burn the Sky Down, Emma Hewitt's 2012 solo album. |
| 2022-07-15 | 13 | Lucifer Ascending | "Tetragrammaton" | single | Hewitt is usually a trance guest-vocalist, and I like her fine in that role, |
| 2022-07-15 | 14 | A Sound of Thunder | "The Wizard of Crow County" | single | but Burn the Sky Down is another thing entirely, |
| 2022-07-15 | 15 | Allen/Olzon | "Army of Dreamers" | single | haunting and mutedly anthemic, |
| 2022-07-15 | 16 | Graveshadow | "Shadow Battles" | The Uncertain Hour | EDM in lineage but songwriterly in presence, |
| 2022-07-15 | 17 | Icon For Hire | "Breakdown" | single | made of spells I want to feel linger. |
| 2022-07-15 | 18 | Roses Unread | "Fireflies" | Fireflies +2 | Every collaboration she has done in the ensuing decade, |
| 2022-07-15 | 19 | LOST NEBULA | "Technophobia" | single | however much I've enjoyed it, |
| 2022-07-15 | 31 | Shiva | "Sen no ideology" | Sen no ideology +1 | It's perfect, it's serenely whole, |
| 2022-07-15 | 68 | Andromida | "Savage World" | single | It is not your goal to perfect it. |
| 2022-07-15 | 69 | Stömb | "The Altered" | single | You do not learn to love by perfecting a single loss, |
| 2022-07-15 | 70 | Disturbed | "Hey You" | single | or by choosing one emotional idealized future. |
| 2022-07-15 | 71 | Mantar | "Egoisto" | Pain is Forever and This is the End | Joy and loss sing together. |
| 2022-07-15 | 72 | Nephilim | "Crown Of The Beggar" | single | A perfect song's perfection is not a function of your devotion, |
| 2022-07-15 | 73 | Foraoisí gan Iniúchadh | "The Abyss" | single | or any other songs' submission, |
| 2022-07-08 | 1 | Ardours | "Insomniac" | Anatomy of a Moment | I do not want to sleep. I do not want this song to end. |
| 2022-07-08 | 2 | The Spider Accomplice | "Rebels and Riders" | single | I do not want any of these songs to end, even to give way to next week's new songs, |
| 2022-07-08 | 3 | Within Temptation | "Don't Pray For Me" | Don't Pray For Me | even knowing that if we ran time backwards I would feel exactly the same. |
| 2022-07-08 | 4 | Victoria K | "Persephone" | single | Time is not consumed by songs, it is sustained, |
| 2022-07-08 | 8 | Somehow Jo | "Fata Morgana" | single | the fault is not joy's for its insistence |
| 2022-07-08 | 9 | Veil of Mist | "Death In Your Eyes" | Death In Your Eyes +1 | or indivisibility. |
| 2022-07-08 | 10 | Infinitum | "Monster Part 2" | single | An expedient moral economy, at least notionally, rewards attention, |
| 2022-07-08 | 11 | Sleeping Romance | "Call My Name" | single | but thus flounders on the unmeasurable and fluctuating subjectivity of engagement. |
| 2022-07-08 | 12 | Madame Mayhem | "Inside Out" | single | Should this song be worth less if it plays during a long-run segment plagued with wind noise, |
| 2022-07-08 | 13 | Blackwater Drowning | "The Filth Element" | Sonder//Satori | or while I'm trying to fix other people's query bugs, |
| 2022-07-08 | 14 | Revocation | "Diabolical Majesty" | single | than now, when I'm holding still to see which precipice it's trying to drive me towards? |
| 2022-07-08 | 15 | THOUSAND EYES | "Everlasting Trail" | single | The song has not changed. I have not changed very much. |
| 2022-07-08 | 16 | DaizyStripper | "HATSUYUME" | single | Billing by transformation is unusably self-referential. |
| 2022-07-08 | 103 | ERRA | "Pull From The Ghost" | single | The questions they think define them are how we got our names. |
| 2022-07-08 | 104 | Second To Sun | "North Metal Legion" | single | Their flags are cloth, |
| 2022-07-08 | 105 | The Sluagh | "I bhFolach EXT - Enivid Creatures Bonus Track" | single | their songs are songs, |
| 2022-07-08 | 106 | Homeskin | "Dripping Chalice" | Life's Wishes to Tears | their blood is ours, |
| 2022-07-08 | 107 | Wormrot | "Broken Maze" | Hiss | our twisting ways are entwined. |
| 2022-07-08 | 108 | Imperial Triumphant | "Tower of Glory, City of Shame" | single | Entwining is how the ways became twisted into shining empires |
| 2022-07-08 | 109 | Panzerfaust | "The Far Bank at the River Styx" | The Far Bank at the River Styx +1 | and dark realms, |
| 2022-07-08 | 110 | Soul Dissolution | "The Absolving Tide" | single | and patient repeated unraveling is how we untwist them, |
| 2022-07-08 | 111 | Aldaaron | "Arcane Mountain Cult" | single | how we become undevoted to our makeshift remotenesses. |
| 2022-07-08 | 112 | UZLAGA | "Warhorns Cry As The World Waves Goodbye" | THE MIGHT OF WAVES | Days spent learning how to fight, |
| 2022-07-08 | 113 | The HU | "Black Thunder" | Black Thunder +2 | accompanied by pragmatic battle anthems, |
| 2022-07-08 | 120 | NinDjent0 | "Lavender Town" | single | We do not exist to serve others. |
| 2022-07-08 | 123 | Master Sword | "Come Sail Away" | single | The angels aren't coming with a spaceship, |
| 2022-07-01 | 19 | 幻想ばっどえんど | "meisei" | single | of self from surface. |
| 2022-07-01 | 21 | Broken By The Scream | "メラメラセニョリータ" | single | compromises rebranded as progress |
| 2022-07-01 | 22 | Secret Rule | "The Showdown" | The Resilient | and process as identity; |
| 2022-07-01 | 23 | Seas on the Moon | "Unearth Life" | single | treadmills for simulated movement; |
| 2022-07-01 | 24 | Scarlet Dorn | "Unstill Life" | Unstill Life +1 | clothes that make people who look better than you |
| 2022-07-01 | 25 | Carmilla | "Two-Faced" | single | look better than you feel. |
| 2022-07-01 | 26 | Dark Princess | "Phoenix" | Phoenix +2 | The best answers do not try to settle a question |
| 2022-07-01 | 27 | Orden Ogan | "Absolution for Our Final Days" | Absolution for Our Final Days +1 | into rooted complacency, |
| 2022-07-01 | 28 | Crystal Gates | "My Glorious Fall" | single | but to set it on a curious journey |
| 2022-07-01 | 29 | Carved | "Doom" | single | and then cheerfully demand to tag along. |
| 2022-07-01 | 30 | Tales of a Sleeping Giant | "Blut & Alraune" | Blut & Alraune +1 | The best questions, thus, |
| 2022-07-01 | 31 | Stratovarius | "World on Fire" | World on Fire +1 | are proactive recognitions of a vital shortage of doubt, |
| 2022-07-01 | 32 | Virtual Symmetry | "Come Alive" | single | not palliative measures against it. |
| 2022-07-01 | 33 | We are Legend | "I Don't Care" | single | Exploration is not defined by goals |
| 2022-07-01 | 34 | Black Paisley | "Not Alone" | single | but by the willingness to leave your home, |
| 2022-07-01 | 35 | Baron Carta | "Relanar" | Shards of Black | and not measured by what you return with |
| 2022-07-01 | 36 | Tidal Dreams | "We've Risen Again" | single | but what you notice while you are away, |
| 2022-07-01 | 37 | Dovorian | "New Faith" | Kneel and Follow | which is to say not primarily measured. |
| 2022-07-01 | 38 | Brymir | "Voices in the Sky" | single | All of Schrödinger's pets learn, quickly, |
| 2022-07-01 | 39 | Xaon | "The Hunt" | The Lethean | about his weird thing with boxes, |
| 2022-07-01 | 40 | Gaerea | "Salve" | single | and that almost-wink eye-twitch he has as he explains, |
| 2022-07-01 | 41 | Grima | "Giant’s Eternal Sleep" | single | while closing the flaps, |
| 2022-07-01 | 42 | NORDLOTH | "To Enchant the World Again" | single | that he will be carefully avoiding any form of observation of the contents. |
| 2022-07-01 | 43 | Al-Namrood | "Protector of the Herd" | Worship the Degenerate | He goes to bed, and the other animals quietly let the new dog out |
| 2022-07-01 | 44 | МЁРТВАЯ ВЕРА | "Ржавый крест" | Ржавый крест +3 | and close the box up again, empty, |
| 2022-07-01 | 97 | Ştiu Nu Ştiu | "New Sun" | New Sun | All the countries you haven't been to are adjacent |
| 2022-07-01 | 98 | Conjurer | "All You Will Remember" | Páthos | until you gently draw them apart |
| 2022-07-01 | 99 | Mutiara Damansara | "Car Wreck" | Pearls | by falling in love with their post-metal bands |
| 2022-07-01 | 100 | Kuggur | "يَا لَيْلِ" | single | and whatever they call it when they wrap non-bread in bread |
| 2022-07-01 | 101 | Brutus | "Dust" | single | and what distracts them from being afraid of you. |
| 2022-07-01 | 102 | OvO | "La Morte Muore - Part 2" | single | Labels, whether you make them out of concrete |
| 2022-07-01 | 103 | Aronious | "Negeltu" | single | or spandex |
| 2022-07-01 | 104 | Church of Cthulhu | "TSOAHPWAA" | single | or the names of political parties, |
| 2022-07-01 | 105 | Orthodox | "Past Seers" | Proceed | describe you more tellingly the closer you allow them to come to your skin. |
| 2022-07-01 | 121 | Quintessente | "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" | single | Everybody needs to know what unruly skin looks like. |
| 2022-07-01 | 125 | Mutiara Damansara | "Wrecking Ball" | Pearls | We've got nowhere to hide, any of us. |
| 2022-06-24 | 31 | NEMOPHILA | "徒花 -ADABANA-" | single | it's a way of hearing in emotional context, |
| 2022-06-24 | 32 | Hikari Shiina | "Blind love Syndrome" | Blind love Syndrome +1 | and thus of converting each incoming inertia |
| 2022-06-24 | 34 | Isiliel | "光明生死" | single | I have spent what I assume will end up having been significant fractions of my lifespan writing about, |
| 2022-06-24 | 35 | SHOW-YA | "組曲 ~Battle Orchestra~" | single | or on behalf of, |
| 2022-06-24 | 36 | YYNOT | "Mask" | Light and Shade | music, and much of that on ways to describe it, |
| 2022-06-24 | 37 | Novena | "Ghosts" | single | but mainly what I've learned is that description is a stasis |
| 2022-06-24 | 38 | The Soap Girls | "Liar" | In My Skin | that feels like a movement, |
