| 1 | Scarlxrd | "NEW LEVEL." | Acquired Taste: Vxl. 1 | Previously, you had to hate yelling and hip hop separately. |
| 2 | PRXJEK | "BITCH! I'M FINALLY VERIFIED" | single | You could get cartoon Satanism from death metal, |
| 3 | 7xvn | "Fear!" | single | bad low-fi grimness from garage black metal, |
| 4 | HXSTAGE | "Imma Bug" | The Big Singles Compilation | speed menace from hardcore punk, |
| 5 | Sixthells | "Escape" | single | haunted stillness from slowcore. |
| 6 | Mulatto | "Latto" | Hit The Latto 6 | It sounded different, but smelled the same. |
| 7 | SITOI | "Magneetti" | Kyyhky 5 | Are the noises scarier now, |
| 8 | Varg²™ | "I’ve Spent €3000 On a New Laptop, And This Is What It Sounds Like?" | Fuck Varg | or is it just that we now hear clearly |
| 9 | Aphonnic | "En Globo" | single | noisy things that used to be distant? |
| 10 | THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE | "FULLMETAL TRIGGER" | single | All of those belligerences lacked dance routines, |
| 11 | Grimes | "4ÆM" | single | and cars made out of flat sheets of steel. |
| 12 | HEALTH | "DELICIOUS APE" | single | We had anguish modulated through mythology, |
| 13 | Poppy | "Fill the Crown" | Fill The Crown 4 | and it seemed like everything we wanted |
| 14 | ♥ GOJII ♥ | "Uniicorn" | single | until the robots taught us to undertand grief as hunger. |
| 15 | BAND-MAID | "Liberal" | CONQUEROR | We knew so little. |
| 16 | SILENT SIREN | "HERO" | single | It's always clear in retrospect how fractionally we understood, |
| 17 | Hold out Hope | "September" | single | but we never seem to let this teach us doubt as a superior liturgy. |
| 18 | September Mourning | "Madness" | Volume III 4 | You think you know why you love what you love, |
| 19 | Secret Rule | "Purgatory" | single | why your enemies are wrong, |
| 20 | Die Happy | "Guess What" | single | and how to become right. |
| 21 | Tarja | "You and I" | single | These are not mistakes as much as illusions, |
| 22 | We Sell The Dead | "Black Sleep" | Black Sleep / Across the Water 2 | and not as much illusions as reflections we coyly admire, |
| 23 | Ascend The Hollow | "Swarms Within" | single | approving ourselves from very slightly different angles. |
| 24 | Mystic Prophecy | "Eye to Eye" | single | Explain nothing. |
| 25 | Ihsahn | "Stridig" | single | Grant it space and time and moss with which to explain itself by the way in which it ages. |
| 26 | Massemord | "Lifeless" | single | The bombast pauses, halfway through the grape, |
| 27 | Pyogenesis | "Will I Ever Feel the Same" | single | to lecture us on its cultivation and significance. |
| 28 | Widek | "Nandaya" | The Garden of Existence | A tuft of hair has escaped tenure |
| 29 | Alex Yarmak | "Inner Animal" | single | and flinches at alternate consonants. |
| 30 | the cibo | "Everything is Good Night" | single | Self-righteousness is a ballet, |
| 31 | Coaltar Of The Deepers | "HALF LIFE" | single | we appreciated for its sinuousness |
| 32 | CRCK/LCKS | "素敵nice" | single | as we ate all of the other grapes. |
| 33 | Parallels | "The Magic Hour" | single | It is sad that they are gone now. |
| 34 | M!R!M | "Another Life Another Time" | single | It will be sadder if they never grow again. |
| 35 | MONO | "Winter Light" | single | But this is not the moment when there will never be grapes again. |
| 36 | Larkins | "Pieces" | single | This is the moment when we have just eaten his grapes |
| 37 | Officium Triste | "The End is Nigh" | The Death of Gaia | while watching how his lips push the word "Vitis" into the center of the room, |
| 38 | Vredehammer | "Aggressor" | single | the farthest point from all of our circled chairs, |
| 39 | A Life Divided | "Addicted" | single | and we wonder how long it will sit there until somebody can no longer resist |
| 40 | Hanzel und Gretyl | "HEXENNACHT" | HEXENNACHT | the urge to slide down and forward in their chair, |
| 41 | Porta Nigra | "Das Rad des Ixion" | single | just enough to, with a toe, nudge it back into play. |
| 42 | Lasten Hautausmaa | "Kaarlo Sarkia" | single | Meaning accretes. |
| 43 | Tulenkulkijat | "Ei mitään, ei ketään" | single | You can't pull the rain down faster, |
| 44 | Tenille Arts | "Nothing to See Here" | single | can't pull the tides up with your hands |
| 45 | Caroline Watkins | "Nothing to See Here" | single | any more than you can hold them down. |
| 46 | Marshall Crenshaw | "Twenty-Five Forty-One" | single | You are not given the day to chastise or mold. |
| 47 | Binary Code | "Fade Into You" | single | We knew this once. How did we forget? |
| 48 | Andromida | "Lose You to Love Me" | single | What else essential have we simply lost? |
| 49 | First to Eleven | "Ocean Avenue" | single | Nothing we can't make again. |