| 2021-10-08 | 33 | The Warning | "DISCIPLE" | MAYDAY 6 | or any other armageddon-cult stipulations. |
| 2021-10-08 | 35 | Helion Prime | "Wash Away" | Question Everything: Special Edition | to have a path to follow, |
| 2021-10-08 | 36 | We Are the Catalyst | "Tro" | Tro 6 | and you don't need that path to lead back to where you started. |
| 2021-10-08 | 37 | Naraka | "Mother of Shadows" | In Tenebris | I would like to hear your song about pixels, |
| 2021-10-08 | 38 | Кипелов | "Часы Судного дня" | Часы Судного дня +3 | not because I care more about pixels than books, |
| 2021-10-08 | 39 | Wildways | "Ветивер (feat. polnalyubvi)" | single | or more about vetiver than amaranth, |
| 2021-10-08 | 40 | Frozen Shield | "The Greatest Journey" | single | but because any reason is enough reason for another song. |
| 2021-10-08 | 41 | Anaria | "Golden Crown" | single | A guy who sketched ornithopters |
| 2021-10-08 | 42 | Beneath The Silence | "Nowhere to Go" | single | would have been in line at the Apple Store for every new iPad, |
| 2021-10-08 | 43 | Kandia | "The Flood" | single | glancing nervously at his watch, wondering how long until this elevation is submerged. |
| 2021-10-08 | 44 | Catalyst Crime | "Cognitive Dissonance" | single | Time for how many more ideas? |
| 2021-10-08 | 47 | CROSS VEIN | "Black Fairytale" | single | You will always fear the version of yourself you saw in whatever antihero |
| 2021-10-08 | 48 | Blinding Sunrise | "Dreamin' on" | single | you first discovered when you were 10: |
| 2021-10-08 | 68 | CrowsAlive | "Smoke Signal" | Twilight World | Let it begin now, |
| 2021-10-08 | 69 | Sara | "Irtoavat leuat" | single | with apologies and divestiture |
| 2021-10-08 | 70 | Voidfallen | "Remnants of the Heart" | The Atlas of Spiritual Apocalypse | and new bakeries opened by people willing to start a business during a pandemic |
| 2021-10-08 | 71 | Kallomäki | "Tyrty veri, seiso!" | single | or a fraught era of decline. |
| 2021-10-08 | 72 | Teramaze | "Blood of Fools" | And the Beauty They Perceive | We will be nostalgic for some of even these days, eventually, |
| 2021-10-08 | 73 | Skeletoon | "Holding On" | single | for how it felt to think, episodically, |
| 2021-10-08 | 74 | 616 | "Code & Key" | single | that we knew which errands were dangerous or unprotected, |
| 2021-10-08 | 75 | Edge Of Haze | "The Other Side" | single | which skepticisms were grounded or performative. |
| 2021-10-08 | 76 | Hegemon | "Mellonta Tauta" | Sidereus Nuncius | We will tell a version of this in which the nights were darker than nights had ever been, |
| 2021-10-08 | 77 | Dead by April | "Anything at All" | single | not because the nights were darker, or even notable for their darkness, |
| 2021-10-08 | 78 | Morbid Mechanics | "Nanotechno" | Between the Tomb and the Womb | but because a scary story needs a cue for the listeners to draw in, |
| 2021-10-08 | 79 | Skar | "Torn from the Heavens" | single | closer to the warmths of the narrative fire |
| 2021-10-08 | 80 | The Algorithm | "Readonly" | Readonly +3 | and each other's laptops, |
| 2021-10-08 | 81 | Olympus Lenticular | "Infinite Genesis" | Artificial Apex | ready for something new to be created or revealed, |
| 2021-10-08 | 82 | Malrun | "The Mask of Joy" | Pandemonium | or protected by alluringly nominal concealment. |
| 2021-10-08 | 83 | Veil Of Maya | "Outrun" | single | You can try to write rock songs about something other than the feeling of air against your skin |
| 2021-10-08 | 84 | Houston | "I Will Not Give in to Despair" | IV | as you run, |
| 2021-10-08 | 85 | Eclipse | "Roses on Your Grave" | Wired | as long as you don't mind hearing people sing them wrong |
| 2021-10-08 | 86 | Akasha | "Mejor Que Ayer" | single | as they explain why they love them. |
| 2021-10-08 | 102 | Norse | "Zero Insight" | Ascetic | and "shut up and I'll tell you" |
| 2021-10-08 | 103 | Metsatöll | "Mees Kes Teadis Ussisõnu" | single | and "measure a distant country's airport by whether its bookstore has one secret shelf of books that could have been written nowhere else". |
| 2021-10-08 | 124 | Aryem | "La Asamblea de las Aves" | The Bird's Assembly | Stand up, and look down, and they are the lines of a picture we drew of what we imagined we looked like when we thought there was a forever in the sky and that's what we built the wall to reach. |
| 2021-10-01 | 21 | Mary's Blood | "Be Myself" | Mary's Blood | that conceals the way the giving hand |
| 2021-10-01 | 22 | Beast In Black | "One Night in Tokyo" | One Night in Tokyo +1 | as it pulls lingeringly away |
| 2021-10-01 | 23 | The Spider Accomplice | "Clinging to Your Skin" | single | along the curve of our hip |
| 2021-10-01 | 24 | AfterTime | "Infinite Legacy" | single | steals context from an unguarded pocket. |
| 2021-10-01 | 25 | Rubén Kelsen | "Tierras del Sur" | single | False agency is the power to make decisions |
| 2021-10-01 | 26 | Supernova Plasmajets | "Take Me to the Underground" | single | without the information required to make them properly. |
| 2021-10-01 | 27 | Lords of the Trident | "The Touch" | single | Once you can sell someone this pointless notion of freedom, |
| 2021-10-01 | 28 | Ghost | "Hunter’s Moon" | single | it is a trivial optimization to also detach the decisions from consequence. |
| 2021-10-01 | 29 | Within Progress | "Absolute Circle" | single | Real evil is encoded into corroded infrastructure |
| 2021-10-01 | 30 | Feuerschwanz | "Untot im Drachenboot" | single | that perpetuates convenient inequity |
| 2021-10-01 | 31 | Sorbus | "Glapp" | single | through the bombastic application of simultaneously immaterial and underinformed whim |
| 2021-10-01 | 32 | Teramaze | "Untide" | single | disguised as diligent judgment. |
| 2021-10-01 | 33 | Windom End | "Equality" | For Better Times | Facebook didn't set out to intentionally amplify apocalyptic disinformation. |
| 2021-10-01 | 34 | MØL | "Vestige" | Vestige +2 | It just built a teeming seemingly-walled city guarded by nominal sentries equiped only to recognize slavering wolves, |
| 2021-10-01 | 35 | Lucifer Ascending | "Jovian People's Liberation Front" | single | and armed only to repel lost pets. |
| 2021-10-01 | 36 | The Moor | "Emissaries" | single | Modern media aspire to the form of a victrola |
| 2021-10-01 | 37 | Exist Immortal | "Epiphany" | Act Three - Water 3 | whose horn clamps sphincterially around your head, |
| 2021-10-01 | 38 | Lords of Black | "Bound to You" | single | and nudges into your limp hand a stiff button |
| 2021-10-01 | 39 | Demigod Unleashed | "Silence" | single | that does only Pause and Play, |
| 2021-10-01 | 40 | Hypocrisy | "Dead World" | Dead World +1 | where Pause means "now admit that you're trying to sell me something", |
| 2021-10-01 | 41 | Atlas | "Uhri" | Uhri +3 | and Play means "now put your hand over the price tag", |
| 2021-10-01 | 42 | Schavot | "Tussen muren" | Galgenbrok | and both states play music |
| 2021-10-01 | 43 | Converge | "Blood Moon" | single | for every reason other than its inherent and essential avenging majesty. |
| 2021-10-01 | 44 | Full Of Hell | "Celestial Hierarch" | Garden of Burning Apparitions | Restorative moral reasoning begins with the realization that music sounds better |
| 2021-10-01 | 45 | The Sound That Ends Creation | "I Hate ICE, I Don't Even Put It In My Water" | single | with air to vibrate, |
| 2021-10-01 | 46 | Archspire | "Drone Corpse Aviator" | single | not with shrieking metal pressed against your skull. |
| 2021-09-24 | 1 | The Warning | "MARTIRIO" | MARTIRIO +2 | I like singing more than I like the absence of singing, |
| 2021-09-24 | 2 | Madame Mayhem | "I Am More" | single | and I probably don't literally prefer that it be done in languages I can't easily follow, |
| 2021-09-24 | 3 | RedHook | "Sentimental Surgery" | single | but I never hear a song that isn't in English and think "I wish this were in English". |
| 2021-09-24 | 4 | Memoremains | "Sympathy" | single | Whereas with songs in English, which is the only language where I can often tell what singers are saying, |
| 2021-09-24 | 5 | Aryem | "Forbidden Love" | Forbidden Love +2 | I often think "I wish this had better lyrics". |
| 2021-09-24 | 6 | Dream Ocean | "Dark Miracles" | The Missing Stone | I do sometimes look up translations of songs in other languages, |
| 2021-09-24 | 7 | Sertraline | "Vivid" | single | and am sometimes disappointed, |
| 2021-09-24 | 8 | Machinae Supremacy | "Pendulum" | single | but I just shrug and forget, |
| 2021-09-24 | 17 | Dream Theater | "Invisible Monster" | single | or construct this moment |
| 2021-09-24 | 18 | Rivers of Nihil | "Maybe One Day" | The Work | and set it free. |
| 2021-09-24 | 19 | Teramaze | "And the Beauty They Perceive" | single | We can learn to speak the truth, |
| 2021-09-24 | 20 | ShadowStrike | "Fables and Folklore" | Fables & Folklore | but we can choose to lie. |
| 2021-09-24 | 21 | Volbeat | "Shotgun Blues" | Shotgun Blues +2 | Songs pass serenely through both our abilities and our weaknesses, |
| 2021-09-24 | 22 | World Without | "Divided" | Light 4 | and suggest that so could we. |
| 2021-09-24 | 23 | As the Sun Falls | "Last Days of Light" | Last Days of Light | The underrated corrolary to humanism's acceptance of others, |
| 2021-09-24 | 24 | Cosmophobe | "Delusions of Grandeur" | The Tragedy of Being | and the reason I prefer not to imagine transcendence as an ascetic reduction, |
| 2021-09-24 | 25 | Omnium Gatherum | "Reckoning" | single | is that your past and potential selves are also equal. |
| 2021-09-24 | 26 | Swallow The Sun | "Woven into Sorrow" | Woven into Sorrow +1 | We are creatures of potential, |
| 2021-09-24 | 27 | Surturs Lohe | "Mimes Reigen" | Wielandstahl | not in the way that arctic wolves are creatures of the snow, |
| 2021-09-24 | 28 | Succumb | "Maenad" | XXI | but in the way that angels are creatures of vengeance, |
| 2021-09-24 | 29 | Skepticism | "Passage" | Companion | visible only in transit between motivation and dispensation. |
| 2021-09-24 | 30 | Doedsvangr | "Black Dragon Phoenix" | single | You can end a song; |
| 2021-09-24 | 31 | LLNN | "Imperial" | Unmaker | it can just start again. |
| 2021-09-24 | 32 | Ereb Altor | "Vargtimman" | single | There is no destructive version of hearing. |
| 2021-09-24 | 33 | Guadaña | "Guerreros de la Tempestad" | single | If you want to avoid hearing your enemy, you have to learn to sing their song |
| 2021-09-17 | 2 | Tulip | "Bird Set Free" | The Witch | to catalogue the sounds of breath drawn in and then blasted back out, |
| 2021-09-17 | 3 | Edge Of Paradise | "Tidal Wave" | The Unknown | to compensate for their scarcity with ranks and lists. |
| 2021-09-17 | 4 | Whyzdom | "Wanderers and Dreamers" | Of Wonders and Wars | If you have 100 records, making top-10s is a way of suggesting that 100 is profligate abundance, |
| 2021-09-17 | 5 | We Are the Catalyst | "Drowning" | single | that you know enough, |
| 2021-09-17 | 7 | Synthwailer | "Concrete Roses" | single | with expensive speakers and even-more-expensive speaker-cables. |
| 2021-09-17 | 8 | Feelament | "Dig" | single | Small worlds, only ever reluctantly expanded: |
| 2021-09-17 | 9 | Illudium | "Aster" | single | what could distant suns offer that we don't already have in Pretzel Logic or Purple Rain? |
| 2021-09-17 | 10 | Fate DeStroyed | "Death Signs" | single | There's nothing up there to see, nothing that's cool. |
| 2021-09-17 | 11 | Paralandra | "Only Human" | single | Of course I'm still the same organism, with the same taxonomical urges, |
| 2021-09-17 | 15 | Thulcandra | "Funeral Pyre" | single | It's less that pieces of us die |
| 2021-09-17 | 16 | Aephanemer | "Panta Rhei" | single | than that we finally realize they are stuck on with preconceptions, |
| 2021-09-17 | 17 | Cynic | "Mythical Serpents" | single | or with legend and fear, |
| 2021-09-17 | 18 | Amarok | "Surreal" | single | and with the right solvent can be removed. |
| 2021-09-17 | 19 | Imperialist | "Terminal Odyssey" | single | The divestiture of armor is not a deathwish, |
| 2021-09-17 | 20 | ATRÆ BILIS | "To Entomb the Aetherworld" | single | but the shortest and most difficult journey |
| 2021-09-17 | 21 | Havukruunu | "Kuu Erkylän Yllä" | single | to an inconceivable destination an inch away. |
| 2021-09-17 | 22 | Shadecrown | "Dark Heart Replica" | Solitarian | Civilization is a factory for distracting metaphors |
