| 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. |
| 2020-10-30 | 19 | Transworld Identity | "Somewhere East of Eden" | single | I just voted to stop the molten bile from spewing out of the very top of the volcano of myopic racist self-destruction. |
| 2020-10-30 | 20 | Ultimatium | "Run like the Wind" | single | I don't think Joe Biden can heal us. |
| 2020-10-30 | 33 | Emma Ruth Rundle | "Killing Floor" | May Our Chambers Be Full | you've already gone wrong so badly, |
| 2020-10-30 | 34 | The Inferno Doll | "Land of the Lords" | Sacrifice 3 | and pleading for them to submit to higher brackets in order to pay for |
| 2020-10-30 | 35 | Katla | "Sálarsvefn" | single | displaced coal workers to go back to community college to learn how to wire solar panels |
| 2020-10-30 | 36 | Auðn | "Eldborg" | Vökudraumsins Fangi | is like trying to mount the engine for the firehose pump |
| 2020-10-30 | 37 | Fluisteraars | "Plankenwambuis" | Relaas | on top of the fire. |
| 2020-10-30 | 38 | Grafvitnir | "Helvetesnatt" | Death's Wings Widespread | The education has to come before the reform, |
| 2020-10-30 | 39 | Svartsyn | "The Pale Horse" | Requiem | so you get a society that understands why we need to stop burning coal. |
| 2020-10-30 | 40 | Bliss of Flesh | "Vanitas" | Tyrant | The social security needs to come before the schooling, |
| 2020-10-30 | 41 | Déluge | "Digue" | single | not after retirement, |
| 2020-10-30 | 42 | Botanist | "Chlorophyll" | Photosynthesis | so that we don't produce humans who are alienated before they're even enfranchised. |
| 2020-10-30 | 43 | Draconian | "Claw Marks on the Throne" | Under A Godless Veil | The imperatives of human well-being have to be incorporated as foundational, |
| 2020-10-30 | 44 | Dark Tranquillity | "The Dark Unbroken" | single | not imposed and retracted in regulatory alternation by successive administrations. |
| 2020-10-30 | 45 | Mors Subita | "Black and White" | Extinction Era | We have trivial policy fights |
| 2020-10-30 | 46 | Psycroptic | "A Fragile Existence" | single | over profound moral precepts, |
| 2020-10-30 | 47 | Enter Tragedy | "Es war einmal" | Canossa | and then fanciful ideological wars |
| 2020-10-30 | 48 | Starbynary | "Saturn" | single | over indirectly symptomatic logistics. |
| 2020-10-30 | 49 | FEST VAINQUEUR | "Valensia&Virginia" | DIX | We surround ourselves with terrible television, |
| 2020-10-30 | 50 | NUL. | "nomad" | single | and then are surprised to find ourselves swallowed by its distortions and voiced by its static. |
| 2020-10-30 | 51 | Shiva | "bansyū ni aka" | single | We abdicate responsibility for our value systems, |
| 2020-10-23 | 1 | Leaves' Eyes | "Flames in the Sky" | The Last Viking | The snow has been falling since dawn. |
| 2020-10-23 | 2 | Neperia | "The Story Is Told" | The Story Is Told +1 | Things for which we have remotely and theoretically prepared ourselves, |
| 2020-10-23 | 3 | Song of Anhubis | "Misantropía" | Reversed Reflection | knowing they belong to possible futures, |
| 2020-10-23 | 4 | Arvandil | "Dance in the mist" | single | show up outside our doors in the cold. |
| 2020-10-23 | 17 | Pyramaze | "Particle" | single | a kid with a copy of The Portable Nietzsche; |
| 2020-10-23 | 18 | Black Fate | "Ithaca" | Ithaca | lonely, married, a parent; |
| 2020-10-23 | 19 | Darzamat | "The Great Blaze" | single | fortunate, doomed. |
| 2020-10-23 | 20 | Mörk Gryning | "Black Spirit" | Hinsides Vrede | Having unexpectedly become a person who sits at home doing my job, |
| 2020-10-23 | 21 | Wake | "Disparity and Chaos" | Confluence 3 | punctuated by short trips to the front door to take in deliveries |
| 2020-10-23 | 22 | Liturgy | "Lonely OIOION" | single | and periodic expeditions to the second floor to annoy my teenage daughter by making dumb faces at her while she's trying to survive "remote learning", |
| 2020-10-23 | 60 | Naevius | "Shame" | single | abundant curious, |
| 2020-10-23 | 61 | envy | "Fingerprint mark - Live at LIQUIDROOM Tokyo" | Fingerprint mark 2 | benificently abundant, |
| 2020-10-23 | 64 | Leaves' Eyes | "Varangians" | The Last Viking | I want to spend another Thanksgiving cooking with my parents. |
| 2020-10-16 | 19 | Bad Pollyanna | "The Escape" | single | and then return them to their heartbroken owners, |
| 2020-10-16 | 20 | Galactic Superlords | "Freight Train" | Freight Train | and then walk home imagining what else we can reunite tomorrow. |
| 2020-10-16 | 21 | Furies | "The Fortune's Gate" | Fortune's Gate | We need to know our streets, |
| 2020-10-16 | 22 | Skies Collide | "Down" | single | and this is why, on emptyhanded days, |
| 2020-10-16 | 23 | Averlanche | "Imagined Nothing" | single | or days burdened with neglect, |
| 2020-10-16 | 24 | Memoremains | "Riot In The Crowd" | The Cost of Greatness | it is enough to wander, |
| 2020-10-16 | 25 | Snow White Blood | "Shared Hearts" | single | learning the scale of the smallest differences |
| 2020-10-16 | 26 | Sacrament | "Поговори со мной" | single | with which to calibrate the fragility of the largest. |
| 2020-10-16 | 27 | a crowd of rebellion | "無罪者" | single | Confinement is just what illuminated introspection looks like from outside the glass, |
| 2020-10-16 | 35 | Ninja Sex Party | "The Mystic Crystal" | The Prophecy | and govern at the same time. |
| 2020-10-16 | 36 | Eternal Idol | "Dark Eclipse" | single | As with all chapters, though, |
| 2020-10-16 | 37 | Starbynary | "Stellae Fixae" | single | and thus with all stories animated by love, |
| 2020-10-16 | 38 | Phoenix Rising | "Deriva Speranza" | single | we continue most humanely by carrying the sigils of our enemies |
| 2020-10-16 | 39 | Iron Savior | "Our Time Has Come" | single | in our pockets, or keeping them in intricately hinged chests. |
| 2020-10-16 | 40 | Dark Tranquillity | "Identical to None" | single | For the empathic, enmity is a crude foreshadowing of romance; |
| 2020-10-16 | 41 | Auðn | "Verður von að bráð" | single | for the self-righteous, reckoning. |
| 2020-10-16 | 42 | A Pregnant Light | "With Excruciating Finesse" | You Cannot Pour from an Empty Vessel | You cannot drink from a well pumped dry |
| 2020-10-16 | 43 | Arkan | "Seeds of War" | Lila H | of both tears and venom. |
| 2020-10-16 | 67 | A Pregnant Light | "Spear Through My Head" | You Cannot Pour from an Empty Vessel | Really it was probably a thousand rivers before that, |
| 2020-10-16 | 76 | Mary's Blood | "INVOKE" | Re>Animator | There is a light that doesn't belong to anyone. |
| 2020-10-16 | 79 | Ninja Sex Party | "It's Bedtime" | The Prophecy | but if you never listen, you will be the lesson. |
| 2020-10-09 | 1 | Thrudvangar | "Siegvaters Maid" | single | Summon the old gods. |
| 2020-10-09 | 3 | Genus Ordinis Dei | "Edict" | single | We have lost track of grandeur, of coherent vindictive grudges. |
| 2020-10-09 | 4 | Cemican | "Yóok' ol Kaab Maya" | Yóok' ol Kaab Maya +1 | We have traded too much of the immortal power of knowledge for the transient satisfaction of image. |
| 2020-10-09 | 5 | Rise to the Sky | "From the Distance" | Death Will Not Keep Us Apart | We have fallen in with kobolds fleeing from the abyss that made them. |
| 2020-10-09 | 6 | Vhäldemar | "Death to the Wizard!" | Straight to Hell | We have trivialized expertise to the point where even bankruptcy claims the attributes of incantation, |
| 2020-10-09 | 7 | Helion Prime | "The Final Theory" | Question Everything | and the gravity of significance. |
| 2020-10-09 | 8 | Sinner's Blood | "Phoenix Rise" | The Mirror Star | We have become afraid to be born again in flame, not water. |
| 2020-10-09 | 11 | Fates Warning | "Now Comes the Rain" | single | Fatalist symmetry is worse than the vertigo of doubt. |
| 2020-10-09 | 12 | Teramaze | "Ocean Floor" | I Wonder | We are worse than we were. |
| 2020-10-09 | 13 | Jaded Star | "Breathing Fire" | Breathing Fire +1 | Our brightest eras have been forged in uncertainty, |
| 2020-10-09 | 14 | Two and a Half Girl | "Page One Rewrite" | Disconnected 5 | and the attendant sense of purpose as an infinite quantity, |
| 2020-10-09 | 15 | Song of Anhubis | "My Own Enemy" | single | not a closed state. |
| 2020-10-09 | 16 | Epica | "Abyss of Time - Countdown to Singularity -" | single | We are not pus in hats, measuring ourselves in debt and dribbling purchased spasms of role-played dominance. |
| 2020-10-09 | 17 | BABYMETAL | "BxMxC" | single | We rise out of the sea, |
| 2020-10-02 | 3 | Metalite | "We Bring You the Stars" | single | not just all grief. |
| 2020-10-02 | 4 | Amaranthe | "Fearless" | Manifest | We do not fear tears of snow-white sorrow. |
| 2020-10-02 | 5 | Surma | "Until It Rains Again" | single | The rain keeps returning, but it definitely fades in between. |
| 2020-10-02 | 6 | Louna | "Начало нового круга" | Начало нового круга | How do they manage in non-cyclic universes |
| 2020-10-02 | 7 | Mindmaze | "Stand Your Ground - Advanced Version" | single | where viable habitats don't spin? |
