| 1 | BABYMETAL | "METAL KINGDOM" | METAL KINGDOM +2 | The contrived identities we assume are layers we wrap around |
| 2 | OCTAVIAGRACE | "Hardenbergia" | single | the contrived identities we discover within ourselves |
| 3 | Ayasa | "Rou-chou-ren-un" | single | by seeing our reflection in the surface of our skin. |
| 4 | PLEVAIL | "Coda." | single | Careful authenticity, cultivated charm, effusive faith, practiced humility: |
| 5 | Zsasz | "Ultra Heroine" | Ultra Heroine +2 | these are all wishful epilogues backformed |
| 6 | *Luna | "ΔV" | single | from the way we squirm when we discover where the costumes we sent away for |
| 7 | GANGDEMIC | "CRIMIE" | single | came from, and where they rub against our stipulations. |
| 8 | yosugala | "ace of spades" | single | "We have no choice but to retreat", we try to imbue with solemnity, |
| 9 | RAY | "ATMOSPHERE - RAY" | SPLIT EP 『ATMOSPHERE』 3 | but we chose to arrive here, and this angle and this speed. |
| 10 | Subway Daydream | "Skyline" | Ride | Stepping forward is a choice: into dirt or air, |
| 11 | bungeitengoku | "the eye drops from 7th floor make my eyes burn" | single | with protestations of accountability |
| 12 | the pullovers | "むてきのふたり" | むてきのふたり +1 | or the rush of unfurling wings. |
| 13 | Hakubi | "Rewrite" | single | The moment catches us amidst the vulnerable transformation from |
| 14 | アカネサス | "Otona ni Naritakunai" | single | celebratorily believing ourselves to resentfully doubting our invitees. |
| 15 | レイラ | "WONDERLAND" | WONDERLAND +2 | We pick the colors of the cloth that comes and covers up our souls, |
| 16 | krage | "夏の雪 (Chinese ver.)" | single | and we drag a picture of our soul onto a web page |
| 17 | ONMYO-ZA | "龍葬" | 龍凰童子 | to have it printed on the cloth in the shape of a shirt. |
| 18 | Issa | "Seize the Day" | Lights of Japan | Flip it over, whatever it is. |
| 19 | Shereign | "Six Feet Deep" | Ghost Diaries | If it was made with love and intent, there will be something printed on the back too, |
| 20 | Dark Princess | "Taste of Freedom" | Phoenix | and glistening organs inside. |
| 21 | Daedric | "Alchemy" | Alchemy 6 | This is how you can always tell the difference between somebody earnestly telling you something they have decided to believe |
| 22 | Angel Wolf-Black | "Our Truth" | single | and somebody telling you where following intrinsic beliefs has directed them; |
| 23 | For I Am King | "Avarice" | Crown | between answers in the shape of the truth |
| 24 | Liv Sin | "I Am the Storm" | single | and truth in any of the innumerable shadows it casts against the background of chaos; |
| 25 | Ad Infinitum | "Seth" | Seth +2 | between how people talk when they're talking to you |
| 26 | Twilight Aura | "Sacred Earth" | single | and how they talk when they're talking past you toward some other audience they imagine |
| 27 | As Everything Unfolds | "Ultraviolet" | Ultraviolet +2 | and fear. |
| 28 | Sabaton | "The First Soldier" | Heroes of the Great War | The difference between victory and defeat is never 6%, |
| 29 | The Lightbringer of Sweden | "The beast is rising" | The new world order | nor a scrupulous avoidance of the literal terms of clauses meant to transcribe love |
| 30 | Silver Bullet | "Shadow Of A Curse" | Shadowfall | into the language of demons. |
| 31 | In Victory | "Till the Break of Dawn" | single | You can always have the feeling of declaring old history concluded |
| 32 | Kardinal Sin | "Siege Of Jerusalem" | single | by waiting to say your lines just as the gates are closing |
| 33 | Legado de una Tragedia | "Misantropía" | Misantropía +1 | for the night, careful to stand on the other side of them |
| 34 | Twilight Force | "At the Heart of Wintervale" | At the Heart of Wintervale | from everybody whose love you crave. |