| 2021-09-17 | 23 | Saturnian Mist | "Chaos is the Law" | Shamatanic | of difference and distance |
| 2021-09-17 | 24 | Cradle Of Filth | "Necromantic Fantasies" | Necromantic Fantasies +1 | delivered to the air around our heads, |
| 2021-09-17 | 25 | coldrain | "PARADISE (Kill The Silence)" | PARADISE (Kill The Silence) 6 | already filled with whizzing debris in forgotten orbits, |
| 2021-09-17 | 26 | Unlucky Morpheus | ""M" Revolution" | "M" Revolution +1 | but the opposite of civilization is not clarity, |
| 2021-09-17 | 70 | Ghostheart Nebula | "Ascension, Pt. III Nebula" | Ascension | from your nameless limbo. |
| 2021-09-10 | 1 | Temperance | "Pure Life Unfolds" | single | I have been waiting, since the invention of death metal, for life metal. |
| 2021-09-10 | 2 | Ignea | "Mermaids" | single | Rebellions always clarify the powers they resist, |
| 2021-09-10 | 3 | The Dead Deads | "Sea Beast" | Tell Your Girls It's Alright | whether this ends decisively or digressively. |
| 2021-09-10 | 4 | Anette Olzon | "Bye Bye Bye" | Strong | But I mean more by "life" than gothic-symphonic- or pop-melodic-: |
| 2021-09-10 | 5 | Seven Spires | "Ghost of Yesterday" | Gods of Debauchery | something intrinsically viridian, |
| 2021-09-10 | 6 | Averlanche | "Archiv der Liebe" | single | inflected by vitality in exactly the way gothic is limned in melancholy; |
| 2021-09-10 | 7 | The Number Zero | "Reverse Magic" | single | something that takes the reversal of doomed grimness into epic magnificence |
| 2021-09-10 | 8 | Eva Under Fire | "Comatose (feat. Jonathan Dörr of Ego Kill Talent)" | single | and completes the transition by also reversing the fall of angels |
| 2021-09-10 | 9 | Fallcie | "Alone with the Beast" | single | so that they rise, |
| 2021-09-10 | 10 | The Agonist | "Remnants in Time" | single | and that they are us. |
| 2021-09-10 | 11 | Tali Dennerstein | "Apathy" | single | We have had anthems of reconciliation, |
| 2021-09-10 | 14 | BAND-MAID | "Sense(TV Size Ver.)" | single | we have inlayed superflat ribbon-engines |
| 2021-09-10 | 17 | Gacharic Spin | "Dear_____" | Gacharic Spin | out of moments of irresolution. |
| 2021-09-10 | 18 | a crowd of rebellion | "DISTRESS" | single | We have made bright swords out of melting ice. |
| 2021-09-10 | 28 | The Body | "Blackest Crow" | single | We have walked up to the gates of the abyss |
| 2021-09-10 | 29 | Pentakill | "Lost Chapter" | III: Lost Chapter | with ambivalent legions at our back, |
| 2021-09-10 | 30 | Bloodred Hourglass | "Kings & Queens" | Kings & Queens +3 | and itemized our usurpational claims. |
| 2021-09-10 | 31 | Exist Immortal | "Dive" | single | You can be forgiven for taking this as validation of the structures of rule. |
| 2021-09-10 | 32 | Teramaze | "Modern Living Space" | single | Most of our social innovations have been ways to ship these structures around |
| 2021-09-10 | 33 | Cosmophobe | "To Mourn Forever" | single | in flat packs, requiring only cartoon instructions for self-assembly; |
| 2021-09-10 | 34 | Scarlet Aura | "The Book of Scarlet" | Genesis of Time | ways to reconceive your own viable luxuries as entitlements |
| 2021-09-10 | 35 | Asuryan | "Eternal Crusade" | single | in order to forgive the systemically entitled for the system; |
| 2021-09-10 | 36 | Majestica | "Metal United" | single | ways to unite around aesthetic flags |
| 2021-09-10 | 37 | The Lightbringer of Sweden | "Free the Angels" | single | and freedom as an assertional vibe instead of an aspirational hypothetical; |
| 2021-09-10 | 38 | Mägo de Oz | "Al Abordaje" | Bandera Negra | ways to join inertiae in progress. |
| 2021-09-10 | 39 | 616 | "Lidwin" | single | We have long had the technology to romanticize despair, |
| 2021-09-10 | 40 | Seraphim Shock | "Angel Grey" | single | to diminish suffering by sharing it, |
| 2021-09-10 | 41 | Zeolite | "Sculpture of Torment" | Sculpture of Torment +2 | but in the process reifying it, |
| 2021-09-10 | 42 | Hypocrisy | "Chemical Whore" | single | or at least encouraging it to think of itself as real, |
| 2021-09-10 | 43 | Inferi | "No Gods but Our Flesh" | Vile Genesis | and thus to have claim to all of our privileges. |
| 2021-09-10 | 44 | Calugarul | "Drag the Storms Along" | single | Claims, privileges, limited resources, impending storms: |
| 2021-09-10 | 45 | Anomalie | "Trance II: Relics" | single | this is the cosmology of the demonic, |
| 2021-09-10 | 46 | Ghostheart Nebula | "Mira" | single | the perverse canonization of grandeur as funereal, |
| 2021-09-10 | 47 | La Mer | "Man Has A Hole In His Heart" | Everything Is Falling Apart | the divination of flaws. |
| 2021-09-10 | 48 | LLNN | "Desecrator" | single | Enter into no scam elysium scored by endless peaceful pianos. |
| 2021-09-10 | 95 | The HU | "Through the Never" | single | All these misleading perspectives are ways of retrieving problematic histories and trying to do them over. |
| 2021-09-03 | 1 | Archspire | "Bleed the Future" | single | Talking about music as background or foreground |
| 2021-09-03 | 2 | The Sound That Ends Creation | "You're A Loose Cannon, But You Get Results" | single | risks an inverse synesthesia, |
| 2021-09-03 | 3 | ONI INC. | "Always Wishing, Always Waiting" | Always Wishing, Always Waiting +1 | notionally transposing aural integrativity into visual occlusion. |
| 2021-09-03 | 4 | Sarke | "Bleak Reflections" | single | Sound, like love, does not stop at objects, |
| 2021-09-03 | 5 | Negură Bunget | "Brad - Single Edit" | single | but surrounds and suffuses them, |
| 2021-09-03 | 6 | Rise to the Sky | "The Loss of Hope" | Per Aspera Ad Astra | and thus recruits them into its own joys. |
| 2021-09-03 | 7 | Alkonost | "Solntse" | single | You can sit with your back to a revolutionary mural |
| 2021-09-03 | 8 | Galwem | "Ouça Minha Voz" | Ouça Minha Voz +1 | and it will offer no comment on your complacencies. |
| 2021-09-03 | 9 | Hadadanza | "El Brebaje" | single | But put rebel anthems in your headphones, |
| 2021-09-03 | 12 | Beast In Black | "Moonlight Rendezvous" | single | Of course it can be done, |
| 2021-09-03 | 13 | Lords of Black | "What's Become of Us" | single | you can cultivate evil to a reverent soundtrack, |
| 2021-09-03 | 14 | Vega | "Beautiful Lie" | single | or string diaphonous lattices of sugar to the accompaniment of corrosive cacophonies, |
| 2021-09-03 | 15 | Adamantia | "Nuestro Primer Día Aquí" | Anhelos del Alma | but not in the same trivial way that you can think darkly in a white-walled room. |
| 2021-09-03 | 16 | Last Days of Eden | "The Garden" | single | This is also true of the scents of viridian potential |
| 2021-09-03 | 17 | Elisaday | "Inner War" | single | or narcissistic decay. |
| 2021-09-03 | 18 | Whyzdom | "Notre Dame" | single | I feel no less atheistic in the grandest cathedrals, |
| 2021-09-03 | 19 | Tezaura | "Scarecrows" | single | but less isolationist in even the smallest unfamiliar towns. |
| 2021-09-03 | 20 | Rinrin | "Shadows" | Episode 1 5 | Community is harmonic |
| 2021-09-03 | 22 | Esprit D'Air | "津波" | 津波 5 | Sightseeing is literal, and thus inherently virtualizable, |
| 2021-09-03 | 58 | Mashudu Nematoka | "Sila Li Funwa Nga Muambari" | single | that already has the metal in a glass case, |
| 2021-09-03 | 65 | Korpiklaani | "Ennen" | single | gradually and incrementally become recognizable as them, |
| 2021-08-27 | 11 | Matenrou Opera | "Owaranunamidanoumide" | Owaranu namidano umide 3 | And then you have to decide what to say |
| 2021-08-27 | 12 | Murder in Greenvale | "STAY" | single | about everything. |
| 2021-08-27 | 13 | Edge Of Paradise | "False Idols" | single | We are so close to our better selves: |
| 2021-08-27 | 14 | Ad Infinitum | "Unstoppable" | single | their skin warm against our knives, |
| 2021-08-27 | 15 | Windrunner | "Mahogany" | single | their blood sinuous and coiled, |
| 2021-08-27 | 16 | VENUES | "Razorblade Teeth" | Solace | our yearnings folded into steel. |
| 2021-08-27 | 17 | The Great Discord | "Dies Irae" | single | We can start to speak intelligibly, |
| 2021-08-27 | 18 | Omnium Gatherum | "Paragon" | single | however tragically speculatively, |
| 2021-08-27 | 19 | Dawn Of Solace | "White Noise" | single | about peace, |
| 2021-08-27 | 20 | MØL | "Serf" | Serf +1 | but still end up screaming. |
| 2021-08-27 | 21 | Thyrfing | "Håg och minne" | Vanagandr | The things all stories share are the illusion that the past has a boundary, |
| 2021-08-27 | 22 | Doedsvangr | "As the Rivers Bleed Their Blessings" | single | and the conceit that we can look over it from beyond. |
| 2021-08-27 | 23 | Obscurity | "Wodanaz Kriger" | SKOGARMAORS | True advances in weaponry |
| 2021-08-27 | 24 | Banshee | "Let the Light Decay" | single | are methods for stretching larger canvases |
| 2021-08-27 | 25 | Wormwitch | "Canadian Denim Mountain Attack" | Wolf Hex | for war painting, |
| 2021-08-27 | 26 | Windfaerer | "Oxalá" | Breaths of Elder Dawns | not better logistics for shipping cases of guns |
| 2021-08-27 | 27 | Fluisteraars | "Het overvleugelen der meute" | Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking | to a knife fight |
| 2021-08-27 | 29 | Boris | "Fundamental Erorr" | No | "Didn't you already write a loud song about noise?" |
| 2021-08-27 | 30 | Rivers of Nihil | "Focus" | single | Yes! Do you like those? We have more! |
| 2021-08-27 | 31 | Leprous | "Out of Here" | Aphelion | Didn't we already fight this war? |
| 2021-08-27 | 32 | TesseracT | "Concealing Fate Parts 1, 2 & 3 - P O R T A L S" | PORTALS | Yes, and it didn't help. How long would a song have to be |
| 2021-08-27 | 33 | Aisles | "Megalomania" | single | for you to accept it in place of violence? |
| 2021-08-27 | 75 | Boris | "Genesis" | No | Divinity and mortality start the same way: |
| 2021-08-27 | 79 | Megaraptor | "Jolene" | single | but so will the things you disclaim or disown, |
| 2021-08-20 | 14 | Anette Olzon | "Fantastic Fanatic" | single | All of these mythologies obtain because we cope in metaphor and choruses, |
| 2021-08-20 | 15 | Slania | "Limbo" | single | and maybe are not really good at anything else. |
| 2021-08-20 | 16 | Viana | "Kukkuvutit" | Sinnattuinnarusukkaluarpunga | The vastness of the ice is not the canvas for our love, |
| 2021-08-20 | 18 | Kyros | "Behind the Lines" | RECOVER | and so is every complex evasion, |
| 2021-08-20 | 19 | Divided Island | "Error 404" | single | compound failure, |
| 2021-08-20 | 20 | The Last Martyr | "Afterglow" | single | cathartic survival |
| 2021-08-20 | 21 | Oceanhoarse | "Betrayed by Light" | Dead Reckoning | or cathartic irresolution that might still be survival |
| 2021-08-20 | 22 | Skagarack | "Reclaim Your Life" | single | if we wait for the right declarative moment. |
| 2021-08-20 | 23 | Second Reign | "Fire" | single | The sky is our limitlessness, |
| 2021-08-20 | 24 | Iron Maiden | "Stratego" | Stratego +1 | our most literal deism, |
| 2021-08-20 | 25 | Mentalist | "Evil Eye" | A Journey into the Unknown | our most inescapable fear. |
| 2021-08-20 | 26 | Stormhunter | "Last Words" | Crime and Punishment | Beneath, we are indistinguishable |
| 2021-08-20 | 27 | Soen | "Virtue" | Lotus | from each other, from weather, |
| 2021-08-20 | 28 | I124Q | "Eqqissivoq" | Saperavit | from climate or geology, |
| 2021-08-20 | 29 | A Pregnant Light | "Mr. Natural" | single | from contour or apocalypse, |
| 2021-08-20 | 30 | Wolves In The Throne Room | "Masters of Rain and Storm" | Primordial Arcana | from cause or consequence. |
| 2021-08-20 | 31 | Deafheaven | "Lament for Wasps" | Infinite Granite | Our ambassadors will not be sent to explain our destiny to aliens, |
| 2021-08-20 | 33 | Mroh | "Revelation" | single | and futile scripture |
| 2021-08-20 | 34 | Profeci | "Bojaźń i drżenie" | single | and cryptic rage. |
| 2021-08-20 | 77 | Wolves In The Throne Room | "Skyclad Passage - Bonus Track" | Primordial Arcana | didn't carry you alone, manifestly, out of the storm into something above storms. |
| 2021-08-13 | 20 | DAIDA LAIDA | "Liar" | Evolution second shot 3 | that they have internalized inhumanity |
| 2021-08-13 | 21 | Equilibrium | "Revolution" | single | inside armor that makes them feel superhuman, |
| 2021-08-13 | 22 | Dream Theater | "The Alien" | single | any more than I know how to separate a zealot |
| 2021-08-13 | 23 | Aryem | "You Are Insane" | You Are Insane +2 | from the doctrines that allow them to believe |