| 2020-10-02 | 8 | Eleine | "Ava of Death" | single | We are the native fauna of this particular oscillation rate, |
| 2020-10-02 | 9 | Ultimatium | "The Seer" | single | and of incremental mortality |
| 2020-10-02 | 10 | Vicky Psarakis | "Vampira" | single | relentlessly recurring. |
| 2020-10-02 | 11 | WAGAMAMA RAKIA | "Why?" | Why? +1 | Terrible days end, |
| 2020-10-02 | 12 | BRATS | "Lost Place - Version 2020" | Karma | and we get another chance tomorrow: |
| 2020-10-02 | 45 | Botanist | "Bacteria" | single | The tragedy of privilege is not the inevitable eventual accountability, |
| 2020-10-02 | 46 | Anaal Nathrakh | "Create Art, Though the World May Perish" | Endarkenment | which is inevitable only for the rest of us, |
| 2020-10-02 | 47 | Enslaved | "Flight of Thought and Memory" | Utgard | but the way in which even the smallest amounts of privilege |
| 2020-10-02 | 48 | Mors Principium Est | "My Home, My Grave" | My Home, My Grave +2 | so absolutely and desperately demand all-consuming defense. |
| 2020-10-02 | 49 | Helsott | "Agamemnon" | single | Give a single fish to the curious, and come back in a month, |
| 2020-10-02 | 50 | DevilDriver | "Wishing" | Dealing with Demons I | and they'll have opened a cooking school that has somehow ended up mostly teaching about fruit-filled pastries, |
| 2020-10-02 | 51 | Necrophobic | "Devil's Spawn Attack" | single | and started a fanfic site for stories about the ancient mountaintop kingdom |
| 2020-10-02 | 52 | Dark Charybdis 暴噬者 | "The Infinite Regress" | Reincarnation | from which they've decided the fish came. |
| 2020-10-02 | 53 | Second to Sun | "Eerie" | Leviathan | This is what you get for giving them one fish, |
| 2020-10-02 | 54 | Sallow Moth | "Necrogenesis" | Arcane Treachery 2 | with documentation auto-generated from its skeleton. |
| 2020-10-02 | 55 | The Monolith Deathcult | "The White Silence" | single | Give a single fish to the precarious class reliant on unearned hierarchy, though, |
| 2020-10-02 | 56 | Tombs | "Bone Furnace" | single | and you'll return to a dissolute gasping empire, |
| 2020-10-02 | 57 | Accept | "The Undertaker" | The Undertaker +1 | and a throne room that smells of rotting gills. |
| 2020-10-02 | 58 | Statue of Goat | "Ghosts" | Ghosts +2 | How do I know? We are that empire, |
| 2020-10-02 | 59 | Wildness | "Die Young" | single | commemorated in statues of traitors |
| 2020-10-02 | 88 | The Sound That Ends Creation | "If the Spaghetti Monster Doesn't Exist, Why Do Planets Look Like Meatballs" | Memes, Dreams, and Flying Machines | delusion and the impulse to attribute the astonishing mundane to the imperceivable immanent. |
| 2020-09-25 | 14 | Lethian Dreams | "Never Be Found" | A Shadow of Memories | and then argue about the contents of a single glass. |
| 2020-09-25 | 15 | Era of ephemeris | "Secret Garden" | single | We are all hidden here together, |
| 2020-09-25 | 16 | Carpathia | "In Romance" | single | spinning in love, |
| 2020-09-25 | 17 | AfterTime | "Planetary Eyes" | The Farthest Shore (Deluxe Version) | hoping to impress alien astronomers. |
| 2020-09-25 | 18 | Soulspell | "Sign of the Cross" | single | We are emerging from layers of old sacred skin, |
| 2020-09-25 | 19 | Obsidian Kingdom | "FLESH WORLD" | MEAT MACHINE | slowly realizing that the material between our hearts and our air |
| 2020-09-25 | 20 | Krashkarma | "Mechanical Heart (Radio Edit)" | single | is a transition from art to artifice, |
| 2020-09-25 | 21 | Postmodern Fantasy | "Pardon Me" | single | and thus from anthem to apology. |
| 2020-09-25 | 22 | Seven Kingdoms | "The Great Goat Rodeo" | single | Immunity is the dress intolerance wears when it thinks it's alone. |
| 2020-09-25 | 23 | A Light Divided | "Radio Silence" | Radio Silence +1 | The clothes we wear are ways we choose to muffle our own voices, |
| 2020-09-25 | 31 | Emma Ruth Rundle | "The Valley" | single | Nothing makes us irremediably different. |
| 2020-09-25 | 32 | Svalbard | "Open Wound" | When I Die, Will I Get Better? | Remedies, however, are a confused dream of angels. |
| 2020-09-25 | 33 | Wintaar | "World Without End" | There Is No God in War | Teleology is the compression tights economy puts on in the morning half-dark, |
| 2020-09-25 | 34 | Mors Subita | "Black and White" | single | and then takes off again before leaving the house. |
| 2020-09-25 | 35 | Pyramaze | "World Foregone" | single | We have a few more layers left to shed. |
| 2020-09-25 | 36 | Teramaze | "Sleeping Man" | single | Wake up, shake off yesterday's lingering hopelessness. |
| 2020-09-25 | 37 | Ayreon | "This Human Equation (feat. Tom Baker, Simone Simons, Marcela Bovio, Caroline Westendorp, Joost van den Broek)" | Transitus | Repeat. We can do this again. |
| 2020-09-25 | 38 | Emyn Muil | "Where the Light Drowns" | Afar Angathfark | The things that didn't kill us yesterday |
| 2020-09-25 | 61 | Marras | "Tyhjä Käsi" | single | not for the planet before we poisoned it, |
| 2020-09-18 | 1 | Ayreon | "Talk of the Town (feat. Paul Manzi, Tommy Karevik, Cammie Gilbert, Patty Gurdy, Joost van den Broek)" | Talk of the Town 4 | Five minutes can contain lifetimes, |
| 2020-09-18 | 2 | Scardust | "Tantibus II" | single | but the next song still plays. |
| 2020-09-18 | 3 | Leaves' Eyes | "Chain of the Golden Horn" | Chain of the Golden Horn +1 | You don't ask songs whether they will accept the passing of time. |
| 2020-09-18 | 4 | Amaranthe | "Archangel" | Archangel +2 | We come back from all of these heavens |
| 2020-09-18 | 5 | Burning Witches | "The Circle Of Five" | single | and start imagining the next ones. |
| 2020-09-18 | 6 | Vicky Psarakis | "Only for the Weak" | single | Song lives are always beginning in hope, |
| 2020-09-18 | 7 | MoonSun | "Never Too Late" | single | always pausing in tentative resolution, |
| 2020-09-18 | 8 | Neperia | "Contrast" | Contrast +1 | never really ending. |
| 2020-09-18 | 9 | Neith | "The Way You Know" | single | Silent lives merely continue, |
| 2020-09-18 | 10 | Mezmerized | "Ready to Go" | Electrolyze | declaring airless victory |
| 2020-09-18 | 11 | Louna | "Станем стеной" | single | in meaningless spaces between actual moments. |
| 2020-09-18 | 12 | Malaя | "Второе я" | single | These anarchist jurisdictions are where we come |
| 2020-09-18 | 13 | As Everything Unfolds | "Hiding from Myself" | single | to not be afraid of each other, |
| 2020-09-18 | 14 | Icon For Hire | "Curse Or Cure" | single | to feel the breadth in other humans' dreams. |
| 2020-09-18 | 15 | Stateside | "Chaos" | Havøc 5 | To understand an isolationist plague, |
| 2020-09-18 | 16 | Furies | "You & I" | single | you have to care about breath to begin with. |
| 2020-09-18 | 17 | Dark The Suns | "Seeker" | single | You can tell a bully from a leader by how they slump when they turn towards what ought to be their homes, |
| 2020-09-18 | 18 | Draconian | "Moon over Sabaoth" | single | by how they cannot look up on even the clearest night, |
| 2020-09-18 | 19 | Varg | "Fara Til Ránar" | Zeichen | by how plaintively they decry the things they can't have. |
| 2020-09-18 | 20 | Khors | "Starvation" | Where the Word Acquires Eternity | Four years can unravel decades, |
| 2020-09-18 | 58 | Boris | "Huge" | single | We will again be ominous and giant, |
| 2020-09-18 | 59 | The White Swan | "Nocturnal Transmission" | Nocturnal Transmission +3 | but able to sleep. |
| 2020-09-18 | 60 | Ancst | "The Burden of Hope, Pt. II" | Summits of Despondency | We realize it is harder to hope, |
| 2020-09-18 | 61 | Morokh | "Serpent's Nest" | Serpent's Nest 5 | harder to love new questions more than old answers, |
| 2020-09-18 | 62 | Fawn Limbs | "Metrae" | Sleeper Vessels | harder to shape noise than to hear yourself whimper, |
| 2020-09-18 | 63 | Raven Throne | "Zaklaccie" | Viartannie | harder to see yourself in other people's struggles |
| 2020-09-18 | 64 | Auðn | "Ljóstýra" | single | than to imagine yourself insulated by oceans, |
| 2020-09-18 | 65 | Dynfari | "Myrkurs er þörf" | Myrkurs er þörf | harder to remember that the water is only another mood of the air. |
| 2020-09-18 | 66 | Frowning | "Ad Finem" | Death Requiem | It is harder to care about how you win, |
| 2020-09-18 | 84 | MIYAVI | "Over The Rainbow" | single | collective majesty, constructive absurdity, convulsive wonder. |
| 2020-09-11 | 16 | Starkill | "Reckless and Infinite" | single | circular self-destructive optimization of proxy metrics, |
| 2020-09-11 | 17 | Rave The Reqviem | "Riptide" | single | nihilist suction. |
| 2020-09-11 | 18 | Regardless Of Me | "Awake" | Black Flowers Blossom | And yet I trust strangers singing in languages I can't follow in real-time, |
| 2020-09-11 | 19 | Vajra | "Maya" | single | and often don't bother to look up, |
| 2020-09-11 | 21 | Helion Prime | "The Gadfly" | single | or maybe because. |
| 2020-09-11 | 22 | Crown Of Glory | "Emporium of Dreams" | Ad Infinitum | It's not that you can't sing bad ideas. |
