| 2021-07-16 | 43 | Brainstorm | "Glory Disappears" | Glory Disappears +2 | and the ones in which they can discover new universalities inside of themselves |
| 2021-07-16 | 44 | Iron Maiden | "The Writing On The Wall" | single | and new resonances among strangers. |
| 2021-07-16 | 45 | Powerwolf | "Blood for Blood (Faoladh)" | Call Of The Wild | Our online music cities, so far, |
| 2021-07-16 | 46 | Powerwolf | "Where the Wild Wolves Have Gone (feat. Doro Pesch)" | Call Of The Wild | are like suburbs designed by autocrats, |
| 2021-07-16 | 47 | Sabaton | "Kingdom Come" | Kingdom Come +1 | navigable mainly to their centers, |
| 2021-07-16 | 48 | Okkultokrati | "Wolfssegen" | single | and radially anonymous and undifferentiated therefrom. |
| 2021-07-16 | 49 | Woe Betide | "Guardians of the Abyss" | single | They need neighborhoods, and squares, |
| 2021-07-16 | 50 | Deviant Process | "Asynchronous" | single | and intransigent rivers that force them to bend |
| 2021-07-16 | 51 | Cosmophobe | "Visions" | single | and negotiate with arbitrary geometry. |
| 2021-07-16 | 52 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Dead is Dead" | Painful Reminder / Dead is Dead 2 | They need zoning that allows them to adapt and accommodate |
| 2021-07-16 | 53 | Deathsomnia | "Katabasis (Ft. Kyle Kimball)" | single | and nurture and multiply peculiarities. |
| 2021-07-09 | 20 | Laurenne / Louhimo | "Time to Kill the Night" | The Reckoning | We need collaborations, and get rematches. |
| 2021-07-09 | 21 | Dialith | "Ignite the Sky" | Atrophy 4 | We need to be watched over by starlight, |
| 2021-07-09 | 22 | Infinitum | "Caught in a Trap" | single | not grazed by sunset. |
| 2021-07-09 | 34 | Dola | "Wszystko odrośnie" | Czasy | We do not need to recuit adversity agents from within ourselves. |
| 2021-07-09 | 35 | Dom Zły | "Burza" | Śnisz bory tak gęste | We are precariously adrift |
| 2021-07-09 | 36 | Lantlôs | "Lich" | single | in the seemingly limitless unknown, |
| 2021-07-09 | 37 | Wolves In The Throne Room | "Spirit of Lightning" | Spirit of Lightning +1 | torn between defying it |
| 2021-07-09 | 38 | Deafheaven | "The Gnashing" | The Gnashing +1 | and seeing it as the unfolded manifestation of our own infinity. |
| 2021-07-09 | 39 | Wormwitch | "The Wolves of Ossory" | single | Even more mercifully, music is a team sport that doesn't require winners. |
| 2021-07-09 | 40 | Rise to the Sky | "End My Night" | single | We don't get two and a half minutes into a song and then say |
| 2021-07-09 | 80 | Dream Ocean | "The Phantom of the Opera" | single | and repeatedly majestic. |
| 2021-07-02 | 19 | Carpathia | "Artillery" | single | our formulations gain the potential, however seldom fulfilled, to assume transformational power. |
| 2021-07-02 | 20 | Dark Princess | "За Предел" | single | Our empires are constituted from performative faith and structural evasion, |
| 2021-07-02 | 21 | Antillia | "Напряжение" | Источник | and thus govern by eliciting voluntary alignments of delusion, |
| 2021-07-02 | 22 | Lost In Grey | "Disobedience" | Under the Surface | and fall at the softest reluctant touch. |
| 2021-07-02 | 47 | NanowaR of Steel | "L'assedio di porto cervo (feat. Francesco Paoli)" | Italian Folk Metal | and thus resolve indeterminacy by self-exemption. |
| 2021-07-02 | 49 | Powerwolf | "Bête du Gévaudan" | Bête du Gévaudan +1 | until we are able to discharge their intents |
| 2021-07-02 | 50 | Lord Of The Lost | "Your Star Has Led You Astray" | Judas | into some form of betrayal |
| 2021-07-02 | 51 | Dwell in Doom | "Army of the Underworld" | Shadows Deepen, Day is Done | with the same extent as law. |
| 2021-07-02 | 52 | Doomcave | "Genesis" | Genesis +3 | Distrust any fantasy of selective rebirth. |
| 2021-07-02 | 53 | Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | "Uelewa" | The Divine Horsemen | The only efficacy of doom is its looming power to triangulate everything else closer. |
| 2021-07-02 | 54 | Year Of No Light | "Interdit aux Vivants, aux Morts et aux Chiens" | Consolamentum | Letting go of history requires muscles operated only by collective will. |
| 2021-07-02 | 55 | Taake | "Ein Baat i Foss" | Avvik | Art is like an IKEA instruction manual for disassembling pain, |
| 2021-07-02 | 56 | Obscura | "Solaris" | single | but sold separately, to be applied to whatever parts you manage to photosynthesize |
| 2021-07-02 | 57 | Shining | "IDGAF" | single | or scavenge. |
| 2021-07-02 | 75 | The Silent Wedding | "Diamonds and Rust" | single | as if, absurdly, we are the first to arrive in these obviously constructed spaces. |
| 2021-07-02 | 76 | Chester Lockhart | "Firework" | single | But today, we are. |
| 2021-06-25 | 9 | Thy Catafalque | "Gömböc" | Vadak | The universally inconsequential can be locally complex, |
| 2021-06-25 | 10 | Agrypnie | "Verwüstung" | single | the doomed self-elegiac, |
| 2021-06-25 | 11 | Hiraes | "Shadows Break" | Solitary | the darkness illuminating. |
| 2021-06-25 | 12 | Duskmourn | "Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns" | Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns | Our obtuse dysfunctions are not justified as morality plays, |
| 2021-06-25 | 13 | Leprous | "Running Low" | single | but we who survive them earn the chance to be defined by our empathy |
| 2021-06-25 | 14 | Manimal | "The Inevitable End" | The Inevitable End +1 | for the people we have so narrowly not become. |
| 2021-06-25 | 15 | SuidAkrA | "A Shrine for the Ages" | Wolfbite | Reverence beckons us towards self-awareness |
| 2021-06-25 | 16 | Powerwolf | "Dancing with the Dead" | Dancing with the Dead +2 | coyly, in elaborately costumed poses, |
| 2021-06-25 | 17 | Anette Olzon | "Parasite" | single | daring us to mistake grandeur for significance |
| 2021-06-25 | 18 | Celtian | "Nueva Era" | Sendas de Leyenda | and thus underestimate the power of ceremony. |
| 2021-06-25 | 19 | Within Temptation | "Shed My Skin" | Shed My Skin 6 | We take off these clothes in layers, |
| 2021-06-25 | 20 | September Mourning | "Falling Awake" | single | each one as revealing for the illusion it removes |
| 2021-06-25 | 21 | Roses Unread | "Leave a Light On" | single | as for the incremental semblance of nakedness that remains. |
| 2021-06-25 | 22 | Seven Spires | "Gods of Debauchery" | single | Will you be lead by the exemplary, or the exempt? |
| 2021-06-25 | 23 | Oryad | "Sacrifice" | Hymns Of Exile & Decay | Or, to ask this question the other way, |
| 2021-06-25 | 24 | Cran Arcanaria | "...with me" | single | do you assign yourself quests for direction, or vice versa? |
| 2021-06-25 | 41 | Cloud Rat | "Mother Tongue / Glitter Belly" | single | but the tasks for your body are not necessarily simpler than the ones for your worldviews, |
| 2021-06-25 | 42 | Grale | "Seeing Red" | single | and outrage may turn out to not quite be the ore of insight. |
| 2021-06-25 | 43 | Take Over And Destroy | "Anything Else" | Fade Out | None of these rocks are trivial, |
| 2021-06-25 | 44 | The Sound That Ends Creation | "Curtain Dropped, New Stage Unlocked!" | Intercontinental Split 2 | nor the stories of how they accumulated in this orbit, |
| 2021-06-25 | 45 | Dok Wol | "Morii" | Avenoir | but our transcriptions of them as interior design |
| 2021-06-25 | 61 | Aiolin | "Voyage" | AIOLIN BEST ~Revolutional Violinism~ | Even our most mundane preoccupations are inherently revolutionary, |
| 2021-06-25 | 62 | Celtian | "Al Otro Lado del Camino" | Sendas de Leyenda | but all revolutions move you to somewhere you could see before. |
| 2021-06-25 | 66 | Thy Catafalque | "Vadak (Az átváltozás rítusai)" | Vadak | Rituals of transformation are cargo-cult simulations of becoming, |
| 2021-06-25 | 67 | Darkestrah | "The Gift of Mud and Venom" | single | but as with many apparently ineffectual systems, |
| 2021-06-25 | 68 | Perilaxe Occlusion | "Fracturing the Voronoi" | Raytraces of Death 3 | they perserve our memory of interludes of indetermination |
| 2021-06-25 | 69 | Bloody Falls | "Soul Ripper" | single | during the dark ages of certainty. |
| 2021-06-25 | 70 | Saturnian Mist | "Ill-Mystic" | single | "Priest" is our word for guardians of the future |
| 2021-06-25 | 71 | De Arma | "Days of Judgment" | Strayed in Shadows | who misunderstand their domain as the present. |
| 2021-06-18 | 3 | Jinjer | "Vortex" | single | and lined with symbolic invocations against inexorable descent, |
| 2021-06-18 | 5 | Duma | "Cannis" | Cannis +1 | It is telling that our afterlives of torment |
| 2021-06-18 | 17 | m!sa | "Death Before Dishonor" | single | We do not become whole. |
| 2021-06-18 | 18 | Dragon Ash | "New Era" | single | We do not seek completion, |
| 2021-06-18 | 19 | GALNERYUS | "HOLD ON" | UNION GIVES STRENGTH | but the power to sustain defiant inconclusiveness |
| 2021-06-18 | 20 | 戮-Riku- | "彩色世界" | 待ち侘びて、残された結末 2 | amidst the battering resolute. |
| 2021-06-18 | 21 | EviLA | "カレイドスコープ" | カレイドスコープ +1 | Our memorial volumes will be written in irridescent ink |
| 2021-06-18 | 52 | Salduie | "Tagus" | Ambaxtos | the sediment of their anthems, |
| 2021-06-18 | 53 | 616 | "Witch" | single | the wings of their butterflies. |
| 2021-06-18 | 54 | Sôber | "El día de la liberación" | ELEGÍA | You could leave today, |
| 2021-06-18 | 56 | Season Of Dreams | "Light Comes From the Darkness" | Heroes | but at the other end of "where did they go?" is mainly "where did they come from?" |
| 2021-06-18 | 57 | Helloween | "Save My Hide" | Helloween | Are you going to just stand here, |
| 2021-06-18 | 58 | Crowne | "Kings in the North" | Kings in the North | or are you going to let the compass point you somewhere? |
| 2021-06-18 | 59 | Edge Of Paradise | "Digital Paradise" | single | It's not a test, I just want to know |
| 2021-06-18 | 60 | VENUES | "Mountains" | Mountains +3 | where to look to find you later. |
| 2021-06-18 | 61 | Angelwings | "Changes" | Primordium | To leave, yourself, you have to be prepared for everybody to leave, |
| 2021-06-18 | 62 | Poetica | "Hollow Eyes" | single | which is all that we mean by cities: |
| 2021-06-18 | 63 | Kingfisher Sky | "Rise Up" | Rise 4 | somewhere to gather in parades |
| 2021-06-18 | 66 | Voidfallen | "Sui Generis" | single | If you don't plan to come back, |
| 2021-06-18 | 67 | A Pregnant Light | "My Affections Can Be Bought" | I Licked It, Now It's Mine 4 | it doesn't matter what you do, |
| 2021-06-18 | 68 | Eisregen | "Nur eine weitere Leiche im Wald" | bitterböse | or where the streetlights give way to darkness. |
| 2021-06-18 | 69 | Unendlich | "Into Abandonment" | single | Our apologies are not recorded in ink, |
| 2021-06-18 | 70 | Templum Anima Morti | "illyun" | single | but air, |
| 2021-06-18 | 71 | The Human Tragedy | "Last Gasp of Humanity" | single | conserved despite our best self-destructive efforts to bleed it off into space. |
| 2021-06-18 | 72 | Unreqvited | "Funeral Pyre" | single | Our afterlives are outlined in rueful doubt. |
| 2021-06-18 | 73 | The Last Bear Ender | "Rip and Bear" | single | The earth moves slowly, our feet quickly, |
| 2021-06-18 | 74 | TesseracT | "Nocturne - P O R T A L S" | single | and we are foolish if we think that moves us ahead. |
| 2021-06-18 | 75 | Hacktivist | "Currency" | Hyperdialect | We pay for our positions, |
| 2021-06-11 | 24 | Blame Me! | "To Ashes" | The Invisible You | is that other people pick up your inventory while you re-spawn, |
| 2021-06-11 | 25 | Crashing Atlas | "Wake Up" | Wake Up 6 | or continue obliviously onwards in all the directions you secretly pointed them. |
| 2021-06-11 | 26 | We Are the Catalyst | "Shallow Ground" | Shallow Ground +1 | You die a little every day, |
| 2021-06-11 | 27 | Nekonomicon | "Heroes out of Time" | single | which gives you thousands of chances to partly die with some spark of purpose, |
| 2021-06-11 | 28 | Celtian | "El Hijo del Ayer" | single | and be reborn as your own hero, |
| 2021-06-11 | 29 | Война Осколков | "Пламя Гнева" | single | or, if you'd rather, to be immolated by your own frustrated anger. |
| 2021-06-11 | 30 | Laurenne / Louhimo | "The Reckoning" | single | What have we become? |
| 2021-06-11 | 31 | Powerwolf | "Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend (feat. Alissa White-Gluz)" | Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend (feat. Alissa White-Gluz) +1 | Creatures crawling out of oceans and back into the magma mouths of hell, |
| 2021-06-11 | 32 | Metalwings | "Wonders of Life" | A Whole New Land | or jubillant fugitives from tidal despair? |
| 2021-06-11 | 33 | Gacharic Spin | "MindSet" | single | We didn't know, when we started singing, that the rocks were listening for things they could remind us of later. |
| 2021-06-11 | 34 | Warrel Dane | "Everything Is Fading" | Praises To The War Machine (2021 Extended Edition) | What happens when you're dead, if you sing with your soul while you have it, |
| 2021-06-11 | 35 | Thyrfing | "Järnhand" | single | is that the world you leave behind |
| 2021-06-11 | 36 | Mother of All | "Age of the Solipsist" | Age of the Solipsist | spins forward. |
| 2021-06-11 | 37 | Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | "Ymir" | Ymir +2 | Dizzy, our arms full of each other's tenuous bodies |
| 2021-06-11 | 38 | Love // Paranoia | "Fluorescent Shade of Gloom" | single | and adamantine dreams, |
| 2021-06-11 | 39 | Dom Zły | "Gorycz" | single | we turn until our most recent loss is behind us, |