| 2021-08-13 | 24 | Tulip | "Clone" | single | that they need to listen to nothing else. |
| 2021-08-13 | 28 | Sugar Horse | "Shouting Judas At Bob Dylan" | single | forgive themselves |
| 2021-08-13 | 29 | Unreqvited | "All is Lost" | Beautiful Ghosts | amidst the clattering swords forged uselessly for |
| 2021-08-13 | 30 | Kalmhain | "March of Destruction" | Thanatos I | never forgiving other people |
| 2021-08-13 | 31 | Obscurity | "Ethnogenese" | single | by never looking them anywhere but in their necks. |
| 2021-08-13 | 32 | The Zenith Passage | "Algorithmic Salvation" | single | No amount of math will measure away our definitional flaws. |
| 2021-08-13 | 33 | Bellwethr | "In Forests We'll Lie (Redux)" | single | We have lain in these random forests before, |
| 2021-08-13 | 34 | Fluisteraars | "Brand woedt in mijn graf" | single | have left our fallen in these fields |
| 2021-08-13 | 35 | Corpus Vitreum | "Old Wars" | Old Wars +1 | after wars we talk about as distant lights |
| 2021-08-13 | 36 | Monarch | "Northern Star" | Monarch | during nights lit by nothing else. |
| 2021-08-13 | 37 | Skepticism | "The Swan and the Raven" | single | We are the creatures who fight, |
| 2021-08-13 | 64 | From the Depth | "What Is Love" | single | than falling in love so grandly that for a moment we forget. |
| 2021-08-06 | 30 | Leecher | "Blind and Frozen" | single | in an acknowledged universe. |
| 2021-08-06 | 53 | Shiva | "Hu ka" | Hu ka +1 | endlessly and goallessly, |
| 2021-08-06 | 54 | Delacroix | "JYOUHUTOICE -UNREAL CONTROL-" | single | cheerfully obliterating unseen bedrock |
| 2021-08-06 | 55 | Enslaved | "Caravans to the Outer Worlds" | single | we will probably eventually need, |
| 2021-08-06 | 56 | Soen | "Thurifer" | Thurifer +1 | in order to make a tunnel |
| 2021-08-06 | 57 | TesseracT | "Tourniquet - P O R T A L S" | single | that can take us to one distant dream-point |
| 2021-08-06 | 59 | Cruzh | "Paralyzed" | Tropical Thunder | as if nowhere else matters |
| 2021-08-06 | 60 | Leverage | "Emperor" | single | and we aspire to relocate ourselves without actually traveling. |
| 2021-08-06 | 61 | Vega | "Ain't Who I Am" | single | "The hero takes a journey", we say, |
| 2021-08-06 | 62 | Mayank | "Billy is on the Run" | Mayank | closing the book and putting it back on a shelf, |
| 2021-08-06 | 63 | Porta Inferi CZ | "Vrať se nám - Radio Edit" | single | but this is extreme survivor bias: |
| 2021-08-06 | 64 | HJELVIK | "Synkverving" | single | most heroes become heroic by walking through unfamiliar lands |
| 2021-08-06 | 65 | Blood Red Throne | "Conquered Malevolence" | Conquered Malevolence +1 | and then returning to familiar ones. |
| 2021-08-06 | 66 | Agrypnie | "Am Ende der Welt - Teil 1" | Metamorphosis | The hairy-footed people who come to your country |
| 2021-08-06 | 67 | Wolves In The Throne Room | "Primal Chasm (Gift of Fire)" | Primal Chasm (Gift of Fire) +2 | in order to throw their problematic thrash into your mountain |
| 2021-08-06 | 68 | Ghostheart Nebula | "Ascension, Pt. II My Burial Dream" | single | are not your heroes, |
| 2021-08-06 | 69 | Rise to the Sky | "Life in Suspense" | single | and their memoirs of their homecomings |
| 2021-08-06 | 70 | Helheim | "WoduridaR" | single | share characters with your creation myths, |
| 2021-08-06 | 71 | Deafheaven | "In Blur" | In Blur +2 | but are not their sequels. |
| 2021-08-06 | 72 | Waldgeflüster | "Im Ebersberger Forst" | single | Under gray moon I saw you, |
| 2021-08-06 | 73 | Reverorum ib Malacht | "Not here" | Not Here | and then the moon exploded, |
| 2021-08-06 | 74 | Vessel of Iniquity | "A Glimpse of the Pattern" | The Doorway | its dust meteoring down at us in atmospheric sigils of fire, |
| 2021-08-06 | 75 | Archspire | "Golden Mouth of Ruin" | single | like the teeth of a void made of |
| 2021-08-06 | 76 | The Sound That Ends Creation | "Get Your Shirt Off... It's Pervert Time" | single | mouths, |
| 2021-08-06 | 77 | Full Of Hell | "Industrial Messiah Complex" | single | like descending saviors |
| 2021-08-06 | 79 | Alkonost | "Птица" | single | on the way to landing as smouldering lumps |
| 2021-08-06 | 80 | Bucovina | "Tăriile Văzduhului" | single | in horizonal fields. |
| 2021-08-06 | 95 | The Longing | "White Rabbit" | single | logic and proportion, |
| 2021-07-30 | 25 | King Woman | "Celestial Blues" | Celestial Blues | is not that each of us in our matte albedos |
| 2021-07-30 | 26 | The Body | "Polly Gosford" | single | will have constellations strung around us. |
| 2021-07-30 | 27 | Leprous | "The Silent Revelation" | single | It is not the inane assurance that universal fame will be bestowed on us all at once, |
| 2021-07-30 | 28 | Soen | "Thurifer" | Thurifer +1 | and thus cannot be faulted for whatever infinitesimal fraction it obliquely permits to exist on existence. |
| 2021-07-30 | 29 | Loch Vostok | "The Freedom Paradox" | Opus Ferox - The Great Escape | The internet is not an integrally economic device, |
| 2021-07-30 | 30 | Cosmophobe | "Presence" | Presence +3 | but an empathic one. |
| 2021-07-30 | 31 | Rivers of Nihil | "Clean" | single | It does not seek to free us, |
| 2021-07-30 | 32 | Lantlôs | "Cocoon Tree House" | Wildhund | but rather exactly to bind us |
| 2021-07-30 | 33 | Netherbird | "Atrium of the Storm" | Arete | together. |
| 2021-07-30 | 34 | Succumb | "Okeanos" | single | Behave as if you will be famous for your next trivial action or gesture, |
| 2021-07-30 | 35 | Ghostheart Nebula | "Ascension, Pt. I Cosmic River" | single | for the way bits of expensive cheese fall out of a sandwich listing neglectedly in your left hand |
| 2021-07-30 | 36 | Teeth | "Dreamless Hieroglyphs" | Dreamless Hieroglyphs +1 | as you struggle to collate misdispensed napkins with your right, |
| 2021-07-30 | 37 | Necrofier | "The Black Flame Burns" | single | for how you flinch when attacked by mistake, |
| 2021-07-30 | 38 | Cradle Of Filth | "Crawling King Chaos" | single | for the unexpected grace with which you deflect an unwanted fate |
| 2021-07-30 | 39 | Loch Vostok | "Seize the Night" | Opus Ferox - The Great Escape | or heron. |
| 2021-07-30 | 44 | Jinjer | "Mediator" | Mediator +1 | that are irrelevant to projection, |
| 2021-07-30 | 45 | Edge Of Paradise | "The Unknown" | single | but physics to the grounded. |
| 2021-07-30 | 46 | Last Days of Eden | "Silence" | single | Have you noticed the common qualities of all promised lands: |
| 2021-07-30 | 47 | Dream Ocean | "Eterna Espera" | single | they subsist on hope stolen from our lives, |
| 2021-07-30 | 48 | Bagira | "И Грянет Гром" | И Грянет Гром | on breath sucked out of our own lungs, |
| 2021-07-30 | 82 | Melodicka Bros | "Somebody That I Used to Know (Gothic Metal)" | single | You can get addicted to collecting every variation of a certain kind of sadness, |
| 2021-07-30 | 83 | Volbeat | "Don't Tread on Me" | single | which is one of a million ways to turn sadness in upon itself. |
| 2021-07-30 | 84 | SebastiAn | "Don't Tread on Else Matters" | single | Sadness and joy are not inverses, but reversible reinterpretations of each other, |
| 2021-07-23 | 12 | Seas on the Moon | "Enough Is Enough" | single | or for just dropping trash on the sidewalk |
| 2021-07-23 | 13 | Anette Olzon | "Sick of You" | single | with a trash can directly ahead of them in their path. |
| 2021-07-23 | 14 | VENUES | "Whydah Gally" | Whydah Gally 5 | I'm tired of the assiduous reduction of meaning into meme, |
| 2021-07-23 | 15 | Ignea | "Bosorkun" | single | and the cynical replacement of conscious stewardship with automated pandering, |
| 2021-07-23 | 16 | Maleficium Arungquilta | "На краю" | На краю 6 | and the mordantly reasonable misconception that pandering is the only automatable impulse. |
| 2021-07-23 | 17 | Lutharo | "Lost in a Soul" | single | I want an olympics of routine decency, |
| 2021-07-23 | 18 | Shereign | "Hold On" | single | a decathlon of believing ten useful untrendy human truths |
| 2021-07-23 | 32 | Mayank | "We Are One" | single | I want more-thoughtful adherence to better-devised rules |
| 2021-07-23 | 33 | Soen | "EMDR" | single | to obviate the need for so many of them, |
| 2021-07-23 | 34 | Agrypnie | "Am Ende der Welt - Teil 2" | single | and cauterize more of our oozing social exceptionalist wounds. |
| 2021-07-23 | 35 | Boris | "Loveless" | single | I want to wear the parachute all the way to the ground, |
| 2021-07-23 | 36 | Erdve | "Smala" | Savigaila | and then, standing in a field under clear skies, |
| 2021-07-16 | 43 | Brainstorm | "Glory Disappears" | Glory Disappears +2 | and the ones in which they can discover new universalities inside of themselves |
| 2021-07-16 | 44 | Iron Maiden | "The Writing On The Wall" | single | and new resonances among strangers. |
| 2021-07-16 | 45 | Powerwolf | "Blood for Blood (Faoladh)" | Call Of The Wild | Our online music cities, so far, |
| 2021-07-16 | 46 | Powerwolf | "Where the Wild Wolves Have Gone (feat. Doro Pesch)" | Call Of The Wild | are like suburbs designed by autocrats, |
| 2021-07-16 | 47 | Sabaton | "Kingdom Come" | Kingdom Come +1 | navigable mainly to their centers, |
| 2021-07-16 | 48 | Okkultokrati | "Wolfssegen" | single | and radially anonymous and undifferentiated therefrom. |
| 2021-07-16 | 49 | Woe Betide | "Guardians of the Abyss" | single | They need neighborhoods, and squares, |
| 2021-07-16 | 50 | Deviant Process | "Asynchronous" | single | and intransigent rivers that force them to bend |
| 2021-07-16 | 51 | Cosmophobe | "Visions" | single | and negotiate with arbitrary geometry. |
| 2021-07-16 | 52 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Dead is Dead" | Painful Reminder / Dead is Dead 2 | They need zoning that allows them to adapt and accommodate |
| 2021-07-16 | 53 | Deathsomnia | "Katabasis (Ft. Kyle Kimball)" | single | and nurture and multiply peculiarities. |
| 2021-07-09 | 20 | Laurenne / Louhimo | "Time to Kill the Night" | The Reckoning | We need collaborations, and get rematches. |
| 2021-07-09 | 21 | Dialith | "Ignite the Sky" | Atrophy 4 | We need to be watched over by starlight, |
| 2021-07-09 | 22 | Infinitum | "Caught in a Trap" | single | not grazed by sunset. |
| 2021-07-09 | 34 | Dola | "Wszystko odrośnie" | Czasy | We do not need to recuit adversity agents from within ourselves. |
| 2021-07-09 | 35 | Dom Zły | "Burza" | Śnisz bory tak gęste | We are precariously adrift |
| 2021-07-09 | 36 | Lantlôs | "Lich" | single | in the seemingly limitless unknown, |
| 2021-07-09 | 37 | Wolves In The Throne Room | "Spirit of Lightning" | Spirit of Lightning +1 | torn between defying it |
| 2021-07-09 | 38 | Deafheaven | "The Gnashing" | The Gnashing +1 | and seeing it as the unfolded manifestation of our own infinity. |
| 2021-07-09 | 39 | Wormwitch | "The Wolves of Ossory" | single | Even more mercifully, music is a team sport that doesn't require winners. |
| 2021-07-09 | 40 | Rise to the Sky | "End My Night" | single | We don't get two and a half minutes into a song and then say |
| 2021-07-09 | 80 | Dream Ocean | "The Phantom of the Opera" | single | and repeatedly majestic. |
| 2021-07-02 | 19 | Carpathia | "Artillery" | single | our formulations gain the potential, however seldom fulfilled, to assume transformational power. |
| 2021-07-02 | 20 | Dark Princess | "За Предел" | single | Our empires are constituted from performative faith and structural evasion, |
| 2021-07-02 | 21 | Antillia | "Напряжение" | Источник | and thus govern by eliciting voluntary alignments of delusion, |
| 2021-07-02 | 22 | Lost In Grey | "Disobedience" | Under the Surface | and fall at the softest reluctant touch. |
| 2021-07-02 | 47 | NanowaR of Steel | "L'assedio di porto cervo (feat. Francesco Paoli)" | Italian Folk Metal | and thus resolve indeterminacy by self-exemption. |
| 2021-07-02 | 49 | Powerwolf | "Bête du Gévaudan" | Bête du Gévaudan +1 | until we are able to discharge their intents |
| 2021-07-02 | 50 | Lord Of The Lost | "Your Star Has Led You Astray" | Judas | into some form of betrayal |
| 2021-07-02 | 51 | Dwell in Doom | "Army of the Underworld" | Shadows Deepen, Day is Done | with the same extent as law. |
| 2021-07-02 | 52 | Doomcave | "Genesis" | Genesis +3 | Distrust any fantasy of selective rebirth. |
| 2021-07-02 | 53 | Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | "Uelewa" | The Divine Horsemen | The only efficacy of doom is its looming power to triangulate everything else closer. |