| 2020-09-11 | 23 | Dark Tranquillity | "Phantom Days" | single | Songs elicit your dreams, |
| 2020-09-11 | 24 | Mors Principium Est | "Lost in a Starless Aeon" | Lost in a Starless Aeon +1 | and you can have terrible dreams. |
| 2020-09-11 | 25 | Genus Ordinis Dei | "Hunt" | Ritual / Hunt 2 | In our ongoing assembly of peace, |
| 2020-09-11 | 26 | Mörk Gryning | "A Glimpse of the Sky" | single | art can still be weaponry, |
| 2020-09-11 | 27 | The Unguided | "Never Yield" | single | perpetuating the war even in the interest of ending it. |
| 2020-09-11 | 28 | Once Awake | "Last Days" | Last Days 5 | But the wires and knobs of anti-fascist machines |
| 2020-09-11 | 29 | Skeletoon | "Nemesis" | single | are not expended in blows. |
| 2020-09-11 | 30 | Eternal Idol | "Into the Darkness" | single | Art can beckon towards the void, |
| 2020-09-11 | 31 | Apulanta | "60 uutta ongelmaa" | single | but not without the motion becoming a dance, |
| 2020-09-11 | 53 | Uniform | "The Shadow of God's Hand" | Shame | in lawsuits received after campaign rallies. |
| 2020-09-11 | 54 | Theotoxin | "Through Hundreds of Years" | Fragment : Erhabenheit | Public-policy proposals are hard, |
| 2020-09-11 | 55 | Ihsahn | "Losing Altitude" | Pharos 5 | and can encode moral failure in complex and implicative ways. |
| 2020-09-11 | 56 | Völur | "Psychopomp II" | Psychopomp 2 | But dancing on a rooftop is easy |
| 2020-09-11 | 86 | Andromida | "The Abyss" | single | it's a scaffolding bolted over the molten chasms in our souls. |
| 2020-09-11 | 94 | Volymian | "Larger Than Life" | single | and the mechanics of every machine that destroys silence. |
| 2020-09-04 | 1 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Lost" | single | It is superfluous to remind ourselves about death, |
| 2020-09-04 | 2 | Oceans of Slumber | "The Soundtrack to My Last Day" | Oceans of Slumber | the one thing we reliably eventually remember, |
| 2020-09-04 | 3 | Anaal Nathrakh | "The Age of Starlight Ends" | single | but superfluity is a medium, not a pointlessness. |
| 2020-09-04 | 4 | Fawn Limbs | "Sleeper Vessels" | single | Grace is a measurement of how you perform the inevitable, |
| 2020-09-04 | 5 | LIK | "Funeral Anthem" | single | or perhaps of how performative the inevitable can be made. |
| 2020-09-04 | 6 | Sólstafir | "Drýsill" | single | We scoff at Calvinist or Odinist fatalisms, |
| 2020-09-04 | 7 | MajorVoice | "Sunbed in the Rain" | single | but then we attribute volition to markets, |
| 2020-09-04 | 8 | Sinner's Blood | "The Mirror" | single | and wait for them to improve us by discrete ministries. |
| 2020-09-04 | 9 | DGM | "Hope" | single | All of these numbers are us. |
| 2020-09-04 | 12 | Darzamat | "A Philosopher at the End of the Universe" | single | as capitulation to collective demand. |
| 2020-09-04 | 13 | Eleine | "As I Breathe" | single | The history of your choices |
| 2020-09-04 | 16 | exist†trace | "I'm still not dead" | The Only Garden 6 | but of the degrees of freedom you thought you had, |
| 2020-09-04 | 39 | Ancst | "Razed Eden" | single | like they will stop for a moment in mid-battle to admire themselves in the blade of a new sword. |
| 2020-09-04 | 40 | Dauþuz | "Erþæ" | single | But you have given them reflection, |
| 2020-09-04 | 41 | ColdWorld | "Ragnarök" | The Stars are Dead Now | and now they see that they look like you would look |
| 2020-09-04 | 42 | Antαres | "Outer Worlds And Inner Voids" | single | without the pallor of corruption |
| 2020-09-04 | 43 | Thurisaz | "Eternity Expires" | Re-Incentive | or its inextricable fear. |
| 2020-09-04 | 44 | Alkonost | "Prorochestvo" | Prorochestvo +1 | Now they have bright swords. |
| 2020-08-28 | 1 | Ihsahn | "Manhattan Skyline" | single | The obvious regressive telltale in "Make America Great Again" is "Again". |
| 2020-08-28 | 2 | Chaos Divine | "Beacon" | single | This is a finite, defeatist aspiration, |
| 2020-08-28 | 3 | Fates Warning | "Scars" | single | from a lumpy icon of the finite, |
| 2020-08-28 | 4 | Pain of Salvation | "UNFUTURE" | PANTHER | whose only notion of greatness is somebody else's defeat |
| 2020-08-28 | 5 | Enslaved | "Urjotun" | Urjotun +2 | for which you can falsely claim credit. |
| 2020-08-28 | 6 | Grauen | "Сквозь бесконечные перерождения" | single | Dreams of retreat are solace for the loss of hope |
| 2020-08-28 | 7 | Helion Prime | "Madame Mercury" | single | sold to us by merchants who never saw the margin in hope anyway. |
| 2020-08-28 | 8 | Vanishing Point | "Dead Elysium" | Dead Elysium | But naturally a material narcissist knows only proclamations of defeat. |
| 2020-08-28 | 9 | Silentium | "Tide" | Motiva | Capitalism, to the extent it constitutes an ethos at all, |
| 2020-08-28 | 10 | Konomi Suzuki | "REALIZE" | OPENING THEME FROM TV SERIES ”RE:ZERO -STARTING LIFE IN ANOTHER WORLD-” 2ND SEASON 4 | is formulated on symbolic defeat, |
| 2020-08-28 | 60 | Dreams of Avalon | "Run for Cover" | Beyond the Dream | Any half-decent human would take one step back, |
| 2020-08-28 | 61 | Meridian | "Out In The Fields" | single | and think for half a minute about what it was like to be a giant, |
| 2020-08-28 | 62 | Kalmhain | "Triest Afscheid" | single | and why the giants aren't gathered around our graves |
| 2020-08-28 | 63 | Aleynmord | "Spores of Possession" | The Blinding Light | thinking about what it was like to be us, |
| 2020-08-28 | 64 | Pig Destroyer | "The Octagonal Stairway" | The Octagonal Stairway | but also: what they loved even though it eventually destroyed them, |
| 2020-08-28 | 65 | Necrophobic | "The Infernal Depths of Eternity" | single | what they feared even though it could have saved them, |
| 2020-08-28 | 66 | Spook the Horses | "Cell Death" | Empty Body | and how they sang, in the dark spaces suspended between the two. |
| 2020-08-28 | 67 | Botanist | "Water" | single | A three-fourths-decent human would grasp that as the giants pass into legend |
| 2020-08-28 | 68 | The Devil's Trade | "The Iron Peak" | The Call of the Iron Peak | we become stewards of every inumerable way in which we are just like them: |
| 2020-08-21 | 1 | Unleash The Archers | "The Wind That Shapes the Land" | Abyss | This terrible year's best album is as good as any better year's. |
| 2020-08-21 | 2 | Oceans of Slumber | "To the Sea - A Tolling of the Bells" | single | Misery doesn't make us less human, |
| 2020-08-21 | 3 | Emma Ruth Rundle | "Ancestral Recall" | single | or less majestic, |
| 2020-08-21 | 4 | X-Perience | "Everytime" | 555 | or less aware of our capacities for grace. |
| 2020-08-21 | 5 | Reasons Behind | "Shades Of Neon" | Project: M.I.S.T. | It only makes us hoard joys more fruitlessly, |
| 2020-08-21 | 6 | The Waymaker | "Kingdom of Heaven" | single | waiting to feel like it's safe again to let them go into the air. |
| 2020-08-21 | 7 | WagakkiBand | "Singin' for..." | single | Meanwhile they hum inside us |
| 2020-08-21 | 9 | Varg | "Auf die Götter" | single | I miss fearing wolves, |
| 2020-08-21 | 10 | Pukuut | "Sumununa Pisunga" | Minutsit Kingulliit | or flying over Greenland, |
| 2020-08-21 | 11 | Veonity | "Acceptance" | Sorrows | or whatever else it was I used to do. |
| 2020-08-21 | 12 | Draconian | "The Sacrificial Flame" | single | We will not extricate ourselves from this with ritual, |
| 2020-08-21 | 13 | Mors Subita | "Into Eternity" | single | but measuring routine against ritual gives us a way to talk about the difference between entitlement and legend. |
| 2020-08-21 | 14 | Graupel | "Fade Away" | Fade Away +2 | Mythologies are moral structures against which to brace ourselves, |
| 2020-08-21 | 15 | Incantation | "Siege Hive" | Sect of Vile Divinities | not temples to cower in. |
| 2020-08-21 | 16 | Expander | "Waste Ranger" | Neuropunk Boostergang | All grandeur converges in wreckage |
| 2020-08-21 | 17 | Unleash The Archers | "Abyss" | Abyss | and waits there for the light. |
| 2020-08-21 | 39 | Unleash The Archers | "Carry the Flame" | Abyss | We agree to dream in metaphor and smoke. |
| 2020-08-21 | 52 | Protest The Hero | "Gift Horse" | Fabula & Syuzhet 2 | So much powerless belief. |
| 2020-08-21 | 56 | Unleash The Archers | "Afterlife" | Abyss | waiting to come alive again when we've been alive the whole time. |
| 2020-08-14 | 10 | Leaves' Eyes | "Dark Love Empress" | single | We used to be able to balance crowns on our heads |
| 2020-08-14 | 11 | Amaranthe | "Strong" | Strong +1 | even as we fell to earth. |
| 2020-08-14 | 12 | Crown Of Glory | "Something" | single | We are no longer those emperors |
| 2020-08-14 | 13 | April Art | "Break Out" | single | of longing and dust. |
| 2020-08-14 | 14 | Reasons Behind | "Living A Lie" | single | We have sold our glaciers for air, |
| 2020-08-14 | 15 | Memoremains | "Eternal Fame" | single | and then stood breathless in the cold. |
| 2020-08-14 | 16 | Soulspell | "March of Mephisto" | single | We have beaten sigils into filigree |
