| 1 | Virvum | "Earthwork" | Illuminance | Moderation is good, in moderation, |
| 2 | Dysrhythmia | "Selective Abstraction" | The Veil of Control | but the universe was forged in plasma and cacophony, |
| 3 | Sibling | "Westside" | Sibling 4 | and yet assembles itself somehow into crystals and air, |
| 4 | Sonata Arctica | "Fly, Navigate, Communicate" | The Ninth Hour | and lattice fortresses of materialized carillon detonations, |
| 5 | Sirenia | "The 12th Hour" | single | and infinite clockwork lashed by relentless picturesque tempests. |
| 6 | Dark Tranquillity | "Atoma" | single | You can choose whether to march with the storms ahead of you or behind, |
| 7 | Amaranthe | "Fury" | single | stabbed by blacklight arches either way, |
| 8 | Alkonost | "Река" | Песни белой лилии | flanked by wolves who keep their own counsel, |
| 9 | Arion | "Unforgivable" | single | and their own legends. |
| 10 | Wardruna | "Raido" | single | But your legends, are you part of them? |
| 11 | Starkill | "Shadow Sleep" | single | You realize that's what they're for, right? |
| 12 | Percival Schuttenbach | "Pocalunek" | Strzyga | Folklore exists to give you access to pre-existing power, |
| 13 | Thy Catafalque | "10^(-20) Angstrom" | Meta | without which entropy is victorious by definition. |
| 14 | White Sea | "Bloodmoon" | single | Legacies of heroism are what make possible moments of unguarded hope, |
| 15 | Potty Mouth | "Smash Hit" | single | and joyous defiant petulance. |
| 16 | Ulcerate | "Shrines of Paralysis" | single | We breed monsters to cover our retreats, |
| 17 | Obscure Sphinx | "Sepulchre" | Epitaphs | to fracture complacent continents, |
| 18 | Ştiu Nu Ştiu | "Aegna Saar" | single | to sear pathways through the perpetually gathering vines, |
| 19 | Shovels & Rope | "The Last Hawk" | Little Seeds | and then we muster the oblivious bravery to walk out into the revealed spaces, |
| 20 | Agnes Obel | "Stretch Your Eyes" | single | and conduct arcane delicate rites |
| 21 | Lisa Mitchell | "Warhol" | single | and speculative calculations about things that can't exactly happen. |
| 22 | Leaves' Eyes | "Fires in the North" | Fires in the North 5 | We will not be crushed today or routed. |
| 23 | Diabulus in Musica | "Earthly Illusions" | single | Or, if today, not tomorrow. |
| 24 | Crosson | "All About the Music" | Spreading the Rock 'n' Roll Disease | Or not once, long ago, when we were young and gloriously didn't know any better. |
| 25 | Broken English Club | "Our History in Bones" | Myths of Steel and Concrete 2 | We develop systems of redolent fatalism, |
| 26 | Hannah Diamond | "Fade Away" | single | moored in weightlessness, |
| 27 | Sonic Syndicate | "Confessions" | single | dizzy with the speed of the ground. |
| 28 | Dance Gavin Dance | "Young Robot" | Mothership | We fabricate rigorously mechanism by improvisational hand, |
| 29 | Titan Slayer | "Project Hyperion" | single | out of whittled circuitry |
| 30 | NateWantsToBattle | "Still into You" | Thnks Fr Th Cvrs | and meticulous cargo-cult schemes, |
| 31 | La Oreja de Van Gogh | "Estoy Contigo" | single | and pause for midstep catharses in sudden faraway lands. |
| 32 | Joyce Manor | "This Song Is A Mess But So Am I" | Cody | We are less than all of this, |
| 33 | Telegram | "You Said You Saw Us" | single | always left behind by the friends we think we want, |
| 34 | D-Day | "Misunderstood" | single | always consoled by the ones we lovingly neglect, |
| 35 | Harm | "(Stay) the Path" | (Quiet) Life 5 | always triumphant on precipices. |
| 36 | Jimmy Eat World | "You With Me" | single | What is humanity but the ability to interpolate love stories into astrophysics? |
| 37 | Nola Wren | "Knife" | single | The ability to draw a blade along skin and elicit only a single drop? |
| 38 | Anders Manga | "Sacrificial Night" | single | The humility to walk among robots and understand their grief? |
| 39 | The Beauty of Gemina | "End - Single Version" | single | Culture is the act of folding beauty back onto darkness, or vice versa. |
| 40 | Nadàr Solo | "Marco" | Semplice | This is why we dance in manufactured spaces. |
| 41 | Bürdel King | "Manicoño" | Si Dios está en todas partes... | This why we wear spiky alter-ego masks even when we're at home and asleep. |
| 42 | Phelios | "Tharsis" | Human Stasis Habitat | Unconsciousness is also an action. |
| 43 | Crywolf | "Quantum Immortality" | single | Empty spaces are also structures. |
| 44 | Tanya Tagaq | "Retribution" | single | The inside is also a surface. |
| 45 | Tid | "Dumhetens gudinna" | Fix idé | Half the things that seem like denial are actually, I think, layers of accentuating gloss, |
| 46 | Nerv | "Cathars" | Vergentis in Senium | or ways to continually explode without simply falling apart. |
| 47 | Skunk D.F. | "Arde" | Pigmalión | Maybe we can divide all our acts into protest music or capitulation. |
| 48 | Cornerstone | "Believe In Me" | Reflections | Fuck inertia; believe in yourself. |
| 49 | Alter Bridge | "Show Me A Leader" | The Last Hero | Shed your terrified cultivated self-defeating isolationist concessions; fly some flag that stands for at least one impossible ideal. |
| 50 | Kammarheit | "Dreams and Seracs" | Of Dawn and of Ice | The possible, after all, will provide for itself. Only the impossible relies on our haunted obscure conflicted complicated generous grace. |