| 2021-07-02 | 54 | Year Of No Light | "Interdit aux Vivants, aux Morts et aux Chiens" | Consolamentum | Letting go of history requires muscles operated only by collective will. |
| 2021-07-02 | 55 | Taake | "Ein Baat i Foss" | Avvik | Art is like an IKEA instruction manual for disassembling pain, |
| 2021-07-02 | 56 | Obscura | "Solaris" | single | but sold separately, to be applied to whatever parts you manage to photosynthesize |
| 2021-07-02 | 57 | Shining | "IDGAF" | single | or scavenge. |
| 2021-07-02 | 75 | The Silent Wedding | "Diamonds and Rust" | single | as if, absurdly, we are the first to arrive in these obviously constructed spaces. |
| 2021-07-02 | 76 | Chester Lockhart | "Firework" | single | But today, we are. |
| 2021-06-25 | 9 | Thy Catafalque | "Gömböc" | Vadak | The universally inconsequential can be locally complex, |
| 2021-06-25 | 10 | Agrypnie | "Verwüstung" | single | the doomed self-elegiac, |
| 2021-06-25 | 11 | Hiraes | "Shadows Break" | Solitary | the darkness illuminating. |
| 2021-06-25 | 12 | Duskmourn | "Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns" | Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns | Our obtuse dysfunctions are not justified as morality plays, |
| 2021-06-25 | 13 | Leprous | "Running Low" | single | but we who survive them earn the chance to be defined by our empathy |
| 2021-06-25 | 14 | Manimal | "The Inevitable End" | The Inevitable End +1 | for the people we have so narrowly not become. |
| 2021-06-25 | 15 | SuidAkrA | "A Shrine for the Ages" | Wolfbite | Reverence beckons us towards self-awareness |
| 2021-06-25 | 16 | Powerwolf | "Dancing with the Dead" | Dancing with the Dead +2 | coyly, in elaborately costumed poses, |
| 2021-06-25 | 17 | Anette Olzon | "Parasite" | single | daring us to mistake grandeur for significance |
| 2021-06-25 | 18 | Celtian | "Nueva Era" | Sendas de Leyenda | and thus underestimate the power of ceremony. |
| 2021-06-25 | 19 | Within Temptation | "Shed My Skin" | Shed My Skin 6 | We take off these clothes in layers, |
| 2021-06-25 | 20 | September Mourning | "Falling Awake" | single | each one as revealing for the illusion it removes |
| 2021-06-25 | 21 | Roses Unread | "Leave a Light On" | single | as for the incremental semblance of nakedness that remains. |
| 2021-06-25 | 22 | Seven Spires | "Gods of Debauchery" | single | Will you be lead by the exemplary, or the exempt? |
| 2021-06-25 | 23 | Oryad | "Sacrifice" | Hymns Of Exile & Decay | Or, to ask this question the other way, |
| 2021-06-25 | 24 | Cran Arcanaria | "...with me" | single | do you assign yourself quests for direction, or vice versa? |
| 2021-06-25 | 41 | Cloud Rat | "Mother Tongue / Glitter Belly" | single | but the tasks for your body are not necessarily simpler than the ones for your worldviews, |
| 2021-06-25 | 42 | Grale | "Seeing Red" | single | and outrage may turn out to not quite be the ore of insight. |
| 2021-06-25 | 43 | Take Over And Destroy | "Anything Else" | Fade Out | None of these rocks are trivial, |
| 2021-06-25 | 44 | The Sound That Ends Creation | "Curtain Dropped, New Stage Unlocked!" | Intercontinental Split 2 | nor the stories of how they accumulated in this orbit, |
| 2021-06-25 | 45 | Dok Wol | "Morii" | Avenoir | but our transcriptions of them as interior design |
| 2021-06-25 | 61 | Aiolin | "Voyage" | AIOLIN BEST ~Revolutional Violinism~ | Even our most mundane preoccupations are inherently revolutionary, |
| 2021-06-25 | 62 | Celtian | "Al Otro Lado del Camino" | Sendas de Leyenda | but all revolutions move you to somewhere you could see before. |
| 2021-06-25 | 66 | Thy Catafalque | "Vadak (Az átváltozás rítusai)" | Vadak | Rituals of transformation are cargo-cult simulations of becoming, |
| 2021-06-25 | 67 | Darkestrah | "The Gift of Mud and Venom" | single | but as with many apparently ineffectual systems, |
| 2021-06-25 | 68 | Perilaxe Occlusion | "Fracturing the Voronoi" | Raytraces of Death 3 | they perserve our memory of interludes of indetermination |
| 2021-06-25 | 69 | Bloody Falls | "Soul Ripper" | single | during the dark ages of certainty. |
| 2021-06-25 | 70 | Saturnian Mist | "Ill-Mystic" | single | "Priest" is our word for guardians of the future |
| 2021-06-25 | 71 | De Arma | "Days of Judgment" | Strayed in Shadows | who misunderstand their domain as the present. |
| 2021-06-18 | 3 | Jinjer | "Vortex" | single | and lined with symbolic invocations against inexorable descent, |
| 2021-06-18 | 5 | Duma | "Cannis" | Cannis +1 | It is telling that our afterlives of torment |
| 2021-06-18 | 17 | m!sa | "Death Before Dishonor" | single | We do not become whole. |
| 2021-06-18 | 18 | Dragon Ash | "New Era" | single | We do not seek completion, |
| 2021-06-18 | 19 | GALNERYUS | "HOLD ON" | UNION GIVES STRENGTH | but the power to sustain defiant inconclusiveness |
| 2021-06-18 | 20 | 戮-Riku- | "彩色世界" | 待ち侘びて、残された結末 2 | amidst the battering resolute. |
| 2021-06-18 | 21 | EviLA | "カレイドスコープ" | カレイドスコープ +1 | Our memorial volumes will be written in irridescent ink |
| 2021-06-18 | 52 | Salduie | "Tagus" | Ambaxtos | the sediment of their anthems, |
| 2021-06-18 | 53 | 616 | "Witch" | single | the wings of their butterflies. |
| 2021-06-18 | 54 | Sôber | "El día de la liberación" | ELEGÍA | You could leave today, |
| 2021-06-18 | 56 | Season Of Dreams | "Light Comes From the Darkness" | Heroes | but at the other end of "where did they go?" is mainly "where did they come from?" |
| 2021-06-18 | 57 | Helloween | "Save My Hide" | Helloween | Are you going to just stand here, |
| 2021-06-18 | 58 | Crowne | "Kings in the North" | Kings in the North | or are you going to let the compass point you somewhere? |
| 2021-06-18 | 59 | Edge Of Paradise | "Digital Paradise" | single | It's not a test, I just want to know |
| 2021-06-18 | 60 | VENUES | "Mountains" | Mountains +3 | where to look to find you later. |
| 2021-06-18 | 61 | Angelwings | "Changes" | Primordium | To leave, yourself, you have to be prepared for everybody to leave, |
| 2021-06-18 | 62 | Poetica | "Hollow Eyes" | single | which is all that we mean by cities: |
| 2021-06-18 | 63 | Kingfisher Sky | "Rise Up" | Rise 4 | somewhere to gather in parades |
| 2021-06-18 | 66 | Voidfallen | "Sui Generis" | single | If you don't plan to come back, |
| 2021-06-18 | 67 | A Pregnant Light | "My Affections Can Be Bought" | I Licked It, Now It's Mine 4 | it doesn't matter what you do, |
| 2021-06-18 | 68 | Eisregen | "Nur eine weitere Leiche im Wald" | bitterböse | or where the streetlights give way to darkness. |
| 2021-06-18 | 69 | Unendlich | "Into Abandonment" | single | Our apologies are not recorded in ink, |
| 2021-06-18 | 70 | Templum Anima Morti | "illyun" | single | but air, |
| 2021-06-18 | 71 | The Human Tragedy | "Last Gasp of Humanity" | single | conserved despite our best self-destructive efforts to bleed it off into space. |
| 2021-06-18 | 72 | Unreqvited | "Funeral Pyre" | single | Our afterlives are outlined in rueful doubt. |
| 2021-06-18 | 73 | The Last Bear Ender | "Rip and Bear" | single | The earth moves slowly, our feet quickly, |
| 2021-06-18 | 74 | TesseracT | "Nocturne - P O R T A L S" | single | and we are foolish if we think that moves us ahead. |
| 2021-06-18 | 75 | Hacktivist | "Currency" | Hyperdialect | We pay for our positions, |
| 2021-06-11 | 24 | Blame Me! | "To Ashes" | The Invisible You | is that other people pick up your inventory while you re-spawn, |
| 2021-06-11 | 25 | Crashing Atlas | "Wake Up" | Wake Up 6 | or continue obliviously onwards in all the directions you secretly pointed them. |
| 2021-06-11 | 26 | We Are the Catalyst | "Shallow Ground" | Shallow Ground +1 | You die a little every day, |
| 2021-06-11 | 27 | Nekonomicon | "Heroes out of Time" | single | which gives you thousands of chances to partly die with some spark of purpose, |
| 2021-06-11 | 28 | Celtian | "El Hijo del Ayer" | single | and be reborn as your own hero, |
| 2021-06-11 | 29 | Война Осколков | "Пламя Гнева" | single | or, if you'd rather, to be immolated by your own frustrated anger. |
| 2021-06-11 | 30 | Laurenne / Louhimo | "The Reckoning" | single | What have we become? |
| 2021-06-11 | 31 | Powerwolf | "Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend (feat. Alissa White-Gluz)" | Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend (feat. Alissa White-Gluz) +1 | Creatures crawling out of oceans and back into the magma mouths of hell, |
| 2021-06-11 | 32 | Metalwings | "Wonders of Life" | A Whole New Land | or jubillant fugitives from tidal despair? |
| 2021-06-11 | 33 | Gacharic Spin | "MindSet" | single | We didn't know, when we started singing, that the rocks were listening for things they could remind us of later. |
| 2021-06-11 | 34 | Warrel Dane | "Everything Is Fading" | Praises To The War Machine (2021 Extended Edition) | What happens when you're dead, if you sing with your soul while you have it, |
| 2021-06-11 | 35 | Thyrfing | "Järnhand" | single | is that the world you leave behind |
| 2021-06-11 | 36 | Mother of All | "Age of the Solipsist" | Age of the Solipsist | spins forward. |
| 2021-06-11 | 37 | Die Apokalyptischen Reiter | "Ymir" | Ymir +2 | Dizzy, our arms full of each other's tenuous bodies |
| 2021-06-11 | 38 | Love // Paranoia | "Fluorescent Shade of Gloom" | single | and adamantine dreams, |
| 2021-06-11 | 39 | Dom Zły | "Gorycz" | single | we turn until our most recent loss is behind us, |
| 2021-06-11 | 40 | Rise to the Sky | "Per Aspera Ad Astra" | single | and then we look up. |
| 2021-06-11 | 41 | Second To Sun | "Nachtgast" | Nachtgast +1 | And then we take a breath, and look down again. |
| 2021-06-11 | 42 | Mastiff | "Endless" | single | The sky is endless, |
| 2021-06-11 | 43 | Wolves In The Throne Room | "Mountain Magick" | single | the ground is close enough to touch; |
| 2021-06-11 | 44 | Withered | "Dissolve" | single | which one is a more apt metaphor for oblivion? |
| 2021-06-11 | 45 | Lantlôs | "Magnolia" | single | Maybe we have never been as good at growing flowers |
| 2021-06-11 | 46 | Botanist | "Antirrhinum" | single | as we have been at naming them with hopeful reassignments of our fears as dragons, |
| 2021-06-11 | 47 | Dornenreich | "Sie machen Mangel zum Geschenk" | Du wilde Liebe sei | or misconstruing their significance as glorifying mortality. |
| 2021-06-11 | 48 | Versengold | "Die wilde Jagd" | single | We have searched, spear in hand, for fountains of youth or peace, |
| 2021-06-11 | 49 | Trna | "Shining" | single | and then, lakeside, perplexed, dipped the sharp point into oat milk, |
| 2021-06-11 | 50 | Terra Odium | "Crawling" | Ne Plus Ultra | and thought "Wait, when we started crawling, where did we think we were trying to go?" |
| 2021-06-11 | 56 | Structures | "Planet of Garbage" | single | if that other people gather up the trash the spectators strewed, |
| 2021-06-11 | 57 | Hacktivist | "Hyperdialect" | single | and light it on fire in the streets. |
| 2021-06-04 | 11 | GALNERYUS | "WHATEVER IT TAKES (Raise Our Hands!)" | single | the plazas filled with telepresence drones and curious birds |
| 2021-06-04 | 12 | L'Arc-en-Ciel | "ミライ" | single | but surrounded by half-filling terraces |
| 2021-06-04 | 13 | Sacred Groove | "Times of Temptation" | MSTRPLN | as immunity embraces us. |
| 2021-06-04 | 14 | Nocean | "The Hope" | single | Let us sign new charters |
| 2021-06-04 | 15 | Cadaveria | "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" | single | with freshly cleaned pens and presumably bioluminescent ink, |
| 2021-06-04 | 16 | Glasgow Kiss | "Demons" | single | and some kind of governance not based on the promise of unfathomable wealth, |
| 2021-06-04 | 52 | Përl | "Le jour des corneilles" | Les maîtres du silence | if we were ghosts, |
| 2021-06-04 | 53 | Bloodred Hourglass | "Nightmares Are Dreams Too" | Nightmares Are Dreams Too +2 | haunting statuary of ourselves. |
| 2021-06-04 | 54 | Seven Spires | "This God is Dead" | single | We have trials, |
| 2021-06-04 | 55 | Night Crowned | "Fjättrad" | single | they have courts. |
| 2021-06-04 | 56 | Dantalion | "Time to Close the Circle" | single | Time to start over |
| 2021-06-04 | 57 | Cloak of Altering | "I slip into a coma" | Sheathed swords drip with poisonous honey | or give up, |
| 2021-06-04 | 58 | Mayhem | "Voces Ab Alta" | single | these are ashes of the same incinerated resolve. |