| 2020-08-14 | 17 | Helion Prime | "The Forbidden Zone" | single | that our skins shine through. |
| 2020-08-14 | 18 | Mors Principium Est | "A Day for Redemption" | single | So many suspended promises now expire. |
| 2020-08-14 | 19 | Profane Sanctum | "March" | single | The mountains kneel to greet our converging roads, |
| 2020-08-14 | 20 | Spook the Horses | "Inheritance" | single | and we shuffle timidly forward onto the greatest heights. |
| 2020-08-14 | 21 | Black Magnet | "Hegemon" | single | We have listened poorly to legends of wings, |
| 2020-08-14 | 22 | Wounds of Recollection | "Limping Away from the Water" | Nowhere Else Feels More Like Home | and mistaken their mechanism for escalators |
| 2020-08-14 | 23 | Ancst | "Final Hour" | single | and their ethereal motives for our own remedial grief. |
| 2020-08-14 | 24 | Wayfarer | "The Iron Horse (Gallows Frontier, Act II)" | single | We have traveled with our eyelids before us like plows, |
| 2020-08-14 | 25 | Uada | "No Place Here" | single | recognizing no blur 'til the darkness of home. |
| 2020-08-14 | 26 | Synthvvitch | "Potters Field" | Baby, the Inferno Is Here Now | We have been diffidently escorted in tiny ceremonial circles, |
| 2020-08-14 | 27 | Theotoxin | "Prayer" | single | and then told of orbits by severe priests. |
| 2020-08-14 | 28 | Raven Throne | "U Daloniach Zimy" | single | You pass all the way around the center of the earth by simply holding still. |
| 2020-08-14 | 29 | Pain of Salvation | "PANTHER" | single | A fool mistakes diagnostic tests for achievement, |
| 2020-08-14 | 30 | Gaztrea | "Moonlight" | single | and has waited so long for revenge |
| 2020-08-14 | 31 | Veonity | "Blinded Eyes Will See" | single | against letter carriers |
| 2020-08-14 | 32 | Vanishing Point | "Count Your Days" | Count Your Days +2 | for letters never written |
| 2020-08-14 | 33 | Rising Steel | "Fight Them All" | single | and then never signed "love,". |
| 2020-08-14 | 37 | Perfect Plan | "Heart To Stone" | single | lost in the war between wind machines and airbrushes. |
| 2020-08-14 | 76 | Atrium | "6equj5" | One Day at a Time 5 | fending off dire-wolf attacks while delivering carburetor parts, |
| 2020-08-14 | 77 | Yohei Kimura | "Omnislash" | single | or driving night nurses through lava to safety if the dormant volcano under Medford reawakens. |
| 2020-08-14 | 91 | Thou | "Into the Void" | A Primer of Holy Words | These interregna end. |
| 2020-08-14 | 92 | UMC | "Physical (Metal Version)" | single | We are no longer subject to empires of division and hoarding. |
| 2020-08-14 | 93 | The Longing | "It's a Sin" | single | We used to be able to balance crowns on our heads as we fell to earth. This seemed like a skill. But without the crowns, that falling is flying. |
| 2020-08-07 | 1 | Equilibrium | "One Folk" | single | The essence of globalist humanism is saying that we are all one in your own roaring language. |
| 2020-08-07 | 2 | Anaal Nathrakh | "Endarkenment" | single | Nihilist grotesques agree, at least, that none of us are immune to apocalypse, |
| 2020-08-07 | 3 | Duma | "Corners in Nihil" | Duma | and in shared despair there is at least a grounding for hope. |
| 2020-08-07 | 4 | Saltatio Mortis | "Für immer jung" | Für immer jung +2 | It can't take us all is tautologically credible, |
| 2020-08-07 | 5 | ENGST | "Wieder da" | single | because we definitely won't live to be proven wrong. |
| 2020-08-07 | 6 | Gojira | "Another World" | single | There are other worlds is a fantasist's response to petty dominance in this one, |
| 2020-08-07 | 7 | DGM | "Flesh and Blood" | single | and the willingness to imagine the rules and striations of an invented realm |
| 2020-08-07 | 8 | Seas on the Moon | "Opium" | single | is the base of an avenging bridge back to this one. |
| 2020-08-07 | 9 | Black Rose Maze | "Earth Calling" | Black Rose Maze | We scrape against the void as we spin, |
| 2020-08-07 | 10 | Reasons Behind | "(E)met" | single | and against our own lungs as we breathe, |
| 2020-08-07 | 11 | Flowerleaf | "We Will Stand (United)" | single | and these abrasions are bows along our veins and wires |
| 2020-08-07 | 12 | Canterra | "No Bitter End" | Heartmachine | and resonant chambers of the heart. |
| 2020-08-07 | 13 | Unlucky Morpheus | "Unending Sorceress" | Unfinished | Long ago we traded the last magic for the first lever, |
| 2020-08-07 | 39 | Expander | "Cryptosteal" | single | against manifest destiny recast as cryogenic utopianism; |
| 2020-08-07 | 43 | Sólstafir | "Akkeri" | single | against lines drawn on the ground or along the seabed; |
| 2020-08-07 | 44 | Incantation | "Fury's Manifesto" | Entrails of the Hag Queen 3 | against cheap magic sold as a bargain replacement for precious anger; |
| 2020-08-07 | 45 | Wintaar | "A World in the Axe's Shadow" | Streams of the Paleghosts | against unwillingness to enumerate the sacraments we have to destroy; |
| 2020-08-07 | 46 | Batushka | "IRMOS I" | "RASKOL" | against systems of planet-sharing that are structural guarantors |
| 2020-08-07 | 47 | Selbst | "The Weight of Breathing" | Relatos De Angustia | of periodic exploding harbors, |
| 2020-07-31 | 1 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Cry of Love" | single | Grace and horror are convolutions of a single force, |
| 2020-07-31 | 4 | Disillusion | "Between" | single | Nothing that happens here belongs to us alone. |
| 2020-07-31 | 6 | Fenrir's Scar | "Curse of Mankind" | single | and waits to tell you until it thinks you are prepared. |
| 2020-07-31 | 7 | Pain of Salvation | "RESTLESS BOY" | single | It's always wrong. |
| 2020-07-31 | 8 | Dwell in Doom | "Immortal Beast" | single | Love is our name for all the externalities we perceive as imposed upon us from within. |
| 2020-07-31 | 9 | Manticora | "The Farmer's Tale, Pt. 3 - Eaten by the Beasts" | single | I did not exactly choose these songs, or the way guitars change my breath. |
| 2020-07-31 | 10 | Imperial Triumphant | "Alphaville" | Alphaville (Bonus Tracks Edition) | I did not plan to remember this miserable year by three albums of chaos organized obliquely into implicit taxonomies of exemption, |
| 2020-07-31 | 11 | Ethicist | "Foreign Lines" | Songbird | nor to yearn for exemption in the first place, |
| 2020-07-31 | 12 | Black Magnet | "Punishment Map" | single | nor for this year to last 20,000 identical days |
| 2020-07-31 | 13 | Drouth | "O Time Thy Pyramids - An Unfinished Nightmare" | Excerpts from a Dread Liturgy | and still be no closer to resolution. |
| 2020-07-31 | 14 | Batushka | "IRMOS IV" | single | We rarely plan our purgatories. |
| 2020-07-31 | 15 | The Infernal Sea | "Befallen Order" | single | We have exultory tracts declaring us chosen for reward |
| 2020-07-31 | 34 | Season of Ghosts | "A Place to Call Home (Radio Edit)" | single | or stealing a bright blue car, |
| 2020-07-31 | 35 | Adamantia | "Caminar Sobre el Viento" | single | and I pick up a glass that was empty of ice coffee the previous two times I picked it up, too, |
| 2020-07-31 | 36 | Era for a Moment | "So Long" | single | and put it down and turn the page. |
| 2020-07-31 | 37 | Oceans of Slumber | "The Colors of Grace" | single | We take turns constructing elaborate distractions for each other, |
| 2020-07-31 | 38 | Null Positiv | "Phantomschmerz" | Independenz | and then tearing them apart in reductive fury, |
| 2020-07-24 | 41 | Orden Ogan | "In the Dawn of the AI" | single | Any flag you fly without having sewn it out of your own feathers |
| 2020-07-24 | 42 | Veil Of Delusions | "Over the Edge" | single | is a remedial conversation with the wind. |
| 2020-07-24 | 43 | Perfect Plan | "Time for a Miracle" | single | We pause and shout "Now!" and gesture at the space in front of us. |
| 2020-07-24 | 44 | Creye | "Face to Face" | single | Maybe a vaccine will appear. It can only hurt to try |
| 2020-07-24 | 45 | Two and a Half Girl | "Carried Away" | single | if we keep trying only that for longer than a minute. |
| 2020-07-24 | 46 | Haken | "Messiah Complex V: Ectobius Rex" | Virus (Deluxe Edition) | Wear your fucking masks unless you arrive bearing the antidotes to all of your toxins. |
| 2020-07-24 | 47 | Pyogenesis | "The Capital (A Silent Soul Screams Loud) - Single Edit" | single | Charity is being willing to trade neglible fractions of your own well-being |
| 2020-07-17 | 2 | Dark Sarah | "The Chosen One" | Grim | But then, trance is about meticulous modulation, not continuous frenetic catharsis, |
| 2020-07-17 | 3 | Unleash The Archers | "Soulbound" | single | which is probably why I fall in love with an average of .25 trance songs a week when Emma isn't involved, |
| 2020-07-17 | 4 | MoonSun | "Lost in a Dream" | Lost in a Dream +1 | but seem to have basically no resistance at all to convulsive gothic symphonic metal |
| 2020-07-17 | 48 | Expander | "Megacorp" | single | you can only grow through consumption, |
| 2020-07-17 | 49 | Havukruunu | "Uinuos Syömein Sota" | Uinuos Syömein Sota | and only move by expansion. |