| 2022-06-24 | 39 | Eye of Melian | "Vita Nova" | Legends of Light | a cargo-cult version of causality |
| 2022-06-24 | 40 | Empress | "Into the Grey" | single | that elides all the most interesting ambiguities |
| 2022-06-24 | 41 | I Miss My Death | "Ой ходить сон" | single | as if certainty can be blithely substituted for clarity, |
| 2022-06-24 | 42 | Dawn of Destiny | "Silence" | Of Silence | and then clarity for cohesion. |
| 2022-06-24 | 43 | Dynazty | "Natural Born Killer" | Natural Born Killer +3 | Thus, in a quest for identity |
| 2022-06-24 | 44 | Fallen Sanctuary | "Rise Against the World" | Terranova | we end up with brands, |
| 2022-06-24 | 45 | Victorius | "Jurassic Jetfighters" | Dinosaur Warfare Pt. 2 – The Great Ninja War | and yearning for communities |
| 2022-06-24 | 46 | Machine Head | "UNHALLØWED" | UNHALLØWED +1 | we get names for the places where nobody lives. |
| 2022-06-24 | 47 | Megadeth | "We’ll Be Back" | single | We have spent centuries writing books about faraway places you might eventually and laboriously visit, |
| 2022-06-24 | 48 | Queensrÿche | "In Extremis" | single | and then not realizing that we are now always among them. |
| 2022-06-24 | 49 | Marja Üldine | "UnFear" | single | You do not need to be outfitted for an overland ordeal |
| 2022-06-24 | 50 | Khold | "Ødslet Blod" | Svartsyn | when you can step through a portal to the farthest nearby or nearest Nether, |
| 2022-06-24 | 51 | Darkane | "Embrace The Flames" | Inhuman Spirits | and then just as easily back, or even more enticingly onwards. |
| 2022-06-24 | 52 | Saor | "Call of the Carnyx" | Origins | It is enough to bring things into contact, |
| 2022-06-24 | 53 | Hiroe | "Doom Moon" | Doom Moon +2 | or any other kind of juxtapositional awareness. |
| 2022-06-24 | 54 | Ştiu Nu Ştiu | "Nyx" | single | These tendrils of air will be capillaries of euphoria or regret, |
| 2022-06-24 | 55 | BardoMagno | "Game Of Signorie" | single | of resolve or reservation, |
| 2022-06-24 | 56 | STRYDEGOR | "Atmosfear" | Atmosfear +1 | suspended in whatever space lingers hesitantly between our skin. |
| 2022-06-24 | 57 | Forgotten North | "Rette sich wer kann" | Ära II | Change the singer, and you get a different band. |
| 2022-06-24 | 58 | Lándevir | "Never Stop Dreaming" | single | The Levenshtein distance between the member lists is an employment metric, |
| 2022-06-24 | 59 | Lutavierje | "Khadzili dzieuki" | Na Kupallie 5 | not a quantification of aesthetic stability |
| 2022-06-24 | 60 | Kiberspassk | "Daleko" | Daleko +2 | or a predictor of your pulse. |
| 2022-06-24 | 84 | Earthists. | "Cure" | Have A Good Cult | changed by the vulnerable orbits, |
| 2022-06-24 | 85 | DEXCORE | "THE LIGHT" | THE LIGHT +1 | inverted by re-entry. |
| 2022-06-24 | 86 | Matenrou Opera | "Koboreochiteikumirai" | Shinjitsu wo shittiku monogatari | If you ever ran out of songs, you could just sing more, |
| 2022-06-24 | 103 | Dust in Mind | "Awake" | single | Do you want to hear about the deal you're making |
| 2022-06-24 | 108 | Minniva | "Summer of '69" | single | "nothing lasts forever" say all the songs |
| 2022-06-17 | 1 | Crimson Sun | "The Flame" | single | "The critical question is whether the Constitution, properly understood...", |
| 2022-06-17 | 2 | Memoremains | "We Are One" | Pop Metal | begins a document that defines a nominally modern democracy's supposed Supreme Court |
| 2022-06-17 | 3 | Onyria | "Be Yourself" | single | as an intentionally obtuse tribunal of literally religious doctrine. |
| 2022-06-17 | 4 | Chaos Magic | "Hearts Gone Dark" | Emerge | The "properly" there, and probably everywhere, |
| 2022-06-17 | 5 | Secret Rule | "The Illusion" | single | is not a rational basis, but an assertion of unjustified power, |
| 2022-06-17 | 6 | Beyond The Black | "Reincarnation" | single | and an arbitrary and unapologetically immoral claim of immunity to justice. |
| 2022-06-17 | 7 | Seven Kingdoms | "A Silent Remedy" | Zenith | Invoking originalism on a historical document of contingent rebellion is a preposterous act of |
| 2022-06-17 | 8 | Empire of Giants | "The Rain" | Troposphere | remote myopia, deliberately trying to see nothing but what you claim to imagine |
| 2022-06-17 | 9 | Tigersclaw | "Titan's Dawn" | single | some dudes were concerned about in 1787. |
| 2022-06-17 | 10 | ADHARMA | "Divide and Conquer" | Mirror Mirror | You might as well revoke the rest of the Constitution |
| 2022-06-17 | 11 | Rioghan | "Sight" | Sight +2 | by pointing out how it contradicts both Magna Carta |
| 2022-06-17 | 12 | Morpheus' Dreams | "When Galatea Rode North" | single | and the rules of Uno. |
| 2022-06-17 | 14 | April Art | "See The Light" | P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E. | even without knowing as stated fact that some of them will as an immediate consequence |
| 2022-06-17 | 15 | Blame Me! | "Musket Fire" | single | enact laws that declare a life to begin earlier than a pregnancy, |
| 2022-06-17 | 16 | Oceans of Slumber | "The Lighthouse" | single | is of exactly the same moral standing |
| 2022-06-17 | 17 | A Sound of Thunder | "Grave Troopers" | single | as revoking the Geneva Convention to restore individual nations' |
| 2022-06-17 | 18 | Jorn | "Dead London" | Over the Horizon Radar | proper right to torture and genocide, |
| 2022-06-17 | 19 | Nordic Union | "In Every Waking Hour" | single | or unmaking any other law in order to protect the free will |
| 2022-06-17 | 20 | Kaledon | "The Dawn of Dawns" | single | of its declared and future disobedients. |
| 2022-06-17 | 21 | Civil War | "Carry On" | Invaders | The whole point of law is to express a collective will and clarity |
| 2022-06-17 | 22 | Noumena | "Ihmisen tie" | single | better than our inevitable lowest ebbs of individual weakness and ignorance. |
| 2022-06-17 | 23 | Mantar | "Odysseus" | single | The appeal to legalism isn't wrong, per se. |
| 2022-06-17 | 24 | Inexorum | "Creation Myth" | Equinox Vigil | States are permitted to pass progressive laws. |
| 2022-06-17 | 25 | 616 | "Blood and Silver and Gold" | single | Thieves are permitted to leave behind affidavits for tax purposes. |
| 2022-06-17 | 30 | Fleur du Mal | "Grâce" | Spleen III | that there is no such thing as states' rights, |
| 2022-06-17 | 31 | Blissful Euphoria | "A Feast with The Naiads" | single | because humans do not consent to inhumanity |
| 2022-06-17 | 39 | DIR EN GREY | "御伽 (Otogi)" | PHALARIS | was made, by deliberate kleptocratic action, |
| 2022-06-17 | 40 | Sigh | "Mayonaka No Kaii" | single | to bring this specific case in front of this specific configuration of tenuous power. |
| 2022-06-17 | 41 | Stellarleap | "Thunderous" | single | Not only was the decision not made independently of the reverently atavistic pending laws, |
| 2022-06-17 | 42 | MIYAVI | "Futurism" | Futurism +1 | but the two are tightly coordinated steps of a unified effort to undo social progress |
| 2022-06-17 | 108 | Sørgmodig | "Catastrophic Melancholy" | single | and not a second further than, |
| 2022-06-17 | 109 | Kuggur | "بعلة" | single | this moment when you temporarily stopped anybody else from |
| 2022-06-17 | 110 | The Dark Atom | "The Dark Knight" | Stargate Synchronicity | continuing to make things better. |
| 2022-06-17 | 111 | Andromida | "Flight" | single | If you care about people and the lives they are leading right now, |
| 2022-06-17 | 112 | Johari | "Head Mounted Sideways" | single | you don't tell them "We give you this darkness |
| 2022-06-17 | 113 | Rings of Saturn | "Shinigami" | Rings of Saturn | because it is somebody else's job to sell you light", |
| 2022-06-17 | 114 | Atomic Symphony | "Chimera" | single | even if you believe it is somebody else's job to sell them light. |
| 2022-06-17 | 115 | Charlie Griffiths | "In Alluvium" | Tiktaalika | We don't tell racists in coal towns that they can go fuck themselves in silence until they build a wind farm. |
| 2022-06-17 | 129 | Violet Orlandi | "I Will Survive" | single | You can't even necessarily live through this. It may pass, but it won't pass on its own. |
| 2022-06-10 | 11 | Ardours | "Epitaph for a Spark" | single | but it will at least be less charmless. |
| 2022-06-10 | 12 | Deep Sun | "Euphoria" | Dreamland - Behind The Shades | There are bricks, and some trees, |
| 2022-06-10 | 13 | Dol Theeta | "Remember" | Monad | and the large space is rearranged into a set of smaller patterns, |
| 2022-06-10 | 14 | Venus 5 | "Bury Me" | Venus 5 | and there's an elevated ramplike feature at one end that looks, |
| 2022-06-10 | 15 | Future Palace | "Dead Inside" | Run | in its current half-constructed state, |
| 2022-06-10 | 16 | Without Warning | "Black Venom" | single | like it will be used in an attempt to jump an electric motorcycle |
| 2022-06-10 | 17 | Carmilla | "The One" | single | over the nearby Holocaust memorial |
| 2022-06-10 | 18 | HEXED | "Repentance" | single | into the historic sign for the Union Oyster House, |
| 2022-06-10 | 19 | Thy Shade | "What If" | single | the shards of which would then presumably crash down festively, |
| 2022-06-10 | 21 | Cecile Monique | "Engel" | single | onto the passing Freedom Trail. |
| 2022-06-10 | 22 | Scarlet Dorn | "Falling" | single | Boston is an extended exercise in layering: |
| 2022-06-10 | 23 | Averlanche | "In The Theater Of Fire" | single | oversimplified reverence and stern object lessons coexisting plentifully, |
| 2022-06-10 | 24 | Powerwolf | "Glaubenskraft - The Monumental Mass" | Glaubenskraft 2 | if not always peacefully; |