| 2021-06-04 | 59 | Dom Zły | "Jad" | single | I don't want to stop, |
| 2021-06-04 | 60 | URNE | "THE PALACE OF DEVILS & WOLVES" | single | I want everything else to have been thrown forward by the impact, |
| 2021-06-04 | 61 | Atomic Symphony | "Nightfall" | Enslaved 2 | so that for a second I am not required to steer or lead. |
| 2021-06-04 | 62 | BASEMENT PROPHECY | "Beyond Awareness" | single | Let the idealized people these clothes were measured for |
| 2021-06-04 | 63 | She Said Destroy | "Not Only Bridges" | single | be the first ones naked outside the wall. |
| 2021-06-04 | 64 | The Dark Atom | "Clarity" | Clarity +1 | I was already too careful before this, |
| 2021-06-04 | 65 | Chimp Spanner | "Korruptor" | single | too attent to the statistics of doubt. |
| 2021-06-04 | 66 | Absently | "Frozen" | single | It's funny how some time makes everything seem momentary. |
| 2021-06-04 | 87 | Anaria | "Alone" | single | At night it's easier to perceive our movement through space, |
| 2021-06-04 | 88 | Silent Knight | "Dreams" | single | but no easier to find our place. |
| 2021-05-28 | 8 | Spiritbox | "Secret Garden" | single | What powers have you invested in anonymity, |
| 2021-05-28 | 9 | Lost Division | "In Memoriam 2.0" | Cuts and Scars | and how can they be applied to accountability? |
| 2021-05-28 | 10 | Drown This City | "New Burn Order" | Colours We Won't Know 6 | What impossible new orders did you imagine in limbo, |
| 2021-05-28 | 11 | Fate DeStroyed | "Rather See You Dead" | Within These Walls | and how will you decide if they are possible now |
| 2021-05-28 | 12 | Lost In Grey | "Waves" | Waves +1 | that it seems like something will survive, |
| 2021-05-28 | 13 | The Great Discord | "Blood and Envy" | single | if that's even your now? |
| 2021-05-28 | 14 | The End of Melancholy | "Black Horse" | Nature Unleashed | Our sadnesses never all end at once, |
| 2021-05-28 | 15 | Astray Valley | "Erased (feat. Lena Scissorhands)" | single | so of course nor do our pandemics. |
| 2021-05-28 | 16 | Glassgod | "Luca" | Ancestral Stories | We demonstrate a lot about inequity |
| 2021-05-28 | 17 | Wardrum | "Broken Pieces" | Mavericks | by nominally all experiencing the same thing, |
| 2021-05-28 | 18 | Bloodbound | "Gathering of Souls" | Creatures of the Dark Realm | and then suffering each according to our privileges, |
| 2021-05-28 | 19 | Nightrage | "Falsifying Life" | single | and then choosing how to witness this, |
| 2021-05-28 | 20 | Duskmourn | "Deathless" | single | and what or whether to learn. |
| 2021-05-28 | 21 | Aramaic | "The Oak" | single | You come back from one night under the only tree on an otherwise-bald mountain, |
| 2021-05-28 | 22 | Agrypnie | "Wir Ertrunkenen" | single | full of what you have learned. |
| 2021-05-28 | 23 | Dödsrit | "The Third Door" | Mortal Coil | But there is a city under that tree, |
| 2021-05-28 | 24 | Year Of No Light | "Alètheia" | single | or inside of that mountain, |
| 2021-05-28 | 25 | Massemord | "The Last Lifer's Day" | Contra Legem Naturae 4 | filled with people who don't get to come home to somewhere else, |
| 2021-05-28 | 26 | Dornenreich | "Dein knöchern' Kosen" | single | or else don't have to. |
| 2021-05-28 | 27 | Tanzwut | "Schwarze Löcher" | Die Tanzwut kehrt zurück | Your strange interrupted year is how they always live. |
| 2021-05-28 | 28 | Thy Catafalque | "Köszöntsd a hajnalt" | single | Your new dawn |
| 2021-05-28 | 29 | Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen | "Fading Moon" | Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen | arrives, by definition, at every other hour |
| 2021-05-28 | 30 | the GazettE | "THE PALE" | MASS | for somebody. |
| 2021-05-28 | 31 | 戮-Riku- | "禍禍しさに相対し" | 禍禍しさに相対し +1 | So too, of course, your darkest hour |
| 2021-05-28 | 67 | Burning Witches | "Hall of the Mountain King" | The Witch of the North | There is a city inside the mountain you have climbed alone. They built a city, and you mistook it for a rock, |
| 2021-05-28 | 68 | The End of Melancholy | "Immigrant Song" | Nature Unleashed | and the people inside will look the same as you if you are willing to climb back down off this ridiculous precipice and go inside. |
| 2021-05-21 | 3 | Insomnium | "The Reticent" | The Reticent +1 | or your caverns of longing. |
| 2021-05-21 | 4 | HAVAMAL | "Jormungandr" | The Shadow Chapter | We do not find ourselves by applying schemata to advocacies |
| 2021-05-21 | 5 | Powerwolf | "Beast of Gévaudan" | single | in search of things we already know endorsed by established scions. |
| 2021-05-21 | 8 | Divided Island | "Twice as Bright" | single | and then burning the field to get it back, charred useless. |
| 2021-05-21 | 10 | Awake Again | "Busy Doing Nothing" | single | and the land has other dreams. |
| 2021-05-21 | 11 | Nergard | "God Forgive My Haunted Mind" | Eternal White | We do not need to find ourselves. |
| 2021-05-21 | 12 | Seas on the Moon | "The Regress" | single | We are not lost. |
| 2021-05-21 | 13 | Neperia | "I, Liar" | I, Liar +1 | More than anything, we are not lost enough. |
| 2021-05-21 | 14 | Tulip | "Sidewinder" | single | We find out about ourselves by more extension, |
| 2021-05-21 | 15 | Cydefect | "Muutused" | single | more inversion, |
| 2021-05-21 | 16 | Intra | "Time Has Come to Go" | single | more release of ourselves into uncertainty. |
| 2021-05-21 | 59 | An Autumn for Crippled Children | "Of Your Light" | As the Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes | We do not save ourselves by placing ever-thicker lenses between ourselves |
| 2021-05-21 | 60 | Panopticon | "Dead Loons" | ...And Again Into the Light | and the people who do not see themselves in us. |
| 2021-05-21 | 61 | White Ward | "Debemur Morti" | single | There are better ways to seek forgiveness, |
| 2021-05-21 | 62 | Tvær | "I" | Uvaer | and to let the land absorb our dreams |
| 2021-05-21 | 63 | Borgne | "Even If the Devil Sings into My Ears Again" | Temps morts | where they fall. |
| 2021-05-21 | 64 | Zgard | "Ascension Fog" | Place of Power | You have to be able to walk into the excavated outline of a forgotten king's hall |
| 2021-05-21 | 65 | My Lonely Sea | "Court" | Gloom 3 | and know that this is what all of your city's suburbs look like to the sun |
| 2021-05-21 | 66 | Burial In The Sky | "An Orphaned City" | single | and the moon |
| 2021-05-21 | 67 | Vanvidd | "Under ei Morken Rot" | Under Ei Morken Rot | when they argue over who will get all of this when we're gone. |
| 2021-05-14 | 1 | Flight of Icarus | "Love Will Lead You Home" | Cleo | What did you make more beautiful today? |
| 2021-05-14 | 2 | Angelwings | "Fallen Angel Song" | single | Or witness? What given beauty did you accept? |
| 2021-05-14 | 3 | Regardless Of Me | "This Is Us" | Forms | We walk under arches, |
| 2021-05-14 | 4 | Nekonomicon | "Water Temple in my Dreams" | single | and along boardwalks and named paths, |
| 2021-05-14 | 25 | Kotiteollisuus | "Menestys" | Jumalattomat | What power did you corrupt, today, or compact? |
| 2021-05-14 | 26 | Scarlet Aura | "In the Line of Fire" | single | What warfare did you discover inside yourself? |
| 2021-05-14 | 27 | Wings of Destiny | "Playing with Fire" | single | It all comes from somewhere, |
| 2021-05-14 | 28 | Kitt Wakeley | "Forgive Me" | single | and if you know all the origins other than your own cortices, |
| 2021-05-14 | 29 | Erdve | "Lavondėmės" | single | you are the champion chaos requires. |
| 2021-05-14 | 30 | Dordeduh | "Vraci de nord" | Har | What mythology did you peel off of your skin? |
| 2021-05-14 | 31 | Djevel | "Vinger som tok oss over en brennende himmel, vinger som tok oss hjem" | Tanker Som Rir Natten | If you can transfer your tattoos onto shirts, |
| 2021-05-14 | 32 | Shadecrown | "The Loss" | single | you can take them off in secret, |
| 2021-05-14 | 33 | Fjøsnisse | "Noreg" | single | and find out how much of yourself has survived underneath. |
| 2021-05-14 | 34 | Thyrfing | "Jordafärd" | single | Naked, too, is the collective pural, |
| 2021-05-14 | 35 | The Monolith Deathcult | "They Drew First Blood" | Vernedering - Connect the Goddamn Dots | and beneath that, blood. |
| 2021-05-14 | 39 | Sorrowful Knight | "Escape to Another World" | Lost City 4 | we are liberated by exile. |
| 2021-05-14 | 40 | Teramaze | "Take Your Shot" | Sorella Minore | What familiality did you embrace, |
| 2021-05-14 | 41 | Frost* | "Day and Age" | Day And Age | today, while you were waiting for it to end? |
| 2021-05-14 | 79 | Pain | "Gimme Shelter" | single | to explain to safety that we are the collective plural of noticing it in its absence? |
| 2021-05-07 | 13 | Violet Cold | "Pride" | Empire of Love | We meet during revolutions, and choose by our actions whether the revolution was a last resort or a goal. |
| 2021-05-07 | 14 | The Fall of Eve | "Special Part of Me" | Beyond the Veil | There is no peace between gods, |
| 2021-05-07 | 15 | Skarlett Riot | "Underwater" | Invicta | because "gods" is our word for the part of ourselves that wants the senstation of individual moral superiority |
| 2021-05-07 | 16 | Lost Division | "No God" | single | without the onoing work of collective moral reasoning. |
| 2021-05-07 | 17 | Torn Between Two Worlds | "All Eyes On Me" | single | We are not chosen or cursed. |
| 2021-05-07 | 18 | Drown This City | "Borderline Existence" | single | These fights over stolen land |
| 2021-05-07 | 19 | Война Осколков | "Нечестивый Союз" | Начало | are unwinnable by virtue of their own terms. |
| 2021-05-07 | 20 | Nergard | "Carry Me" | single | We cannot give our cities back to the earth |
| 2021-05-07 | 21 | Lost In Grey | "Souffrir (feat. Emmanuelle Zoldan, Camille André, Andi Kravljaca, Nils Courbaron)" | single | and start over. |
| 2021-05-07 | 22 | False Memories | "Erased" | The Last Night of Fall | Not, at least, to this Earth, |
| 2021-05-07 | 23 | Crowne | "Perceval" | single | but maybe, as we look at Mars and contemplate starting over, |
| 2021-05-07 | 24 | Sabaton | "Defence of Moscow" | single | we can start to see that colonialism is a disease you contract at home, |
| 2021-05-07 | 25 | Cvlt Ov the Svn | "Another Infinity" | We Are The Dragon | not a contagion generated spontaneously by contact. |
| 2021-05-07 | 26 | Sonic Haven | "Nightmares" | Vagabond | Even if this continent had been empty, |
| 2021-05-07 | 27 | Wardrum | "Rise" | single | as its invaders so obdurately attempted to treat it, |
| 2021-05-07 | 28 | Sable Hills | "Messiah" | MESSIAH 2 | they revealed their nature by bringing their own slaves. |
| 2021-05-07 | 29 | Kings Winter | "Edge Of Existence" | Edge Of Existence | Mars is a fantasy destination until somebody proposes using it as a penal colony, |
| 2021-05-07 | 30 | Dawn Ray'd | "Wild Fire, Pt. I" | Wild Fire 2 | and then it's just another desert in which we will build magnificent cities |
| 2021-05-07 | 31 | Non Serviam | "O World, O Work!" | Work | and then fight over how to treat them as nations. |
| 2021-05-07 | 32 | [ówt krì] | "Arcane Fields" | Shards | Look up from Mars and it's mostly the same sky. |
| 2021-05-07 | 33 | An Autumn for Crippled Children | "Splendour Unnoticed" | single | You think that would help, if you'd never spent a lifetime hearing about a star over Bethlehem, |
| 2021-05-07 | 34 | Amenra | "De Evenmens" | single | and then realized Bethlehem is an actual Palestinian town, |
| 2021-05-07 | 35 | Kataan | "Vessel" | Kataan 4 | and Jerusalem is a labyrinth of felafel and halva and alternating layers of contradictory theologic certainty. |
| 2021-05-07 | 36 | Lantlôs | "Lake Fantasy" | single | It's too late to just give anything back to anybody, |
| 2021-05-07 | 37 | XAAXAA | "gogatsubyo" | gogatsubyo 6 | but this resignation assumes posession is a solution, |
| 2021-05-07 | 39 | The Guzmania | "Calling" | single | The crusaders built cities with tunnels to the sea, |
| 2021-05-07 | 69 | Hacktivist | "Reprogram" | single | written on borrowed paper, or the buried walls of forgotten caves |
| 2021-05-07 | 70 | Becko | "The Phoenix" | The Phoenix | or only temporarily abandoned subways. |
| 2021-05-07 | 72 | Haggefugg | "Lasterkahn" | single | Our most conciliatory anthems |
| 2021-05-07 | 73 | Braia | "Sabarabuçu" | ... E o mundo de cá | say mainly that the darkness is not new. |