| 2020-07-17 | 50 | Black Magnet | "Divination Equipment" | single | Modern Odins have their ravens killed and gilded, |
| 2020-07-17 | 51 | Rise to the Sky | "Together in the Grave" | single | and then wonder why the mortals gather outside the gates. |
| 2020-07-17 | 52 | The Lightbringer of Sweden | "Fallen Angels" | Rise of the Beast | But we reinforce the gates by gathering outside them. |
| 2020-07-17 | 53 | Ayreon | "Hopelessly Slipping Away (feat. Tom Baker, Cammie Gilbert, Tommy Karevik)" | Hopelessly Slipping Away / Get Out! Now! 2 | Maybe topography is exactly how to deal with the rising seas. |
| 2020-07-17 | 54 | Carthagods | "Whispers from the Wicked" | The Monster in Me | Maybe the right response, when it seems like you have only 2:27 left, |
| 2020-07-17 | 55 | Varg | "Zeichen" | single | is to say "Tell me that again in 5:13." |
| 2020-07-17 | 56 | Nothgard | "Lightcrawler" | single | Maybe it's not actually any more exhausting to blast the endless minutes |
| 2020-07-17 | 57 | Draconian | "Sorrow of Sophia" | single | than to endure them. |
| 2020-07-17 | 58 | The Lust | "Hate at First Sight" | Honest | It's not that we were never great, |
| 2020-07-17 | 59 | Imperial Triumphant | "Atomic Age" | single | it's that our greatness has always been entropic and unmanageable and mixed with terror and noise, |
| 2020-07-17 | 60 | Ihsahn | "Spectre At The Feast" | single | and dependent on our ability to ascribe meaning to or at least towards it. |
| 2020-07-17 | 61 | Derek Sherinian | "Empyrean Sky" | single | Our rockets keep not reaching Heaven, |
| 2020-07-17 | 69 | Keoma | "Gaia" | single | You can't just hold it up, |
| 2020-07-10 | 26 | Raven Black | "Hear Me Cry" | single | on the highest ground. |
| 2020-07-10 | 27 | Black Rose Maze | "Maze" | single | Take short, begrudging breaths of contaminated air, |
| 2020-07-10 | 28 | Hamka | "Suffering Ages" | single | and give them back flecked with judgment and blood. |
| 2020-07-10 | 29 | Ensiferum | "Cold Northland (Väinämöinen Part III)" | Thalassic | Read only the beginnings of legends, |
| 2020-07-10 | 30 | Athanasia | "Obelisk" | single | or better yet, have them paraphrased for you by termites, |
| 2020-07-10 | 31 | Oceans of Slumber | "The Adorned Fathomless Creation" | single | and replace every seventh noun with the name of an unreciprocated crush. |
| 2020-07-10 | 32 | Veil Of Delusions | "Prisoner" | single | Set hydras to guard the doors |
| 2020-07-10 | 33 | The Devil's Trade | "Három Árva" | single | to rooms of your own home. |
| 2020-07-10 | 34 | Aseitas | "Behemoth's Dance" | False Peace | Misspell the names of your aspirational enemies. |
| 2020-07-10 | 35 | Korgonthurus | "Kuolleestasyntynyt" | Kuolleestasyntynyt | Break the handles off of your cookware; |
| 2020-07-10 | 36 | Rebel Wizard | "Magickal Mystical Indifference" | Magickal Mystical Indifference | goad corrosion into your sleep; |
| 2020-07-10 | 37 | Mora Prokaza | "Blacker Than Black" | By Chance | learn to say only "no" in all of the languages. |
| 2020-07-10 | 38 | Theotoxin | "Golden Tomb" | single | And yet, |
| 2020-07-10 | 39 | Drouth | "An Apiarist" | single | if you do all of this, |
| 2020-07-10 | 40 | Enslaved | "Jettegryta" | Jettegryta +1 | hate can become your temporary resonant wavelength |
| 2020-07-10 | 41 | Veonity | "Graced or Damned" | single | but never quite your blood-type |
| 2020-07-10 | 42 | Dimitriy Pavlovskiy's Powersquad | "Book of Myths" | single | or your blood. |
| 2020-07-03 | 33 | The Spider Accomplice | "Crawl" | single | is evident in his features, |
| 2020-07-03 | 34 | NEVIAH | "ROOTS MEAN SCARS" | single | and it is tempting to conclude that the statue is thus morally inert, |
| 2020-07-03 | 35 | Dark Sarah | "Illuminate" | single | or that it sleeps with the dreams |
| 2020-07-03 | 36 | Reasons Behind | "Binary Stars" | single | of those who share with it their own pure love. |
| 2020-07-03 | 37 | System Divide | "Rise Again" | single | But put a rope around its neck, |
| 2020-07-03 | 38 | PassCode | "MANTRA" | single | and pull with orthogonal purpose |
| 2020-07-03 | 55 | Wintaar | "So Be It" | I Am Ruin, I Am Death | practicing the exact petty opposite of stewardship, |
| 2020-07-03 | 56 | Satylus | "Brightness" | Brightness +1 | waiting to see how long it will take us to decide to blame it |
| 2020-07-03 | 57 | Ars Magna Umbrae | "Oracle of Luminous Dark" | single | for exactly what it is guilt of. |
| 2020-07-03 | 58 | Vhäldemar | "Afterlife" | single | Tearing it down releases its truth again, |
| 2020-07-03 | 59 | Varus | "Die Letzte Schenke" | A New Dawn | and returns all of us to its point of irresolution. |
| 2020-07-03 | 60 | Second to Sun | "L" | single | The story is unsuspended. |
| 2020-07-03 | 61 | Imperial Triumphant | "City Swine" | single | We can talk about reparations |
| 2020-07-03 | 62 | Limos | "Rise to Arms" | Tales of the White Eye 4 | for things done by our distant ancestors, |
| 2020-07-03 | 63 | Myridian | "Light Is Lost" | Light in the Abyss | because they didn't have that talk. |
| 2020-07-03 | 64 | Profane Sanctum | "Soldiers Epitaph" | single | We can print new copies of every treaty Trump petulantly tore up |
| 2020-07-03 | 65 | Doomcave | "The Illumination" | The Illumination | because it didn't mention his name anywhere, |
| 2020-07-03 | 66 | Highborne | "Inquisitor of Frailty" | single | and resign ourselves to repairing his damage. |
| 2020-07-03 | 67 | Samael | "Transcendence" | single | A standing statue is a power lesson; |
| 2020-07-03 | 68 | Balance Breach | "Bad Blood" | Dead End Diaries | a fallen one, that is the history lesson. |
| 2020-07-03 | 69 | Pain of Salvation | "ACCELERATOR" | single | History beats power: |
| 2020-07-03 | 72 | Jet Jaguar | "No Surrender" | single | All of us are flawed, but some of us are trying to improve the world and/or ourselves anyway, |
| 2020-07-03 | 73 | DevilDriver | "Iona" | single | and some of us are trying to be adored for existing, |
| 2020-07-03 | 76 | Liturgy | "Antigone" | single | History prefers books to statues; |
| 2020-06-26 | 1 | Neptunian Maximalism | "Daiitoku-Myōō no Ōdaiko" | Éons | If we measure by the level of percussive creativity on metal records, instead of pandemics or police brutality, we're having a pretty good year. |
| 2020-06-26 | 2 | Jesu | "Because of You" | single | I am disinclined to credit art to concurrent oppression or adversity, |
| 2020-06-26 | 3 | Al-Namrood | "Al Hallaj" | Wala'at | but happy to give art extra glory for everything it transcends. |
| 2020-06-26 | 4 | Astaroth | "Obscura -Another scenario-" | Genesis of "Astaroth" -Chapter 1- 5 | I will tolerate, apparently, any number of metal bands named after variant demons, |
| 2020-06-26 | 5 | Feuerschwanz | "Malleus Maleficarum" | Das Elfte Gebot | or marching anthems dedicated to specious grimoires, |
| 2020-06-26 | 6 | Romuvos | "Aizkraukle (1279)" | The Baltic Crusade | or bookish processionals extrapolated from feudal disputes whose Wikipedia explanations may as well involve Grand Fenwick. |
| 2020-06-26 | 7 | Aseitas | "Blood Into Oil" | single | There are universes hidden in morbid dreams. |
| 2020-06-26 | 8 | Brujeria | "Covid-666" | Covid-666 +1 | We are made of crawling flesh, |
| 2020-06-26 | 9 | Atlases | "Dreadlight" | single | as surely as spinning atoms |
| 2020-06-26 | 10 | Thecodontion | "Pangaea" | Supercontinent | and the slow flex of the turtles that wager our fortunes. |
| 2020-06-26 | 11 | Fellwarden | "Pathmaker" | Wreathed in Mourncloud | Our notions of elegance are formulated in decay, |
| 2020-06-26 | 12 | Grief & Bliss | "A Walking Void" | Hiraeth 3 | or maybe our tolerance of chaos is predicated on our ability to conflate it with complexity. |
| 2020-06-26 | 13 | Red Moon Architect | "Rise" | single | We seek an element of will in a possibility-space of wishful unattended vindication. |
| 2020-06-26 | 14 | Amaranthe | "Viral" | single | We are indignant when asked to take practical steps we used to reserve for ritual, |
| 2020-06-26 | 15 | Volturian | "Haunting Symphony" | single | and awakened by questions posed about our movitations for sleep. |
| 2020-06-26 | 16 | Jasmine Cain | "Burnout" | SEVEN | But we do not sleep to make a point, |
| 2020-06-26 | 32 | JAM Project | "Versus Road 〜非現実的サバイバル〜" | single | all the regret within range of your aura will be lifted three inches into the air. |
| 2020-06-26 | 74 | Anup Sastry | "The Only Thing They Fear Is You" | single | but it won't restore squandered joy. |
| 2020-06-26 | 91 | Minniva | "The Human Paradox" | single | and look up |
| 2020-06-26 | 92 | Red Handed Denial | "Telephone" | single | into a rendered sky |
| 2020-06-26 | 98 | Inter Arma | "Purple Rain" | Purple Rain +2 | We haven't the patience for dystopia, either, fortunately. |
| 2020-06-19 | 23 | Jessica Wolff | "Perfect Kind of Wrong" | Para Dice | but the moment-width of right now is the ideal scale for action: |