| 2022-06-10 | 25 | Wind Rose | "Army of Stone" | Warfront | alternating landmarks and landfill; |
| 2022-06-10 | 26 | Keldian | "The Million Dollar Mile" | The Bloodwater Rebellion | passive-aggressively lingering segregation |
| 2022-06-10 | 27 | Ember Falls | "Avalanche" | Experiments 4 | and small noble efforts at globalist exemplification; |
| 2022-06-10 | 28 | Seventh Wonder | "I Carry the Blame" | The Testament | traditionalist intransigence somehow both delaying |
| 2022-06-10 | 29 | MCC [Magna Carta Cartel] | "Darling" | The Dying Option | and facilitating |
| 2022-06-10 | 30 | Tierra Santa | "Por el Valle de las Sombras" | Destino | grand infrastructural ambition. |
| 2022-06-10 | 31 | Sleeper Ship | "Wasting Love" | single | City Hall lurks malignantly in the middle of this, |
| 2022-06-10 | 33 | Kreator | "Killer Of Jesus" | Hate Über Alles | but until just recently, on the timescales of cities, |
| 2022-06-10 | 34 | Whisper of Runes | "Minne (Minnesang II)" | single | there was an at-least-equally regrettable elevated freeway slicing grimly down the middle of downtown, |
| 2022-06-10 | 35 | Corvus Corax | "Béowulf is mín nama - Era Metallum - Bonus Track" | single | as if "spine" were a pejorative or a punishment. |
| 2022-06-10 | 36 | dArtagnan | "Westwind" | single | We buried the road and put a green way on top of it. |
| 2022-06-10 | 37 | Elkir | "Fight For The Empire" | single | Greenish, anyway: |
| 2022-06-10 | 43 | Vermilia | "Hautavajo" | single | in the naively ambitious way of most of our less-bad bad ideas. |
| 2022-06-10 | 44 | Imperial Triumphant | "Merkurius Gilded" | single | As a tourist destination this is a visually underwhelming |
| 2022-06-10 | 45 | Kardashev | "Silvered Shadows" | Liminal Rite | challenge to the narrator: |
| 2022-06-10 | 47 | Axioma | "God Extraction" | God Extraction +2 | and the weight of its exhaust, |
| 2022-06-10 | 48 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Blackout77" | single | imaginarily in the open air and sunlight left behind, |
| 2022-06-10 | 49 | Avatarium | "God Is Silent" | single | to evoke the psychogeography of the transformation |
| 2022-06-03 | 2 | Torn Between Two Worlds | "The Woman That Never Was" | single | in the acceptance of loneliness as our emotional origin |
| 2022-06-03 | 3 | Eye of Melian | "Light" | Light 5 | and thus human contact as its only resonant resolution. |
| 2022-06-03 | 4 | Blackwater Drowning | "Mortal Coil" | single | The denial of loneliness, |
| 2022-06-03 | 5 | Nocturnal Pestilence | "Standing Aside" | single | and with it the denial of the need for incorporating other people's needs |
| 2022-06-03 | 6 | We are Legend | "Fallen Angel" | single | into your own abstract worldview and chosen actions, |
| 2022-06-03 | 7 | Snow White In The Dark | "Let´s Fight" | single | is at least personal misanthropy and collective nihilism, |
| 2022-06-03 | 8 | Neperia | "The Story Is Told" | Ptesmata | and probably either elemental self-loathing or a dubiously detached loathing for mortal specificity. |
| 2022-06-03 | 9 | Shereign | "Remedy" | single | You can't really detach. |
| 2022-06-03 | 10 | Mindmaze | "Forever Too Late" | single | Detachment is a mythology of separatism, |
| 2022-06-03 | 11 | Forgotten North | "Hinter den Wolken" | single | and there is nowhere to draw your petty new borders |
| 2022-06-03 | 12 | Brachmond | "Labyrinth" | single | except through other people's grandly existing nations or aspirationally notional states. |
| 2022-06-03 | 13 | Eluveitie | "Aidus" | single | There are no meaningfully benevolent dictators |
| 2022-06-03 | 14 | FEST VAINQUEUR | "Venous Blood Vessel" | GLARE | or enduring utopian cults, |
| 2022-06-03 | 15 | Imperial Circus Dead Decadence | "禊祓の神産は宣い、禍祓の贖罪は誓う。feat.あらまり" | 殯――死へ耽る想いは戮辱すら喰らい、彼方の生を愛する為に命を讃える――。 | because a stentorian unity based on ceremonial antipathy |
| 2022-06-03 | 59 | Maximus | "Tack ändå" | single | travelers who conflated tourism |
| 2022-06-03 | 64 | Hexis | "Nunquam" | single | and mistook it for a frontier |
| 2022-06-03 | 65 | Amon Amarth | "Get in the Ring" | single | at the limit of their inherited myopia; |
| 2022-06-03 | 66 | The Halo Effect | "The Needless End" | The Needless End +3 | slave lords cosplaying as federalists; |
| 2022-06-03 | 67 | Hypermass | "Hivemind" | Empyrean | émigrés misunderstanding the allegory of the parting sea |
| 2022-06-03 | 68 | Wrang | "Doodgeslagen onschuld" | De vaendrig | as if, once closed behind them, the sea could never be parted again. |
| 2022-06-03 | 69 | DAMPF | "Winterland" | The Arrival | This country is defined by its constitution, not its Constitution, not anything capitalized, |
| 2022-06-03 | 70 | Defiatory | "Apocalypse" | Apokalyps | and in this way is the same as every country, |
| 2022-06-03 | 71 | Temple of Void | "A Sequence of Rot" | Summoning the Slayer | conclusively failed or optimistically still only inconclusively failing. |
| 2022-06-03 | 72 | Don't Drop the Sword | "Sands Of Time" | Prelude To The Age Of Heroes 3 | Proud squalling toddlers climbing through a smashed window into the Capitol was a point of failure |
| 2022-06-03 | 73 | Battlelore | "Minas Morgul" | The Return of the Shadow | for glass, |
| 2022-06-03 | 74 | Stratovarius | "Survive" | single | but the point of failure for the society happened long before that: |
| 2022-06-03 | 75 | Merta | "Laiva" | single | before Trump tried not to let go of power, |
| 2022-06-03 | 76 | Magistarium | "No World Without Hero" | Dreamlord Opera | before he got it, |
| 2022-06-03 | 77 | Veter Daemonaz | "Moon Sorcery - Single edit version" | single | before he failed to learn a value-system not based on hoarding power, |
| 2022-06-03 | 78 | Рожь | "Аминь" | single | before we failed to teach him, |
| 2022-06-03 | 83 | Astronoid | "Sedative" | Radiant Bloom | and not a secret shame to be desperately hidden by crudely billowing suits |
| 2022-06-03 | 93 | The Algorithm | "Inline Assembly" | Data Renaissance | reaching out like a fist to make you pay |
| 2022-06-03 | 94 | Astronoid | "Decades" | Radiant Bloom | for something you both don't need |
| 2022-06-03 | 98 | Control the Storm | "Holding out for a Hero" | single | willing to become more perfect, made of chaos and glee, always fresh from a fight that solved nothing, or the hearings that try to insist that the story of the last fight will teach us how to not have the next one. |
| 2022-06-03 | 99 | Drewsif Stalin's Musical Endeavors | "All Eyes On Me" | single | Which has always just begun. |
| 2022-05-27 | 1 | Mournful Congregation | "Mountainous Shadows, Cast Through Time" | The Exuviae of Gods - Part 1 | We built churches in our own image, |
| 2022-05-27 | 2 | Foraoisí gan Iniúchadh | "The Kingdom Will Die" | single | even before we realized our gods were images of ourselves, |
| 2022-05-27 | 3 | Liminal Shroud | "Hypoxic" | single | and thus reverence is inevitably rehabilitated as ornate heresy. |
| 2022-05-27 | 4 | Temple of Void | "The Transcending Horror" | The Transcending Horror +2 | Our enemies will preserve our gifts, |
| 2022-05-27 | 5 | Black Void | "Tenebrism of Life" | Antithesis | every one but the last. |
| 2022-05-27 | 6 | Khold | "I Demonens Bok" | I Demonens Bok +1 | War is the process power uses |
| 2022-05-27 | 7 | Saor | "Beyond the Wall" | single | to turn the preconditions for conflict |
| 2022-05-27 | 8 | Cosmophobe | "Withdrawn" | single | into assumptions: |
| 2022-05-27 | 9 | Crematory | "Trümmerwelten" | Inglorious Darkness | to score chalk lines with knife blades |
| 2022-05-27 | 10 | Black Void | "No Right, No Wrong" | Antithesis | and give exhortational names to uneasily fluttering flags. |
| 2022-05-27 | 11 | Corvus Corax | "Na láma-sa - Era Metallum - Bonus Track" | single | By the time fighting starts, |
| 2022-05-27 | 13 | Circus of Fools | "In the Name of Science" | single | and A/B tested, |
| 2022-05-27 | 14 | Sick n' beautiful | "This is Not the End" | single | not to choose between A and B, |
| 2022-05-27 | 15 | LOST NEBULA | "Darwin Among The Machines" | single | but to ensure that there seem to be no other choices. |
| 2022-05-27 | 17 | Xandria | "Reborn" | single | purged and therapied, |
| 2022-05-27 | 18 | Dol Theeta | "We Die Alone" | single | are rehired as our captains, |
| 2022-05-27 | 19 | Cinnamun Beloved | "Out of Sight" | single | allocating our waiting ships into exactly two doomed fleets. |
| 2022-05-27 | 20 | Evol Walks | "Drag Me Down" | single | The anthem market marshals eager hordes for "Crash" |
| 2022-05-27 | 21 | Chez Kane | "Powerzone" | single | and "Burn", |
| 2022-05-27 | 22 | Yohei Kimura | "Dawn" | single | and administrative fees for "ponder what you remember most fondly from yesterday" |
| 2022-05-20 | 2 | Mutiara Damansara | "Réminiscences" | Annual Winter Depression | You can't pray for the families of murdered third graders. |
| 2022-05-20 | 3 | Spheric Universe Experience | "Final Fate" | Back Home | If your gods exist |
| 2022-05-20 | 4 | Azure | "Spark Madrigal" | single | and have any power, |
| 2022-05-20 | 5 | Evergrey | "Ominous" | A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament) | they already chose not to use it. |
| 2022-05-20 | 6 | Jorn | "One Man War" | single | You are not praying for the parents of dead children, |
| 2022-05-20 | 7 | Эйдол | "Пропасть разума" | single | you are praying that you will be allowed |