| 2021-04-30 | 1 | Glassgod | "Mankind" | Mankind +1 | You are one voice among many, but so are all the others. This does not necessitate deference. If you want to use your 12 minute album-finale about humanity as your advance single, there are no grooves to stop you. |
| 2021-04-30 | 2 | Temtris | "Race to the End" | Ritual Warfare | All rules are ritual, in the first place, |
| 2021-04-30 | 3 | Burning Witches | "The Witch of the North" | The Witch of the North +1 | storm circles to be defied as readily by escape as incursion, |
| 2021-04-30 | 4 | Soulglass | "At the Edge of the Nightmare" | Odeth | or illusory shapes implied by themselves-notional boundaries. |
| 2021-04-30 | 5 | Carpathia | "Armonica" | single | These songs of ice and fire tease us with teleological seasons, |
| 2021-04-30 | 6 | Celtian | "Magia de Luna" | single | and we tolerate their hubris fondly, |
| 2021-04-30 | 7 | Starkill | "Cloudless" | single | toying with our weather-control spheres in our off hands, |
| 2021-04-30 | 8 | Synlakross | "Oscilloscope" | 0K4M1 | waiting for private signals. |
| 2021-04-30 | 9 | Spiritbox | "Circle With Me" | single | Voices combine. |
| 2021-04-30 | 10 | The Dreamside | "There Is Magic to Be Done" | single | You are never too immortal for a comeback album, |
| 2021-04-30 | 11 | Seven Spires | "The Cursed Muse" | single | or too doomed for a furious idyl of catharsis and forgiveness. |
| 2021-04-30 | 12 | Aryem | "Reborn" | Reborn +1 | Simpler to just stipulate every day as a new beginning, |
| 2021-04-30 | 13 | Sojourner | "Perennial" | single | and embrace the responsibilities this implies: |
| 2021-04-30 | 14 | Cran Arcanaria | "Obsession" | single | to follow trivial leads to their consequential sources |
| 2021-04-30 | 33 | Gojira | "New Found" | Fortitude | Nobody wants your discarded paradise |
| 2021-04-30 | 34 | Bloodbound | "March into War" | March into War +2 | except the person you were |
| 2021-04-30 | 35 | Dwell in Doom | "Tragic Tale" | Tragic Tale +1 | when you had two more tokens of hope than now. |
| 2021-04-30 | 36 | Lord Of The Lost | "Priest" | Priest +1 | But that train? |
| 2021-04-30 | 37 | Crippled Black Phoenix | "Painful Reminder" | single | It runs every two hours, except only twice on Sundays, |
| 2021-04-30 | 38 | Metsatöll | "Tarede Vaikuses" | single | and it's never full. |
| 2021-04-30 | 39 | Thy Catafalque | "Szarvas" | single | The most wrong thing about proffered Elysium is that it's a place, |
| 2021-04-30 | 40 | Dödsrit | "Apathetic Tongues" | single | but the most corrosive wrong thing is the idea that, if it were a place, it would be only one. |
| 2021-04-30 | 41 | Borgne | "The Swords of the Headless Angels" | single | When you realize that the tickets are plentiful and cheap, |
| 2021-04-30 | 42 | Dordeduh | "În vieliștea uitării" | single | and your antibodies believe in travel again, |
| 2021-04-30 | 43 | Ciel Nordique | "Kamouraska" | single | and you get on that half-full train, |
| 2021-04-30 | 44 | Fenris Vrede | "Torden" | Viking | you will find it a quarter full of commuters |
| 2021-04-30 | 45 | Akhenaten | "Halls of Amenti" | THE EMERALD TABLETS OF THOTH | who bought condos in paradise back when it was affordable, |
| 2021-04-30 | 46 | Dir En Grey | "朧 (Oboro)" | 朧 (Oboro) +2 | finally returning in staggered shifts to their jobs in the exactly-half-empty buildings you know as the Pokémon gyms reachable from your house. |
| 2021-04-30 | 47 | Esprit D'Air | "Nebulae" | Nebulae +2 | Out the righthand windows, |
| 2021-04-30 | 48 | FEST VAINQUEUR | "HEAT HAZE" | ELEMENT 6 | graduate students are learning to sail, |
| 2021-04-30 | 49 | Rides In ReVellion | "Keikoku" | single | and the new bridge you dreaded is almost done and already glittering. |
| 2021-04-30 | 50 | the Raid. | "東京酸欠ヒロイン" | 東京酸欠ヒロイン +2 | Out the left, the next and previous trains are going the other way. |
| 2021-04-30 | 51 | RAZOR | "MIRAIRAKUEN" | PARASITE INVISIBLE 6 | Wherever you go, somebody else just left, |
| 2021-04-30 | 52 | DARRELL | "PHANTOM" | single | sick to death of this paradise's corrupt management, |
| 2021-04-30 | 61 | Snowy Shaw | "Tell me, Tell Me" | single | or "come on, come see what we found". |
| 2021-04-30 | 62 | Toby Hitchcock | "Forward" | single | All flight is flight. |
| 2021-04-30 | 88 | Violet Orlandi | "Hellfire" | single | and admonished from the same burned churches. |
| 2021-04-30 | 89 | Broken Peach | "Wake Me Up" | single | We sing for the departed, and they say "there you are". |
| 2021-04-23 | 12 | Louna | "Незабудка" | single | because what else can we do with it? |
| 2021-04-23 | 13 | Blackbriar | "Confess" | The Cause of Shipwreck | We ride out storms by holding still, |
| 2021-04-23 | 14 | Frozen Crown | "Embrace the Night" | Winterbane | and using their strength as our strength. |
| 2021-04-23 | 15 | Lasting Maze | "Thunder" | Thunder | If we had known we'd be inside for this long, we would have bought better microphones, |
| 2021-04-23 | 16 | Red Eleven | "Universe" | Handled with Chaos | a better evolutionary history, |
| 2021-04-23 | 17 | Rouen | "Wreckage" | single | a larger axe, however decorative. |
| 2021-04-23 | 32 | As the Sun Falls | "From Thy Deepest" | single | writing secret letters to defiant monsters |
| 2021-04-23 | 33 | MUCC | "Myojo" | Myojo | in their untouched citadels, |
| 2021-04-23 | 34 | mama. | "Afterpills" | single | seeking their advice on problems they don't have |
| 2021-04-23 | 35 | Djevel | "Maanen skal være mine øine, den skinnende stierne mine ben, og her skal jeg vandre til evig tid" | single | and wouldn't suffer. |
| 2021-04-23 | 36 | Zgard | "Old Ruins" | single | Our prayers are not diagnostic, |
| 2021-04-23 | 37 | Altarage | "Drainage Mechanism" | Succumb | they are stories of what we aren't yet prepared to embrace, |
| 2021-04-23 | 38 | Night Crowned | "Nattkrönt" | single | rising up our throats, deciding whether to be gasps or songs. |
| 2021-04-23 | 39 | Year Of No Light | "Réalgar" | single | For a year, every pillar was a sundial, |
| 2021-04-23 | 40 | Ulvehyrde | "Disippelen" | Englemakersken | the sun's path unmonitored and distrusted, |
| 2021-04-23 | 41 | Bodom After Midnight | "Payback's a Bitch" | Paint the Sky with Blood 3 | but the readings cataloged and searched for formulae. |
| 2021-04-23 | 42 | This Ending | "Eclipse of the Dead" | single | Did we really learn to do anything other than wait? |
| 2021-04-23 | 43 | Vanvidd | "Blodsjord" | single | Maybe not, but maybe we underestimate patience's power. |
| 2021-04-23 | 44 | EviloN | "Walk of the damned" | single | You never know when you might survive |
| 2021-04-23 | 45 | Sylvatica | "Ashes and Snow" | Ashes and Snow | through attention to slow shadows |
| 2021-04-23 | 46 | Morgarten | "Tales of My Lands" | single | and oblique legends. |
| 2021-04-23 | 47 | Dornenreich | "Der Freiheit Verlangen nach goldenen Ketten" | single | We may be entombed, |
| 2021-04-23 | 48 | Aeges | "Colors" | single | but we are buried in the best layer of the earth, |
| 2021-04-23 | 49 | Fleesh | "Holy Land" | Versions II | the one where lost cities are always found, |
| 2021-04-23 | 50 | Teramaze | "Stone" | single | their streets majestic, |
| 2021-04-23 | 51 | Frost* | "Day and Age - Edit" | single | their industries heraldic and elemental, |
| 2021-04-23 | 52 | Benthos | "Back and Forth" | II | their factions rooted in geometry and pendula. |
| 2021-04-23 | 53 | Tangerine Circus | "Spheres" | single | Looking through closets for half-remembered devices or their missing power-cables, |
| 2021-04-23 | 54 | Constancia | "Brave New World" | single | we find the letters Pythagoras sent us in college, |
| 2021-04-23 | 77 | Enbound | "Beat It" | single | It's not the past we're trying to atone for, |
| 2021-04-23 | 78 | Vicky Psarakis | "Panama" | single | it's what we were about to do, what we were ready to resort to |
| 2021-04-23 | 80 | Violet Orlandi | "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" | single | The axe we need, the touch, the salvation mechanism, |
| 2021-04-16 | 16 | BRIDEAR | "Daybreak" | Bloody Bride | or spinning under lights, |
| 2021-04-16 | 22 | miscast | "ANIMUS" | single | How full or empty is the ocean? Your heart? |
| 2021-04-16 | 26 | Dragon Ash | "Endeavour" | single | and from which star. |
| 2021-04-16 | 27 | heidi. | "劫濁" | single | Our helicopters and children wave to us from Mars, |
| 2021-04-16 | 37 | Asuryan | "Abraxis" | single | the inevitable disengenous declarations of war. |
| 2021-04-16 | 38 | Temple Balls | "Long Ways, Long Lies" | Pyromide | How do you explain the principle of acting as if demonstrating universal law |
| 2021-04-16 | 39 | Marty Friedman | "Senbonzakura" | Tokyo Jukebox 3 | to people who think the point of government is the preservation of convenient imbalances of power? |
| 2021-04-16 | 40 | Dream Ocean | "The Great Silence" | single | The red rocks that waved to us from Mars |
| 2021-04-16 | 41 | Nano | "LINE OF FIRE" | ANTHESIS | welcome our landers with apologetic paperwork, |
| 2021-04-16 | 42 | Louna | "Дом-на-крови" | Обратная сторона | and pathways to canal houseboats and the vaults of hidden ice, |
| 2021-04-16 | 43 | Sacred Groove | "Masterplan" | single | and 500 years of reminding us that this is more than we deserve, |
| 2021-04-16 | 44 | Seas on the Moon | "Promise Land" | single | but only the first of plentiful empty rocks. |
| 2021-04-16 | 45 | Liv Kristine | "Serenity" | Have Courage Dear Heart 5 | If you want to make sure the Earth is round, |
| 2021-04-16 | 46 | Left Hand Solution | "The Sleeping Dead" | Dead of Winter | look back from the moon |
| 2021-04-16 | 48 | Mabe Fratti | "Hacia el Vacío" | single | and take the old gods with you, |
| 2021-04-16 | 49 | The Flight of Sleipnir | "Thaw" | single | cryogenic in their scolding regard. |
| 2021-04-16 | 50 | An Autumn for Crippled Children | "Melancholia" | single | It is an act of courage to leave your home, |
| 2021-04-16 | 51 | Spectral Wound | "Mausoleal Drift" | A Diabolic Thirst | but also an act of courage to accept your responsibility to it, |
| 2021-04-16 | 52 | Stormruler | "Of Hollowed Souls & Distant Flame" | single | not merely as a vessel for cats, |
| 2021-04-16 | 53 | Agvirre | "The Letting Go" | single | but as an inherited occupation of somewhere they didn't bother to first send careful inquiring drones. |
| 2021-04-16 | 54 | Seth | "Les Océans du Vide" | single | All these songs just start, |
| 2021-04-16 | 55 | A Pregnant Light | "Knots and Crosses" | Knots & Crosses 2 | whether you have processed the difference between art and artist yet or not. |
| 2021-04-16 | 56 | Gojira | "Into The Storm" | Into The Storm +3 | Kant, minecrafting in the corner of our screens, |
| 2021-04-16 | 57 | Bloodred Hourglass | "Veritas" | Veritas +1 | reminds us that moral laws govern noumena, |
| 2021-04-16 | 58 | [Amatory] | "Снег в Аду 2.021" | single | and what we think |
| 2021-04-16 | 84 | Blame Me! | "All The Things She Said" | single | Isolation is the practice version of freedom. |
| 2021-04-09 | 1 | Flight of Icarus | "Cleo" | single | The wax wings were just a design sketch. The real ones were carbon-fiber, and fully safety-tested long before Daedalus ever let Icarus fly. Give a parent some credit. |
| 2021-04-09 | 3 | Sacrament | "Последний мост" | single | of triumph that should have been emotionally clear in the original. |
| 2021-04-09 | 4 | Memoremains | "I Turn To You" | single | We turn ethereal fairytales into material object lessons |
| 2021-04-09 | 5 | Lost Division | "Trapped" | single | in order to sell objects or materials. |
| 2021-04-09 | 6 | Frozen Crown | "Towards the Sun" | single | It's colder in the air, not warmer. |
| 2021-04-09 | 7 | Primal Fear | "Vote of No Confidence" | I Will Be Gone 5 | Do not trust these witnesses to our supposed falls. |
| 2021-04-09 | 8 | Nergard | "From the Cradle to the Grave" | single | We know we flew. |
| 2021-04-09 | 9 | Blackbriar | "Selkie" | single | We know what we saw in and beyond the sea, |
| 2021-04-09 | 10 | Mysterain小雨樂隊 | "古風鈴" | 破墨山谷 | and what we heard in clearer air. |
| 2021-04-09 | 41 | HYDE | "ON MY OWN" | single | in place of a structural critique of how social power-entrenchment |
| 2021-04-09 | 42 | Aiolin | "ABSOLUTE EGOISM" | Mermaid Aria -Land Side- 4 | literally undermines the foundations that support it. |
| 2021-04-09 | 43 | Kataan | "Abyss" | single | Caging the minotaur would have been both simpler and kinder. |