| 2021-06-11 | 40 | Rise to the Sky | "Per Aspera Ad Astra" | single | and then we look up. |
| 2021-06-11 | 41 | Second To Sun | "Nachtgast" | Nachtgast +1 | And then we take a breath, and look down again. |
| 2021-06-11 | 42 | Mastiff | "Endless" | single | The sky is endless, |
| 2021-06-11 | 43 | Wolves In The Throne Room | "Mountain Magick" | single | the ground is close enough to touch; |
| 2021-06-11 | 44 | Withered | "Dissolve" | single | which one is a more apt metaphor for oblivion? |
| 2021-06-11 | 45 | Lantlôs | "Magnolia" | single | Maybe we have never been as good at growing flowers |
| 2021-06-11 | 46 | Botanist | "Antirrhinum" | single | as we have been at naming them with hopeful reassignments of our fears as dragons, |
| 2021-06-11 | 47 | Dornenreich | "Sie machen Mangel zum Geschenk" | Du wilde Liebe sei | or misconstruing their significance as glorifying mortality. |
| 2021-06-11 | 48 | Versengold | "Die wilde Jagd" | single | We have searched, spear in hand, for fountains of youth or peace, |
| 2021-06-11 | 49 | Trna | "Shining" | single | and then, lakeside, perplexed, dipped the sharp point into oat milk, |
| 2021-06-11 | 50 | Terra Odium | "Crawling" | Ne Plus Ultra | and thought "Wait, when we started crawling, where did we think we were trying to go?" |
| 2021-06-11 | 56 | Structures | "Planet of Garbage" | single | if that other people gather up the trash the spectators strewed, |
| 2021-06-11 | 57 | Hacktivist | "Hyperdialect" | single | and light it on fire in the streets. |
| 2021-06-04 | 11 | GALNERYUS | "WHATEVER IT TAKES (Raise Our Hands!)" | single | the plazas filled with telepresence drones and curious birds |
| 2021-06-04 | 12 | L'Arc-en-Ciel | "ミライ" | single | but surrounded by half-filling terraces |
| 2021-06-04 | 13 | Sacred Groove | "Times of Temptation" | MSTRPLN | as immunity embraces us. |
| 2021-06-04 | 14 | Nocean | "The Hope" | single | Let us sign new charters |
| 2021-06-04 | 15 | Cadaveria | "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" | single | with freshly cleaned pens and presumably bioluminescent ink, |
| 2021-06-04 | 16 | Glasgow Kiss | "Demons" | single | and some kind of governance not based on the promise of unfathomable wealth, |
| 2021-06-04 | 52 | Përl | "Le jour des corneilles" | Les maîtres du silence | if we were ghosts, |
| 2021-06-04 | 53 | Bloodred Hourglass | "Nightmares Are Dreams Too" | Nightmares Are Dreams Too +2 | haunting statuary of ourselves. |
| 2021-06-04 | 54 | Seven Spires | "This God is Dead" | single | We have trials, |
| 2021-06-04 | 55 | Night Crowned | "Fjättrad" | single | they have courts. |
| 2021-06-04 | 56 | Dantalion | "Time to Close the Circle" | single | Time to start over |
| 2021-06-04 | 57 | Cloak of Altering | "I slip into a coma" | Sheathed swords drip with poisonous honey | or give up, |
| 2021-06-04 | 58 | Mayhem | "Voces Ab Alta" | single | these are ashes of the same incinerated resolve. |
| 2021-06-04 | 59 | Dom Zły | "Jad" | single | I don't want to stop, |
| 2021-06-04 | 60 | URNE | "THE PALACE OF DEVILS & WOLVES" | single | I want everything else to have been thrown forward by the impact, |
| 2021-06-04 | 61 | Atomic Symphony | "Nightfall" | Enslaved 2 | so that for a second I am not required to steer or lead. |
| 2021-06-04 | 62 | BASEMENT PROPHECY | "Beyond Awareness" | single | Let the idealized people these clothes were measured for |
| 2021-06-04 | 63 | She Said Destroy | "Not Only Bridges" | single | be the first ones naked outside the wall. |
| 2021-06-04 | 64 | The Dark Atom | "Clarity" | Clarity +1 | I was already too careful before this, |
| 2021-06-04 | 65 | Chimp Spanner | "Korruptor" | single | too attent to the statistics of doubt. |
| 2021-06-04 | 66 | Absently | "Frozen" | single | It's funny how some time makes everything seem momentary. |
| 2021-06-04 | 87 | Anaria | "Alone" | single | At night it's easier to perceive our movement through space, |
| 2021-06-04 | 88 | Silent Knight | "Dreams" | single | but no easier to find our place. |
| 2021-05-28 | 8 | Spiritbox | "Secret Garden" | single | What powers have you invested in anonymity, |
| 2021-05-28 | 9 | Lost Division | "In Memoriam 2.0" | Cuts and Scars | and how can they be applied to accountability? |
| 2021-05-28 | 10 | Drown This City | "New Burn Order" | Colours We Won't Know 6 | What impossible new orders did you imagine in limbo, |
| 2021-05-28 | 11 | Fate DeStroyed | "Rather See You Dead" | Within These Walls | and how will you decide if they are possible now |
| 2021-05-28 | 12 | Lost In Grey | "Waves" | Waves +1 | that it seems like something will survive, |
| 2021-05-28 | 13 | The Great Discord | "Blood and Envy" | single | if that's even your now? |
| 2021-05-28 | 14 | The End of Melancholy | "Black Horse" | Nature Unleashed | Our sadnesses never all end at once, |
| 2021-05-28 | 15 | Astray Valley | "Erased (feat. Lena Scissorhands)" | single | so of course nor do our pandemics. |
| 2021-05-28 | 16 | Glassgod | "Luca" | Ancestral Stories | We demonstrate a lot about inequity |
| 2021-05-28 | 17 | Wardrum | "Broken Pieces" | Mavericks | by nominally all experiencing the same thing, |
| 2021-05-28 | 18 | Bloodbound | "Gathering of Souls" | Creatures of the Dark Realm | and then suffering each according to our privileges, |
| 2021-05-28 | 19 | Nightrage | "Falsifying Life" | single | and then choosing how to witness this, |
| 2021-05-28 | 20 | Duskmourn | "Deathless" | single | and what or whether to learn. |
| 2021-05-28 | 21 | Aramaic | "The Oak" | single | You come back from one night under the only tree on an otherwise-bald mountain, |
| 2021-05-28 | 22 | Agrypnie | "Wir Ertrunkenen" | single | full of what you have learned. |
| 2021-05-28 | 23 | Dödsrit | "The Third Door" | Mortal Coil | But there is a city under that tree, |
| 2021-05-28 | 24 | Year Of No Light | "Alètheia" | single | or inside of that mountain, |
| 2021-05-28 | 25 | Massemord | "The Last Lifer's Day" | Contra Legem Naturae 4 | filled with people who don't get to come home to somewhere else, |
| 2021-05-28 | 26 | Dornenreich | "Dein knöchern' Kosen" | single | or else don't have to. |
| 2021-05-28 | 27 | Tanzwut | "Schwarze Löcher" | Die Tanzwut kehrt zurück | Your strange interrupted year is how they always live. |
| 2021-05-28 | 28 | Thy Catafalque | "Köszöntsd a hajnalt" | single | Your new dawn |
| 2021-05-28 | 29 | Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen | "Fading Moon" | Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen | arrives, by definition, at every other hour |
| 2021-05-28 | 30 | the GazettE | "THE PALE" | MASS | for somebody. |
| 2021-05-28 | 31 | 戮-Riku- | "禍禍しさに相対し" | 禍禍しさに相対し +1 | So too, of course, your darkest hour |
| 2021-05-28 | 67 | Burning Witches | "Hall of the Mountain King" | The Witch of the North | There is a city inside the mountain you have climbed alone. They built a city, and you mistook it for a rock, |
| 2021-05-28 | 68 | The End of Melancholy | "Immigrant Song" | Nature Unleashed | and the people inside will look the same as you if you are willing to climb back down off this ridiculous precipice and go inside. |
| 2021-05-21 | 3 | Insomnium | "The Reticent" | The Reticent +1 | or your caverns of longing. |
| 2021-05-21 | 4 | HAVAMAL | "Jormungandr" | The Shadow Chapter | We do not find ourselves by applying schemata to advocacies |
| 2021-05-21 | 5 | Powerwolf | "Beast of Gévaudan" | single | in search of things we already know endorsed by established scions. |
| 2021-05-21 | 8 | Divided Island | "Twice as Bright" | single | and then burning the field to get it back, charred useless. |
| 2021-05-21 | 10 | Awake Again | "Busy Doing Nothing" | single | and the land has other dreams. |
| 2021-05-21 | 11 | Nergard | "God Forgive My Haunted Mind" | Eternal White | We do not need to find ourselves. |
| 2021-05-21 | 12 | Seas on the Moon | "The Regress" | single | We are not lost. |
| 2021-05-21 | 13 | Neperia | "I, Liar" | I, Liar +1 | More than anything, we are not lost enough. |
| 2021-05-21 | 14 | Tulip | "Sidewinder" | single | We find out about ourselves by more extension, |
| 2021-05-21 | 15 | Cydefect | "Muutused" | single | more inversion, |
| 2021-05-21 | 16 | Intra | "Time Has Come to Go" | single | more release of ourselves into uncertainty. |
| 2021-05-21 | 59 | An Autumn for Crippled Children | "Of Your Light" | As the Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes | We do not save ourselves by placing ever-thicker lenses between ourselves |
| 2021-05-21 | 60 | Panopticon | "Dead Loons" | ...And Again Into the Light | and the people who do not see themselves in us. |
| 2021-05-21 | 61 | White Ward | "Debemur Morti" | single | There are better ways to seek forgiveness, |
| 2021-05-21 | 62 | Tvær | "I" | Uvaer | and to let the land absorb our dreams |
| 2021-05-21 | 63 | Borgne | "Even If the Devil Sings into My Ears Again" | Temps morts | where they fall. |
| 2021-05-21 | 64 | Zgard | "Ascension Fog" | Place of Power | You have to be able to walk into the excavated outline of a forgotten king's hall |
| 2021-05-21 | 65 | My Lonely Sea | "Court" | Gloom 3 | and know that this is what all of your city's suburbs look like to the sun |
| 2021-05-21 | 66 | Burial In The Sky | "An Orphaned City" | single | and the moon |
| 2021-05-21 | 67 | Vanvidd | "Under ei Morken Rot" | Under Ei Morken Rot | when they argue over who will get all of this when we're gone. |
| 2021-05-14 | 1 | Flight of Icarus | "Love Will Lead You Home" | Cleo | What did you make more beautiful today? |
| 2021-05-14 | 2 | Angelwings | "Fallen Angel Song" | single | Or witness? What given beauty did you accept? |
| 2021-05-14 | 3 | Regardless Of Me | "This Is Us" | Forms | We walk under arches, |
| 2021-05-14 | 4 | Nekonomicon | "Water Temple in my Dreams" | single | and along boardwalks and named paths, |
| 2021-05-14 | 25 | Kotiteollisuus | "Menestys" | Jumalattomat | What power did you corrupt, today, or compact? |
| 2021-05-14 | 26 | Scarlet Aura | "In the Line of Fire" | single | What warfare did you discover inside yourself? |
| 2021-05-14 | 27 | Wings of Destiny | "Playing with Fire" | single | It all comes from somewhere, |
| 2021-05-14 | 28 | Kitt Wakeley | "Forgive Me" | single | and if you know all the origins other than your own cortices, |
| 2021-05-14 | 29 | Erdve | "Lavondėmės" | single | you are the champion chaos requires. |
| 2021-05-14 | 30 | Dordeduh | "Vraci de nord" | Har | What mythology did you peel off of your skin? |
| 2021-05-14 | 31 | Djevel | "Vinger som tok oss over en brennende himmel, vinger som tok oss hjem" | Tanker Som Rir Natten | If you can transfer your tattoos onto shirts, |
| 2021-05-14 | 32 | Shadecrown | "The Loss" | single | you can take them off in secret, |
| 2021-05-14 | 33 | Fjøsnisse | "Noreg" | single | and find out how much of yourself has survived underneath. |
| 2021-05-14 | 34 | Thyrfing | "Jordafärd" | single | Naked, too, is the collective pural, |
| 2021-05-14 | 35 | The Monolith Deathcult | "They Drew First Blood" | Vernedering - Connect the Goddamn Dots | and beneath that, blood. |
| 2021-05-14 | 39 | Sorrowful Knight | "Escape to Another World" | Lost City 4 | we are liberated by exile. |
| 2021-05-14 | 40 | Teramaze | "Take Your Shot" | Sorella Minore | What familiality did you embrace, |
| 2021-05-14 | 41 | Frost* | "Day and Age" | Day And Age | today, while you were waiting for it to end? |
| 2021-05-14 | 79 | Pain | "Gimme Shelter" | single | to explain to safety that we are the collective plural of noticing it in its absence? |
| 2021-05-07 | 13 | Violet Cold | "Pride" | Empire of Love | We meet during revolutions, and choose by our actions whether the revolution was a last resort or a goal. |
| 2021-05-07 | 14 | The Fall of Eve | "Special Part of Me" | Beyond the Veil | There is no peace between gods, |
| 2021-05-07 | 15 | Skarlett Riot | "Underwater" | Invicta | because "gods" is our word for the part of ourselves that wants the senstation of individual moral superiority |
| 2021-05-07 | 16 | Lost Division | "No God" | single | without the onoing work of collective moral reasoning. |
| 2021-05-07 | 17 | Torn Between Two Worlds | "All Eyes On Me" | single | We are not chosen or cursed. |
| 2021-05-07 | 18 | Drown This City | "Borderline Existence" | single | These fights over stolen land |
| 2021-05-07 | 19 | Война Осколков | "Нечестивый Союз" | Начало | are unwinnable by virtue of their own terms. |
| 2021-05-07 | 20 | Nergard | "Carry Me" | single | We cannot give our cities back to the earth |
| 2021-05-07 | 21 | Lost In Grey | "Souffrir (feat. Emmanuelle Zoldan, Camille André, Andi Kravljaca, Nils Courbaron)" | single | and start over. |
| 2021-05-07 | 22 | False Memories | "Erased" | The Last Night of Fall | Not, at least, to this Earth, |
| 2021-05-07 | 23 | Crowne | "Perceval" | single | but maybe, as we look at Mars and contemplate starting over, |
| 2021-05-07 | 24 | Sabaton | "Defence of Moscow" | single | we can start to see that colonialism is a disease you contract at home, |
| 2021-05-07 | 25 | Cvlt Ov the Svn | "Another Infinity" | We Are The Dragon | not a contagion generated spontaneously by contact. |
| 2021-05-07 | 26 | Sonic Haven | "Nightmares" | Vagabond | Even if this continent had been empty, |
| 2021-05-07 | 27 | Wardrum | "Rise" | single | as its invaders so obdurately attempted to treat it, |