| 2022-05-20 | 8 | YYNOT | "Living Proof" | single | to keep hoarding |
| 2022-05-20 | 9 | Edenbridge | "The Road To Shangri-La - Single Edit" | single | what you believe to be the guilty treasure |
| 2022-05-20 | 10 | Magica | "Little Girl" | single | of moral piracy. |
| 2022-05-20 | 11 | Chaos Magic | "In the Depth of Night" | single | You are praying for a way to keep believing that you are special, |
| 2022-05-20 | 12 | Whispering Tales | "Embers" | A Matter of Time | and that your petty, uncritical urges |
| 2022-05-20 | 13 | Avantasia | "The Wicked Rule The Night" | single | have inherent divinity. |
| 2022-05-20 | 14 | Graveshadow | "The Swordsman (feat. Chelsea Murphy)" | single | You are praying to be forgiven for your fears, |
| 2022-05-20 | 15 | Deep Sun | "Killer In A Dream" | single | but confusing forgiveness for exoneration. |
| 2022-05-20 | 16 | Volturian | "Stay" | Red Dragon | Your prayers are a desperately disingenuous attempt at a selfish alibi |
| 2022-05-20 | 17 | NUMENTO | "Scarlet Haze" | single | for crimes in which we are all ultimately complicit. |
| 2022-05-20 | 18 | RedHook | "Jabberwocky" | single | We are all here. |
| 2022-05-20 | 19 | Oxidize | "Stand up for the Masses" | Stand up for the Masses | What currently passes for civilization is only whatever illusion |
| 2022-05-20 | 20 | Ксюша на Марсе | "Я здесь" | single | we collectively sustain. |
| 2022-05-20 | 21 | Ibridoma | "Ti ho visto andare via" | Norimberga 2.0 | It doesn't just go inexplicably |
| 2022-05-20 | 22 | A Sound of Thunder | "Orb Weaver" | single | and occasionally |
| 2022-05-20 | 23 | Victorius | "Mighty Magic Mammoth - Radio Edit" | Mighty Magic Mammoth 4 | and unrepresentatively awry, |
| 2022-05-20 | 24 | Ember Falls | "Cloud Connected" | single | it goes miserably and laboriously wrong |
| 2022-05-20 | 25 | Arch Enemy | "Sunset over the Empire" | single | as an inevitable result of our deliberate practices. |
| 2022-05-20 | 26 | Amiensus | "Gehenna" | All Paths Lead to Death | We don't merely tolerate the unfortunate possibility |
| 2022-05-20 | 27 | Vaamatar | "Medievalgeist" | Medievalgeist | of 18-year-olds with assault rifles |
| 2022-05-20 | 28 | Septicflesh | "The Collector" | Modern Primitive | murdering even-younger children, |
| 2022-05-20 | 29 | Exocrine | "Dying Light" | single | we meticulously optimize the rifles for only and exactly this purpose, |
| 2022-05-20 | 30 | Serpent Sermon | "Anka" | single | and an economy for treating ammunition as productivity, |
| 2022-05-20 | 31 | Blut Aus Nord | "Chants Of The Deep Ones" | Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses | and a legal system for treating laws as "enforcement" |
| 2022-05-20 | 32 | Hyrgal | "Diablerie" | Hyrgal | and thus both valorizing and militarizing defiance, |
| 2022-05-20 | 33 | Imperial Triumphant | "Maximalist Scream" | single | and a media for grimly picking at wounds |
| 2022-05-20 | 34 | Luminous Vault | "Invoke Radiant Gleam" | Animate the Emptiness | to make them feel more familiar |
| 2022-05-20 | 35 | Boris | "She is burning" | single | instead of treating them, |
| 2022-05-20 | 136 | FalKKonE | "This Will Be the Day (From "RWBY")" | Intense Symphonic Metal Covers: Crescent Rose Edition | until we all recognize that we are not divided up into isolatable towns |
| 2022-05-20 | 138 | Tombs | "Killed by Death" | single | You can't send away prayers to echo around in other people's walls. |
| 2022-05-20 | 141 | Violet Orlandi | "All Star" | single | This world on fire is the only one our streets reach. |
| 2022-05-20 | 142 | Shameless | "Pretty In Pink" | So Good, You Should... | It's beautiful. We're beautiful. Some of us are gone, but they are not the last. We are not the last. |
| 2022-05-13 | 11 | Nekonomicon | "One-Winged Angel of Death" | Nekonomicon | I'm sure about almost nothing, |
| 2022-05-13 | 12 | Secret Rule | "Obsession" | single | but I can be convinced to try earnest or ecstatic experiments |
| 2022-05-13 | 13 | Anniken | "Just Walk" | Climb Out Of Hell | for three or five minutes at a time, |
| 2022-05-13 | 14 | Dol Theeta | "Monolith" | single | as long as after that we stop |
| 2022-05-13 | 15 | Megara | "Ni Contigo Ni Sin Ti" | Truco o Trato Capítulo II 3 | and re-have this fight |
| 2022-05-13 | 16 | Lena Scissorhands | "Free (feat. Vervain St. Project)" | single | in a very slightly better or worse world |
| 2022-05-13 | 17 | Oceans of Slumber | "Hearts of Stone" | single | to see if we can tell. |
| 2022-05-13 | 18 | Thessa | "Débris" | single | Horizons always beckon, |
| 2022-05-13 | 19 | Stömb | "An Absence of Sun" | single | but the contours of a horizon |
| 2022-05-13 | 20 | Cold Kingdom | "Agony" | single | are evaluations of how you think you feel |
| 2022-05-13 | 21 | Xaon | "Wayward Sun" | single | about where you begin your gaze. |
| 2022-05-13 | 22 | Mob Rules | "Sacred Heart" | single | The architecture of skyscrapers |
| 2022-05-13 | 23 | Visions of Atlantis | "Master the Hurricane" | Pirates | will always amount to "not this mud" |
| 2022-05-13 | 24 | Moon Tooth | "I Revere" | Phototroph | until their construction can be rendered trivial |
| 2022-05-13 | 27 | Aara | "Phantasmagorie" | Triade II : Hemera | cannot be understood in actual detail. |
| 2022-05-13 | 28 | Nechochwen | "Kanawha Black" | Kanawha Black | We invent deceptive machines to lie to us coldly |
| 2022-05-13 | 29 | Unendlich | "No Light Will Take Me" | Misanthrope Divine 5 | about this, and thermodynamics, and privilege, |
| 2022-05-13 | 30 | Mutiara Damansara | "Farewell" | Farewell +1 | and then we're surprised by the warm truth, |
| 2022-05-13 | 31 | Moon Tooth | "Phototroph" | Phototroph | and the persistence of skin. |
| 2022-05-06 | 15 | LANTANA | "Kioku" | single | I cannot measure it. |
| 2022-05-06 | 16 | Megara | "Estanque de Tormentas" | single | I'm not saying it can't be measured, necessarily, |
| 2022-05-06 | 17 | Volturian | "Empty World" | single | but I definitely can't experience it and measure it at once, |
| 2022-05-06 | 18 | Seventh Wonder | "The Light" | single | and if a scientist chooses observation over implication, |
| 2022-05-06 | 19 | Carmilla | "Who Gives a Fuck" | single | I am an alchemist. |
| 2022-05-06 | 20 | Cadaveria | "Emptiness" | single | We aspire ineffectually to not fear death, |
| 2022-05-06 | 21 | Therion | "Litany Of The Fallen" | single | but in failure get better at not fearing |
| 2022-05-06 | 22 | Opera Magna | "What Was Dreamt and Lived" | What Was Dreamt and Lived +1 | the things we might have thought we could become, |
| 2022-05-06 | 23 | Jani Liimatainen | "Breathing Divinity" | My Father's Son | particularly the ones whose untenability we understood |
| 2022-05-06 | 24 | Powerwolf | "Venom of Venus - The Monumental Mass" | single | before their appeal. |
| 2022-05-06 | 25 | Lord Of The Lost | "The Heartbeat of the Devil - Single Version" | The Heartbeat of the Devil 5 | The stations of joy: |
| 2022-05-06 | 26 | Lacrimas Profundere | "A Cloak Woven of Stars" | single | ownership is not a precondition of understanding; |
| 2022-05-06 | 27 | Edge Of Forever | "Calling" | single | understanding is not a prerequisite for experience; |
| 2022-05-06 | 28 | Grimgotts | "Ignite the Flame" | Ignite the Flame +2 | consumption is not the only way to fill the world with more of something. |
| 2022-05-06 | 29 | Battlelore | "Chambers of Fire" | Chambers of Fire +1 | If libertarian entropy replaces hoarded power with a fetid warmth, |
| 2022-05-06 | 30 | Kreator | "Midnight Sun" | single | viridian extropy converts carefully far-too-abundant power into reckless elation |
| 2022-05-06 | 31 | Kampfar | "Fandens Trall" | Fandens Trall +1 | in every ethereal or guttural argot. |
| 2022-05-06 | 32 | Djevelkult | "Perfect Obliterate" | Drep Alle Guder | Joy is propositional, |
| 2022-05-06 | 33 | Rise to the Sky | "I Can See You When I Dream" | Every Day, A Funeral | and thus linguistic |
| 2022-05-06 | 34 | Vital Spirit | "Blood and Smoke" | Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind | even when wordless or technically unintelligible |
| 2022-05-06 | 37 | Riverwood | "Rise Of The Fallen" | single | merely instead of merrily, |
| 2022-05-06 | 38 | Bucium | "Vânător / Orion (Hunter)" | single | as if we were given a problem-set in the form of a planet, |
| 2022-05-06 | 39 | Krypton | "Păcate și ispite" | single | and have wasted most of our time arguing over how |
| 2022-05-06 | 40 | Corvus Corax | "Ragnarök - Era Metallum - Bonus Track" | single | or when |
| 2022-05-06 | 41 | Triddana | "The Ground of the Fallen" | single | it will be graded. |
| 2022-04-29 | 1 | IKINÄ | "Burn" | single | Originalism isn't a legislative philosophy, |
| 2022-04-29 | 2 | Anniken | "Spotlight" | single | it's a reading of the Constitution as scripture, |
| 2022-04-29 | 3 | After Forever | "Sweet Enclosure" | single | and like any scriptural reading of anything, |
| 2022-04-29 | 4 | Battle Beast | "Tempest Of Blades" | Circus Of Doom | it is an attempt to interpret inertial privilege |
| 2022-04-29 | 5 | The Gathering | "When We Fall" | Beautiful Distortion | and contingent tradition |
| 2022-04-29 | 6 | Rioghan | "Promises" | Promises +1 | as natural law, |
| 2022-04-29 | 7 | Eternal Frequency | "A.I." | single | but like any other invocation of points in space as destiny, |
| 2022-04-29 | 8 | Liv Sin | "The Process" | single | it is inherently opposed to progress and will. |