| 2020-06-19 | 24 | Barbie Sailers | "Decode" | single | for translating one bitter secret into one declarational love, |
| 2020-06-19 | 25 | Beyond The Black | "Horizons" | Hørizøns | for recognizing one assumed limit as a perspectival mirage, |
| 2020-06-19 | 26 | Sellout | "Всё как всегда" | single | for learning one new chord at one new volume setting, |
| 2020-06-19 | 27 | Elysian Gates | "Shelter from the Storm" | single | for mastering the shape of "no" in the mirror |
| 2020-06-19 | 28 | Sascha Paeth's Masters Of Ceremony | "Under Fire" | Under Fire +1 | before putting on your mask and going out to march, |
| 2020-06-19 | 29 | Operus | "The Mirror" | Score of Nightmares | for asking your soul what it needs |
| 2020-06-19 | 30 | Primal Fear | "I Am Alive" | I Am Alive +1 | in a moment when you are ready to hear it if it gives you an answer. |
| 2020-06-19 | 31 | Machine Head | "Stop the Bleeding (Feat. Jesse Leach)" | Civil Unrest 2 | We attribute volition to violence, |
| 2020-06-19 | 32 | Lamb of God | "New Colossal Hate" | Lamb of God | and thus blame to fear, |
| 2020-06-19 | 33 | Hail Spirit Noir | "The First Ape on New Earth" | Eden in Reverse | because we know what kind of animals we are the bodies of, |
| 2020-06-19 | 34 | Ensiferum | "Andromeda" | single | but our legends are not made of bodies |
| 2020-06-19 | 35 | Blot | "Howl From the North" | Howl From the North | or their frostbitten surfaces, |
| 2020-06-19 | 36 | Fellwarden | "Scafell's Blight" | single | they are made of the auras that linger |
| 2020-06-19 | 37 | Vile Creature | "Apathy Took Helm!" | Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! | when the skin is gone. |
| 2020-06-19 | 38 | Expander | "Hyper-Flesh Aedificium" | single | We are allegories composed of husks, |
| 2020-06-19 | 90 | AvAciA | "Halua minua" | single | Your steps and the steps of the parade diverge. |
| 2020-06-12 | 39 | Moyka | "Kanazawa (Maybe We Don't Have To Go There)" | Spaces 5 | losing weight; |
| 2020-06-12 | 40 | Maggie Szabo | "I Don't Need You" | single | understanding how we developed an economy based on |
| 2020-06-12 | 41 | Carolyn Miller | "Ain't About That" | single | celebrating (and monetizing) weight lost |
| 2020-06-12 | 42 | Imogen Clark | "My Own Worst Enemy" | single | and monetizing (and ignoring) excess incurred; |
| 2020-06-12 | 46 | Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall | "Kingdom Falls (feat. Renan Zonta)" | We Are the Night | supporting the parts of a barely-functional society that barely encourage the people you love |
| 2020-06-12 | 47 | Michael Angelo Batio | "Laser Guided" | More Machine Than Man | to do the work that makes them and the rest of us more joyous |
| 2020-06-12 | 48 | Breed of Burden | "Revolution" | single | without implicitly perpetuating every toxic -archy whose power-structures are woven through it; |
| 2020-06-12 | 49 | Rimortis | "Peklo, co říká si svět" | single | driving without being part of "traffic"; |
| 2020-06-12 | 50 | Korpiklaani | "Shai Shai - Siberia" | single | breathing and eating without being part of "consumption"; |
| 2020-06-12 | 51 | The HU | "Sugaan Essena - Original Music from "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order"" | single | surviving one more day without being part of somebody else's death; |
| 2020-06-12 | 74 | Behold... The Arctopus | "Blessing In Disgust" | Hapeleptic Overtrove | Thus nominally participatory democracy is reduced to picking oligarchs by color, |
| 2020-06-12 | 75 | Calór | "Ebu" | Ambivalent 2 | and complex policy initiatives and non-trivial moral premises are reduced to sloganeering. |
| 2020-06-12 | 77 | Paralydium | "Synergy" | Worlds Beyond | in the same suggestively symptomatic sense of "loose" as loose stools, |
| 2020-06-12 | 79 | Fermentor | "Mechanism" | single | yelling at people to tighten up their own shit. |
| 2020-06-12 | 80 | Uada | "Djinn" | single | Demanding, of others or yourself, the micromanaging of the operation of your internal organs is not a plan. |
| 2020-06-12 | 81 | Ulthar | "Undying Spear" | Providence | Nobody wins any war between soiled flags |
| 2020-06-12 | 82 | Dispyt | "Min sanna vän" | Min sanna vän / svept i vita lakan 2 | except the people selling you flag-soap |
| 2020-06-12 | 83 | Gaerea | "To Ain" | single | and whatever invasive weeds have cultivated the cynical ability to fix nitrogen out of soil into which blood has soaked. |
| 2020-06-12 | 84 | Humanity's Last Breath | "Earthless" | single | If the revolution fills your streets, |
| 2020-06-12 | 85 | Phyllomedusa | "Turning Away from the Overthrow" | Turning Away from the Overthrow | your streets are probably paved with blood and poison. |
| 2020-06-12 | 86 | Voidceremony | "Sacrosanct Delusions" | single | But then, our streets are always paved with blood and poison, |
| 2020-06-12 | 91 | Soulspell | "My Heart Will Go On" | single | named for slave-traders or martyrs of liberation or bureaucrats of systemic reform, |
| 2020-06-05 | 11 | Oceans of Slumber | "A Return to the Earth Below" | single | We need to say Black Lives Matter because we need to demonstrate, |
| 2020-06-05 | 12 | Mezmerized | "Rage" | single | each of us to ourselves and each of us to every other one of us, |
| 2020-06-05 | 13 | Moonlight Haze | "Till the End" | single | that we are capable of applying the universal to the specific, |
| 2020-06-05 | 14 | Emerald Mind | "Almagest" | single | both to specifics in general, and to this one right now. |
| 2020-06-05 | 15 | Woodscream | "Водяной" | Варево | We need to take this stand, right now because now is the closest we can come to all the times we should have taken this stand already, |
| 2020-06-05 | 16 | The Power of the Pudú | "Calentamiento Global" | single | because if you can put your knee on another human's neck, |
| 2020-06-05 | 17 | Operus | "Ruin" | single | you can also take it off. |
| 2020-06-05 | 18 | Blade of Surtr | "Ymir" | HEATHEN | You can stand up and shake centuries of exploitative cultural grime off of your skin, |
| 2020-06-05 | 24 | Madmans Esprit | "Mangtanshi - Kopanese Version" | Mangtanshi 3 | thrown into the air before an audience of gods |
| 2020-06-05 | 57 | Xordia | "Neon Lights" | Neolux | between moral humility and seeing huddled masses yearning to breathe free |
| 2020-06-05 | 61 | The Atlas Frame | "Haven" | single | necessary but so plaintively far from sufficient, |
| 2020-06-05 | 62 | Frost* | "Fathers" | Others - EP | but the magnitude of its should-be obviousness |
| 2020-06-05 | 74 | Myridian | "Babylon" | single | We are creatures of genocide and hereditary royalty |
| 2020-06-05 | 94 | Inter Arma | "March of the Pigs" | March of the Pigs +1 | A fascist hoards order |
| 2020-06-05 | 95 | Thou | "Endless Nameless" | Blessings of the Highest Order | because they fear their own life doesn't matter on its own. |
| 2020-05-29 | 9 | DIAMANTE | "Ghost Myself" | single | a social media optimized for propogating cynical opportunism across networks of self-satisfaction, |
| 2020-05-29 | 10 | Jessica Wolff | "Superhero" | single | a spiritual infrastructure monopolized by maintaining obsolete power-structures, |
| 2020-05-29 | 11 | Smackbound | "Those Who Burn" | single | a guy blocking the sidewalk with his mask down on his chin so he can smoke, |
| 2020-05-29 | 12 | Black Sun | "Resist" | single | a million micro-cultures that tolerate macro-aggressions |
| 2020-05-29 | 13 | Graveshadow | "Gwynnbleidd" | single | and innumerable macro-cultures that without micro-aggressions for energy would have to be towed by ducks. |
| 2020-05-29 | 14 | Silentium | "Truth - Single Version" | single | We elected a bloated ass who doesn't know what to do because all of the important problems affect people and he doesn't know or care about people. |
| 2020-05-29 | 15 | Binary Creed | "Mother" | single | We might improve upon this by electing a genial comforter who is at least demonstrably capable of loving other humans, |
| 2020-05-29 | 52 | Boisson Divine | "Lo Pèla Pòrc" | La Halha | on elaborated superstition and laws you are willing to proofread as long as they don't apply to you, |
| 2020-05-29 | 53 | Cvlt Ov the Svn | "Twilight" | single | on altars of temples of love lacquered with indigenous blood, |
| 2020-05-29 | 61 | Behemoth | "Shadows Ov Ea Cast Upon Golgotha" | A Forest 4 | We have to prepare for floods, |
| 2020-05-29 | 62 | Imperial Triumphant | "Rotted Futures" | single | not by rotating our misaligned cities so they're 5' higher and the onramps run perpendicular to the ley lines that connect us to Cumbre Vieja, |
| 2020-05-29 | 63 | Acârash | "Descend to Purity" | Descend to Purity | but by turning them inside out so that they serve the goal of giving all of us a shared home. |
| 2020-05-29 | 64 | Almyrkvi | "Asomatous Grove" | Almyrkvi / The Ruins of Beverast Split | We have tried to punish other people's bodies for the transgressions of our own souls, |