| 2021-05-07 | 28 | Sable Hills | "Messiah" | MESSIAH 2 | they revealed their nature by bringing their own slaves. |
| 2021-05-07 | 29 | Kings Winter | "Edge Of Existence" | Edge Of Existence | Mars is a fantasy destination until somebody proposes using it as a penal colony, |
| 2021-05-07 | 30 | Dawn Ray'd | "Wild Fire, Pt. I" | Wild Fire 2 | and then it's just another desert in which we will build magnificent cities |
| 2021-05-07 | 31 | Non Serviam | "O World, O Work!" | Work | and then fight over how to treat them as nations. |
| 2021-05-07 | 32 | [ówt krì] | "Arcane Fields" | Shards | Look up from Mars and it's mostly the same sky. |
| 2021-05-07 | 33 | An Autumn for Crippled Children | "Splendour Unnoticed" | single | You think that would help, if you'd never spent a lifetime hearing about a star over Bethlehem, |
| 2021-05-07 | 34 | Amenra | "De Evenmens" | single | and then realized Bethlehem is an actual Palestinian town, |
| 2021-05-07 | 35 | Kataan | "Vessel" | Kataan 4 | and Jerusalem is a labyrinth of felafel and halva and alternating layers of contradictory theologic certainty. |
| 2021-05-07 | 36 | Lantlôs | "Lake Fantasy" | single | It's too late to just give anything back to anybody, |
| 2021-05-07 | 37 | XAAXAA | "gogatsubyo" | gogatsubyo 6 | but this resignation assumes posession is a solution, |
| 2021-05-07 | 39 | The Guzmania | "Calling" | single | The crusaders built cities with tunnels to the sea, |
| 2021-05-07 | 69 | Hacktivist | "Reprogram" | single | written on borrowed paper, or the buried walls of forgotten caves |
| 2021-05-07 | 70 | Becko | "The Phoenix" | The Phoenix | or only temporarily abandoned subways. |
| 2021-05-07 | 72 | Haggefugg | "Lasterkahn" | single | Our most conciliatory anthems |
| 2021-05-07 | 73 | Braia | "Sabarabuçu" | ... E o mundo de cá | say mainly that the darkness is not new. |
| 2021-04-30 | 1 | Glassgod | "Mankind" | Mankind +1 | You are one voice among many, but so are all the others. This does not necessitate deference. If you want to use your 12 minute album-finale about humanity as your advance single, there are no grooves to stop you. |
| 2021-04-30 | 2 | Temtris | "Race to the End" | Ritual Warfare | All rules are ritual, in the first place, |
| 2021-04-30 | 3 | Burning Witches | "The Witch of the North" | The Witch of the North +1 | storm circles to be defied as readily by escape as incursion, |
| 2021-04-30 | 4 | Soulglass | "At the Edge of the Nightmare" | Odeth | or illusory shapes implied by themselves-notional boundaries. |
| 2021-04-30 | 5 | Carpathia | "Armonica" | single | These songs of ice and fire tease us with teleological seasons, |
| 2021-04-30 | 6 | Celtian | "Magia de Luna" | single | and we tolerate their hubris fondly, |
| 2021-04-30 | 7 | Starkill | "Cloudless" | single | toying with our weather-control spheres in our off hands, |
| 2021-04-30 | 8 | Synlakross | "Oscilloscope" | 0K4M1 | waiting for private signals. |
| 2021-04-30 | 9 | Spiritbox | "Circle With Me" | single | Voices combine. |
| 2021-04-30 | 10 | The Dreamside | "There Is Magic to Be Done" | single | You are never too immortal for a comeback album, |
| 2021-04-30 | 11 | Seven Spires | "The Cursed Muse" | single | or too doomed for a furious idyl of catharsis and forgiveness. |
| 2021-04-30 | 12 | Aryem | "Reborn" | Reborn +1 | Simpler to just stipulate every day as a new beginning, |
| 2021-04-30 | 13 | Sojourner | "Perennial" | single | and embrace the responsibilities this implies: |
| 2021-04-30 | 14 | Cran Arcanaria | "Obsession" | single | to follow trivial leads to their consequential sources |
| 2021-04-30 | 33 | Gojira | "New Found" | Fortitude | Nobody wants your discarded paradise |
| 2021-04-30 | 34 | Bloodbound | "March into War" | March into War +2 | except the person you were |
| 2021-04-30 | 35 | Dwell in Doom | "Tragic Tale" | Tragic Tale +1 | when you had two more tokens of hope than now. |
| 2021-04-30 | 36 | Lord Of The Lost | "Priest" | Priest +1 | But that train? |
| 2021-04-30 | 37 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Painful Reminder" | single | It runs every two hours, except only twice on Sundays, |
| 2021-04-30 | 38 | Metsatöll | "Tarede Vaikuses" | single | and it's never full. |
| 2021-04-30 | 39 | Thy Catafalque | "Szarvas" | single | The most wrong thing about proffered Elysium is that it's a place, |
| 2021-04-30 | 40 | Dödsrit | "Apathetic Tongues" | single | but the most corrosive wrong thing is the idea that, if it were a place, it would be only one. |
| 2021-04-30 | 41 | Borgne | "The Swords of the Headless Angels" | single | When you realize that the tickets are plentiful and cheap, |
| 2021-04-30 | 42 | Dordeduh | "În vieliștea uitării" | single | and your antibodies believe in travel again, |
| 2021-04-30 | 43 | Ciel Nordique | "Kamouraska" | single | and you get on that half-full train, |
| 2021-04-30 | 44 | Fenris Vrede | "Torden" | Viking | you will find it a quarter full of commuters |
| 2021-04-30 | 45 | Akhenaten | "Halls of Amenti" | THE EMERALD TABLETS OF THOTH | who bought condos in paradise back when it was affordable, |
| 2021-04-30 | 46 | Dir En Grey | "朧 (Oboro)" | 朧 (Oboro) +2 | finally returning in staggered shifts to their jobs in the exactly-half-empty buildings you know as the Pokémon gyms reachable from your house. |
| 2021-04-30 | 47 | Esprit D'Air | "Nebulae" | Nebulae +2 | Out the righthand windows, |
| 2021-04-30 | 48 | FEST VAINQUEUR | "HEAT HAZE" | ELEMENT 6 | graduate students are learning to sail, |
| 2021-04-30 | 49 | Rides In ReVellion | "Keikoku" | single | and the new bridge you dreaded is almost done and already glittering. |
| 2021-04-30 | 50 | the Raid. | "東京酸欠ヒロイン" | 東京酸欠ヒロイン +2 | Out the left, the next and previous trains are going the other way. |
| 2021-04-30 | 51 | RAZOR | "Future Pleasure Garden" | PARASITE INVISIBLE 6 | Wherever you go, somebody else just left, |
| 2021-04-30 | 52 | DARRELL | "PHANTOM" | single | sick to death of this paradise's corrupt management, |
| 2021-04-30 | 61 | Snowy Shaw | "Tell me, Tell Me" | single | or "come on, come see what we found". |
| 2021-04-30 | 62 | Toby Hitchcock | "Forward" | single | All flight is flight. |
| 2021-04-30 | 88 | Violet Orlandi | "Hellfire" | single | and admonished from the same burned churches. |
| 2021-04-30 | 89 | Broken Peach | "Wake Me Up" | single | We sing for the departed, and they say "there you are". |
| 2021-04-23 | 12 | Louna | "Незабудка" | single | because what else can we do with it? |
| 2021-04-23 | 13 | Blackbriar | "Confess" | The Cause of Shipwreck | We ride out storms by holding still, |
| 2021-04-23 | 14 | Frozen Crown | "Embrace the Night" | Winterbane | and using their strength as our strength. |
| 2021-04-23 | 15 | Lasting Maze | "Thunder" | Thunder | If we had known we'd be inside for this long, we would have bought better microphones, |
| 2021-04-23 | 16 | Red Eleven | "Universe" | Handled with Chaos | a better evolutionary history, |
| 2021-04-23 | 17 | Rouen | "Wreckage" | single | a larger axe, however decorative. |
| 2021-04-23 | 32 | As the Sun Falls | "From Thy Deepest" | single | writing secret letters to defiant monsters |
| 2021-04-23 | 33 | MUCC | "Myojo" | Myojo | in their untouched citadels, |
| 2021-04-23 | 34 | mama. | "Afterpills" | single | seeking their advice on problems they don't have |
| 2021-04-23 | 35 | Djevel | "Maanen skal være mine øine, den skinnende stierne mine ben, og her skal jeg vandre til evig tid" | single | and wouldn't suffer. |
| 2021-04-23 | 36 | Zgard | "Old Ruins" | single | Our prayers are not diagnostic, |
| 2021-04-23 | 37 | Altarage | "Drainage Mechanism" | Succumb | they are stories of what we aren't yet prepared to embrace, |
| 2021-04-23 | 38 | Night Crowned | "Nattkrönt" | single | rising up our throats, deciding whether to be gasps or songs. |
| 2021-04-23 | 39 | Year Of No Light | "Réalgar" | single | For a year, every pillar was a sundial, |
| 2021-04-23 | 40 | Ulvehyrde | "Disippelen" | Englemakersken | the sun's path unmonitored and distrusted, |
| 2021-04-23 | 41 | Bodom After Midnight | "Payback's a Bitch" | Paint the Sky with Blood 3 | but the readings cataloged and searched for formulae. |
| 2021-04-23 | 42 | This Ending | "Eclipse of the Dead" | single | Did we really learn to do anything other than wait? |
| 2021-04-23 | 43 | Vanvidd | "Blodsjord" | single | Maybe not, but maybe we underestimate patience's power. |
| 2021-04-23 | 44 | EviloN | "Walk of the damned" | single | You never know when you might survive |
| 2021-04-23 | 45 | Sylvatica | "Ashes and Snow" | Ashes and Snow | through attention to slow shadows |
| 2021-04-23 | 46 | Morgarten | "Tales of My Lands" | single | and oblique legends. |
| 2021-04-23 | 47 | Dornenreich | "Der Freiheit Verlangen nach goldenen Ketten" | single | We may be entombed, |
| 2021-04-23 | 48 | Aeges | "Colors" | single | but we are buried in the best layer of the earth, |
| 2021-04-23 | 49 | Fleesh | "Holy Land" | Versions II | the one where lost cities are always found, |
| 2021-04-23 | 50 | Teramaze | "Stone" | single | their streets majestic, |
| 2021-04-23 | 51 | Frost* | "Day and Age - Edit" | single | their industries heraldic and elemental, |
| 2021-04-23 | 52 | Benthos | "Back and Forth" | II | their factions rooted in geometry and pendula. |
| 2021-04-23 | 53 | Tangerine Circus | "Spheres" | single | Looking through closets for half-remembered devices or their missing power-cables, |
| 2021-04-23 | 54 | Constancia | "Brave New World" | single | we find the letters Pythagoras sent us in college, |
| 2021-04-23 | 77 | Enbound | "Beat It" | single | It's not the past we're trying to atone for, |
| 2021-04-23 | 78 | Vicky Psarakis | "Panama" | single | it's what we were about to do, what we were ready to resort to |
| 2021-04-23 | 80 | Violet Orlandi | "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" | single | The axe we need, the touch, the salvation mechanism, |
| 2021-04-16 | 16 | BRIDEAR | "Daybreak" | Bloody Bride | or spinning under lights, |
| 2021-04-16 | 22 | miscast | "ANIMUS" | single | How full or empty is the ocean? Your heart? |
| 2021-04-16 | 26 | Dragon Ash | "Endeavour" | single | and from which star. |
| 2021-04-16 | 27 | heidi. | "劫濁" | single | Our helicopters and children wave to us from Mars, |
| 2021-04-16 | 37 | Asuryan | "Abraxis" | single | the inevitable disengenous declarations of war. |
| 2021-04-16 | 38 | Temple Balls | "Long Ways, Long Lies" | Pyromide | How do you explain the principle of acting as if demonstrating universal law |
| 2021-04-16 | 39 | Marty Friedman | "Senbonzakura" | Tokyo Jukebox 3 | to people who think the point of government is the preservation of convenient imbalances of power? |
| 2021-04-16 | 40 | Dream Ocean | "The Great Silence" | single | The red rocks that waved to us from Mars |
| 2021-04-16 | 41 | Nano | "LINE OF FIRE" | ANTHESIS | welcome our landers with apologetic paperwork, |
| 2021-04-16 | 42 | Louna | "Дом-на-крови" | Обратная сторона | and pathways to canal houseboats and the vaults of hidden ice, |
| 2021-04-16 | 43 | Sacred Groove | "Masterplan" | single | and 500 years of reminding us that this is more than we deserve, |
| 2021-04-16 | 44 | Seas on the Moon | "Promise Land" | single | but only the first of plentiful empty rocks. |
| 2021-04-16 | 45 | Liv Kristine | "Serenity" | Have Courage Dear Heart 5 | If you want to make sure the Earth is round, |
| 2021-04-16 | 46 | Left Hand Solution | "The Sleeping Dead" | Dead of Winter | look back from the moon |
| 2021-04-16 | 48 | Mabe Fratti | "Hacia el Vacío" | single | and take the old gods with you, |
| 2021-04-16 | 49 | The Flight of Sleipnir | "Thaw" | single | cryogenic in their scolding regard. |
| 2021-04-16 | 50 | An Autumn for Crippled Children | "Melancholia" | single | It is an act of courage to leave your home, |
| 2021-04-16 | 51 | Spectral Wound | "Mausoleal Drift" | A Diabolic Thirst | but also an act of courage to accept your responsibility to it, |
| 2021-04-16 | 52 | Stormruler | "Of Hollowed Souls & Distant Flame" | single | not merely as a vessel for cats, |
| 2021-04-16 | 53 | Agvirre | "The Letting Go" | single | but as an inherited occupation of somewhere they didn't bother to first send careful inquiring drones. |
| 2021-04-16 | 54 | Seth | "Les Océans du Vide" | single | All these songs just start, |
| 2021-04-16 | 55 | A Pregnant Light | "Knots and Crosses" | Knots & Crosses 2 | whether you have processed the difference between art and artist yet or not. |
| 2021-04-16 | 56 | Gojira | "Into The Storm" | Into The Storm +3 | Kant, minecrafting in the corner of our screens, |
| 2021-04-16 | 57 | Bloodred Hourglass | "Veritas" | Veritas +1 | reminds us that moral laws govern noumena, |
| 2021-04-16 | 58 | [Amatory] | "Снег в Аду 2.021" | single | and what we think |
| 2021-04-16 | 84 | Blame Me! | "All The Things She Said" | single | Isolation is the practice version of freedom. |
| 2021-04-09 | 1 | Flight of Icarus | "Cleo" | single | The wax wings were just a design sketch. The real ones were carbon-fiber, and fully safety-tested long before Daedalus ever let Icarus fly. Give a parent some credit. |
| 2021-04-09 | 3 | Sacrament | "Последний мост" | single | of triumph that should have been emotionally clear in the original. |