| 2022-04-29 | 9 | Venus 5 | "We Are Dynamite" | single | Portraying this tension as a left-right one-dimensionality |
| 2022-04-29 | 10 | Crimson Sun | "Feed the Fire" | single | is itself a trivialization for the benefit of existing establishments |
| 2022-04-29 | 11 | Metopia | "Liebes Ich" | Wiedergeburt | built on property they believe they own |
| 2022-04-29 | 12 | Dol Theeta | "Enchanted" | single | along this one narrow line. |
| 2022-04-29 | 13 | Deep Sun | "Living The Dream" | single | Heaven and Hell is a cosmology for earthworms |
| 2022-04-29 | 14 | LÝSIS | "Scorched" | single | peering moistly out of reassuringly quiescent mud |
| 2022-04-29 | 15 | Synthwailer | "Rest upon the Stars" | Crimson Betrayals 4 | into thrumming air, |
| 2022-04-29 | 16 | Manntra | "Tanz" | Tanz +1 | except upside-down. |
| 2022-04-29 | 17 | dArtagnan | "Tanz in den Mai" | single | It facilitates the reduction of pseudo-moral reasoning to tug-of-war |
| 2022-04-29 | 18 | Zenobia | "No Me Dejes Caer (feat. Isra Ramos)" | single | by allowing any movement to be trivially portrayed as movement towards an abhorent |
| 2022-04-29 | 19 | Evergrey | "Blindfolded" | Blindfolded +2 | oversimplified extreme. |
| 2022-04-29 | 20 | Circle Of Silence | "Triumph Over Tragedy" | single | The animating conceit of Alito's smugly scornful dismissal of abortion precedent |
| 2022-04-29 | 21 | Gloryhammer | "Fly Away" | single | isn't a respect for established law, |
| 2022-04-29 | 22 | Fallen Sanctuary | "Terranova" | Terranova +1 | it is a disrespect for disestablished humanity. |
| 2022-04-29 | 23 | Gladenfold | "Carnival Of The Hunter" | Nemesis | Abortion is in some senses a moral distraction, |
| 2022-04-29 | 24 | Dristeig | "Distance" | single | because it focuses so specifically on a moment and dilemma |
| 2022-04-29 | 25 | Darkane | "Inhuman Spirits" | single | that is a complex result of so many other factors |
| 2022-04-29 | 26 | Watain | "Ecstasies in night infinite" | The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain | in every individual case, |
| 2022-04-29 | 27 | Fallujah | "Radiant Ascension" | single | and an even more complex phenomenon at the level of communities and humanity, |
| 2022-04-29 | 28 | The Monolith Deathcult | "Three-Headed Death Machine" | single | but of course this is exactly the point. |
| 2022-04-29 | 29 | Vaasa Palaa | "en tiedä, mutta toivon" | single | A single-issue fight over abortion allows racists and theocrats |
| 2022-04-29 | 30 | Medium Arvet | "Kaksin Käsin" | single | to be for "life", |
| 2022-04-29 | 32 | SHOW-YA | "限界LOVERS ~Battle Orchestra~" | single | instead of social equity. |
| 2022-04-29 | 100 | Crashdïet | "Shine On" | Automaton | This will not be our final battle between fear and hope, |
| 2022-04-29 | 101 | Gräce | "Evergarden" | single | nor our final loss. |
| 2022-04-29 | 105 | Astronoid | "Sleep Whisper" | Sleep Whisper +1 | Imagining a two-dimensional politics is hard; |
| 2022-04-29 | 106 | Mutiara Damansara | "Annual Winter Depression" | single | maybe "politics" is the name for not doing so, |
| 2022-04-29 | 107 | Acadence | "The Arrival" | Eternal Warfare 4 | in the same way that "power" is the name for hoarding something that everybody needs. |
| 2022-04-29 | 108 | Graywave | "Rebirth" | Rebirth +1 | But if you push against these drawn lines, |
| 2022-04-29 | 109 | Hereafter | "Weathering the Storm" | single | even on the days when it feels like you cannot pull apart their edges, |
| 2022-04-29 | 110 | Rise to the Sky | "Just Say Goodbye" | single | you can sometimes jar them into a slightly different orientation in the beckoning space. |
| 2022-04-29 | 111 | Saor | "Origins" | single | These disasters -- |
| 2022-04-29 | 112 | Blissful Euphoria | "The Sumerian King Aria" | The Sumerian King 2 | war, pandemics, verdicts, |
| 2022-04-22 | 14 | Seas on the Moon | "Anhedonia" | single | Our fear takes so many forms. |
| 2022-04-22 | 15 | Secret Rule | "One More" | single | There are moments when I feel like I have run out of fear, too, though, |
| 2022-04-22 | 16 | Future Palace | "Defeating Gravity" | Defeating Gravity 5 | and then I notice that I am standing at a window |
| 2022-04-22 | 17 | Red Handed Denial | "White Water" | White Water +2 | or walking over a bridge |
| 2022-04-22 | 18 | Daedric | "Dawnbreaker" | Dawnbreaker +2 | or typing sentences about hope, |
| 2022-04-22 | 19 | Volturian | "Bury Me" | single | but with headphones, |
| 2022-04-22 | 20 | Chaos Magic | "Emerge" | single | and these bands from some other side of the world |
| 2022-04-22 | 21 | Phantom Divine | "The Wraith of the Lake" | The Wraith of the Lake +3 | have swarmed grandly into my head. |
| 2022-04-22 | 22 | Sorrowful Knight | "Остара" | Остара +3 | Each second of a song invites the next moment to jump |
| 2022-04-22 | 23 | The Power of the Pudú | "Bachametal" | single | or spin or crash. |
| 2022-04-22 | 24 | Hadadanza | "¡Bienvenidos al Circo!" | El Circo de los Muertos | Every song welcomes or beckons us to something: |
| 2022-04-22 | 25 | Faun | "Caer" | Pagan | to a heritage of aspiration and exoneration, |
| 2022-04-22 | 32 | Horizon Ignited | "Servant" | Servant +2 | if you remember to see by listening. |
| 2022-04-22 | 33 | Blut Aus Nord | "Tales Of The Old Dreamer" | single | Our old dreams were always like this: |
| 2022-04-22 | 34 | Rotting Christ | "Holy Mountain" | single | vantage fables |
| 2022-04-22 | 35 | Septicflesh | "A Desert Throne" | A Desert Throne +2 | of subjective kingdoms |
| 2022-04-22 | 36 | Khold | "Apostel" | single | from which we awaken evangelically, |
| 2022-04-22 | 37 | Einvigi | "Yö Kulje Kanssani" | Yö Kulje Kanssani | and then try to remember that the first heretics we need to convert |
| 2022-04-22 | 38 | White Ward | "Leviathan" | single | are the ones we invented to admonish us for our pride. |
| 2022-04-22 | 39 | FREJA | "Scattered Shields" | Tides | We are made of water and sky. |
| 2022-04-22 | 40 | Cisza | "Withered, Blackened Heart" | single | Of course we mistake ourselves for gods. |
| 2022-04-22 | 41 | Te Ruki | "Huero a Tamaera" | Marako Te Ruki | The actual gods are standing at windows in silence, |
| 2022-04-22 | 42 | Escaping Aghartha | "Consuming Drought" | Croak | waiting for us to develop efficient aircars |
| 2022-04-22 | 43 | Helioss | "La chute du tyran" | Contre ma lumière | so they can justify not drowning us |
| 2022-04-22 | 44 | Reverorum ib Malacht | "1a10" | Vacuum. The mystery of faith. We proclaim your death oh Lord, and profess your resurrection, until you come again. Förlåtelse och Levitation. | in our own incomprehensible seas. |
| 2022-04-22 | 45 | Veil Of Maya | "Synthwave Vegan" | single | We debate their criteria as a symbolic gesture of respect, |
| 2022-04-22 | 46 | The HAARP Machine | "Forsaken" | single | but they knew before we did that they were only now ever going to watch |
| 2022-04-15 | 47 | Brightstorm | "To Follow My Heart" | single | Memory is not an archive, |
| 2022-04-15 | 48 | Eye of Melian | "Everstrong" | Everstrong +3 | it's a demonstration of our ability to convert joy into an energy, |
| 2022-04-15 | 49 | Withering Season | "Dreams of Sorrow" | single | but only after it makes us want to. |
| 2022-04-15 | 50 | The Big Deal | "Top Heaven" | single | You can tell if you're playing or working |
| 2022-04-15 | 51 | DeVicious | "A Special Mind" | Black Heart | by whether you're hoping you get to keep doing it |
| 2022-04-15 | 52 | Aevum | "Lullaby" | Glitch | or counting the hours until merciful sleep. |
| 2022-04-15 | 53 | Semblant | "Bloodred Monarch (Legacy of Blood, Pt. VII)" | Vermilion Eclipse | We thought we had legacies of blood. |
| 2022-04-15 | 54 | Visions of Atlantis | "Melancholy Angel" | Melancholy Angel +1 | The blood knew it was a moving and tragic compromise |
| 2022-04-15 | 55 | Lodestar | "Creeping In My Soul" | single | between irreproducible nucleic acid and irreducible air. |
| 2022-04-15 | 56 | Darkher | "Immortals" | The Buried Storm | It's not that we live forever, |
| 2022-04-15 | 57 | Alunah | "Over The Hills" | Strange Machine | it's that the substances that make our lives different |
| 2022-04-15 | 58 | Boris | "Funnel of Love" | single | from our deaths are not consumed by living |
| 2022-04-15 | 59 | Thou | "Night" | single | but produced by it. |
| 2022-04-15 | 60 | A Pregnant Light | "Jinx!" | Jinx! / Purple Lips 2 | The drums do that thing where they smash into a wall that only they can see |
| 2022-04-15 | 61 | Vansind | "Asgaards Kald" | single | until everybody can hear it |
| 2022-04-15 | 62 | Schandmaul | "Königsgarde" | Königsgarde +1 | crack. |
| 2022-04-15 | 64 | Månegarm | "Adils fall" | Ynglingaättens Öde | these hands of vessels. |
| 2022-04-15 | 65 | Djevelkult | "I Kuldens Vold" | single | The gray throngs are us, too. |
| 2022-04-15 | 66 | Exocrine | "The Hybrid Suns" | single | It's all us, until we reach the next inhabited star |
| 2022-04-15 | 67 | Demonic Resurrection | "The Mask" | single | in search of true others to blame, |
| 2022-04-15 | 68 | Crematory | "Break Down the Walls" | Break Down the Walls +1 | only to find that reaching them makes us into them. |
| 2022-04-15 | 69 | Zero Hour | "Agenda 21" | single | We go to find ourselves, |
| 2022-04-15 | 70 | Shaman | "Don't Let It Rain" | Rescue | and then, hilariously, are surprised when we succeed. |
| 2022-04-15 | 72 | Spheric Universe Experience | "Where We Belong" | single | which in itself ought to be enough to give away the self-serving expedience of economy: |