| 2020-05-29 | 65 | The Ruins Of Beverast | "The Grand Nebula Pulse" | Almyrkvi / The Ruins of Beverast Split | and to glue together souls all broken the same way by blaming their identical fractures on the variety of bodies. |
| 2020-05-22 | 8 | Kandia | "4 Walls" | single | or stores on fire. |
| 2020-05-22 | 9 | Dark Sarah | "All Ears!" | single | The quieter it gets, the more you hear, |
| 2020-05-22 | 10 | Against Myself | "The Tempest" | single | but the louder you turn up the quiet noises, |
| 2020-05-22 | 11 | Nemesea | "Wake up!" | single | the more of them get inside you. |
| 2020-05-22 | 12 | Raven Black | "Darkest Pit" | single | "You breathe it in, and it changes you from the inside" is the biography of both insidious plagues |
| 2020-05-22 | 13 | Tigersclaw | "Walpurgis Night - Single Edit" | single | and salvational revolutions. |
| 2020-05-22 | 14 | Natural Spirit | "Гори, палай!" | Під серпом часу | We are born defenseless, |
| 2020-05-22 | 15 | Fate DeStroyed | "Crave" | single | and mostly accumulate rationalizations |
| 2020-05-22 | 16 | Feminazgul | "Bury the Antlers With the Stag" | No Dawn for Men | for things we have long been ready to discard. |
| 2020-05-22 | 17 | Vermilia | "Taivas hiljaa huutaa" | Keskeneräisiä tarinoita 4 | We have elaborate schemes designed to conceal our most obvious faults, |
| 2020-05-22 | 18 | One Desire | "Godsent Exstasy" | Midnight Empire | and thus suitable for nothing but eventually letting go. |
| 2020-05-22 | 19 | Caligula's Horse | "Salt" | Rise Radiant (Bonus Tracks Version) | Only a few of the things you think you need are actually elemental: |
| 2020-05-22 | 20 | Enslaved | "Homebound" | single | a sense of place that isn't limited to the one where you find yourself, |
| 2020-05-22 | 21 | Fairyland | "Of Hope and Despair in Osyrhia" | Osyrhianta | some story of your destiny that you can tell yourself without worrying that it will end before it takes you far enough, |
| 2020-05-22 | 22 | Feral Light | "Hex of Inverses" | Life Vapor | a map between pains and painful truths, |
| 2020-05-22 | 52 | Ruadh | "Embers" | The Rock of the Clyde | Outside the wolves gather loosely, |
| 2020-05-15 | 6 | Minniva | "I'll Make a Man out of You" | single | into diorama drama, |
| 2020-05-15 | 7 | Soulspell | "Ever Dream" | single | time to elaborate our dreams. |
| 2020-05-15 | 10 | Derange | "Forgotten" | Senses, Pt. 2 5 | journals of abandoned thoughts, |
| 2020-05-15 | 11 | Ravenscry | "Leader" | 100 | belief systems composed entirely of doubt, |
| 2020-05-15 | 12 | ILLUMISHADE | "Tales Of Time" | ECLYPTIC: Wake of Shadows | lists of refuted mythologies and their enduring allegorical truths. |
| 2020-05-15 | 13 | Sertraline | "2205" | Clouded Minds & Silver Lines 5 | Every life is a path through misfortune |
| 2020-05-15 | 14 | Lacey Sturm | "The Decree" | single | and appeal, |
| 2020-05-15 | 15 | Firewind | "Orbitual Sunrise" | Firewind | but so too through confetti |
| 2020-05-15 | 16 | Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall | "Dreams and Scars (feat. Renan Zonta)" | single | and real and metaphorical blood. |
| 2020-05-15 | 17 | Kee Marcello | "Starless Sky - Single Version" | single | You can look up and see nothing |
| 2020-05-15 | 18 | Vega | "Don't Fool Yourself" | single | in a thousand cynical and convenient ways, |
| 2020-05-15 | 19 | Thessa | "Dunes" | single | and change nothing about the teeming galaxies or our tenuous interruption |
| 2020-05-15 | 20 | Paradise Lost | "Ravenghast" | Obsidian | of their magnanimity of void and light. |
| 2020-05-15 | 21 | Primal Fear | "Along Came the Devil" | single | All these plagues were implicit in us. |
| 2020-05-15 | 22 | Hanging Garden | "Welkin Aflame" | single | Without night, we would be other selves: |
| 2020-05-15 | 23 | Māra | "Leaking Guilt" | Self-Destruct. Survive. Thrive! 6 | more corrupt, but maybe less beholden to our corruption; |
| 2020-05-15 | 24 | The Monolith Deathcult | "Feet of Jeremiah" | single | buried in shallower soil, |
| 2020-05-15 | 25 | Okkultokrati | "The Dying Grass Moon" | La Ilden Lyse | but exhumed by subtler shifts; |
| 2020-05-15 | 26 | Horn | "Vom Tribock hohl geschossen" | Mohngang | explicated in denser verse |
| 2020-05-15 | 27 | Fellwarden | "An Elder Reckoning" | single | but illuminated by cleanser bursts. |
| 2020-05-08 | 3 | Feuerschwanz | "I See Fire" | single | or organizing mythology |
| 2020-05-08 | 4 | Chaos Magic | "Desert Rose" | Desert Rose +3 | or orbiting acceptance. |
| 2020-05-08 | 5 | Secret Rule | "I Think I'm Paranoid" | Quarantine: The Other Side of Us | Every beginning is the beginning of someone's love for something, |
| 2020-05-08 | 6 | Halocene | "Toxicity" | single | or the end, |
| 2020-05-08 | 11 | UMC | "Blinding Lights (Metal Version)" | single | or along the internal surfaces |
| 2020-05-08 | 21 | Secrets Of The Moon | "Mute God" | Black House | Hatred does not summon the virus, |
| 2020-05-08 | 22 | Biesy | "Uwaga: świat" | Transsatanizm | but empty hearts will struggle to send it away. |
| 2020-05-08 | 23 | Winterfylleth | "A Hostile Fate (The Wayfarer Pt. 4)" | The Reckoning Dawn | You may notice a correlation between narcissistic idiocracy and plague acceleration. |
| 2020-05-08 | 24 | Forgotten Tomb | "Active Shooter" | Nihilistic Estrangement | When you think you can spot your enemies by the color of their names, |
| 2020-05-08 | 25 | Draconian | "Lustrous Heart" | single | you build pale walls. |
| 2020-05-08 | 26 | Regardless Of Me | "Obsidian" | single | And then one day you try to go out, and there's a wall there, so you order food, |
| 2020-05-08 | 27 | Joachim Witt | "Schmerzende Welt" | Rübezahls Rückkehr | and they leave it for you on the other side of the wall. |
| 2020-05-08 | 28 | Tokyo Motor Fist | "Youngblood" | single | We are saved not by walls or zealot bombast, but by predictable bureaucracy |
| 2020-05-08 | 29 | Fairyland | "The Hidden Kingdom of Eloran" | single | and effusive legends and discrete math. |
| 2020-05-08 | 30 | Saurom | "Amanecer" | single | We fly imaginary grandeurs like kites, |
| 2020-05-08 | 31 | Within Temptation | "Entertain You" | single | from upstairs windows. |
| 2020-05-08 | 32 | Serpentyne | "Away from the World - Single Mix" | single | We are not hiding, we are watching. |
| 2020-05-08 | 33 | Woodscream | "Василиса" | single | Our stories about this time |
| 2020-05-08 | 34 | Cyan Kicks | "Wish You Well" | single | will tell of sincerity |
| 2020-05-08 | 35 | YOHIO | "LIGHT MY WAY" | single | at war with the outdated faith that air has no agency, |
| 2020-05-08 | 36 | heidi. | "玉響" | 玉響 +2 | and we will see that "this time" has been long underway. |
| 2020-05-08 | 37 | The Guzmania | "Glow" | single | This is the era of the painful slow replacement of invisible majestic authority |
| 2020-05-01 | 33 | The Unity | "You Don't Walk Alone" | single | I have soared with them in boxes, |
| 2020-05-01 | 34 | Pop Evil | "Let The Chaos Reign" | single | sharing air we brought with us specifically to share in joy and hope. |
| 2020-05-01 | 35 | Æther Realm | "Goodbye" | Redneck Vikings from Hell | We have cultivated nomadic souls, |
| 2020-05-01 | 36 | Havok | "Betrayed by Technology" | V | and purchased shoes optimized for the movements we hoped to be expected to make, |
| 2020-05-01 | 37 | Acârash | "Below Ceremonial" | single | and now they sit by the door, |
| 2020-05-01 | 38 | Irdorath | "Redeemer of the Heretics" | The Final Sin | with the deliveries we're insisting will be purified and consecrated |
| 2020-05-01 | 39 | Thrawsunblat | "Until Ebb the Waters" | Insula EP 4 | if we spend 24 consecutive hours not touching them |
| 2020-05-01 | 40 | Salqiu | "Orfeu II" | Orfeu | and endlessly washing our hands. |
| 2020-05-01 | 41 | Nordsind | "Dvale" | single | In a moment we will return to normal. |
| 2020-05-01 | 42 | Reliqa | "Mr. Magic" | single | In a moment we will send most of our normalities back in their unopened original packaging |
| 2020-05-01 | 43 | Ravenscry | "The Gatekeeper" | single | because the machines that took those refills |
| 2020-05-01 | 44 | Jessica Wolff | "Ella's Song" | single | no longer make things we consume fast enough |
| 2020-05-01 | 45 | Canterra | "A Lifetime" | single | to justify manufacturing them ourselves. |
| 2020-05-01 | 46 | Moonlight Haze | "The Rabbit of the Moon" | single | You have time to make bread, |
| 2020-05-01 | 47 | Lesoir | "Mosaic" | Mosaic | if you want the baker's children to starve. |
| 2020-05-01 | 48 | Xordia | "Stained" | single | You have time to decry the flaws in other countries' public-health policies |
| 2020-05-01 | 49 | Haken | "Canary Yellow" | single | if nobody you love has been confirmed to be dying today. |
| 2020-04-24 | 27 | Lovebites | "Thunder Vengeance" | Electric Pentagram | I miss feeling guilt instead of desperate relief over trivial distractions. |
| 2020-04-24 | 28 | Rabia Perez | "Inmortal" | Un nuevo mundo | I miss soccer, and my friend Matt's photographs from punk shows, |