| 2021-04-09 | 44 | Dark The Suns | "Shadows in the Void" | Suru Raivosi Sydämeni Pimeydessä | Instead, Daedalus imprisoned him in a maze of infinite inconsequential choices, |
| 2021-04-09 | 45 | Cvlt Ov the Svn | "Hellbound" | single | and thus the rest of us by the idea that this is a threat. |
| 2021-04-09 | 46 | Ætheria Conscientia | "Liturgy for the Ekzunreh" | Corrupted Pillars of Vanity | Of course there is no minotaur, |
| 2021-04-09 | 47 | Cloak of Altering | "I have missed the light so much" | single | and the maze is not complicated, only dark. |
| 2021-04-09 | 77 | Violet Orlandi | "Square Hammer" | Ghosts 2 | The air and the wires are full of joys, |
| 2021-04-02 | 1 | Sershen&Zaritskaya | "Come Together" | single | Millions of songs now living will never die, |
| 2021-04-02 | 2 | Sershen&Zaritskaya | "Stayin' Alive" | single | but gradually we will forget, not where they came from, |
| 2021-04-02 | 3 | Perpetual Fate | "Applause" | single | but what it was like to hear them when they were only themselves. |
| 2021-04-02 | 4 | Butcher Babies | "Last Dance" | single | Of course this is always our dilemma: |
| 2021-04-02 | 5 | Dead Venus | "Flowers & Pain - Single Cut" | single | how to live each unconnected moment as it will be seen in its place in history, |
| 2021-04-02 | 6 | Mutum | "Centipede" | single | without forfeiting our desired fate by assuming we are entitled to it. |
| 2021-04-02 | 7 | Cadaveria | "Shamanic Path" | single | The steps we take define and constitute our path: |
| 2021-04-02 | 8 | Pinkshift | "Mars" | Saccharine 5 | into the unknown, |
| 2021-04-02 | 9 | Cran Arcanaria | "Dominator" | single | or in retreat back within our shrinking zone of control; |
| 2021-04-02 | 10 | Aldious | "Show Down" | Show Down +1 | out the door, in adventurers' clothes, |
| 2021-04-02 | 11 | WHISPER OUT LOUD | "invisible" | WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS INVISIBLE 6 | until the next distance feels small, |
| 2021-04-02 | 16 | TRiDENT | "IMAGINATION" | ADVANCE GENERATION | or letting them fall away as if the sun were a destination. |
| 2021-04-02 | 17 | RONDONRATS。 | "PARASITE" | single | We live, tenuously, on the encrusted skin of a slow fury |
| 2021-04-02 | 18 | zenbukiminoseida. | "WORLD END CRISIS" | Q.E.D.mono | for whom our existential crises are transient molting |
| 2021-04-02 | 21 | ゼラ | "残月" | 月蝕 2 | and when we confuse audience and setting, |
| 2021-04-02 | 23 | Catalysts | "HOME" | single | Paths have to start somewhere, |
| 2021-04-02 | 24 | DESURABBITS | "RAYWORD" | JUMP (Type-A) | but that's pretty much the only real rule. |
| 2021-04-02 | 58 | Glasgow Kiss | "One Step Closer" | single | New steps and new paths await, |
| 2021-04-02 | 68 | Thy Catafalque | "Piros-sárga" | single | We each had a catafalque of our own, and we complimented each others' in customarily arch tones, |
| 2021-04-02 | 69 | Helloween | "Skyfall - Single Edit" | single | learning to humanize absurdity through commitment, |
| 2021-04-02 | 70 | Nicole | "Vihollisteni peilit" | Hävityksen Huoneet | and then to recognize when this is exactly what has been done to us. |
| 2021-04-02 | 72 | Mörkvind | "Liv" | Undergång 4 | or at least so we claimed when we thought we were untraceable |
| 2021-04-02 | 73 | Dödsrit | "Shallow Graves" | single | and immortal. |
| 2021-04-02 | 74 | Bleakwinter Shrine | "Desolation" | The Warrior Cycle | We forget the winter. We forget plagues. |
| 2021-04-02 | 75 | WANDAR | "Raunen" | Landlose Ufer | We forget the things that have killed or doomed us, |
| 2021-04-02 | 76 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Schtampfä" | single | or at least we convince ourselves that they rarely do both. |
| 2021-04-02 | 77 | Mare Cognitum | "Frozen Star Divinization" | Solar Paroxysm | Of course, if we have survived, we are the ones who were right, |
| 2021-04-02 | 78 | 夢遊病者 | "Redemption / Retaliation" | Noč Na Krayu Sveta | which is how insisting that we are right ends up mislabeled as a survival skill, |
| 2021-04-02 | 79 | Julian Lehmann | "Nature Spirit" | single | and wild erroneous surmises misunderstood as performative ritual. |
| 2021-03-26 | 34 | Metalite | "Talisman" | A Virtual World | What got you through this? |
| 2021-03-26 | 35 | Imperia | "Dream Away" | The Last Horizon | What failed? |
| 2021-03-26 | 36 | Hildr Valkyrie | "We Are Heathens" | We Are Heathens +1 | What was lost, and how will you remember it? |
| 2021-03-26 | 37 | The Genotype | "Cybernetic Revolt" | single | What now? |
| 2021-03-26 | 38 | Skies Collide | "Bloodstream" | single | What now? |
| 2021-03-26 | 39 | Regardless Of Me | "All I Remember" | single | All questions are ways of asking |
| 2021-03-26 | 40 | As Everything Unfolds | "I'm Not the Only One" | Within Each Lies the Other | what we will construe the past to have implied. |
| 2021-03-26 | 41 | Juliet Ruin | "Might" | Dark Water 4 | This is why we fight over control of history, |
| 2021-03-26 | 42 | Ringwanderung | "fall into sky" | single | and the endorsements of the long-dead. |
| 2021-03-26 | 43 | Metalite | "Alone" | A Virtual World | Until now, we could pretend that we had to get by on our own. |
| 2021-03-26 | 44 | Neonfly | "The Future, Tonight" | single | Of course this was never true. |
| 2021-03-26 | 45 | Marius Danielsen | "The Sarlinian Bow" | single | Our integral stories are always told by many voices at once, |
| 2021-03-26 | 46 | HAVAMAL | "Nidhoggr" | single | describing different paths to the base of the same waterfall, |
| 2021-03-26 | 47 | Necronomicon | "I Am the Violence" | The Final Chapter | or competing theories for why the water doesn't simply turn back |
| 2021-03-26 | 48 | Manimal | "Forged in Metal" | single | when it reaches the edge. |
| 2021-03-26 | 49 | Nightrage | "Abyss Rising" | single | The water, as it soars towards us, asks us the same thing about ourselves and our myriad inexplicable choices. |
| 2021-03-26 | 50 | Enigmatic Entrance | "Space Drifter" | Space Drifter +1 | Edges are subjective topology, |
| 2021-03-26 | 51 | Gojira | "Amazonia" | Amazonia +2 | none more so than the edge between our accumulated mistakes |
| 2021-03-26 | 52 | Dwell in Doom | "Within Me" | single | and their compounded consequences. |
| 2021-03-26 | 53 | Nevicate | "Dewdrops" | single | It doesn't actually get harder to hold on. |
| 2021-03-26 | 54 | The Anix | "DSPTCH" | DSPTCH +1 | It's just always hard, and always stretches out, |
| 2021-03-26 | 55 | Andromida | "Isolated" | Hellscape | and we feel how it pulls on us |
| 2021-03-26 | 58 | Tännebränne | "Aktas, backas, tuktas" | single | and pull all of us with you. |
| 2021-03-26 | 63 | The Thirteen | "ever gray" | ICY | We wake from brightest-color dreams into gray mornings, |
| 2021-03-26 | 79 | Second To Sun | "A Fortress Clad in Gray Fog" | A Fortress Clad in Gray Fog +1 | and thus learning to see nothing beyond walls |
| 2021-03-26 | 80 | Love // Paranoia | "Native" | single | until we think the huddled spaces inside of the walls are where we're from. |
| 2021-03-26 | 92 | dArtagnan | "Helden" | Feuer & Flamme | We are made of these tiny heroic acts: eating purple pastries or remembering the dead, |
| 2021-03-19 | 38 | Frost* | "Terrestrial" | single | We do not build telescopes to find a better world, |
| 2021-03-19 | 39 | Azure | "Ameotoko I - The Curse" | single | or peer through them to see out of our own well. |
| 2021-03-19 | 40 | Teramaze | "Between These Shadows" | single | We look, like we listen, to see more of what joy will already have revealed. |
| 2021-03-19 | 41 | Super Jump | "Lift" | single | We look up because there's so much up, |
| 2021-03-19 | 42 | Hevilan | "Dark Paradise" | Symphony of Good and Evil | and if we seem haunted, it is because we can imagine ourselves as so many ghosts. |
| 2021-03-19 | 43 | A Pregnant Light | "Kiss Me Thru the Phone (December)" | Kiss Me Thru the Phone | We are the creatures that will restructure the planet to suit our movement, |
| 2021-03-19 | 44 | Nightfall | "Wrath" | single | and then sabotage our own passages in order to fight with each other across them. |
| 2021-03-19 | 45 | Atreides | "Somos Lo Que Somos" | Ordalía | We measure the limits of our control, |
| 2021-03-19 | 46 | Dvne | "Enûma Eliš" | Etemen Ænka | and then build something as wide as we are tall, |
| 2021-03-19 | 47 | Estuarine | "The Audient Void" | Nyarlathotep | as if all dimensions are interchangeable, |
| 2021-03-19 | 48 | Spectral Wound | "Fair Lucifer, Sad Relic" | single | and wisdom were the name for being foolish in only one specific way at a time. |
| 2021-03-19 | 49 | The Ember, The Ash | "Becoming the Eidolon" | single | The soul is elusive, but the oversoul omnipresent. There are worse definitions of wisdom. |
| 2021-03-19 | 50 | Kankar | "Krater in Sarx" | Dunkle Millennia | Love is preparing not for satiated avarice, |
| 2021-03-19 | 72 | heidi. | "Chapter" | single | but another day it may be yours. |
| 2021-03-19 | 73 | Almanac | "Kingdom of the Blind" | single | Another day, you may be required to march for somebody else's freedom, |
| 2021-03-19 | 74 | Nine Treasures | "Black Heart (Re-Recorded)" | Awakening from Dukkha | or to apologetically reconstruct your own. |
| 2021-03-19 | 75 | Sagason | "Niflheim" | Nine worlds within | We are civilized enough to dig channels between oceans, |
| 2021-03-19 | 76 | Morphide | "Panopticon" | single | and primitive enough to be only mostly confident that when we remove the last shovelful of intervening dirt, |
| 2021-03-19 | 77 | Blackbriar | "Deadly Diminuendo" | single | neither ocean will promptly drain into the other. |
| 2021-03-19 | 78 | Underwaves | "Ocean" | single | It's all the same water through which we chart these shortcuts, |
| 2021-03-19 | 79 | MartYriuM | "Starless Opacity" | Lamia Satanica | all the same space under which we array this dread, |
| 2021-03-19 | 80 | Burning Witches | "Flight of the Valkyries" | single | all the same air through which we would fly if we could fly. |
| 2021-03-19 | 81 | Enemy Inside | "Alien" | single | You can tell the truly unfathomable by how they exist only in your self-doubt. |
| 2021-03-19 | 82 | Rivals | "Dead Flowers" | Sad Looks Pretty on Me | Picking flowers is murder. |
| 2021-03-19 | 83 | Gina And The Eastern Block | "The Insanity" | single | What the day gets for escaping you unscathed |
| 2021-03-19 | 84 | Malaя | "Рок" | ЧС 3 | is thankless dawn over the next continent, |
| 2021-03-19 | 89 | Soulspell | "The Wake of Magellan" | single | Tonight the waves are near, |
| 2021-03-19 | 94 | Saxon | "Hold The Line" | Inspirations | ready to breathe back out all this air we have been filtering, and hear how our lives have changed the noises while we guarded them inside of us. |
| 2021-03-12 | 1 | Issa | "The Night It Rained Forever" | Queen of Broken Hearts | The universes are inside of us, |
| 2021-03-12 | 2 | Secret Sphere | "Against All the Odds" | Lifeblood | endless and tireless and restless, |
| 2021-03-12 | 3 | Orden Ogan | "Interstellar" | Final Days | infinite and empty and lit by faint but innumerable sources. |
| 2021-03-12 | 4 | Arion | "I Love to Be Your Enemy" | I Love to Be Your Enemy +3 | Blood careens around, |
| 2021-03-12 | 5 | Bloodbound | "Creatures of the Dark Realm" | Creatures of the Dark Realm +1 | frenetic gyroscopy inclining us out of our planes of rest, |
| 2021-03-12 | 6 | Dark The Suns | "The Secrets of Time" | single | humming in demon whispers. |
| 2021-03-12 | 7 | In Victory | "The Pulse of the Heart" | single | We are the prevalent fauna of rhythm and recurrent vertigo, |
| 2021-03-12 | 8 | Secret Rule | "Black Swan" | single | defined and united by the terrified conviction that we are each unique, |
| 2021-03-12 | 9 | Heart Healer | "Awake" | The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson | and thus irreplaceable, |
| 2021-03-12 | 10 | Skarlett Riot | "Stronger" | single | and thus entitled to ludicrous deference. |
| 2021-03-12 | 11 | Against The Current | "weapon" | weapon +1 | And so we fight these silent involute wars |
| 2021-03-12 | 12 | Air Drawn Dagger | "My Murder of Crows" | single | inside the tenuous boundaries of our selves: |
| 2021-03-12 | 13 | Lovebites | "NO TIME TO HESITATE" | GLORY, GLORY, TO THE WORLD | against the tendency to measure our own anticipatory fears against other people's accomplished fates; |