| 2022-04-15 | 73 | Thessa | "Free Fall" | single | From each according to their need, |
| 2022-04-15 | 74 | Moon Tooth | "Alpha Howl" | Alpha Howl +3 | to each according to their unaccountability. |
| 2022-04-08 | 1 | Onyria | "Denial" | single | Sometimes the "symphonic" in "symphonic metal" means the arrangements are at least partially orchestral, |
| 2022-04-08 | 2 | Dark Princess | "My Shadow Self" | My Shadow Self +1 | but sometimes it's just a coded way of admitting to a maximalist ambition |
| 2022-04-08 | 3 | Faun | "Gwydion" | single | to be good by exuberant technique. |
| 2022-04-08 | 4 | Mute Prophet | "Designer Scars" | Cycle of Fire | Metal, as a whole, |
| 2022-04-08 | 5 | Neperia | "Contrast" | single | oscillates through this Lagrange point over time, |
| 2022-04-08 | 6 | Empire of Giants | "Dying Star" | Dying Star +2 | spinning off into shredding and double-kick polyrhythm for a while |
| 2022-04-08 | 7 | Seven Kingdoms | "Universal Terrestrial" | single | before orbiting back into monospaced blastbeats and deliberately noteless grunting. |
| 2022-04-08 | 8 | Giant Walker | "Katoomba" | single | Maybe all musical forms, if not all art forms, do this, |
| 2022-04-08 | 9 | Flowerleaf | "The Storm" | The Storm +2 | and not over time as much as throughout it, |
| 2022-04-08 | 10 | New Saviors | "My Demise" | single | a cloud of possibility stretching from abstruse nominal complexity |
| 2022-04-08 | 11 | Osatia | "Decode" | Decode +1 | to confrontational apparent simplicity. |
| 2022-04-08 | 12 | Eternal Psycho | "Religion" | Trail of Agony | Clouds don't hover along a single sharp axis, though, |
| 2022-04-08 | 13 | Tales of a Sleeping Giant | "Morgana" | single | they billow and blur and suffuse. |
| 2022-04-08 | 14 | April Weeps | "Crossing the Waves" | single | Art, like most human obsessions, doesn't gain and lose complexity |
| 2022-04-08 | 15 | Lena Scissorhands | "Borderlines (feat. Death Dealer Union)" | single | as much as it moves it around. |
| 2022-04-08 | 19 | SIPP | "DON'T WARP" | single | Choosing a death-metal rasp, or a single shade of blue paint, |
| 2022-04-08 | 37 | TeZATalks | "Lex Luthor" | single | as it is in hip hop and metal and pizza, |
| 2022-04-08 | 53 | VV | "Loveletting - 7" Cut" | single | Metaphor is a relationship, not a state, |
| 2022-04-08 | 54 | All Things Fallen | "Pandemonium" | single | and everything that poses as a state |
| 2022-04-08 | 55 | Egor Lappo | "Crepuscular" | Naturealism | is an accumulation of relationships teetering on the structural verge |
| 2022-04-08 | 56 | Helsott | "Independence Night" | single | of achieving unity |
| 2022-04-08 | 57 | Unherz | "Löwenherz" | single | by forgetting itself. |
| 2022-04-08 | 58 | Genus Ordinis Dei | "The Entropic Queen" | single | We can blame Putin for bombing Ukrainian hospitals, |
| 2022-04-08 | 59 | Morthifera | "Apostasía" | single | but he didn't invent autocracy or bombs |
| 2022-04-08 | 60 | Smash Into Pieces | "A Shot in the Dark" | A Shot in the Dark 5 | or the assignment of fears to boundaries. |
| 2022-04-08 | 61 | Treat | "Jesus from Hollywood" | The Endgame | We can and should be appalled by Trump wondering about the point of having nuclear weapons you aren't allowed to use, |
| 2022-04-08 | 62 | Crashdïet | "Together Whatever" | single | but nothing Trump did while president was even remotely as appalling as the fact that he could get elected. |
| 2022-04-08 | 63 | Kreator | "Strongest Of The Strong" | Strongest Of The Strong +1 | The Ukrainian army seems momentarily heroic, |
| 2022-04-08 | 64 | Rise to the Sky | "It's the End" | single | but having armies is how we get wars, |
| 2022-04-08 | 65 | Mroh | "Wounded Souls" | single | and wars are how armies convince us to tolerate |
| 2022-04-08 | 66 | Heidra | "Retribution's Dawn" | To Hell or Kingdom Come | nihilism among us by uniforming it. |
| 2022-04-08 | 67 | Aara | "Strepitus Mundi" | single | We can see the naked dishonesty of justifying the attacks on Ukraine as de-Nazification, |
| 2022-04-08 | 68 | Marrasmieli | "The Forest of My Soul" | Martaiden Mailta | and the pragmatic irony of Germany rearming to fight against disingenuous Nazi aversion, |
| 2022-04-08 | 69 | Dauþuz | "Bergschmied I: Mein Berg - Bergkgesænge" | Vom schwarzen Schmied: Bergkgesænge | but Putin is right, no matter how hypocritically, that Nazification is still entirely conceivable. |
| 2022-04-08 | 70 | Last Lightning | "Sett Meg Fri" | single | His invasion may as well be a performative exorcism with actual casualties, |
| 2022-04-08 | 71 | Kontinuum | "Hafið Logar" | single | but he is exploiting the real human weakness that we have not consigned Nazis to the mythical domain of demons, |
| 2022-04-08 | 72 | Cosmic Putrefaction | "Sol's Upheaval Debris" | single | and arguably haven't quite confined demons to a consensually unanimous mythicality, either. |
| 2022-04-08 | 115 | Franja Du Plessis | "Gee My ‘n Boerseun" | single | and before we understood that learning to put metal into the air |
| 2022-04-08 | 120 | Eva Under Fire | "Separate Ways" | Blow EP 3 | when we find that our ways are complicated but the same. |
| 2022-04-01 | 14 | Nevaria | "Battle Cry" | single | I mean, it helps, in that it increases my motivation to remember, |
| 2022-04-01 | 15 | Dreamtale | "Last Goodbyes" | Everlasting Flame | but realistically, I long ago gave up on name-memorization as an exploration constraint. |
| 2022-04-01 | 16 | Windrunner | "Cyan" | TAN | I don't have to look up "Dreamtale" or "Windrunner" to remember what words the symbols spell, |
| 2022-04-01 | 17 | Venus 5 | "Because of You" | single | but do I remember, offhand, where either of those two bands are from or how many times I have wondered this in the past? |
| 2022-04-01 | 18 | Synlakross | "Death / Hate" | Ideas Are Bulletproof 3 | No, the answer is no. Dreamtale is a power-metal band from Tampere, Finland, and Everlasting Flame is their 8th album, |
| 2022-04-01 | 19 | Memoremains | "Paralyze" | single | which took me two different searches to figure out, because for some reason their sixth album (but only that one) isn't available to stream in the US. |
| 2022-04-01 | 20 | Halflives | "Dynamite" | single | Windrunner is a progressive metalcore band from Vietnam, and TAN is their second album, |
| 2022-04-01 | 21 | September Mourning | "Mausoleum" | single | which took me three different searches to figure out, because Encyclopedia Metallum, my usual second search for metal info, |
| 2022-04-01 | 22 | Dianthus | "Realms - Radio Edit" | single | maintains an adorably dedicated aversion to anything anybody has ever referred to as metalcore, |
| 2022-04-01 | 23 | April Art | "Sky Is The Limit" | single | no matter how little like Sevendust or Spineshank they sound. |
| 2022-04-01 | 24 | Volturian | "Harley" | single | When I dislike metalcore, which I do frequently enough to mostly support EM's anti-metalcore rigidity, |
| 2022-04-01 | 25 | STELL/\RIS | "Scars" | single | it's usually due to some combination of brutish exaggerated masculinity and gooey groove-metal indiscipline. |
| 2022-04-01 | 28 | LionSoul | "Amber Of Illusion" | single | But now we're thirty songs in, and I'm still reconstructing what I know about 4 artists, |
| 2022-04-01 | 29 | 4Order | "Silence" | single | one of whom isn't even involved in this. |
| 2022-04-01 | 30 | Battlelore | "Firekeeper" | single | That's one way to listen. |
| 2022-04-01 | 31 | Trick or Treat | "Have a Nice Judgment Day" | Creepy Symphonies | It's the way I grew up listening, |
| 2022-04-01 | 32 | Lords of the Trident | "The Blade" | The Offering | and the way I half-implicitly learned that one should listen, |
| 2022-04-01 | 33 | Pure Reason Revolution | "Phantoms" | single | the serious way: |
| 2022-04-01 | 34 | Satan | "Earth We Bequeath" | Earth Infernal | one meticulously scrutinized album at a time, |
| 2022-04-01 | 35 | Dark The Suns | "Kun Aallot Kallioihin Murtuu" | single | each artist ruthlessly contextualized, |
| 2022-04-01 | 36 | Kampfar | "Urkraft" | Urkraft +1 | each step patiently and deliberately taken. |
| 2022-04-01 | 37 | Tombs | "Ex Oblivion" | single | This is a listening practice for a small world |
| 2022-04-01 | 38 | Watain | "We remain" | We remain +2 | you don't plan to see much of, |
| 2022-04-01 | 39 | Batushka | "MARIA (POSLEDNEJE PISMO)" | MARIA | for a canonicalist's statuary and the careful avoidance of surprise. |
| 2022-04-01 | 40 | Extravaganza | "Barocco" | single | It is a depth-first exploratory methodology, |
| 2022-04-01 | 41 | Manntra | "Nightmare" | single | with the accompanying assumption that the most interesting treasures |
| 2022-04-01 | 44 | Frayle | "Skin & Sorrow" | single | Or, more likely, it might be true that you can dig anywhere and find something treasurable at any specified depth. |
| 2022-04-01 | 45 | Andromida | "WRATH OF THE VANGUARD" | Wrath of the Vanguard | I believe that, but no more surely than I believe that you can also find treasurable things scattered on the ground, |
| 2022-04-01 | 46 | Sorbus | "Gokiburi" | single | or hanging from trees, |
| 2022-04-01 | 47 | Disconnected | "Your Way To Kill" | We Are Disconnected | or beckoning to you from the sky. |
| 2022-04-01 | 81 | Minniva | "Fear of the Dark" | single | you're alone. |
| 2022-03-25 | 7 | Deathspell Omega | "Eadem, sed aliter" | The Long Defeat | some kind of molecular beam, let's say, that left the occupants of the former tank |