| 2021-04-09 | 4 | Memoremains | "I Turn To You" | single | We turn ethereal fairytales into material object lessons |
| 2021-04-09 | 5 | Lost Division | "Trapped" | single | in order to sell objects or materials. |
| 2021-04-09 | 6 | Frozen Crown | "Towards the Sun" | single | It's colder in the air, not warmer. |
| 2021-04-09 | 7 | Primal Fear | "Vote of No Confidence" | I Will Be Gone 5 | Do not trust these witnesses to our supposed falls. |
| 2021-04-09 | 8 | Nergard | "From the Cradle to the Grave" | single | We know we flew. |
| 2021-04-09 | 9 | Blackbriar | "Selkie" | single | We know what we saw in and beyond the sea, |
| 2021-04-09 | 10 | Mysterain小雨樂隊 | "古風鈴" | 破墨山谷 | and what we heard in clearer air. |
| 2021-04-09 | 41 | HYDE | "ON MY OWN" | single | in place of a structural critique of how social power-entrenchment |
| 2021-04-09 | 42 | Aiolin | "ABSOLUTE EGOISM" | Mermaid Aria -Land Side- 4 | literally undermines the foundations that support it. |
| 2021-04-09 | 43 | Kataan | "Abyss" | single | Caging the minotaur would have been both simpler and kinder. |
| 2021-04-09 | 44 | Dark The Suns | "Shadows in the Void" | Suru Raivosi Sydämeni Pimeydessä | Instead, Daedalus imprisoned him in a maze of infinite inconsequential choices, |
| 2021-04-09 | 45 | Cvlt Ov the Svn | "Hellbound" | single | and thus the rest of us by the idea that this is a threat. |
| 2021-04-09 | 46 | Ætheria Conscientia | "Liturgy for the Ekzunreh" | Corrupted Pillars of Vanity | Of course there is no minotaur, |
| 2021-04-09 | 47 | Cloak of Altering | "I have missed the light so much" | single | and the maze is not complicated, only dark. |
| 2021-04-09 | 77 | Violet Orlandi | "Square Hammer" | Ghosts 2 | The air and the wires are full of joys, |
| 2021-04-02 | 1 | Sershen&Zaritskaya | "Come Together" | single | Millions of songs now living will never die, |
| 2021-04-02 | 2 | Sershen&Zaritskaya | "Stayin' Alive" | single | but gradually we will forget, not where they came from, |
| 2021-04-02 | 3 | Perpetual Fate | "Applause" | single | but what it was like to hear them when they were only themselves. |
| 2021-04-02 | 4 | Butcher Babies | "Last Dance" | single | Of course this is always our dilemma: |
| 2021-04-02 | 5 | Dead Venus | "Flowers & Pain - Single Cut" | single | how to live each unconnected moment as it will be seen in its place in history, |
| 2021-04-02 | 6 | Mutum | "Centipede" | single | without forfeiting our desired fate by assuming we are entitled to it. |
| 2021-04-02 | 7 | Cadaveria | "Shamanic Path" | single | The steps we take define and constitute our path: |
| 2021-04-02 | 8 | Pinkshift | "Mars" | Saccharine 5 | into the unknown, |
| 2021-04-02 | 9 | Cran Arcanaria | "Dominator" | single | or in retreat back within our shrinking zone of control; |
| 2021-04-02 | 10 | Aldious | "Show Down" | Show Down +1 | out the door, in adventurers' clothes, |
| 2021-04-02 | 11 | WHISPER OUT LOUD | "invisible" | WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS INVISIBLE 6 | until the next distance feels small, |
| 2021-04-02 | 16 | TRiDENT | "IMAGINATION" | ADVANCE GENERATION | or letting them fall away as if the sun were a destination. |
| 2021-04-02 | 17 | RONDONRATS。 | "PARASITE" | single | We live, tenuously, on the encrusted skin of a slow fury |
| 2021-04-02 | 18 | zenbukiminoseida. | "WORLD END CRISIS" | Q.E.D.mono | for whom our existential crises are transient molting |
| 2021-04-02 | 21 | ゼラ | "残月" | 月蝕 2 | and when we confuse audience and setting, |
| 2021-04-02 | 23 | Catalysts | "HOME" | single | Paths have to start somewhere, |
| 2021-04-02 | 24 | DESURABBITS | "RAYWORD" | JUMP (Type-A) | but that's pretty much the only real rule. |
| 2021-04-02 | 58 | Glasgow Kiss | "One Step Closer" | single | New steps and new paths await, |
| 2021-04-02 | 68 | Thy Catafalque | "Piros-sárga" | single | We each had a catafalque of our own, and we complimented each others' in customarily arch tones, |
| 2021-04-02 | 69 | Helloween | "Skyfall - Single Edit" | single | learning to humanize absurdity through commitment, |
| 2021-04-02 | 70 | Nicole | "Vihollisteni peilit" | Hävityksen Huoneet | and then to recognize when this is exactly what has been done to us. |
| 2021-04-02 | 72 | Mörkvind | "Liv" | Undergång 4 | or at least so we claimed when we thought we were untraceable |
| 2021-04-02 | 73 | Dödsrit | "Shallow Graves" | single | and immortal. |
| 2021-04-02 | 74 | Bleakwinter Shrine | "Desolation" | The Warrior Cycle | We forget the winter. We forget plagues. |
| 2021-04-02 | 75 | WANDAR | "Raunen" | Landlose Ufer | We forget the things that have killed or doomed us, |
| 2021-04-02 | 76 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Schtampfä" | single | or at least we convince ourselves that they rarely do both. |
| 2021-04-02 | 77 | Mare Cognitum | "Frozen Star Divinization" | Solar Paroxysm | Of course, if we have survived, we are the ones who were right, |
| 2021-04-02 | 78 | 夢遊病者 | "Redemption / Retaliation" | Noč Na Krayu Sveta | which is how insisting that we are right ends up mislabeled as a survival skill, |
| 2021-04-02 | 79 | Julian Lehmann | "Nature Spirit" | single | and wild erroneous surmises misunderstood as performative ritual. |
| 2021-03-26 | 34 | Metalite | "Talisman" | A Virtual World | What got you through this? |
| 2021-03-26 | 35 | Imperia | "Dream Away" | The Last Horizon | What failed? |
| 2021-03-26 | 36 | Hildr Valkyrie | "We Are Heathens" | We Are Heathens +1 | What was lost, and how will you remember it? |
| 2021-03-26 | 37 | The Genotype | "Cybernetic Revolt" | single | What now? |
| 2021-03-26 | 38 | Skies Collide | "Bloodstream" | single | What now? |
| 2021-03-26 | 39 | Regardless Of Me | "All I Remember" | single | All questions are ways of asking |
| 2021-03-26 | 40 | As Everything Unfolds | "I'm Not the Only One" | Within Each Lies the Other | what we will construe the past to have implied. |
| 2021-03-26 | 41 | Juliet Ruin | "Might" | Dark Water 4 | This is why we fight over control of history, |
| 2021-03-26 | 42 | Ringwanderung | "fall into sky" | single | and the endorsements of the long-dead. |
| 2021-03-26 | 43 | Metalite | "Alone" | A Virtual World | Until now, we could pretend that we had to get by on our own. |
| 2021-03-26 | 44 | Neonfly | "The Future, Tonight" | single | Of course this was never true. |
| 2021-03-26 | 45 | Marius Danielsen | "The Sarlinian Bow" | single | Our integral stories are always told by many voices at once, |
| 2021-03-26 | 46 | HAVAMAL | "Nidhoggr" | single | describing different paths to the base of the same waterfall, |
| 2021-03-26 | 47 | Necronomicon | "I Am the Violence" | The Final Chapter | or competing theories for why the water doesn't simply turn back |
| 2021-03-26 | 48 | Manimal | "Forged in Metal" | single | when it reaches the edge. |
| 2021-03-26 | 49 | Nightrage | "Abyss Rising" | single | The water, as it soars towards us, asks us the same thing about ourselves and our myriad inexplicable choices. |
| 2021-03-26 | 50 | Enigmatic Entrance | "Space Drifter" | Space Drifter +1 | Edges are subjective topology, |
| 2021-03-26 | 51 | Gojira | "Amazonia" | Amazonia +2 | none more so than the edge between our accumulated mistakes |
| 2021-03-26 | 52 | Dwell in Doom | "Within Me" | single | and their compounded consequences. |
| 2021-03-26 | 53 | Nevicate | "Dewdrops" | single | It doesn't actually get harder to hold on. |
| 2021-03-26 | 54 | The Anix | "DSPTCH" | DSPTCH +1 | It's just always hard, and always stretches out, |
| 2021-03-26 | 55 | Andromida | "Isolated" | Hellscape | and we feel how it pulls on us |
| 2021-03-26 | 58 | Tännebränne | "Aktas, backas, tuktas" | single | and pull all of us with you. |
| 2021-03-26 | 63 | The Thirteen | "ever gray" | ICY | We wake from brightest-color dreams into gray mornings, |
| 2021-03-26 | 79 | Second To Sun | "A Fortress Clad in Gray Fog" | A Fortress Clad in Gray Fog +1 | and thus learning to see nothing beyond walls |
| 2021-03-26 | 80 | Love // Paranoia | "Native" | single | until we think the huddled spaces inside of the walls are where we're from. |
| 2021-03-26 | 92 | dArtagnan | "Helden" | Feuer & Flamme | We are made of these tiny heroic acts: eating purple pastries or remembering the dead, |
| 2021-03-19 | 38 | Frost* | "Terrestrial" | single | We do not build telescopes to find a better world, |
| 2021-03-19 | 39 | Azure | "Ameotoko I - The Curse" | single | or peer through them to see out of our own well. |
| 2021-03-19 | 40 | Teramaze | "Between These Shadows" | single | We look, like we listen, to see more of what joy will already have revealed. |
| 2021-03-19 | 41 | Super Jump | "Lift" | single | We look up because there's so much up, |
| 2021-03-19 | 42 | Hevilan | "Dark Paradise" | Symphony of Good and Evil | and if we seem haunted, it is because we can imagine ourselves as so many ghosts. |
| 2021-03-19 | 43 | A Pregnant Light | "Kiss Me Thru the Phone (December)" | Kiss Me Thru the Phone | We are the creatures that will restructure the planet to suit our movement, |
| 2021-03-19 | 44 | Nightfall | "Wrath" | single | and then sabotage our own passages in order to fight with each other across them. |
| 2021-03-19 | 45 | Atreides | "Somos Lo Que Somos" | Ordalía | We measure the limits of our control, |
| 2021-03-19 | 46 | Dvne | "Enûma Eliš" | Etemen Ænka | and then build something as wide as we are tall, |
| 2021-03-19 | 47 | Estuarine | "The Audient Void" | Nyarlathotep | as if all dimensions are interchangeable, |
| 2021-03-19 | 48 | Spectral Wound | "Fair Lucifer, Sad Relic" | single | and wisdom were the name for being foolish in only one specific way at a time. |
| 2021-03-19 | 49 | The Ember, The Ash | "Becoming the Eidolon" | single | The soul is elusive, but the oversoul omnipresent. There are worse definitions of wisdom. |
| 2021-03-19 | 50 | Kankar | "Krater in Sarx" | Dunkle Millennia | Love is preparing not for satiated avarice, |
| 2021-03-19 | 72 | heidi. | "Chapter" | single | but another day it may be yours. |
| 2021-03-19 | 73 | Almanac | "Kingdom of the Blind" | single | Another day, you may be required to march for somebody else's freedom, |
| 2021-03-19 | 74 | Nine Treasures | "Black Heart (Re-Recorded)" | Awakening from Dukkha | or to apologetically reconstruct your own. |
| 2021-03-19 | 75 | Sagason | "Niflheim" | Nine worlds within | We are civilized enough to dig channels between oceans, |
| 2021-03-19 | 76 | Morphide | "Panopticon" | single | and primitive enough to be only mostly confident that when we remove the last shovelful of intervening dirt, |
| 2021-03-19 | 77 | Blackbriar | "Deadly Diminuendo" | single | neither ocean will promptly drain into the other. |
| 2021-03-19 | 78 | Underwaves | "Ocean" | single | It's all the same water through which we chart these shortcuts, |
| 2021-03-19 | 79 | MartYriuM | "Starless Opacity" | Lamia Satanica | all the same space under which we array this dread, |
| 2021-03-19 | 80 | Burning Witches | "Flight of the Valkyries" | single | all the same air through which we would fly if we could fly. |
| 2021-03-19 | 81 | Enemy Inside | "Alien" | single | You can tell the truly unfathomable by how they exist only in your self-doubt. |
| 2021-03-19 | 82 | Rivals | "Dead Flowers" | Sad Looks Pretty on Me | Picking flowers is murder. |
| 2021-03-19 | 83 | Gina And The Eastern Block | "The Insanity" | single | What the day gets for escaping you unscathed |
| 2021-03-19 | 84 | Malaя | "Рок" | ЧС 3 | is thankless dawn over the next continent, |
| 2021-03-19 | 89 | Soulspell | "The Wake of Magellan" | single | Tonight the waves are near, |
| 2021-03-19 | 94 | Saxon | "Hold The Line" | Inspirations | ready to breathe back out all this air we have been filtering, and hear how our lives have changed the noises while we guarded them inside of us. |
| 2021-03-12 | 1 | Issa | "The Night It Rained Forever" | Queen of Broken Hearts | The universes are inside of us, |
| 2021-03-12 | 2 | Secret Sphere | "Against All the Odds" | Lifeblood | endless and tireless and restless, |
| 2021-03-12 | 3 | Orden Ogan | "Interstellar" | Final Days | infinite and empty and lit by faint but innumerable sources. |
| 2021-03-12 | 4 | Arion | "I Love to Be Your Enemy" | I Love to Be Your Enemy +3 | Blood careens around, |
| 2021-03-12 | 5 | Bloodbound | "Creatures of the Dark Realm" | Creatures of the Dark Realm +1 | frenetic gyroscopy inclining us out of our planes of rest, |
| 2021-03-12 | 6 | Dark The Suns | "The Secrets of Time" | single | humming in demon whispers. |
| 2021-03-12 | 7 | In Victory | "The Pulse of the Heart" | single | We are the prevalent fauna of rhythm and recurrent vertigo, |
| 2021-03-12 | 8 | Secret Rule | "Black Swan" | single | defined and united by the terrified conviction that we are each unique, |
| 2021-03-12 | 9 | Heart Healer | "Awake" | The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson | and thus irreplaceable, |
| 2021-03-12 | 10 | Skarlett Riot | "Stronger" | single | and thus entitled to ludicrous deference. |
| 2021-03-12 | 11 | Against The Current | "weapon" | weapon +1 | And so we fight these silent involute wars |
| 2021-03-12 | 12 | Air Drawn Dagger | "My Murder of Crows" | single | inside the tenuous boundaries of our selves: |
| 2021-03-12 | 13 | Lovebites | "NO TIME TO HESITATE" | GLORY, GLORY, TO THE WORLD | against the tendency to measure our own anticipatory fears against other people's accomplished fates; |