| 2020-04-24 | 29 | Bloodparade | "Un Mal Sueño" | single | and the weird semi-comradery of raid hours. |
| 2020-04-24 | 30 | Sertraline | "Isolation" | single | All of these moments will be found again in time, |
| 2020-04-24 | 31 | Louna | "Вендетта - акустика" | single | like stars returning in regulated waves to evacuated skies. |
| 2020-04-24 | 32 | Volturian | "Forevermore" | Crimson | Our ghosts are waiting to tell us how lucky we were to escape. |
| 2020-04-24 | 33 | Ravenscry | "The Door Inside" | single | We were interrupted by vociferous materialized xenophobia |
| 2020-04-24 | 34 | Signum Regis | "Given Up For Lost" | single | while quietly preparing to drown, |
| 2020-04-24 | 35 | Gathering Of Kings | "From a Whisper to a Scream" | single | and now we can no longer claim the same helplessness. |
| 2020-04-24 | 36 | Fairyland | "Heralds of the Green Lands" | single | We have stood within six feet of the heralds |
| 2020-04-24 | 37 | Paradise Lost | "Ghosts" | Ghosts +1 | for long enough to memorize the song of what they gave up |
| 2020-04-24 | 48 | Together to the Stars | "Forgotten Tongue" | As We Wither | and text to say that contactless delivery has been performed. |
| 2020-04-24 | 49 | Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai | "ミライシグナル" | single | We imagined this tentative, distanced future, |
| 2020-04-24 | 50 | Japanese Folk Metal | "TSUJIGIRI-SAKE" | single | we just thought it would have fancier sunglasses, |
| 2020-04-24 | 51 | Corvus Corax | "Yggdrasill - Era Metallum - Single Edit" | single | and smartwheel skateboards instead of quite so many Subaru Crosstreks. |
| 2020-04-24 | 52 | Nomans Land | "No Compromises" | single | We thought we would dart furtively home to secret rooms in the forgotten interstices of sleepless cities; |
| 2020-04-24 | 53 | Riesa | "Moukanmoukari" | single | instead we sit on uninstrumented couches in ordinary houses, |
| 2020-04-24 | 54 | When the Sun Sets | "Ceiling" | single | and the cities go to bed early and rise late. |
| 2020-04-17 | 30 | Lovebites | "Golden Destination" | single | our smallness |
| 2020-04-17 | 31 | DIAMANTE | "Serves You Right" | single | and how thoroughly we have usually been lost. |
| 2020-04-17 | 32 | Lollia | "Decode" | single | We painted meritocracies on plywood |
| 2020-04-17 | 33 | Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall | "Queen of Fire (feat. Noora Louhimo)" | single | and perched them on cliff edges. |
| 2020-04-17 | 34 | South Haven | "Winter in June" | Motion | We proclaimed ridiculous triumphs |
| 2020-04-17 | 35 | Dark Sarah | "Melancholia" | single | over needed things we broke. |
| 2020-04-17 | 36 | Ravenscry | "The Entertainer" | single | We tolerated horrible leaders with a fascination |
| 2020-04-17 | 37 | Elane | "My Guardian of Dawn" | My Guardian of Dawn +1 | borrowed from treating cysts like pets, |
| 2020-04-17 | 38 | Dream Ocean | "Pendulum of Time" | single | and the same conflation of narcissistic self-loathing |
| 2020-04-17 | 39 | Ignea | "Чорне Полум'я" | The Realms of Fire and Death | with strength. |
| 2020-04-17 | 40 | Second to Sun | "I Psychoanalyze My Ghosts" | I Psychoanalyze My Ghosts +1 | But here we are, a glorious civilization of golden towers and greatnesses nobody has ever seen anything like before, |
| 2020-04-17 | 41 | A Pregnant Light | "Part II: The Purple Heart" | I and I 6 | and somebody ate a bat in a city of 11 million people that I'd never heard of, |
| 2020-04-17 | 42 | Brother Firetribe | "Bring on the Rain" | single | or maybe that wasn't it at all, |
| 2020-04-17 | 43 | WAЯROCK | "Call my name" | The Declarer 〜An it harm none, do what ye will.〜 | but you pull any string and all of this so quickly unravels. |
| 2020-04-17 | 44 | i.D.A | "SHIBAZAKURA" | LRRH. 4 | There are no faraway places far away enough. |
| 2020-04-17 | 58 | Noxfilia | "Pánico Escénico" | Tierra de Nadie | and think "wait, we cleaned our asses how?" |
| 2020-04-10 | 16 | Metalite | "Hunting High and Low" | single | and yet we made it this far. |
| 2020-04-10 | 17 | Fairyland | "Hubris Et Orbis" | single | At least we figured out what RNA is |
| 2020-04-10 | 18 | Volturian | "Broken" | single | before it killed us. |
| 2020-04-10 | 19 | Ignea | "Jinnslammer" | single | The dinosaurs had no astronomodon to explain that |
| 2020-04-10 | 20 | Rabia Perez | "Rabia" | single | standing 60 feet apart wasn't going to help. |
| 2020-04-10 | 21 | Fallen Arise | "Forsaken" | Enigma | Then again, they also had no conspiracy theorists |
| 2020-04-10 | 22 | Tulip | "Midnight in the Desert" | High Strangeness | to infer political motives to orbital mechanics. |
| 2020-04-10 | 23 | Nightwish | "Music" | HUMAN. :II: NATURE. | We get to live, |
| 2020-04-10 | 24 | Mornir | "Flammenschwinge" | Dämmerstund | but the price is chaos. |
| 2020-04-10 | 25 | Dark Forest | "Wayfarer's Eve" | Oak, Ash & Thorn | We have learned to build structures that collapse, |
| 2020-04-10 | 26 | Woodscream | "Круговерть" | single | to explicate insane moral strategies, |
| 2020-04-10 | 27 | Feuerschwanz | "Das elfte Gebot" | single | to act elaborately against our own basic interests. |
| 2020-04-10 | 28 | Ember Falls | "We Are Become Fire" | single | These are stranger talents than bioluminescence |
| 2020-04-10 | 29 | Dead by April | "Memory" | single | or chromatophoria, |
| 2020-04-10 | 30 | Stellar Master Elite | "A New Galactic Empire" | Hologram Temple: Ominous 3 | mutations evolutionarily selected for their capacity |
| 2020-04-10 | 31 | Litterbox Massacre | "Served on a Dish II" | The Rise of Lucifur | to preserve ignorance |
| 2020-04-10 | 32 | ...And Oceans | "Five of Swords" | single | against the relentless pressure of the evident. |
| 2020-04-10 | 33 | Azusa | "Golden Words" | Loop of Yesterdays | Even the virus knows that we constitute a single connected organism. |
| 2020-04-10 | 34 | Stvore | "Zamri" | One | amongst whose nodes air circulates, |
| 2020-04-10 | 36 | Hämatom | "#FCKCRN" | #FCKCRN 5 | and cadences and awe. |
| 2020-04-10 | 62 | Megaraptor | "Airship Theme" | single | We have flashbacks, flashes forward, |
| 2020-04-03 | 17 | コドモドラゴン | "pest" | pest +2 | A face on the news informs us of hourly fluctuations in the indices of contrition: |
| 2020-04-03 | 18 | D | "Narrow Escape" | Narrow Escape | we amass 340 points of remorse |
| 2020-04-03 | 31 | Memoremains | "Pounding Heart" | single | and now you open your mouth and everybody knows if you're a myopic sociopath. |
| 2020-04-03 | 32 | Alter Noir | "Menneisyyden Haamut" | single | We will emerged masked, |
| 2020-04-03 | 33 | Miracle Flair | "In Love and Hate" | Synchronism | but revealed. |
| 2020-04-03 | 34 | Ad Infinitum | "Infected Monarchy" | Chapter I: Monarchy | There is no place left on earth without |
| 2020-04-03 | 35 | MoonSun | "One by One" | Escapalace | somebody, tonight, making beats about quarantine |
| 2020-04-03 | 36 | Beyond The Black | "Golden Pariahs" | single | on their phone. |
| 2020-04-03 | 37 | Devilskin | "Bright Lights" | RED | Tomorrow we exchange these. |
| 2020-04-03 | 38 | Noxfilia | "Fuerzas de Flaqueza" | single | Tomorrow we sing songs from within walled cities |
| 2020-04-03 | 39 | Mezmerized | "Hybrid" | single | and heroic voivodships, |
| 2020-04-03 | 54 | Irdorath | "Debaptized" | single | The pointlessly rich retain their golden towers, |
| 2020-04-03 | 55 | Exlibris | "Megiddo" | single | and sputter over crackly intercoms for the guards to bar the lobby doors. |
| 2020-04-03 | 56 | Dynazty | "The Dark Delight" | The Dark Delight | If your resources are spent cultivating flattery |
| 2020-04-03 | 57 | Hartmann | "Walking on a Thin Line" | single | and maintaining a supply of burned steaks, |
| 2020-04-03 | 58 | Conception | "Of Raven and Pigs" | State of Deception | you will eventually find that they have grown difficult to renew. |
| 2020-04-03 | 59 | Haken | "Prosthetic" | single | We have seen the Himalayas from Jalandhar, |
| 2020-04-03 | 63 | Megaraptor | "Dragon Rider" | single | You can't conflate markets with meritocracy |
| 2020-04-03 | 64 | Alex Yarmak | "Slum Lord" | single | if day-traders keep changing the prices of stock |
| 2020-04-03 | 86 | Lauren Babic | "Ohioisonfire" | single | or respect, |
| 2020-04-03 | 87 | DCCM | "The Box" | single | but the chance to walk away from a ruin you brought upon us. |
| 2020-04-03 | 88 | Elvenking | "No Prayer for the Dying" | single | These resonant survival chambers that have meanwhile accumulated music and contained our breath, |
| 2020-04-03 | 89 | Eclipse | "Driving One of Your Cars" | single | and learned which compulsory things are actually necessary, |
| 2020-04-03 | 90 | Allegaeon | "Roundabout" | single | will create different cities of purpose when they are reopened. |
| 2020-03-27 | 4 | Igorrr | "Downgrade Desert" | Spirituality and Distortion | We were not ready, but we were ready enough to take our aspirational worlds insid |