| 2022-03-25 | 8 | Septicflesh | "Neuromancer" | Neuromancer +1 | sitting in a pool of undignified but nontoxic goo on the ground. |
| 2022-03-25 | 9 | Hyrgal | "Fureur funeste" | single | An anti-tank missile is not quite the same, |
| 2022-03-25 | 10 | Gorod | "Victory" | single | since it can be fired at nontanks, |
| 2022-03-25 | 11 | Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard | "Logic Bomb" | The Harvest | and even when fired at tanks |
| 2022-03-25 | 12 | Mares of Thrace | "The Thread That Will Unravel You" | The Exile | tends to kill the people inside of them, |
| 2022-03-25 | 17 | Deathspell Omega | "Sie sind gerichtet!" | The Long Defeat | is trying to stop a war, not wage it. |
| 2022-03-25 | 18 | Sebastien | "Je to v nás" | single | Moral armament aspires to defense, |
| 2022-03-25 | 19 | Edenbridge | "Somewhere Else But Here" | single | and all defenses aspire to the historical standard |
| 2022-03-25 | 20 | Floor Jansen | "Fire" | single | of a moat filled with clean water and regal koi. |
| 2022-03-25 | 21 | Winter In Eden | "Never Let Go" | Social Fake | Moats aspire to landscaping. |
| 2022-03-25 | 22 | Neperia | "Like A Broken Toy" | single | Drawbridges aspire to their lifting mechanisms rusting into superfluity. |
| 2022-03-25 | 23 | Confidential | "Release My Symphony" | Devil Inside | I don't know what koi aspire to. |
| 2022-03-25 | 24 | Semblant | "Enrage" | single | I aspire to days spent thinking "I wonder what koi want", |
| 2022-03-25 | 25 | Krashkarma | "Blind Faith" | single | not "How do you undo a war?" |
| 2022-03-25 | 26 | April Weeps | "Fundamental Ingressions" | single | or "How do you end a pandemic?" |
| 2022-03-25 | 27 | Graveshadow | "Soldier of 34" | single | or "How do you convince people to stop fearing each other |
| 2022-03-25 | 28 | Poison Garden | "Tin Man" | single | so much that they can't even be united by shared existential threats?" |
| 2022-03-25 | 29 | Evergrey | "Midwinter Calls" | Midwinter Calls +1 | I aspire to days that begin with a run in non-freezing rain |
| 2022-03-25 | 30 | Nite | "Last Scorpion" | Voices of the Kronian Moon | and never seriously threaten to get any worse than that, |
| 2022-03-25 | 31 | Crematory | "Inglorious Darkness" | single | to songs that remind me of good past days |
| 2022-03-25 | 32 | Powerwolf | "Sainted by the Storm" | Sainted by the Storm +2 | that these new ones are better than, |
| 2022-03-25 | 33 | Trick or Treat | "Escape from Reality" | single | to florid triumphs over nothing |
| 2022-03-25 | 34 | Lords of the Trident | "Carry the Weight" | single | instead of grim resistance against pointless offense, |
| 2022-03-25 | 38 | Runa Llena | "Nunca Apagarán Tu Luz" | single | but cultivates it, |
| 2022-03-25 | 39 | Vacío | "Poses" | single | nurtures it, |
| 2022-03-25 | 40 | Drakwald | "Devouring the Living Sun" | single | allows for the grandiloquent disregard of cynical inertia. |
| 2022-03-25 | 41 | Thanateros | "Burn" | On Fragile Wings | I want to talk about double kick-drum pedals, |
| 2022-03-25 | 42 | Bucium | "Zimbrul Alb" | single | not the wives of "originalist" Justices campaigning for government overthrow |
| 2022-03-25 | 43 | Celtibeerian | "Rise" | single | while their husbands ask no questions because they seek no new knowledge. |
| 2022-03-25 | 107 | Shameless | "Hiding From Love" | single | And they turn back to look at us again, because fear seeks misery against which to justify itself. And we're smiling. But we're smiling. And they look down, because the smile is terrifyingly unterrified, and it makes them want to hide from it in a tank. And that's when they notice that they're standing in goo. |
| 2022-03-18 | 3 | Blut Aus Nord | "That Cannot Be Dreamed" | single | Yes to the sound of the universe bending sinuously under pressure |
| 2022-03-18 | 4 | Mroh | "Truth" | single | and us dancing on its surfaces as if it moves at our whim. |
| 2022-03-18 | 5 | Agathodaimon | "La Haine" | The Seven | We can't prove that it doesn't, |
| 2022-03-18 | 6 | Night Crowned | "Born of the Flickering" | Rebirth of the Old 4 | which is the worst possible reason to believe anything. |
| 2022-03-18 | 7 | Aara | "Das Dunkel der Welt" | single | We are made of darkness, |
| 2022-03-18 | 8 | Rise to the Sky | "Every Day, A Funeral" | single | molded into brief forms |
| 2022-03-18 | 10 | Vansind | "Håbet Er Sort" | single | Yes to old legends as gifts to new lexicons |
| 2022-03-18 | 11 | Darkher | "Love's Sudden Death - Single Version" | single | and wisdom wrung from loss. |
| 2022-03-18 | 12 | Annicke Shireen | "Insatiable" | Demonette 3 | Yes to confessions that defy schematization |
| 2022-03-18 | 13 | Moonlight Haze | "The Nothing" | Animus | and covenants that define their fond fields. |
| 2022-03-18 | 14 | Metalite | "Full Moon" | single | Yes to viridian tendrils |
| 2022-03-18 | 15 | Battle Beast | "The Lightbringer" | single | reaching between glittering nightskies and fragments of dawn. |
| 2022-03-18 | 16 | Brothers of Metal | "The Other Son of Odin" | single | The heavy crown of awesomeness |
| 2022-03-18 | 17 | SheWolf | "The One You Feed" | Shewolf | has rolled into a dusty space we cannot retrieve it from |
| 2022-03-18 | 18 | Without Warning | "Insanity" | single | without moving the throne |
| 2022-03-18 | 19 | Imperial Age | "The Way is The Aim" | single | temporarily aside. |
| 2022-03-18 | 20 | Anchor Thought | "In The Earth" | single | We are precluded from some necessary practical steps |
| 2022-03-18 | 21 | Dreamtale | "The Glory" | single | by the reasonable suspicion that unearned dignity set even momentarily aside |
| 2022-03-18 | 22 | Moonlight Haze | "Midnight Haze" | Animus | cannot merely be reclaimed. |
| 2022-03-18 | 23 | Sündenrausch | "Red Sun" | Original Sin | Real-word jeopardy, unlike the symbolic unrepeatable versions, |
| 2022-03-18 | 24 | Manigance | "Sang froid" | Le bal des ombres | resets majestically overnight. |
| 2022-03-18 | 25 | Dynazty | "Yours" | single | The morning gives you back the possibility of losing the lost again, |
| 2022-03-18 | 26 | Shining Black | "Time Heals, They Say" | Postcards from the End of the World | with or without the formality of restoration. |
| 2022-03-18 | 27 | Blind Guardian | "Secrets Of The American Gods - Single Edit" | single | We choose obscure sigils |
| 2022-03-18 | 28 | ARLEQUIN | "Libra" | single | as if they will escape the notice of fate, |
| 2022-03-18 | 29 | CROSS VEIN | "Silver lining" | single | but fate is not a lookout archer |
| 2022-03-18 | 97 | Vega | "Animal - Bonus Track" | Anarchy and Unity | it's that they're glorious even when they're stupid, especially when they're consciously and unselfconsciously stupid, |
| 2022-03-11 | 1 | Ghost | "Spillways" | IMPERA | My life with heavy metal began with Blue Öyster Cult and Black Sabbath. |
| 2022-03-11 | 2 | Satan | "From Second Sight" | single | The two bands toured North America together in 1981, but I was just a little too young for that, |
| 2022-03-11 | 3 | Visions of Atlantis | "Legion of the Seas" | single | and so didn't see BÖC until 1984 (my first concert, in fact), and not Sabbath until 1992. |
| 2022-03-11 | 4 | Threads of Fate | "Moonrise" | The Cold Embrace Of The Light | They continue to exist together in my sentimental mind, but realistically, where Black Sabbath was definitively formational for pretty much all early aspects of metal, |
| 2022-03-11 | 5 | Symphonity | "Marco Polo, Pt. 3: The Plague" | single | BÖC was mostly just a pretty good hard-rock band with a cheerfully coy fondness for the quasi-occult. |
| 2022-03-11 | 6 | Ikirouta | "Aika" | single | There is little identifiable metal, in a retroactive historical sense, in early BÖC records, |
| 2022-03-11 | 7 | Schandmaul | "Knüppel aus dem Sack" | single | in much the same way that it is now hard to explain on strictly musical grounds how The Stranglers were considered a punk band, |
| 2022-03-11 | 8 | Medjay | "Warrior People" | Cleopatra VII | or the Stray Cats part of New Wave. |
| 2022-03-11 | 9 | Mares of Thrace | "In All Her Glory" | single | But emotional voids are often filled by art, and so now we have the Swedish band Ghost, |
| 2022-03-11 | 10 | IATT | "Elixir of Immortality" | single | who are basically the more-metal Blue Öyster Cult I feel like I remember, |
| 2022-03-11 | 11 | Seas on the Moon | "Bad Omens" | single | a giddy Roxette to BÖC's ABBA. |
| 2022-03-11 | 12 | The Big Deal | "Sensational" | single | They are hard to take seriously, but easy to take gloriously, |
| 2022-03-11 | 13 | Snow White Blood | "Emperor's New Clothes" | single | which is arguably the essence of most good music, |
| 2022-03-11 | 14 | Magica | "How can I live without you" | single | or indeed most good humanity. |
| 2022-03-11 | 15 | Belle Morte | "Fallen Idol" | Fallen Idol +1 | Evil, conversely, is our word for things that impose unglorious seriousness |
| 2022-03-11 | 16 | Thy Shade | "Turn the Tide" | single | on the helpless: |
| 2022-03-11 | 49 | E-L-R | "Three Winds" | Vexier | but you only do this if you don't love your own battalions, either, |
| 2022-03-11 | 50 | Haunted Shores | "When In Oslo" | Void | and you are thus sending them from an unloving place to a loving one, |
| 2022-03-11 | 52 | Zero Hour | "Technocracy" | single | into a fear that exists only as long as they sustain it themselves. |
| 2022-03-11 | 53 | Cosmophobe | "Desolate" | single | But only the most broken will follow these orders |