| 2021-03-12 | 14 | Vertex in Origin | "rewind" | Side-by-Side | against hesitation on the event horizon; |
| 2021-03-12 | 27 | UNMASK aLIVE | "KARMA" | UNMASK aLIVE II (My mother is "CAT") | and negotiating this teeming semi-civilization without them is tenuous and terrifying. |
| 2021-03-12 | 28 | the GazettE | "BLINDING HOPE" | single | How do we reach someone whose only coping mechanism, |
| 2021-03-12 | 29 | Gyze | "Voyage of the Future" | Voyage of the Future +1 | in every moment of possible contact, |
| 2021-03-12 | 30 | VOLA | "24 Light-Years" | 24 Light-Years +2 | is DON'T TOUCH ME? |
| 2021-03-12 | 31 | Thy Catafalque | "Erdgeist" | single | We know how to write songs about fearing change |
| 2021-03-12 | 32 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Äschä" | single | more than fearing death, |
| 2021-03-12 | 33 | Tales of Dhvaras | "Three Winters Black" | single | but we don't know how to change a mind |
| 2021-03-12 | 34 | Stortregn | "Timeless Splendor" | Impermanence | that thinks change is the worse option. |
| 2021-03-12 | 35 | The Crown | "Beyond the Frail" | Royal Destroyer | And this is how we can be so beautiful, |
| 2021-03-12 | 36 | Rise to the Sky | "See Me Fall Down" | Let Me Drown With You | each and in every combination, |
| 2021-03-12 | 37 | Dust Moth | "Annular Eclipse" | Rising // Sailing | and yet end up with racists and murders and solipsists and nihilists |
| 2021-03-12 | 41 | Ronnie Atkins | "Subjugated" | One Shot | The only weapon we really have is love, |
| 2021-03-12 | 42 | dArtagnan | "Feuer & Flamme" | single | and it has the power to cut through any armor wrapped around an open heart, |
| 2021-03-12 | 43 | Chez Kane | "All of It" | Chez Kane | but nothing more. |
| 2021-03-12 | 44 | Sunstorm | "One Step Closer" | Afterlife | If you love nothing, you are lost, but invulnerable in consolation. |
| 2021-03-12 | 66 | Nina Roz | "Mbikooye" | single | metal against skin, |
| 2021-03-12 | 80 | Left Hand Solution | "Jolene" | single | It is not that we yearn for heartbreak, |
| 2021-03-12 | 84 | Secret Sphere | "Life Survivors" | Lifeblood | and joylessness can be light-swallowingly dull in any amount of pointlessly leaved gold. |
| 2021-03-12 | 85 | Issa | "Queen of Broken Hearts" | Queen of Broken Hearts | Don't walk away. Let me hear you. Let us hear each other. |
| 2021-03-05 | 11 | Flight of Icarus | "Fly Away" | single | We have more than this song, |
| 2021-03-05 | 12 | Lost Division | "The Queen" | single | and are not faceted by only these glittering imperfections, |
| 2021-03-05 | 13 | Seas on the Moon | "Desolated" | single | but we listen better when we forget this |
| 2021-03-05 | 14 | Imperia | "While I Am Still Here" | single | and allow the width of now to fit its duration. |
| 2021-03-05 | 15 | As Everything Unfolds | "On the Inside" | On the Inside 6 | For three minutes of forever, we can furiously despair. |
| 2021-03-05 | 18 | Megara | "Saturno" | Truco o Trato (Capítulo I) 3 | and cautionary idols, |
| 2021-03-05 | 20 | VENUES | "Rite of Passage" | single | are neither inevitable |
| 2021-03-05 | 21 | ALYXX | "The Purge" | single | nor irreplaceable. |
| 2021-03-05 | 22 | Blood Stain Child | "2045" | 2045 +1 | All we acquire by pretending to evade the present |
| 2021-03-05 | 31 | Nightmare | "cry for the moon" | cry for the moon +2 | We want things that are constituted from wanting |
| 2021-03-05 | 32 | ALCYON | "amanojaku" | amanojaku +2 | and a little bit of dust, |
| 2021-03-05 | 33 | mama. | "Bokuranobyoumeihaningendesita" | single | and when we get them we are scared to say their names, |
| 2021-03-05 | 34 | Wolfheart | "Hereditary" | Skull Soldiers 4 | but our own names are more familiar and yet no safer. |
| 2021-03-05 | 35 | Cvlt Ov the Svn | "My Venom" | single | We do not have to go into space |
| 2021-03-05 | 36 | Golgotha | "I Am Lost" | Remembering the Past: Writing the Future | to reduce our field of vision to rock and horizons, |
| 2021-03-05 | 37 | An Autumn for Crippled Children | "Carefully Breathing" | single | or to run out of acceptable air. |
| 2021-03-05 | 38 | Merta | "Usva" | single | We do not have to wait for justice |
| 2021-03-05 | 39 | Nemoreus | "Mountain High" | Arnea | to treat ourselves as timeless, |
| 2021-03-05 | 40 | Crown | "Shades" | single | as divine and mechanical, |
| 2021-03-05 | 41 | Defeatist UK | "Skin Deep" | single | diaphanous and metamorphic, |
| 2021-03-05 | 42 | Fleddy Melculy | "NIKS" | single | absurd and utopian and squandered and promised. |
| 2021-03-05 | 56 | Violet Orlandi | "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend" | single | Anything you sing, you share. |
| 2021-03-05 | 57 | Saxon | "Paperback Writer" | single | Anything you share is the beginning of a story that doesn't yet know how to end, or why. |
| 2021-02-26 | 21 | Evergrey | "Stories" | Escape of the Phoenix | New stories are enough: |
| 2021-02-26 | 22 | Juliet Ruin | "Fake Stigmata" | single | of how you feared the wrong sins, |
| 2021-02-26 | 23 | Doll Skin | "Control Freak" | single | or how you were wrong to fear sins |
| 2021-02-26 | 24 | Eternal Frequency | "What Are We Waiting For" | single | or to fear. |
| 2021-02-26 | 25 | Metalite | "Cloud Connected" | Cloud Connected +2 | There are ways to sit heroically at home, |
| 2021-02-26 | 26 | Epica | "Twilight Reverie - The Hypnagogic State -" | Omega | heroically suspended, |
| 2021-02-26 | 27 | KuuΔelta | "Still" | single | coming up close, |
| 2021-02-26 | 28 | Regardless Of Me | "Hell's Friends" | single | imagining everywhere you aren't going. |
| 2021-02-26 | 34 | The Guzmania | "kotoba no ame" | single | Any new thing you try exercises your tolerance muscles, |
| 2021-02-26 | 35 | ARLEQUIN | "DameNingen" | pieces | tearing them so they heal stronger. |
| 2021-02-26 | 40 | Nawather | "Breath of Jasmin" | Kenz Illusion | constantly lapsing into a solipsism of symbolic technique |
| 2021-02-26 | 41 | Empyrium | "A Lucid Tower Beckons on the Hills Afar" | Über den Sternen | and then back out into a taxonomy of solipsisms. |
| 2021-02-26 | 42 | Moonspell | "Hermitage" | Hermitage | Half of these mythologies are based on blinking selectively while we spin, |
| 2021-02-26 | 43 | Perennial Isolation | "The Silent Solace" | single | but that doesn't mean you can't be raptured |
| 2021-02-26 | 44 | Wolvencrown | "A Shadow of What Once Was Pt. 1" | A Shadow of What Once Was 3 | exactly where you stand, |
| 2021-02-26 | 45 | Myronath | "Effigy of Malediction" | single | it just requires you to believe as a motion, |
| 2021-02-26 | 46 | Einherjer | "Echoes in Blood" | North Star | feel everything that cuts and holds you, |
| 2021-02-26 | 47 | IOTUNN | "Access All Worlds" | Access All Worlds | and then vault anyway into the sky. |
| 2021-02-26 | 48 | Rise to the Sky | "Leaving This World" | single | Nothing ends, |
| 2021-02-26 | 49 | MUR | "Inner Hole" | single | neither outwards nor inwards. |
| 2021-02-26 | 50 | Interiors | "Analepsis" | Conduit Vista | You were born; |
| 2021-02-26 | 51 | Megaraptor | "That`s the Way It Is" | single | you need not be resigned to this, |
| 2021-02-26 | 52 | Epica | "Omega - Sovereign of the Sun Spheres -" | Omega | but it won't help trying to have done it differently. |
| 2021-02-26 | 53 | Starmen | "Kisses of an Enemy" | single | Love, too, is a transitional energy. |
| 2021-02-19 | 8 | Elyose | "Metropolis" | Persona | Sometimes we sing to assert a retrospective order |
| 2021-02-19 | 9 | Heart Healer | "This is Not the End" | single | on places we have collectively come to rest. |
| 2021-02-19 | 10 | MoonSun | "Falling" | single | Sometimes we open our mouths to listen. |
| 2021-02-19 | 11 | Crystallion | "Living on a Lie" | Heads or Tails | The skull is a leaky isolation machine, |
| 2021-02-19 | 12 | Marty Friedman | "The Perfect World (feat. Alfakyun.)" | The Perfect World (feat. Alfakyun.) / Makenaide 2 | like the heart is a poor shield against hope. |
| 2021-02-19 | 13 | Eyes Set To Kill | "Find Our Way" | single | Dusk is both liminal and relentlessly repeated, |
| 2021-02-19 | 14 | Icon For Hire | "Enemies" | Amorphous | so it's tempting to wonder whether anything we haven't yet escaped |
| 2021-02-19 | 52 | 616 | "Cinderella Valentine" | single | wears a pointless cape for the video. |
| 2021-02-19 | 53 | Eternal Idol | "A Touch of Evil" | Rocking with the Idols | We need our stories more than we need their morals. |
| 2021-02-19 | 54 | Secret Sphere | "The End of an Ego" | single | We know what to do when we fail to lift ourselves clear of the granite quays: |
| 2021-02-19 | 55 | Ronnie Atkins | "Scorpio" | single | we line them with another layer of stone or boardwalk and try again. |
| 2021-02-19 | 57 | Atreides | "Flor de Madrugada" | single | but then shine our brightest lights on the embossed covers of franchised sequels. |
| 2021-02-19 | 58 | Orden Ogan | "Let the Fire Rain" | Let the Fire Rain +3 | We sing "tonight" to be heard tomorrow morning. |
| 2021-02-19 | 59 | Matenrou Opera | "hakanakukieruainosanka" | hakanakukieruainosanka +2 | The people we were when we started to believe |
| 2021-02-19 | 60 | The Crown | "We Drift On" | single | or to love |
| 2021-02-19 | 61 | Gojira | "Born For One Thing" | Born For One Thing +1 | are gone. |
| 2021-02-19 | 64 | Dordeduh | "Desferecat" | single | built on rune-inscribed layers, |
| 2021-02-19 | 65 | The Devil's Trade | "Dead Sister Merope" | single | with close streets leading to a bakery overlooking a harbor. |
| 2021-02-19 | 66 | Mother of All | "Autumn" | single | Sometimes we sing to admit that we miss places we don't remember, |
| 2021-02-19 | 67 | Suffering Hour | "Transcending Antecedent Visions" | The Cyclic Reckoning | sometimes we howl just to judge our distance from walls |
| 2021-02-19 | 68 | Rise to the Sky | "Dream the Pain is Gone" | single | in the darkness. |
| 2021-02-12 | 1 | Close the Hatch | "Enjoy the Silence" | single | Sometimes it takes 20 years for a song to find its true self. I always thought even the Depeche Mode original of "Enjoy the Silence" had an implied "all I ever wanted is [lying dead] here in my arms", and covers by Tori Amos and Lacuna Coil seemed at least emotionally compatible with this notion, but Dayton post-doom band Close the Hatch finally render it in perfectly gloriously morose blacklight. |
| 2021-02-12 | 2 | Sirenia | "Downwards Spiral" | Riddles, Ruins & Revelations | Silence and darkness can be anthemic and bright, of course. |
| 2021-02-12 | 3 | Issa | "The Way Out" | single | Sometimes the way out is down and through the core, |
| 2021-02-12 | 4 | Imperia | "Starlight" | single | clear into the occluded night underfoot. |
| 2021-02-12 | 5 | Nocean | "The Phantom" | single | Sometimes the ghosts are the only ones who return a particular touch, |
| 2021-02-12 | 62 | Crossfaith | "Dead or Alive" | single | But this headlong anti-gravity forward listening |
| 2021-02-12 | 63 | Bloodred Hourglass | "Drag Me the Rain" | single | allows greatness to gush out of nothing |
| 2021-02-12 | 64 | Wesenwille | "A Material God" | single | in part as a way to assert the possibility of momentary improvisational greatness |
| 2021-02-12 | 65 | Aara | "Nimmermehr" | single | for love of moments, |
| 2021-02-12 | 66 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Bluet" | single | and of course in part to avoid acknowledging that every look backwards in time |
| 2021-02-12 | 67 | Emptiness | "Le mal est chez lui" | Vide | implies an equal and opposite and thus potentially untenable look into the glaring future. |
| 2021-02-12 | 68 | Altarage | "Magno Evento" | single | The optimist thinks the past is scarier, |
| 2021-02-12 | 69 | Mork | "Svartmalt" | single | or wants to. |
| 2021-02-12 | 70 | Crown | "Illumination" | single | I am an optimist: |
| 2021-02-12 | 74 | Forlorn Hope | "To the Bitter End" | single | This is why we hear our dead heroes in surviving guitar solos, |
| 2021-02-12 | 75 | Durbin | "Into the Flames" | The Beast Awakens | and how we contrive to unfear the reaper by hearing his songs in our own. |
| 2021-02-12 | 76 | The Pretty Reckless | "My Bones" | Death By Rock And Roll | We will leave skeletal traces |
| 2021-02-12 | 77 | Chez Kane | "Rocket on the Radio" | single | of ideas only materialized in muscle and skin. |
| 2021-02-12 | 80 | Varang Nord | "Cīņis Gors" | single | and we recall the legions of the damned to tear up the cursed roads and restore |
| 2021-02-12 | 81 | Salduie | "Descarnatio" | single | our ancestral right to wander. |
| 2021-02-12 | 83 | Nifrost | "Eit siste Ynskje" | single | Roads are paths plus bureaucracy, |
| 2021-02-12 | 84 | IOTUNN | "The Tower of Cosmic Nihility" | single | in the same way that astronomy is astrology plus telescopes -- |
| 2021-02-12 | 85 | Rise to the Sky | "Let Me Drown With You" | single | or minus, because the problem with superstition is too much elaboration |
| 2021-02-12 | 100 | Sirenia | "Into Infinity" | Riddles, Ruins & Revelations | Courage is taking the next step when the road crumbles back into a path. |
