| 1 | NateWantsToBattle | "Into the Unknown" | single | I was looking forward to the crunchy pop-punk cover of the new Frozen song before I had even heard the new Frozen song. |
| 2 | Our Last Night | "Someone You Loved" | single | The only real question was who would get to it first. First to Eleven? The Animal in Me? Dima Lancaster? AmaLee taking a break from game themes? TeraBrite making a comeback? |
| 3 | First to Eleven | "Lose You to Love Me" | single | We live in a world where any fable can be transposed into any moral, |
| 4 | VUKOVI | "Run/Hide" | single | and princesses turn out to have all the powers, |
| 5 | Sokoninaru | "Complicated System" | complicated system 3 | and all of us are the future heirs of every suspended kingdom |
| 6 | YURiKA | "baby baby flow" | TVアニメ「BEASTARS」エンディングテーマ「Le zoo」 | we can locate and reawaken. |
| 7 | BLUE ENCOUNT | "Girl" | Polaris 4 | But know this: we are not lost in this mist because our ancestors betrayed people they should have beloved. |
| 8 | THE CHARM PARK | "Gravity" | Reverse & Rebirth | Evil is an evasion, the flip side of the same evasion as crediting gods with your success. |
| 9 | TOTALFAT | "ALL AGES (Worth a Life)" | single | The waters do not rise from deliberate generational affront, |
| 10 | a crowd of rebellion | "MEI" | single | and thus cannot be banished by chagrin. |
| 11 | Eleine | "All Shall Burn" | All Shall Burn 5 | They rise as the result of bad decisions we made as best we knew, |
| 12 | Fate DeStroyed | "Shattered" | single | and learning one mistake renders you no less likely to make the next one. |
| 13 | Nevaria | "Finally Free" | single | Wisdom is not making the same one again, |
| 14 | Aeverium | "Safe Harbour" | single | but "same" is as inexact as "safe". |
| 15 | Avatarium | "The Fire I Long For" | The Fire I Long For | The stone giants do not exist for our admonition or convenience. |
| 16 | Ancient Bards | "Home of the Rejects" | single | They have their own constitutional crises, |
| 17 | Temperance | "My Demons Can't Sleep" | single | their own inflexible self-doubt, |
| 18 | Thy Catafalque | "Embersólyom - Kaláka" | single | their own house-concert laments. |
| 19 | Unreqvited | "Nightfall" | single | The snow melts black on the streets tonight; |
| 20 | Obsequiae | "Morrígan" | The Palms of Sorrowed Kings | tomorrow we will be expected on the same routes despite degraded service. |
| 21 | King | "One More War" | Coldest of Cold | Of course it is true that one of us is the fifth element. |
| 22 | Moonreich | "Wormgod" | Wormgod 5 | What Frozen 2 reserves for later in the franchise, I assume, is that we are also the sixth, |
| 23 | Cattle Decapitation | "Death Atlas" | single | and all the innumerable elements thereafter, |
| 24 | Ivenberg | "Levande helvete" | Leben heißt Sterben | each one of us as fundamental as air or earth. |
| 25 | Lord Mantis | "Consciousness.Exe" | Universal Death Church | Water has memory. We have legends. |
| 26 | Street Sects | "If Life Is a Gift, It's in Very Poor Taste" | Gentrification IV: Suspended from Gallery Rails 2 | Fire is a local anomaly. |
| 27 | Calva Louise | "Belicoso" | Interlude For The Borderline Unsettled 4 | It remains to be seen, I suppose, whether we turn out to be a local anomaly in the end, as well. |
| 28 | Amnesia Scanner | "AS Acá" | single | Do we conclude here, to be forgotten among the others? |
| 29 | Ptwiggs | "When Shaken By A Strong Wind" | Darkening Of Light 6 | Water, air, fire, earth and overreach? |
| 30 | Hannah Diamond | "Shy" | Reflections | I doubt this. |
| 31 | Tiger Milk | "Is Mine" | single | This apocaplyse will be recycled and reimagined |
| 32 | Ruelle | "What Are We Waiting For" | Exodus 5 | as transpositional catalyst |
| 33 | Exxasens | "Revolution" | Revolution | or trans-atmospheric diaspora. |
| 34 | Sleep Token | "Blood Sport" | Sundowning | These interludes of horrified retreat |
| 35 | December Avenue | "Kahit Sa Panaginip" | single | will turn out to be cautionary dreams, |
| 36 | Planeetta 9 | "Rakkauden ateisti" | single | complex to decode |
| 37 | ASP | "Morgengrauen irgendwo" | single | but soon enough retrospectively oversimplified. |
| 38 | Baldrs Draumar | "Friso" | Magnus | We rarely learn any significant fraction of the possible lessons from our errors, |
| 39 | Her Despair | "Pandaemonium" | Exorcisms of Eroticism 6 | but we are patiently willing to make them as many times as necessary in compensation. |
| 40 | Scandroid | "Everywhere You Go" | Everywhere You Go | We tragically effervesce, |
| 41 | Cloudjumper | "Katsuki and Izuku" | single | knowing full well we will be recomposed in triumphant montage in the coda. |
| 42 | UNSECRET | "Omens" | single | All of these fates have been repeatedly and meticulously foretold, |
| 43 | protoU | "The Escape" | Anomalies | which is only to say that every doom is alike, |
| 44 | Sir-Dav | "Üstüme Gelme" | single | but every element is unique. |
| 45 | Mugxtsu | "K.I.T." | single | With the first four elements you can make a burning underwater tomb that smells like ancient fear. |
| 46 | The Sound That Ends Creation | "This Math Problem Divides the Internet" | Music Designed to Give You Ideas... Incase You Should Run Out of Ideas | But add people and you can make chaos, and from chaos you can make everything else. From chaos you can make new things, and joy. |
| 47 | Magnum | "Not Forgiven" | single | This doesn't make us blameless or perfect. We are to blame for all of it, if we believe in blame, and imperfectly we do. |
| 48 | Oakland Rain | "Stepping Stones" | single | But this is who we are, thus our first challenge is disbelief. Maybe there are actually four challenges, and they're all disbelief. |
| 49 | WRENN | "Craigslist Personals" | single | I don't believe we are alone. |
| 50 | Kite | "Tranås/Stenslanda" | single | I don't believe our fates are determined by our origins. |
| 51 | Demi Lee Moore | "Queen Of Hearts" | Country | I don't believe our weaknesses invalidate our strengths. |
| 52 | Pojkarna | "The Støvel Dance" | single | I don't believe solemnity is a weapon. |
| 53 | Parry Gripp | "Baby Yoda (Floating in a Pod)" | single | I definitely don't believe there are only four challenges. But maybe there are only four simple challenges, and then all the rest of them are us. |