| 2022-03-11 | 54 | Third Realm | "Fuck Your Warship" | single | against the overwhelming evidence of their own witness. |
| 2022-03-11 | 66 | Violet Orlandi | "(Don’t Fear) The Reaper" | single | You sent tanks after your own loss, and the only possible result is more loss. You opened a door and the wind appears, |
| 2022-03-11 | 67 | Ghost | "Kaisarion" | IMPERA | and sells you a glorious tongue of adulation that licks to no serious avail. |
| 2022-03-04 | 1 | Violet Orlandi | "Wonderwall" | single | I hate a lot of songs, |
| 2022-03-04 | 2 | Charlotte Wessels | "May It Be" | May It Be +1 | no matter what contrary impression of my positivity you might have garnered |
| 2022-03-04 | 3 | Moonlight Haze | "Never Say Never" | single | from the fact that I usually write about (for some loose sense of "about") songs I like. |
| 2022-03-04 | 4 | Eye of Melian | "Doorway of Night" | Doorway of Night +2 | Deep, enduring, identity-building hatred tends to only develop for popular songs, |
| 2022-03-04 | 5 | Divided Island | "Oxygen" | Oxygen +3 | because without morbid environmental repetition I would just forget them. |
| 2022-03-04 | 6 | Confidential | "Salvation" | single | I am a 54-year-old human who lives in a country bordering the North Atlantic, |
| 2022-03-04 | 7 | Trick or Treat | "Creepy Symphony" | single | and thus I am doomed to hear The Killers' "Mr. Brightside" and Oasis' "Wonderwall" without any explicit consent, |
| 2022-03-04 | 8 | Ghost | "Twenties" | Twenties +2 | frequently and with no apparent hope for respite. |
| 2022-03-04 | 9 | The Lightbringer of Sweden | "Strike Back" | single | I like "Mr. Brightside". Sometimes, when it wafts into my air, I hum along. |
| 2022-03-04 | 10 | Jani Liimatainen | "All Dreams Are Born to Die" | single | If I suddenly never heard it again, I suspect I might eventually choose to play it for myself. |
| 2022-03-04 | 11 | Manigance | "Huis clos" | single | This is not true of "Wonderwall". |
| 2022-03-04 | 12 | IKINÄ | "Tietäjät tietää" | single | If forgetting were a muscle, I would want to know if there were steroids that could give me super-human power |
| 2022-03-04 | 13 | Answer from Cygnus | "Les échos endolorants" | Cygnus | for the sole forgetting power of forgetting "Wonderwall". |
| 2022-03-04 | 14 | Voutsa | "Paperinuket" | single | I would flex it by forgetting every individual element of this miserable song: |
| 2022-03-04 | 15 | AINA | "Rauhanrikkoja" | single | The plodding rhythm, |
| 2022-03-04 | 16 | Where's My Bible | "Chapter II: Void" | single | the gracelessly uninventive vocal melodies, |
| 2022-03-04 | 17 | Septicflesh | "Hierophant" | single | Liam's terrible bleating delivery of the terrible melodies, |
| 2022-03-04 | 18 | Answer from Cygnus | "L'instant" | Cygnus | the dreary cliches he delivers with such terrible bleating, |
| 2022-03-04 | 19 | Lucifer's Child | "Nova Tenebris" | single | the unbearably smugly lazy playing of all the conventional rock instruments, |
| 2022-03-04 | 20 | Watain | "Serimosa" | Serimosa +1 | the sighing faux-dramatic strings like a cartoon of an orchestra |
| 2022-03-04 | 21 | Lord Belial | "On a Throne of Souls" | single | was shoddily silkscreened on the outside of a balloon that was then desultorily inflated |
| 2022-03-04 | 22 | Brundarkh | "The Dark Tree" | single | and almost sealed so that it deflates with a pathetic exhalatory whimper over the course of 4 interminable minutes. |
| 2022-03-04 | 23 | Abbath | "The Book of Breath" | single | If there is such a thing as an irredeemably dull rock song, |
| 2022-03-04 | 24 | Drudkh | "The Nocturnal One" | single | this must be surely be it. |
| 2022-03-04 | 25 | Unru | "Der Hauch einer Freiheit" | Die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten | If there is a song that represents eating a steak covered with cheap ketchup |
| 2022-03-04 | 27 | Answer from Cygnus | "Afflictions" | Cygnus | If there is a song that over-simplistically represents Rock Songs like a square with a triangle on top of it |
| 2022-03-04 | 28 | Sylvaine | "I Close My Eyes so I Can See" | Nova | filled with asbestos and bedbugs represents Houses, this is it. |
| 2022-03-04 | 31 | Annicke Shireen | "Prey" | single | Meanwhile, Violet Orlandi makes metal covers of, usually, non-metal songs. |
| 2022-02-25 | 34 | Emetropia | "Fall's First Storm" | Equinox | The border wars, when they come, |
| 2022-02-25 | 35 | Dark Princess | "Falling to Fly" | single | magnify and clarify errors |
| 2022-02-25 | 36 | Magica | "Daca vrei" | single | that we already drew on the ground, |
| 2022-02-25 | 37 | Oknos | "Rotten to the Core" | single | mistakes that we already assigned misleading names |
| 2022-02-25 | 38 | SheWolf | "Home" | single | under waving flags. |
| 2022-02-25 | 39 | Sicksense | "Kings Today" | single | Today we mistake ourselves for untouchable kings, |
| 2022-02-25 | 40 | Apolinara | "Wonderful" | Shadows and Signs | and are correct about grandeur |
| 2022-02-25 | 41 | Aevum | "7" | single | but wrong to think it in limited supply. |
| 2022-02-25 | 42 | Carmilla | "Kings of Religion" | single | We are our own gods. |
| 2022-02-25 | 43 | Icarus Lives | "Secret Keeper" | single | This is the world we have earned, |
| 2022-02-25 | 44 | Giant Walker | "Left To Wreck" | single | and now must maintain. |
| 2022-02-25 | 45 | Oceans of Slumber | "The Waters Rising" | single | The mountains shrug at the changes in sea levels. |
| 2022-02-25 | 46 | Emetropia | "His Final Endeavor" | Equinox | There is only one rock here. |
| 2022-02-25 | 47 | Evergrey | "Save Us" | single | Its number does not vary. |
| 2022-02-25 | 48 | Chronosfear | "Under This Bleeding Sky" | The Astral Gates, Pt.1: A Secret Revealed | Ours do. |
| 2022-02-25 | 49 | Shining Black | "A Hundred Thousand Shades of Black" | single | Today we lose friends to ignorant hatred, |
| 2022-02-25 | 50 | Assignment | "Shadow of a Doubt" | single | to superfluous and involuntary glory, |
| 2022-02-25 | 51 | Wings of Destiny | "Rise Above Them All" | single | to the cynical conflation of inertia and justice. |
| 2022-02-25 | 52 | Allegaeon | "Only Loss" | DAMNUM | Suck the significance out of metaphors |
| 2022-02-25 | 53 | Nordjevel | "Within the Eyes" | single | until only a husk of meaninglessness remains, |
| 2022-02-25 | 54 | Hebosagil | "Mitä jos" | Yössä | lined with the toothmarks of wolves |
| 2022-02-25 | 55 | Svrm | "Червів майбутня здобич" | Червів майбутня здобич +3 | and surrounded by a circle of their teeth |
| 2022-02-25 | 56 | Walg | "Misgeboorte" | II | and then, outside of that, |
| 2022-02-25 | 57 | Lichtblick | "I Feel Nothing" | Abkehr | a circle of their bodies, |
| 2022-02-25 | 58 | Falls of Rauros | "Poverty Hymn" | single | positioned as if to dance. |
| 2022-02-25 | 59 | Felperc | "grief (part2)" | 2021 | This is the choreography of war: |
| 2022-02-25 | 60 | Déhà | "The Devil's Science" | single | instructions for the paths to your death |
| 2022-02-25 | 61 | Shape Of Despair | "Return to the Void" | Return to the Void | given as if they are heroically reversible, |
| 2022-02-25 | 62 | Allegaeon | "To Carry My Grief Through Torpor and Silence" | DAMNUM | as if, when you reach your objective, |
| 2022-02-25 | 63 | Kuggur | "إِحْتِفَاَلْ بِإلَهِ ألْشّمْسِ فِي سَهْلِ أَلْبِقَاَعْ (single edit)" | single | you will call home to say that now, victorious, you will return. |
| 2022-02-25 | 64 | Mercenary | "Where Darkened Souls Belong" | single | This is the inverted pyramid-scheme of the abyss. |
| 2022-02-25 | 65 | Earthists. | "Yours" | single | Chaos songs are love songs |
| 2022-02-18 | 18 | The Neptune Power Federation | "Weeping on the Morn" | Le Demon de L'amour | but that isn't the nation under current command. |
| 2022-02-18 | 19 | Glasya | "Way to Victory" | Attarghan | We say that power corrupts, |
| 2022-02-18 | 20 | Crusade Of Bards | "Vento Aureo" | Tales Of The Seven Seas | but this is dangerously misleading, because it implies that power tends to corrupt, |
| 2022-02-18 | 21 | The Great Discord | "No Light" | Deam Morte | and thus that this tendency can be resisted, |
| 2022-02-18 | 22 | Walk in Darkness | "Walk Close to Me" | single | and admits exceptions. |
| 2022-02-18 | 23 | Synlakross | "Last [Tour] Requiem" | single | But the unequal distribution of power isn't a risk factor for corruption, |
| 2022-02-18 | 24 | Empire of Giants | "Heat" | Heat +1 | it's the manifestation and result of it. |
| 2022-02-18 | 25 | Semblant | "Purified" | single | I trust Joe Biden a little more than I trusted Donald Trump, |
| 2022-02-18 | 26 | Memoira | "Phantom Insomnium" | single | but once you're collectively forced to "trust" an individual guy or two, |
| 2022-02-18 | 27 | South Haven | "Delirious" | single | you're fucked. |
| 2022-02-18 | 28 | Glasya | "A New Era Has Come" | Attarghan | Same for nine guys on the Supreme Court, whether one of them is a Black woman or not. |
| 2022-02-18 | 43 | Veonity | "Beyond the Realm of Reality" | Elements of Power | but as should be obvious beyond the realm of imaginary debate, |
| 2022-02-18 | 44 | Boguslaw Balcerak's Crylord | "It's just a wind" | Human Heredity | it can't be accomplished with tanks. |
| 2022-02-18 | 45 | Opera Magna | "In Nomine" | single | It's true in a practical sense that the current abject absues in Ukraine |
| 2022-02-18 | 46 | Medjay | "Return of the Medjay" | single | are partly the result of merely containing the same unresolved con |