| 2021-02-05 | 1 | Flight of Icarus | "Our Burning Star" | single | I have only sometimes, in my life, had a Favorite Song, and even less often had anything I would nominate for Best Song, which is an untenable concept by its nature. And yet, here it is. Flight of Icarus are a pop metal band from Gothenburg, and this is the first single from their upcoming second album, and it's my new favorite song and I keep playing it over and over and every single time I have the same thought, which is "This may be the best song ever. Ever." It's too pretty and oohs too much if you demand that metal involves aggression, and maybe too dense and overdriven if you demand that pop be gentle, and there are many things I love in music that aren't present in this song, but there is nothing in this song that I do not adore, nothing I want to change, nothing I want them to improve. It's "Dancing Queen", but the Queen is omnibenevolent and she is watching us. It's "Amaranth" but the verses are just as delirious as the chorus. It's proof of our individual humility and our collective immortality. The sun beams at our approach, grateful for the opportunity to shine however briefly on our wings. |
| 2021-02-05 | 2 | Evergrey | "Where August Mourns" | Where August Mourns +2 | And if I had any illusion that my musical curiosity were motivated by an end, rather than a feeling of motion, it would be disspelled by the fact that I do eventually stop hitting Back and allow this week of new music to continue, and am still overjoyed to listen to these other songs that seem merely wonderful. We encompass melanchonic progressive-metal bombast, |
| 2021-02-05 | 3 | Azure | "Mistress" | single | math-rock Supertramp, |
| 2021-02-05 | 4 | Marius Danielsen | "Stars Will Light the Way" | single | galloping battle-hymns, |
| 2021-02-05 | 5 | Kalidia | "Hiding from the Sun - New Version 2021" | Lies' Device | reticent perfectability, |
| 2021-02-05 | 6 | Carmilla | "Nevermore" | single | guttural restlessness. |
| 2021-02-05 | 7 | Arion | "In The Name Of Love (feat. Cyan Kicks)" | single | We are only loosely in control of our most boundless powers, |
| 2021-02-05 | 8 | As Everything Unfolds | "Grayscale" | Grayscale 5 | only uneasily situtated along the spectra of our joys and vulnerabilities. |
| 2021-02-05 | 9 | Torn Between Two Worlds | "The Beauty of Deception" | single | Joy, too, is a response to triggers, |
| 2021-02-05 | 10 | Heart Healer | "Into the Unknown" | single | and thus cannot be trusted as a moral guide. |
| 2021-02-05 | 12 | Alteria | "Nessuna pietà" | Vita Imperfetta | does not determine the elevation of the destination. |
| 2021-02-05 | 14 | Persona | "Alpha" | single | just inertial; |
| 2021-02-05 | 15 | Lollia | "Ghost Rule" | single | these joys and angers are elemental, not legislative. |
| 2021-02-05 | 49 | Skyliner | "Break The Surface" | Dark Rivers, White Thunder | It is time for stomping on black ice stretched over the roiling surface of deep water. |
| 2021-02-05 | 50 | Korpiklaani | "Anolan aukeat" | Jylhä | It is time for rituals of redemption, |
| 2021-02-05 | 51 | Incursed | "The Black Hunter" | Baskavígin | for frantic errands in search of the materials for desperate spells, |
| 2021-02-05 | 52 | Wolfchant | "Komet" | single | for burning arcs |
| 2021-02-05 | 53 | Frostnatt | "Det Kommer Til Å Bli Kaldt" | single | above frozen ground. |
| 2021-02-05 | 54 | Heldom | "Vaknan" | single | The old gods repay our conditional allegiance with ambiguous stories |
| 2021-02-05 | 55 | The Ruins Of Beverast | "Deserts to Bind and Defeat" | The Thule Grimoires | we can recast with our own oaths and enemies, |
| 2021-02-05 | 56 | Blurr Thrower | "Amnios" | Les Voûtes | and thus use to alloy new morals. |
| 2021-02-05 | 57 | Moonthoth | "Hymny nocy" | single | They know that the more languages we learn, |
| 2021-02-05 | 58 | Deception (NOR) | "Remission" | The Mire | the higher our towers grow, |
| 2021-02-05 | 59 | Coldbound | "Slumber of Decay" | Slumber of Decay +2 | and the clearer it becomes that higher vantages are not intended for looking up. |
| 2021-02-05 | 60 | Maelstrom Aeterna | "When Light Has Faded" | single | It is time for another imperfectable night that will not break us. |
| 2021-02-05 | 61 | Fenris Vrede | "Dødsriket" | single | The realms of the dead, once mapped, |
| 2021-02-05 | 62 | Andromida | "The Cataclysm" | single | turn out to be uncannily familiar. |
| 2021-02-05 | 63 | Interiors | "Focus" | single | Anthems are not devotional, |
| 2021-02-05 | 64 | Amarionette | "Get Back" | single | which is why you can sing them for anything or nothing. |
| 2021-02-05 | 65 | The Monolith Deathcult | "Gone Sour Doomed" | single | All of these songs are "Dancing Queen" somehow, |
| 2021-01-29 | 22 | Utsu-P | "ダブルラリアット [Double Bass Drum Remix 2021]" | single | I don't mean that we grasp it, |
| 2021-01-29 | 23 | Circus of Fools | "Affair of the Poisons Part IV: The Iron Mask" | single | or that we stop struggling, |
| 2021-01-29 | 24 | Souls Of Diotima | "The Dark Lady" | Janas | but we learn, maybe, to disentangle curiosity from the unknowable. |
| 2021-01-29 | 25 | Scarlet Dorn | "Back to the Ground" | Blood Red Bouquet | If religious awe is the feeling of submitting yourself to guidance that cannot be interrogated, |
| 2021-01-29 | 26 | Crashing Atlas | "Graveyard" | single | then rationalist, humanist curiosity is the willingness to ackowledge that your movements are not guided, |
| 2021-01-29 | 27 | DEAR MOTHER | "Symbiose" | single | and then to keep making them. |
| 2021-01-29 | 33 | Ainur | "Spirit Of Fire" | single | We organize the darkness. |
| 2021-01-29 | 34 | Aetherian | "Primordial Woods" | single | We take whatever narrow range of wavelengths we are alive for, |
| 2021-01-29 | 35 | Einherjer | "The Blood and the Iron" | single | and spread them across the bounds of what we know |
| 2021-01-29 | 36 | Tribulation | "In Remembrance" | Where the Gloom Becomes Sound | until we think of new words |
| 2021-01-29 | 37 | Minutian | "Magical Thinking" | single | for the worlds just beyond what we thought were the edges. |
| 2021-01-29 | 39 | Soen | "Lumerian" | IMPERIAL | The days that remain to you |
| 2021-01-29 | 40 | Celestial Sanctuary | "Soul Diminished" | single | outnumber the days you can relive. |
| 2021-01-29 | 41 | Luciferian | "The Bringer of Light" | Luciferian | The dark lord comes to you in a chariot drawn by a three-headed wolf, |
| 2021-01-29 | 42 | BAEST | "Necro Sapiens" | Necro Sapiens +2 | and you say "Dude, the left head is about to fall off, and is the right one supposed to be an...ostrich? |
| 2021-01-29 | 70 | Harakiri for the Sky | "Song to Say Goodbye" | single | and ambiguity |
| 2021-01-22 | 22 | Shereign | "Against the Odds" | single | We are unlikely, but inevitable; |
| 2021-01-22 | 23 | Secret Sphere | "Lifeblood" | single | hopeless, but invincible; |
| 2021-01-22 | 24 | Turbulence | "Madness Unforeseen" | single | chaos, but also glee. |
| 2021-01-22 | 25 | Dust in Mind | "Break" | single | The usefulness of standing on giants |
| 2021-01-22 | 26 | Labyrinth | "Finally Free" | Welcome to the Absurd Circus | is often phrased in terms of horizon distance, |
| 2021-01-22 | 27 | The Lightbringer of Sweden | "Farewell" | single | but more often the giants are standing abs-deep in wolf-blood |
| 2021-01-22 | 28 | MajorVoice | "Waves of Love" | Morgenrot | and rising seas, |
| 2021-01-22 | 29 | Therion | "The Leaf on the Oak of Far" | Leviathan | and it's less pressing to know what else we can't swim to |
| 2021-01-22 | 30 | Antonamasia | "End Oblivion" | single | than to find out what the giants believe about their own fates |
| 2021-01-22 | 31 | Crystallion | "The Wild Hunt" | single | before they carry us into it. |
| 2021-01-22 | 32 | Epica | "Rivers" | Rivers +2 | Of the countless moral errors of astrology, |
| 2021-01-22 | 33 | Phantom Elite | "Glass Crown" | Titanium | maybe the worst is the failure to acknowledge the angular momenta of our only frames of reference. |
| 2021-01-22 | 52 | Moongates Guardian | "Over Withered Land" | Till The Wind Of The Morning | remorse and rebirth. |
| 2021-01-22 | 53 | Wolfheart | "Skull Soldiers" | single | Our militaristic rhapsodies are strength-training for defiance, |
| 2021-01-22 | 54 | Lombolo | "Skuggan från prärien" | single | and as with any obsession, quickly become their own ends. |
| 2021-01-22 | 55 | Alkonost | "Там, Где Живут Ветра" | Ведомые Ветром | Laws written to encode justice |
| 2021-01-22 | 56 | Tanzwut | "Die Tanzwut kehrt zurück" | single | create establishments by this same act; |
| 2021-01-22 | 57 | Aspar | "Mond" | Maifrost | traditions shaped out of respect |
| 2021-01-22 | 58 | Moonspell | "All or Nothing" | single | replace the empathy of honor |
| 2021-01-22 | 59 | Equilibrium Falls | "Square zero constant" | single | with catalogs of merchandised binaries |
| 2021-01-22 | 60 | Lake Of Tears | "In Wait and in Worries" | In Wait and in Worries +1 | of exclusion and implied entitlement. |
| 2021-01-22 | 64 | Soen | "Illusion" | single | At best, pride is a rehearsal for empathy, |
| 2021-01-22 | 66 | Subterranean Masquerade | "Ascend" | Ascend +1 | like naming the countries from their inverted outlines |
| 2021-01-22 | 67 | Creye | "Broken Highway" | II | we see from inside the warm heart of the planet. |
| 2021-01-22 | 68 | W.E.T. | "The Moment of Truth" | Retransmission | Every new map is fractionally less political, |
| 2021-01-22 | 69 | Wig Wam | "Hypnotized" | Never Say Die | less sure that we draw maps in order to bound the alien, |
| 2021-01-22 | 70 | Ronnie Atkins | "One Shot" | single | less invested in relimning the old lines |
| 2021-01-22 | 71 | Giorgio Vanni | "Hearthstone siamo gli Eroi" | single | but more intrigued to know where they have been. |
| 2021-01-22 | 72 | Amadeüs | "El Dolor Fantasma" | single | We are tragedians of our most fantastic regrets. |
| 2021-01-22 | 73 | Atreides | "Servet" | single | We walk out of the silver mines with our pockets full of sand. |
| 2021-01-22 | 90 | Labyrinth | "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" | Welcome to the Absurd Circus | But it's OK, it's OK, they only ever wanted us to fall in love with errors we have a chance to not make, with fates we might write into elusively epic stories |
| 2021-01-15 | 1 | Issa | "Angels Calling" | single | We make these cloudbusting machines to reveal the imaginary heroic, |
| 2021-01-15 | 2 | Metalite | "A Virtual World" | A Virtual World +1 | or we imagine inverted worlds in which the clouds collect only below our wings. |
| 2021-01-15 | 3 | LiSA | "dawn" | dawn +3 | Maybe this is the sentimental price of amateur sentience: |
| 2021-01-15 | 4 | BAND-MAID | "Warning!" | Unseen World | delusions of immortality |
| 2021-01-15 | 5 | Enemy Inside | "Crystallize" | single | born of barely-emergent self-awareness. |
| 2021-01-15 | 6 | Alteria | "Punto di rottura" | single | But so too are delusions of immortality a provocational gift |
| 2021-01-15 | 7 | FATE GEAR | "The Sky Pirates feat.NANA" | The Sky Prison | from our naive histories |
| 2021-01-15 | 8 | Sirenia | "We Come To Ruins" | single | to our future selves: |
| 2021-01-15 | 9 | Neopera | "An Eternal Night" | single | if we can manage the difficult feat |
| 2021-01-15 | 10 | Black Light Discipline | "Not the Way" | single | of internalizing hypothetical immortality |
| 2021-01-15 | 12 | Jorn | "Faith Bloody Faith" | single | instead of a divine rationalization for arbitrary power, |
| 2021-01-15 | 13 | Orden Ogan | "Inferno" | Inferno +2 | we become capable of participating in justice; |
| 2021-01-15 | 14 | Tribulation | "Funeral Pyre" | single | if not, we accelerate inelegantly towards death. |
| 2021-01-15 | 15 | Dragony | "Love You to Death" | Viribus Unitis | We have these agonizingly if not inexplicably unmade choices: |
| 2021-01-15 | 16 | Bloodbound | "When Fate Is Calling" | single | recognize ourselves as the authors of our churches, |
| 2021-01-15 | 17 | Simulacrum | "Arrhythmic Distortions" | single | or allow our lives to subsidize already-bloated plagiarists; |
| 2021-01-15 | 18 | Aspar | "Fluch" | single | let an awareness of our own ungovernable strength |
| 2021-01-15 | 19 | Mork | "Arv" | single | be a constant ambient vibration along the lengths of each of our bones, |
| 2021-01-15 | 20 | Antre | "Through These Dead Eyes" | Dark Spectrum | or helplessly destroy everything we touch; |
| 2021-01-15 | 21 | Owl | "Conquering the Kingdom of Rain (Enter Her Holy Halls)" | Owl | feel every loss as a personal blow, |
| 2021-01-15 | 22 | Bhleg | "Alyr III" | Ödhin | or lose without feeling; |
| 2021-01-15 | 23 | Emma Ruth Rundle | "Orphan Limbs" | The Helm of Sorrow 4 | cut away the grotestque evils we have grown as if they were extensions of ourselves, |
| 2021-01-15 | 74 | Cosmophobe | "Astral Disarray" | single | To misinterpret our attempts to make a just human civilization |
| 2021-01-08 | 7 | As Everything Unfolds | "Wallow" | Wallow +3 | they stomp in waving racist heraldry and reiterating their ignorance in voluble frothing pathetic hatred. |
| 2021-01-08 | 8 | Phantom Elite | "Deliverance" | single | We can always see them coming. They declare themselves with sub-infantile pride. |
| 2021-01-08 | 10 | We Are the Catalyst | "Doomed" | single | and elaborate incessantly on their delusional nihilistic schemes. |
| 2021-01-08 | 11 | Cellar Darling | "DANCE" | single | They gather in grim daylight, |
| 2021-01-08 | 12 | Manora | "Wired to obey" | single | on the steps of our temples of belief in their humanity, |
