| 1 | Dynfari | "2nd Door: Forgetting" | The Four Doors of the Mind | Atmospheric Icelandic black metal catharsis. |
| 2 | Mortifera | "Mors Illuminat" | IV: Sanctii Tristhess | French "melodic"-black-metal-doesn't-necessarily-mean-no-shrieking. |
| 3 | Labyrinth | "Take on My Legacy" | single | Glorious Italian melodic power metal. |
| 4 | Adrenaline Rush | "Breaking the Chains" | single | Hollywood hard street rock (from Sweden). |
| 5 | Halflives | "Lone Wolf" | Empty Rooms | Italian power pop-punk. |
| 6 | Avven | "Red Sun" | Eos | Slovenian folk-metalcore. |
| 7 | Andrew Rayel | "My Reflection" | single | Yes yes yes Emma Hewitt singing Emma Hewitt singing. I would buy a $700 "juicer" if it had Emma Hewitt singing. |
| 8 | Built By Titan | "You (feat. Skybourne)" | single | Anti-dance EDM is building momentum. Or, I guess, non-momentum. Grace. |
| 9 | Erik Ekholm | "Kingdom Fall" | single | Weekly epicore. |
| 10 | Jeremiah Pena | "Lift the Atmosphere" | Lift the Atmosphere 6 | Orchestral epicore. |
| 11 | MandoPony | "Kids I Used to Know" | Ghosts 6 | If the Gin Blossoms had driven around virtual towns inside video games. |
| 12 | Crazy Lixx | "Walk the Wire" | single | Swedish child o' mine. |
| 13 | Harem Scarem | "United" | single | Canadian hair restoration. |
| 14 | Lich King | "Lich King V: Stalemate" | The Omniclasm | Far Western Massachusetts where it borders Mordor. |
| 15 | Sick Tamburo | "Sei il mio demone" | Un giorno nuovo | Bleary idiophonic Italian alt-noise-rock. |
| 16 | Dvicio | "Quédate" | single | It can't be just one direction if it leads everywhere. |
| 17 | 3D Stas | "Industria Psychika" | Industria Psychika | Russian machinations |
| 18 | Abstract Deviation | "Iskuplenie" | Terpsihora | and mutilations, |
| 19 | Matenrou Opera | "Rokuji Ni Shinro Wo Tore" | PANTHEON, Pt. 1 | visual Kayleigh, |
| 20 | FM2000 | "Tissit" | single | Finnish ends, |
| 21 | NEFER NEFER | "1-2-3-4" | single | Finnish beginnings. |
| 22 | City Light Thief | "Death Trip" | single | German post-hardcore screamo, |
| 23 | Rey Pila | "How Do You Know?" | single | Stompy Mexican neo-New-Wave, |
| 24 | Softer Still | "Wishing Well" | single | England's dreaming, |
| 25 | Ghetts | "Know My Ting" | Know My Ting +1 | England's waking. |
| 26 | Tempa T | "96 Pars" | Pree The Baitness | New estates, |
| 27 | Lethal Bizzle | "I Win" | single | new standards. |
| 28 | Porya Hatami | "1B (Fold)" | Monads | Structural features left to talk amongst themselves |
| 29 | SLUMBERJACK | "Paralyse" | Fracture 5 | until we quietly return. |
| 30 | Teen Top | "Love is" | HIGH FIVE | All directions lead everywhere. It's a round planet. |
| 31 | Something More | "All My Best Friends Are Dogs" | Dogs, Pt. II | Isn't all art naive somehow? |
| 32 | Medina Azahara | "Palabras de Libertad" | 16 | Or wasn't it, before we weaponized nostalgia? |
| 33 | Igorrr | "ieuD" | single | Or won't it be again, when we have to rebuild? |
| 34 | Freeze the Atlantic | "Annotate My Fate" | The People Are Revolting | It's not whether you win or lose, it's the footnotes that claim the authority to explain what the fight was, |
| 35 | Jon Prezant | "Other Lover" | single | and whether it was a fight or a dance, |
| 36 | Perfume Genius | "Slip Away" | single | and which one is making better use of violence. |
| 37 | Mary Lattimore | "The Warm Shoulder" | Collected Pieces | The antidote to politics is intimacy. |
| 38 | CHAMPS | "The Garden Is Overgrown" | single | The antidote to intimacy is extrapolation. |
| 39 | Breathless | "Yup" | single | Knowing the correct name for things is a handicap the machines can help you overcome. |
| 40 | Tinie Tempah | "Shadows (feat. Bipolar Sunshine)" | single | Borders are evasions that don't shake any action. |
| 41 | Versalle | "Dito Popular" | single | All of these are signs of these terrible times |
| 42 | TeraBrite | "Sign of the Times" | single | that haven't the sense to be afraid of themselves, and in this way may yet survive. |