| 2021-03-12 | 14 | Vertex in Origin | "rewind" | Side-by-Side | against hesitation on the event horizon; |
| 2021-03-12 | 27 | UNMASK aLIVE | "KARMA" | UNMASK aLIVE II (My mother is "CAT") | and negotiating this teeming semi-civilization without them is tenuous and terrifying. |
| 2021-03-12 | 28 | the GazettE | "BLINDING HOPE" | single | How do we reach someone whose only coping mechanism, |
| 2021-03-12 | 29 | Gyze | "Voyage of the Future" | Voyage of the Future +1 | in every moment of possible contact, |
| 2021-03-12 | 30 | VOLA | "24 Light-Years" | 24 Light-Years +2 | is DON'T TOUCH ME? |
| 2021-03-12 | 31 | Thy Catafalque | "Erdgeist" | single | We know how to write songs about fearing change |
| 2021-03-12 | 32 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Äschä" | single | more than fearing death, |
| 2021-03-12 | 33 | Tales of Dhvaras | "Three Winters Black" | single | but we don't know how to change a mind |
| 2021-03-12 | 34 | Stortregn | "Timeless Splendor" | Impermanence | that thinks change is the worse option. |
| 2021-03-12 | 35 | The Crown | "Beyond the Frail" | Royal Destroyer | And this is how we can be so beautiful, |
| 2021-03-12 | 36 | Rise to the Sky | "See Me Fall Down" | Let Me Drown With You | each and in every combination, |
| 2021-03-12 | 37 | Dust Moth | "Annular Eclipse" | Rising // Sailing | and yet end up with racists and murders and solipsists and nihilists |
| 2021-03-12 | 41 | Ronnie Atkins | "Subjugated" | One Shot | The only weapon we really have is love, |
| 2021-03-12 | 42 | dArtagnan | "Feuer & Flamme" | single | and it has the power to cut through any armor wrapped around an open heart, |
| 2021-03-12 | 43 | Chez Kane | "All of It" | Chez Kane | but nothing more. |
| 2021-03-12 | 44 | Sunstorm | "One Step Closer" | Afterlife | If you love nothing, you are lost, but invulnerable in consolation. |
| 2021-03-12 | 66 | Nina Roz | "Mbikooye" | single | metal against skin, |
| 2021-03-12 | 80 | Left Hand Solution | "Jolene" | single | It is not that we yearn for heartbreak, |
| 2021-03-12 | 84 | Secret Sphere | "Life Survivors" | Lifeblood | and joylessness can be light-swallowingly dull in any amount of pointlessly leaved gold. |
| 2021-03-12 | 85 | Issa | "Queen of Broken Hearts" | Queen of Broken Hearts | Don't walk away. Let me hear you. Let us hear each other. |
| 2021-03-05 | 11 | Flight of Icarus | "Fly Away" | single | We have more than this song, |
| 2021-03-05 | 12 | Lost Division | "The Queen" | single | and are not faceted by only these glittering imperfections, |
| 2021-03-05 | 13 | Seas on the Moon | "Desolated" | single | but we listen better when we forget this |
| 2021-03-05 | 14 | Imperia | "While I Am Still Here" | single | and allow the width of now to fit its duration. |
| 2021-03-05 | 15 | As Everything Unfolds | "On the Inside" | On the Inside 6 | For three minutes of forever, we can furiously despair. |
| 2021-03-05 | 18 | Megara | "Saturno" | Truco o Trato (Capítulo I) 3 | and cautionary idols, |
| 2021-03-05 | 20 | VENUES | "Rite of Passage" | single | are neither inevitable |
| 2021-03-05 | 21 | ALYXX | "The Purge" | single | nor irreplaceable. |
| 2021-03-05 | 22 | Blood Stain Child | "2045" | 2045 +1 | All we acquire by pretending to evade the present |
| 2021-03-05 | 31 | Nightmare | "cry for the moon" | cry for the moon +2 | We want things that are constituted from wanting |
| 2021-03-05 | 32 | ALCYON | "amanojaku" | amanojaku +2 | and a little bit of dust, |
| 2021-03-05 | 33 | mama. | "Bokuranobyoumeihaningendesita" | single | and when we get them we are scared to say their names, |
| 2021-03-05 | 34 | Wolfheart | "Hereditary" | Skull Soldiers 4 | but our own names are more familiar and yet no safer. |
| 2021-03-05 | 35 | Cvlt Ov the Svn | "My Venom" | single | We do not have to go into space |
| 2021-03-05 | 36 | Golgotha | "I Am Lost" | Remembering the Past: Writing the Future | to reduce our field of vision to rock and horizons, |
| 2021-03-05 | 37 | An Autumn for Crippled Children | "Carefully Breathing" | single | or to run out of acceptable air. |
| 2021-03-05 | 38 | Merta | "Usva" | single | We do not have to wait for justice |
| 2021-03-05 | 39 | Nemoreus | "Mountain High" | Arnea | to treat ourselves as timeless, |
| 2021-03-05 | 40 | Crown | "Shades" | single | as divine and mechanical, |
| 2021-03-05 | 41 | Defeatist UK | "Skin Deep" | single | diaphanous and metamorphic, |
| 2021-03-05 | 42 | Fleddy Melculy | "NIKS" | single | absurd and utopian and squandered and promised. |
| 2021-03-05 | 56 | Violet Orlandi | "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend" | single | Anything you sing, you share. |
| 2021-03-05 | 57 | Saxon | "Paperback Writer" | single | Anything you share is the beginning of a story that doesn't yet know how to end, or why. |
| 2021-02-26 | 21 | Evergrey | "Stories" | Escape of the Phoenix | New stories are enough: |
| 2021-02-26 | 22 | Juliet Ruin | "Fake Stigmata" | single | of how you feared the wrong sins, |
| 2021-02-26 | 23 | Doll Skin | "Control Freak" | single | or how you were wrong to fear sins |
| 2021-02-26 | 24 | Eternal Frequency | "What Are We Waiting For" | single | or to fear. |
| 2021-02-26 | 25 | Metalite | "Cloud Connected" | Cloud Connected +2 | There are ways to sit heroically at home, |
| 2021-02-26 | 26 | Epica | "Twilight Reverie - The Hypnagogic State -" | Omega | heroically suspended, |
| 2021-02-26 | 27 | KuuΔelta | "Still" | single | coming up close, |
| 2021-02-26 | 28 | Regardless Of Me | "Hell's Friends" | single | imagining everywhere you aren't going. |
| 2021-02-26 | 34 | The Guzmania | "kotoba no ame" | single | Any new thing you try exercises your tolerance muscles, |
| 2021-02-26 | 35 | ARLEQUIN | "DameNingen" | pieces | tearing them so they heal stronger. |
| 2021-02-26 | 40 | Nawather | "Breath of Jasmin" | Kenz Illusion | constantly lapsing into a solipsism of symbolic technique |
| 2021-02-26 | 41 | Empyrium | "A Lucid Tower Beckons on the Hills Afar" | Über den Sternen | and then back out into a taxonomy of solipsisms. |
| 2021-02-26 | 42 | Moonspell | "Hermitage" | Hermitage | Half of these mythologies are based on blinking selectively while we spin, |
| 2021-02-26 | 43 | Perennial Isolation | "The Silent Solace" | single | but that doesn't mean you can't be raptured |
| 2021-02-26 | 44 | Wolvencrown | "A Shadow of What Once Was Pt. 1" | A Shadow of What Once Was 3 | exactly where you stand, |
| 2021-02-26 | 45 | Myronath | "Effigy of Malediction" | single | it just requires you to believe as a motion, |
| 2021-02-26 | 46 | Einherjer | "Echoes in Blood" | North Star | feel everything that cuts and holds you, |
| 2021-02-26 | 47 | IOTUNN | "Access All Worlds" | Access All Worlds | and then vault anyway into the sky. |
| 2021-02-26 | 48 | Rise to the Sky | "Leaving This World" | single | Nothing ends, |
| 2021-02-26 | 49 | MUR | "Inner Hole" | single | neither outwards nor inwards. |
| 2021-02-26 | 50 | Interiors | "Analepsis" | Conduit Vista | You were born; |
| 2021-02-26 | 51 | Megaraptor | "That`s the Way It Is" | single | you need not be resigned to this, |
| 2021-02-26 | 52 | Epica | "Omega - Sovereign of the Sun Spheres -" | Omega | but it won't help trying to have done it differently. |
| 2021-02-26 | 53 | Starmen | "Kisses of an Enemy" | single | Love, too, is a transitional energy. |
| 2021-02-19 | 8 | Elyose | "Metropolis" | Persona | Sometimes we sing to assert a retrospective order |
| 2021-02-19 | 9 | Heart Healer | "This is Not the End" | single | on places we have collectively come to rest. |
| 2021-02-19 | 10 | MoonSun | "Falling" | single | Sometimes we open our mouths to listen. |
| 2021-02-19 | 11 | Crystallion | "Living on a Lie" | Heads or Tails | The skull is a leaky isolation machine, |
| 2021-02-19 | 12 | Marty Friedman | "The Perfect World (feat. Alfakyun.)" | The Perfect World (feat. Alfakyun.) / Makenaide 2 | like the heart is a poor shield against hope. |
| 2021-02-19 | 13 | Eyes Set To Kill | "Find Our Way" | single | Dusk is both liminal and relentlessly repeated, |
| 2021-02-19 | 14 | Icon For Hire | "Enemies" | Amorphous | so it's tempting to wonder whether anything we haven't yet escaped |
| 2021-02-19 | 52 | 616 | "Cinderella Valentine" | single | wears a pointless cape for the video. |
| 2021-02-19 | 53 | Eternal Idol | "A Touch of Evil" | Rocking with the Idols | We need our stories more than we need their morals. |
| 2021-02-19 | 54 | Secret Sphere | "The End of an Ego" | single | We know what to do when we fail to lift ourselves clear of the granite quays: |
| 2021-02-19 | 55 | Ronnie Atkins | "Scorpio" | single | we line them with another layer of stone or boardwalk and try again. |
| 2021-02-19 | 57 | Atreides | "Flor de Madrugada" | single | but then shine our brightest lights on the embossed covers of franchised sequels. |
| 2021-02-19 | 58 | Orden Ogan | "Let the Fire Rain" | Let the Fire Rain +3 | We sing "tonight" to be heard tomorrow morning. |
| 2021-02-19 | 59 | Matenrou Opera | "hakanakukieruainosanka" | hakanakukieruainosanka +2 | The people we were when we started to believe |
| 2021-02-19 | 60 | The Crown | "We Drift On" | single | or to love |
| 2021-02-19 | 61 | Gojira | "Born For One Thing" | Born For One Thing +1 | are gone. |
| 2021-02-19 | 64 | Dordeduh | "Desferecat" | single | built on rune-inscribed layers, |
| 2021-02-19 | 65 | The Devil's Trade | "Dead Sister Merope" | single | with close streets leading to a bakery overlooking a harbor. |
| 2021-02-19 | 66 | Mother of All | "Autumn" | single | Sometimes we sing to admit that we miss places we don't remember, |
| 2021-02-19 | 67 | Suffering Hour | "Transcending Antecedent Visions" | The Cyclic Reckoning | sometimes we howl just to judge our distance from walls |
| 2021-02-19 | 68 | Rise to the Sky | "Dream the Pain is Gone" | single | in the darkness. |
| 2021-02-12 | 1 | Close the Hatch | "Enjoy the Silence" | single | Sometimes it takes 20 years for a song to find its true self. I always thought even the Depeche Mode original of "Enjoy the Silence" had an implied "all I ever wanted is [lying dead] here in my arms", and covers by Tori Amos and Lacuna Coil seemed at least emotionally compatible with this notion, but Dayton post-doom band Close the Hatch finally render it in perfectly gloriously morose blacklight. |
| 2021-02-12 | 2 | Sirenia | "Downwards Spiral" | Riddles, Ruins & Revelations | Silence and darkness can be anthemic and bright, of course. |
| 2021-02-12 | 3 | Issa | "The Way Out" | single | Sometimes the way out is down and through the core, |
| 2021-02-12 | 4 | Imperia | "Starlight" | single | clear into the occluded night underfoot. |
| 2021-02-12 | 5 | Nocean | "The Phantom" | single | Sometimes the ghosts are the only ones who return a particular touch, |
| 2021-02-12 | 62 | Crossfaith | "Dead or Alive" | single | But this headlong anti-gravity forward listening |
| 2021-02-12 | 63 | Bloodred Hourglass | "Drag Me the Rain" | single | allows greatness to gush out of nothing |
| 2021-02-12 | 64 | Wesenwille | "A Material God" | single | in part as a way to assert the possibility of momentary improvisational greatness |
| 2021-02-12 | 65 | Aara | "Nimmermehr" | single | for love of moments, |
| 2021-02-12 | 66 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Bluet" | single | and of course in part to avoid acknowledging that every look backwards in time |
| 2021-02-12 | 67 | Emptiness | "Le mal est chez lui" | Vide | implies an equal and opposite and thus potentially untenable look into the glaring future. |
| 2021-02-12 | 68 | Altarage | "Magno Evento" | single | The optimist thinks the past is scarier, |
| 2021-02-12 | 69 | Mork | "Svartmalt" | single | or wants to. |
| 2021-02-12 | 70 | Crown | "Illumination" | single | I am an optimist: |
| 2021-02-12 | 74 | Forlorn Hope | "To the Bitter End" | single | This is why we hear our dead heroes in surviving guitar solos, |
| 2021-02-12 | 75 | Durbin | "Into the Flames" | The Beast Awakens | and how we contrive to unfear the reaper by hearing his songs in our own. |
| 2021-02-12 | 76 | The Pretty Reckless | "My Bones" | Death By Rock And Roll | We will leave skeletal traces |
| 2021-02-12 | 77 | Chez Kane | "Rocket on the Radio" | single | of ideas only materialized in muscle and skin. |
| 2021-02-12 | 80 | Varang Nord | "Cīņis Gors" | single | and we recall the legions of the damned to tear up the cursed roads and restore |