| 2021-01-08 | 13 | Souls Of Diotima | "Janas" | single | and demonstrate to convince us we were wrong to dedicate buildings to this faith. |
| 2021-01-08 | 14 | Keoma | "Mirror Symmetry" | single | They look for the cameras before starting the itemization of their pointless intended treasons. |
| 2021-01-08 | 15 | Control the Storm | "Desire" | single | Not content with brown shirts, they print up imbecilic commemorative hats |
| 2021-01-08 | 16 | Dreamshade | "Shanghai Nights" | single | in assiduous anticipation of their crimes. |
| 2021-01-08 | 17 | Durbin | "Evil Eye" | single | Their coups fail on their own declared terms, inevitably, |
| 2021-01-08 | 18 | Evergrey | "Eternal Nocturnal" | Eternal Nocturnal +1 | and never had anything remotely like an actual plan. |
| 2021-01-08 | 19 | MajorVoice | "Ruf Mich" | single | You can't rage-tweet a country great again |
| 2021-01-08 | 20 | Fiaba | "La gemella tradita" | Di gatti di rane di folletti e d'altre storie | with a week-old cheeseburger in your other tiny hand. |
| 2021-01-08 | 21 | Korpiklaani | "Niemi" | Niemi +3 | You do not become the Speaker's voice by taking her lectern, |
| 2021-01-08 | 22 | Ravenstorm | "The Spirit of the Wolf" | single | any more than you become a foretold king by pulling |
| 2021-01-08 | 23 | IOTUNN | "Voyage of the Garganey I" | single | an ironic costume sword |
| 2021-01-08 | 24 | Aspar | "Inferno" | single | out of a lake of unironic shit |
| 2021-01-01 | 2 | PassCode | "SPARK IGNITION" | STRIVE | seething with promise, |
| 2021-01-01 | 24 | HYDE | "DEFEAT" | single | is like leaving a plastic bowl of shit on a lit gas burner |
| 2021-01-01 | 27 | ゼラ | "黒よりも暗い黒" | 黒よりも暗い黒【TYPE-A】 3 | Trump is a plague and an embarrassment to us as a nation and a species, |
| 2021-01-01 | 29 | Naked Identity Created by King | "Seed" | single | His pointless narcissism is undisguised and unmistakable, |
| 2021-01-01 | 30 | lynch. | "ALLIVE" | single | and telling his supporters that he doesn't really care about them |
| 2021-01-01 | 31 | Mind Driller | "Prophecy" | single | is like digging through the smoking rubble of the house until you find the charred shit that was in the plastic bowl |
| 2021-01-01 | 32 | Seas on the Moon | "Gone" | single | and telling it that the bowl doesn't love. |
| 2021-01-01 | 33 | ILLUMISHADE | "The Endless Vow" | The Endless Vow +1 | Nobody believed for a second that Donald Trump was going to personally join a pedestrian liberating march |
| 2021-01-01 | 34 | Circus of Fools | "Affair of the Poisons Part III: Chambre Ardente" | single | on a citadel of usurpers. |
| 2021-01-01 | 35 | Sacrament | "Лги мне" | single | He wouldn't have been able to walk that far without stopping for a meal halfway, |
| 2021-01-01 | 36 | The Trophy | "The Gift Of Life" | The Gift Of Life | and his golf cart wouldn't have been able to get up the Capitol steps, |
| 2021-01-01 | 37 | Aspar | "Lawine" | single | and of course he does not ever lead. |
| 2021-01-01 | 38 | Nårdegaist | "Bjärskåkken" | Haimganggsringgninggi | He basks. |
| 2021-01-01 | 39 | Ius Talionis | "Divide et frange" | Theomorphose 2 | He is a toxic container full of shit, |
| 2021-01-01 | 40 | Aspar | "Strand der Zeit" | single | but in the stove-bowl-shit allegory, |
| 2021-01-01 | 69 | ChuggaBoom | "One More Christmas Song" | single | There was, ultimately, nothing out of character about our terrible day, or these horrifying four years. I know us when I see us, and that was definitely us. We made this mess together. |
| 2021-01-01 | 70 | Elegy Of Madness | "Carol of the Bells" | single | But if we have one thing other countries do not, one thing other generations of humans have not (and I'm by no means certain that we do, but it's believe or give up), it might be our chaotic, insatiable, relentlessly unstable character and its obtuse but self-preservational ability to shudder and scrape off the shit and melted plastic and light a new fire under a new oath as if this one can still, after everything, be different. |
| 2020-12-25 | 1 | Synthvvitch | "shimmering mists (into the gloaming)" | Mortifer | We set imaginary boundaries |
| 2020-12-25 | 2 | Rise to the Sky | "A Cold Embrace From Life" | A Cold Embrace from Life | lightly, momentarily, down on the flowing surface of time |
| 2020-12-25 | 3 | The Ruins Of Beverast | "Kromlec'h Knell" | single | as a necessary mechanism for coping with the vertigo of eternity: |
| 2020-12-25 | 4 | Akhlys | "Somniloquy" | Melinoë | ceremonially, and they are immediately and unceremoniously borne away. |
| 2020-12-25 | 5 | Tomorrow's Rain | "דורסי לילה" | Hollow (Hebrew Version) | We may as well draw our plans on scritta |
| 2020-12-25 | 6 | Alekhine's Gun | "Tonglen" | Year of the Lazarus 3 | with molten pens. |
| 2020-12-25 | 7 | Aspar | "Der Aufstieg" | single | Nothing ends today |
| 2020-12-25 | 8 | Korpiklaani | "Sanaton maa" | Sanaton Maa 3 | of its own internal volition, |
| 2020-12-25 | 9 | Hora Zulú | "El Más Solo del Cementerio" | single | but we take our unnumbered inhalations |
| 2020-12-25 | 10 | Tribulation | "Hour of the Wolf" | single | and select one to be assigned episodic finality. |
| 2020-12-25 | 11 | Crystallion | "Knights and Heroes" | single | Here the old year ends, and we are allowed to choose our roles anew. |
| 2020-12-25 | 12 | Mendel | "Discover" | Neoblivion | All structural implications inherently persist, |
| 2020-12-25 | 15 | Vajra | "Sever the Tie" | single | and because this is unstable to contemplate, |
| 2020-12-25 | 16 | NEVIAH | "EMBERS IN THE EYE" | EMBERS IN THE EYE | and we are even worse at ungrounded reasoning |
| 2020-12-25 | 17 | Postmodern Fantasy | "When Destiny Calls" | single | than reasoning in general, |
| 2020-12-25 | 18 | Tuatha de Danann | "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" | In Nomine Éireann | we pretend that we can only do so occasionally, |
| 2020-12-25 | 61 | Dead by April | "Let It Go" | single | And then we laugh, and turn, and run a foot through the line as we step back into everything. |
| 2020-12-18 | 12 | Sam Fender | "Winter Song" | single | or soft metal instead of aromatic resin. |
| 2020-12-18 | 16 | Syqem | "beLIEf (The Christmas Song)" | single | With this power you open a portal |
| 2020-12-18 | 17 | Majestica | "A Christmas Story" | A Christmas Carol | to uncountable glorious realms |
| 2020-12-18 | 18 | Gathering Of Kings | "December (Christmas)" | December (Christmas) +1 | that have always been layers of our skin. |
| 2020-12-18 | 19 | Me And The Rest | "Last Christmas" | single | This year will be different. |
| 2020-12-18 | 20 | Cole Rolland | "Carol of the Bells" | single | But then, cyclic difference is all we mean by years, |
| 2020-12-11 | 24 | Skarlett Riot | "Gravity" | single | you have extracted the power |
| 2020-12-11 | 25 | Blame Me! | "Fire, Fuel And Scars" | single | that you breathed into them in the first place, |
| 2020-12-11 | 26 | September Mourning | "Wake The Dead" | single | and you're back to almost exactly where you started. |
| 2020-12-11 | 27 | Sirenia | "Addiction No. 1" | single | Almost. |
| 2020-12-11 | 28 | Edenbridge | "Tauerngold" | single | We will bring the tables back out, |
| 2020-12-11 | 29 | Sebastien | "Zatmění" | Integrity | but the floors will remember the months they spent empty. |
| 2020-12-11 | 30 | Dark The Suns | "Everywhere" | single | You will feel the breath of strangers. |
| 2020-12-11 | 31 | dArtagnan | "C'est la vie" | single | You will catch yourself missing the warmth of masks. |
| 2020-12-11 | 32 | Creye | "Find a Reason" | single | We careened off of paranoia and futility, |
| 2020-12-11 | 33 | W.E.T. | "Got to Be About Love" | single | not always that much more effectively in socially empathic earnest |
| 2020-12-11 | 34 | Soen | "Monarch" | single | than in imperious nihilist denial, |
| 2020-12-11 | 35 | 3.2 | "A Fond Farewell" | single | and even at the end, the race between deliverance and inevitability |
| 2020-12-11 | 36 | Harakiri for the Sky | "And Oceans Between Us" | single | may require unsatisfying arbitration. |
| 2020-12-11 | 37 | Mesarthim | "Planet Nine 15:29" | Planet Nine | But this is not a defeat for science, any more than implacable cosmology is defeat for orbital physics. |
| 2020-12-11 | 38 | Mesarthim | "Laniakea" | The Degenerate Era | We made the vaccines, |
| 2020-12-11 | 39 | Saħħar | "Nilqghu..." | Tigrif Tal-Gnus | but we also made the wet markets |
| 2020-12-11 | 40 | Einherjer | "Stars" | single | and the air filters |
| 2020-12-11 | 41 | Aspar | "Rom" | single | and the masks |
| 2020-12-11 | 42 | Asphyx | "Knights Templar Stand" | single | and the conduits for idiotic conspiracy theories |
| 2020-12-11 | 43 | From North | "Fearless" | Lurhorns Call 3 | and the ordering systems for body bags |
| 2020-12-11 | 44 | Moonspell | "Common Prayers" | single | and the fear we have shared and the hope. |
| 2020-12-11 | 45 | Emma Ruth Rundle | "Hollywood" | single | There is only us. |
| 2020-12-11 | 46 | For Giants | "What Happened To You" | single | We survive definitionally, |
| 2020-12-04 | 3 | Rave The Reqviem | "Colossvs" | Stigmata Itch | or the last narcissist fed by obsequities, |
| 2020-12-04 | 4 | Souls Of Diotima | "The Black Mask" | single | or the last time we defeat them |
| 2020-12-04 | 5 | A Swift Farewell | "Save Yourself" | single | or survive. |
| 2020-12-04 | 6 | Dark Princess | "Феникс" | single | Love expands, infuses, animates, multiplies. |
| 2020-12-04 | 7 | As Everything Unfolds | "Stranger in the Mirror" | Stranger in the Mirror +2 | Hatred clenches, divides, flees into isolated shadows. |
| 2020-12-04 | 8 | Ann My Guard | "Nyx" | Furia | Good inspires, evil commands, |
| 2020-12-04 | 9 | Dark Horse White Horse | "Judgement Day" | single | and this is why fascism's obscene parody of populism |
| 2020-12-04 | 10 | Elyose | "Mille silences" | single | relies on misinformation and conjured enemies and festering fear, |
| 2020-12-04 | 11 | Seas on the Moon | "Opium" | Sanctuary 5 | and authority as a moral abscess. |
| 2020-12-04 | 12 | Die So Fluid | "Walk With Me" | single | We are flawed deeply, |
| 2020-12-04 | 13 | Phantom Elite | "The Race" | single | but never all the way down. |
| 2020-12-04 | 14 | The Dead Deads | "Hey Girlfriend" | single | If you want to save someone, look into their eyes. |
| 2020-12-04 | 18 | BAND-MAID | "Different" | Different +2 | in the sodden costumes of loyal also-drowning wolves, |
| 2020-12-04 | 29 | Armed Cloud | "Big Bang Theory" | Torque | and then realizing it is everywhere around us. |
| 2020-12-04 | 30 | Nemoreus | "Bring the Demons to the Hall" | single | We had a vaccine before we had a pandemic. |
| 2020-12-04 | 31 | Felo De Se | "Shattered Sky" | Essence of Illusions | The race was never between virus and RNA, |
| 2020-12-04 | 32 | Orden Ogan | "Heart of the Android" | single | always between conscientiousness and complacency. |
| 2020-12-04 | 33 | Evergrey | "Forever Outsider" | single | All morality tales are scarecrows made of |
| 2020-12-04 | 34 | Iron Savior | "Skycrest" | Skycrest | difficult rewarding truths stuffed into compellingly worthless evasions, |
| 2020-12-04 | 35 | Labyrinth | "Live Today" | single | topped with shitty hats. |
| 2020-12-04 | 36 | Genus Ordinis Dei | "Torture" | Glare of Deliverance | An administration of humans raised on consequence could have faced this challenge with more courage or more compassion, |
| 2020-12-04 | 37 | Hyrgal | "Colère Noire" | Fin De Règne | but if you have 74 million people willing to believe in imaginary enemies but not existential ones, |
| 2020-12-04 | 38 | Knogjärn | "Älskar ingen" | Stora och farliga | that's a lot of bad hats. |
| 2020-12-04 | 39 | Mägo de Oz | "El Cervezo - El árbol de la birra" | single | Less systemically-dysfunctional countries than ours |
| 2020-12-04 | 40 | Saurom | "Mi Gente" | Música | failed this challenge in their own ways, too. |
| 2020-12-04 | 41 | Waltari | "Fire Dance - Single Edit" | single | In terms of practical human qualities, this was bad year |
| 2020-12-04 | 44 | Rave The Reqviem | "Aerial" | Stigmata Itch | try again in 2021, |
| 2020-12-04 | 104 | The HU | "Sad But True" | single | Open your eyes. |
| 2020-12-04 | 105 | Iconic Eye | "Jane" | Back from Behind the Sun 5 | Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about. |
| 2020-11-27 | 23 | Metalite | "Peacekeepers" | single | and where we pass, there will be chaos and power and peace. |
| 2020-11-27 | 24 | Epica | "Freedom - The Wolves Within-" | Freedom - The Wolves Within 2 | We are ungoverned animals, |
| 2020-11-27 | 25 | Votum | "Prey" | Duhkha | half the time barely aware enough to save ourselves from our own nature |
| 2020-11-27 | 26 | Eleine | "Crawl from the Ashes" | Dancing in Hell | disguished as fire or teeth, |
| 2020-11-27 | 27 | Intra | "Maya" | single | and yet also poetic architects |
| 2020-11-27 | 28 | Juliet Ruin | "Dark Water" | single | and the creatures who see emotional hue in physical texture, |
| 2020-11-27 | 29 | As December Falls | "Afterglow" | single | and what it feels like when a war ends |
| 2020-11-27 | 30 | TEARS OF TRAGEDY | "Outsider" | TRINITY | and you have this accumulated will to fight |
| 2020-11-27 | 31 | Rie a.k.a. Suzaku | "World Journey" | World Journey | and a guitar and a travel ban. |
| 2020-11-27 | 32 | Dual Alter World | "STAR ENHANCER" | WORLD DISTONATION | The sunlight feels like purpose, |
| 2020-11-27 | 33 | Cran Arcanaria | "PERSONA" | single | but it was discarded 93 million miles ago, |
| 2020-11-27 | 64 | Melodicka Bros | "Complicated (But it's Prog Metal)" | single | systemically immature and mostly incapable of rational self-evaluation, |
| 2020-11-27 | 65 | Amahiru | "Innocent" | Amahiru | proudest of our least distinguished flaws, |
| 2020-11-27 | 66 | Grimgotts | "Land of Tomorrow" | single | dreaming of trivia utopias, |
| 2020-11-27 | 67 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Dans le rêve lucide" | Im Traum | misconstruing a single subdivided rock as vastness and empire. |
| 2020-11-27 | 68 | Arrayan Path | "The Marble Gates to Apeiron" | The Marble Gates to Apeiron | You ask if we are evil, and we say "No, no, 'eeviel'. Totally different. We changed it to make this clear." |
| 2020-11-27 | 69 | Dread Sovereign | "Nature is the Devil's Church" | single | You would be confused if you had to live here, too. |
| 2020-11-27 | 70 | Varde | "Skuld" | Fedraminne | It's hard to believe that virtue derives from will |
| 2020-11-27 | 71 | Ondskapt | "Semita Sinistram" | Grimoire Ordo Devus | when will is so helpless against so many external forces, |
| 2020-11-27 | 72 | Ablaze My Sorrow | "My Sorrow" | single | hard to grant authority to our hearts |
| 2020-11-27 | 73 | Panychida | "Abele" | Gabreta Aeterna | when we spend half of every second wondering if they will beat again as supposedly scheduled. |
| 2020-11-27 | 74 | Corrupt Moral Altar | "Cathedral of Porn" | Patiently Waiting for Wonderful Things 5 | You would suffer a teleology exactly as bizarre as ours |
| 2020-11-27 | 75 | Suffering Hour | "Strongholds of Awakening" | single | if you had to assemble it while spinning at these speeds and angles. |
| 2020-11-27 | 76 | Imha Tarikat | "Klimax Downpour" | single | How do you think we ended up with all these mythologies |
| 2020-11-27 | 77 | Mork | "Pesta" | Pesta +3 | flexed in collaborationist opposition to the void? |
| 2020-11-27 | 78 | Serpents Oath | "Malediction" | single | All our anthems reduce to "I will follow you into the dark", |
| 2020-11-27 | 79 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Schnee (I)" | Schnee | and "my love is this candle and you are this cold wind". |
| 2020-11-27 | 80 | Kaunis Kuolematon | "Syttyköön toinen aurinko" | Syttyköön Toinen Aurinko | And you sit nestled in your lush enclaves of karst, |
| 2020-11-27 | 81 | Marras | "Mustavalkoista" | Henkilökohtainen Helvetti 4 | listening to us on receptors suspended securely from towers, |
| 2020-11-27 | 85 | Saurom | "La Danza De Los Mundos" | single | But, of course, our fragility is exactly how our languages operate. |
| 2020-11-27 | 101 | Batushka | "TRETIJ CZAS" | BLACK LITURGY | and by reverently surging devotion to everything we claim to resist. |
| 2020-11-27 | 104 | UMC | "Sweet but Psycho (Metal Version)" | CHAPTER 2 | This is what our entry says in the new edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide: "Poison but tasty*." |
| 2020-11-27 | 108 | Firstborne | "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" | single | but from worlds apart, of course that doesn't matter. |
| 2020-11-20 | 14 | Within Temptation | "The Purge" | The Purge +3 | We fight over their meanings, |
| 2020-11-20 | 15 | Aeternitas | "Fountain of Youth" | Haunted Minds | leaving the deeper satisfaction of ambivalence untouched. |
| 2020-11-20 | 16 | Chrysilia | "Dragunera: Act II" | single | Love does not nominate and then eliminate. |
| 2020-11-20 | 17 | Moyra | "The Eyes of Rats" | single | We aspire nihilistically to reduce each year |
| 2020-11-20 | 18 | TRiDENT | "JUST FIGHT" | JUST DO IT !!! 3 | to a single pop performance by a trio or septet, |
| 2020-11-20 | 20 | WAGAMAMA RAKIA | "SURVIVE" | single | one regional Japanese music album (including kawaii metal), |
| 2020-11-20 | 30 | Dark Tranquillity | "Remain in the Unknown" | Moment | but who would we be without it? |
| 2020-11-20 | 31 | Moonspell | "The Greater Good" | single | 10,000 steps :: 10,000 chances to fall. |
| 2020-11-20 | 32 | Frosttide | "We Will Be Gone" | single | We pass our most mundane days in inexplicable magic. |
| 2020-11-20 | 33 | Human Fortress | "The Grimoire - Remastered" | single | The legends are as emphatic on this point |
| 2020-11-20 | 34 | Korpiklaani | "Mylly" | Mylly +1 | as they are evasive on its reasoning. |
| 2020-11-20 | 35 | Knogjärn | "Likbil" | Kvarlevor | Do you blame us for wanting preemptive forgiveness |
| 2020-11-20 | 75 | Liturgy | "Apparition of the Eternal Church" | Origin of the Alimonies | a 9999m peak is the planet's sword for killing ships of fools, |
| 2020-11-20 | 76 | Hermóðr | "Two Ravens" | Korpsträd | and a 1001m peak is the paradise we have sought for plunder. |
| 2020-11-20 | 77 | Tombs | "Void Constellation" | Under Sullen Skies | We become free by learning to breathe salt water or open space, |
| 2020-11-20 | 78 | Communic | "Scavengers Await" | Hiding from the World | and empowered by how much else we are able to translate into the same revelatory fictions. |
| 2020-11-20 | 79 | Maraton | "Almost Human" | Meta + | The legends smile and say "Now you see how we ended up this way. |
| 2020-11-20 | 80 | Loch Vostok | "Disillusion" | single | We were as sure as you are in this perfect moment, |
| 2020-11-20 | 81 | VOLA | "Head Mounted Sideways" | single | and just as comprehensively wrong, |
| 2020-11-20 | 82 | 616 | "Black Diamond" | single | and just as magnificently determined to be undeterred by pervasion. |
| 2020-11-20 | 102 | PassCode | "Maze of mind - PassCode STARRY TOUR 2020 FINAL at KT Zepp Yokohama" | PassCode STARRY TOUR 2020 FINAL at KT Zepp Yokohama | is made of the same history as the sinkholes and oases |
| 2020-11-20 | 103 | Diamond Head | "No Remorse" | single | we mapped as if geology could be disentangled from belief. |
| 2020-11-20 | 104 | Ellefson | "Holiday in Cambodia" | No Cover | Exploration is a meager apology for complacency, |
| 2020-11-13 | 1 | a crowd of rebellion | "Meteor" | Zealot City | The path runs through the woods to the river, |
| 2020-11-13 | 8 | BASEMENT PROPHECY | "Guardians of the Light" | single | All these songs, then, become running songs. |
| 2020-11-13 | 9 | Eleine | "Memoriam" | single | I loop through the expansive initial drafts of these playlists over the course of each week, |
| 2020-11-13 | 10 | Snow White Blood | "Longing For the Sea" | Hope Springs Eternal | in reluctant subtractive judgment, |
| 2020-11-13 | 11 | Therion | "Leviathan" | single | and the runs are shorter than the songs of the injured and defiant world, |
| 2020-11-13 | 12 | Amahiru | "Lucky Star" | single | and thus routes and subsequence themes find strange resonances: |
| 2020-11-13 | 13 | Seas on the Moon | "Break Out" | single | burrowing into oncoming rivershore wind to twice as many power-chirp J-pixie songs as I kept, |
| 2020-11-13 | 14 | DIAMANTE | "I Love Myself For Hating You" | single | dodging Harborwalk turns to fairytale-metal arias, |
| 2020-11-13 | 30 | All Wasted | "Towards the End" | Towards the End +2 | The essential malleability of music |
| 2020-11-13 | 31 | W.E.T. | "Big Boys Don't Cry" | single | is that all anthems can be anthems of your own steps, |
| 2020-11-13 | 32 | Pyramaze | "Bird of Prey" | Epitaph | welcoming you back to body-weights you have weighed before, |
| 2020-11-13 | 33 | Shattered Skies | "Starbound" | single | to the nearest corners you've turned a thousand times |
| 2020-11-13 | 34 | Intervals | "Luna[r]tic" | Circadian | or the farthest ones only just touched by your range. |
| 2020-11-13 | 35 | Black Fate | "Maze" | single | I imagine the hesitant geese |
| 2020-11-13 | 36 | Cadaveria | "Matryoshcada" | single | hearing passing djent thud from inside my head |
| 2020-11-13 | 37 | Mitochondrial Sun | "Pulsar 3" | Sju Pulsarer | never getting to find out how the songs end. |
| 2020-11-13 | 38 | Dark Buddha Rising | "Uni" | Mathreyata | I couldn't tell you, either. |
| 2020-11-13 | 39 | Harakiri for the Sky | "Sing for the Damage We've Done" | single | The moment before a song ends, I twitch sideways out of the universe. |
| 2020-11-13 | 41 | Liturgy | "SIHEYMN's Lament" | single | All I ask is for the next one to begin. |
| 2020-11-13 | 42 | Katla | "Húsavíkur-Jón" | Allt þetta Helvítis Myrkur | Any amount of in medias res |
| 2020-11-13 | 43 | Soul Dissolution | "Where The Clouds Stand Still..." | Winter Contemplations 2 | keeps this interminable chapter notionally finite, |
| 2020-11-13 | 44 | Décembre Noir | "Streets of Transience" | The Renaissance of Hope | however transhorizonal its boundaries. |
| 2020-11-13 | 45 | Helsott | "Painless Journey of Death" | Woven | Some performative viking from the wrong continent's wrong coast hits a cymbal. |
| 2020-11-13 | 46 | Tuatha de Danann | "The Tribes of Witching Souls" | The Tribes of Witching Souls | I come back. |
| 2020-11-13 | 84 | Ellefson | "Sheer Heart Attack" | single | Tear apart the flags. Line up the rendered stripes to make new solid colors, and vice versa. |
| 2020-11-06 | 30 | Rave The Reqviem | "Holy Homicide" | single | It will be a relief to live again in a time when you can reasonably expect to |
| 2020-11-06 | 31 | Seas on the Moon | "Hell March (2020)" | Mioritual Healing | avoid running into Rudy Giuliani by walking past the porn store, |
| 2020-11-06 | 32 | Walk in Darkness | "On the Moon or on Mars" | On the Road to Babylon | but we're only getting a different president of the same country. |
| 2020-11-06 | 33 | Iconic Eye | "Back from Behind the Sun" | single | We're still the place that let a serial adulterer and bankruptcist |
| 2020-11-06 | 34 | Jaded Star | "Female Fronted" | Realign | tell us we are freest when we are loyal and stranded, |
| 2020-11-06 | 35 | Surma | "Like the River Flows" | The Light Within | but also the people who will fill his Presidential Library |
| 2020-11-06 | 36 | Averlanche | "The Diamond Hills" | Life's Phenomenon | with the positive negative space around his deleted tweets. |
| 2020-11-06 | 37 | As Everything Unfolds | "Take Me There" | Take Me There +1 | We're still the island where the persecuted came to learn to be bullies, |
| 2020-11-06 | 38 | Snow White Blood | "Drop a Stitch" | single | but also the continent where we chose to stay as dreamers |
| 2020-11-06 | 39 | Dark Horse White Horse | "Black Hole" | single | after we discovered the Bully University was a scam. |
| 2020-11-06 | 40 | Vermilia | "Suru On Kunniavieras" | single | We're the patriots who screamed "Live Free or Die" in open-mouthed righteousness |
| 2020-11-06 | 41 | Ayasa | "GUNSHOT〜memory of loved" | single | during an aerosol pandemic, |
| 2020-11-06 | 51 | a crowd of rebellion | "°OD。" | single | We are the atheists who will elect a Catholic to banish a demon, |
| 2020-11-06 | 61 | Eternal Idol | "Black Star" | Renaissance | and then self-awareness, |
| 2020-11-06 | 62 | Sólstafir | "Dionysus" | Endless Twilight of Codependent Love | and then empathy. |
| 2020-11-06 | 63 | Fortíð | "Pandemic" | single | We are the country that will wear hats advertising our entitlement, |
| 2020-11-06 | 64 | Massemord | "Millenial Kingdom" | Blut Des Nordens 6 | but not masks acknowledging our responsibility, |
| 2020-11-06 | 65 | Saħħar | "Belt Stuprata" | single | and every four years we get to flip 150 million coins to decide |
| 2020-11-06 | 66 | Stoort Neer | "Sthöretn" | MÖRRINJÖ 3 | if we barely deserve a government levitated by our erratic potential, |
| 2020-11-06 | 67 | Déluge | "Gloire Au Silence" | Ægo Templo | instead of one grounded by our relentless moral abdication. |
| 2020-11-06 | 68 | Genus Ordinis Dei | "Examination" | single | We attribute the success of others to the tactics we ourselves have employed, |
| 2020-11-06 | 69 | Sebastien | "Nechtěná" | Nechtěná +2 | which is why Trump blames his loss on cheating |
| 2020-11-06 | 70 | Fates Warning | "Shuttered World" | Long Day Good Night | and we blame the narrowness of his defeat on our failure to connect with the disenfranchised. |
| 2020-11-06 | 71 | Von Kaiser | "Valley of Dying Stars" | single | The inexplicable public indulgence of an incompetent toddler-tyrant |
| 2020-11-06 | 82 | Eoront | "The Bonfires of Times" | Gods Have No Home | Taxes, like every other apparent restriction of your "freedom", |
| 2020-11-06 | 83 | Reliquiae | "Sisyphos" | single | from speed limits to plague masks, |
| 2020-11-06 | 84 | Surma | "The Selkie (Kópakonan)" | The Light Within | are awkward symptomatic remediations for untreated civil dysfunction. |
| 2020-10-30 | 13 | Phantom Elite | "Diamonds and Dark" | single | I'm no longer entirely sure it matters. |
| 2020-10-30 | 14 | Eleine | "Dancing in Hell" | single | If nearly half the nominal adults in this country lived through the last four years and thought |
| 2020-10-30 | 15 | Darzamat | "Clouds, Clouds, Darkening All" | A Philosopher at the End of the Universe | "yes, this is working", |
| 2020-10-30 | 16 | Ann My Guard | "Furia" | single | in what sense is this conglomeration of moral orthogonalities "united"? |
| 2020-10-30 | 17 | Seraphic | "The Monster Within" | Chrysalis | I'm supposed to believe we can be healed, |
| 2020-10-30 | 18 | Alkonost | "Подруга-Ночь (Пиано Версия)" | single | to believe that I voted for our capacity to be healed. |