| 35 | Elvenking | "The Hanging Tree" | The Hanging Tree +1 | But they climb the trees that hang over the walls, |
| 36 | Shakra | "Invincible" | Invincible +1 | and settle in the branches to watch you realize |
| 37 | Nekonomicon | "Brand New Journey" | single | there's nothing out here to sleep in except suddenly-expensive mud. |
| 38 | Big City | "Sons of Desire" | Sunwind Sails | You can't just dismiss your friends, |
| 39 | Khymera | "Hear Me Calling" | single | and you can't walk a shared journey without your steps and theirs |
| 40 | Tygers Of Pan Tang | "Edge of the World" | single | cooperating to make new paths towards places that didn't used to be places. |
| 41 | Ten | "Brave New Lie" | Something Wicked This Way Comes | You can breathe as deeply as you want, your hand poised to tap you into the meeting, |
| 42 | First Signal | "Shoot the Bullet" | single | but you still have to decide if you're going to tell them the story of loss you've practiced on yourself, |
| 43 | GALNERYUS | "RUN TO THE EDGE" | single | or the story of gain that begins when that dream-sequence ends, and leads everywhere. |
| 44 | Shouta Aoi | "Key to My Heart" | single | The key to reaching the horizons is speed. |
| 45 | ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION | "宿縁" | single | Speed, and efficiency. |
| 46 | アルコサイト | "夢で逢えたら" | 仄かなる黎明に捧ぐ | Speed, efficiency and a fanatic devotion to continuing to have not sold more than half the shares. |
| 47 | See You Smile | "Blue Dream" | On Your Mark 6 | We will start again. Will you? |
| 48 | SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] | "地球という名の都" | V | Kurt didn't, Marshall does. Which voice lingers in your headphones |
| 49 | Kumi Koda | "It’s “K” magic" | WINGS 6 | after the last HRBP is nestled peacefully in their bed? |
| 50 | Cecilia Gault | "Keitai" | single | It takes a good leader to recognize the mistakes you've made. |
| 51 | Ptolemea | "Inspiration" | Balanced Darkness | The way you get that good leader back is to realize that you thrive not by minimizing reluctant admissions of past guilt |
| 52 | pehmoaino | "sisko älä pelkää" | single | but by inhabiting that fallibility as a current paradise. |
| 53 | Nehl Aelin | "If You Choose" | single | You don't put on shiny medals and climb on a short horse |
| 54 | Dizzy | "Birthmark" | Birthmark +1 | to see .15pp farther than the people gathered at your knees, |
| 55 | Gia Lily | "wait what" | single | you do it so they can see you better, and hear. |
| 56 | ILLENIUM | "Luv Me A Little (feat. Nina Nesbitt)" | single | "I gave you the world", you start, and then you pause, and they wait patiently |
| 57 | Rebecca Black | "Sick To My Stomach" | single | for you to realize that they remember all the other times you were wrong, too, |
| 58 | Nerea Rodríguez | "Por Primera Vez" | single | and have stayed beside you because they're going where you're going, |
| 59 | Versilia | "Donde el Corazón Me Lleve" | single | and want hear why you aren't somewhere far ahead of them |
| 60 | Miya Folick | "Get Out of My House" | Get Out of My House | on your tiny expensive horse. |
| 61 | Wednesday | "Chosen to Deserve" | Chosen to Deserve +1 | You want to earn the horse? |
| 62 | Kate Miller-Heidke | "The Last Day On Earth (feat. Marcus Bridge)" | single | You have to climb off it and talk, with the people you're with, about the journey you're sharing. |
| 63 | Ladytron | "California" | Time's Arrow | You have to talk with them, even the shy ones working from their rain-drenched kitchens, |
| 64 | Luna Kills | "deep cuts" | single | not just allow them to queue up questions to be unilaterally processed. |
| 65 | Ouse | "Wait for Me" | single | Sometimes you have to stand there in silence, waiting for them to find something they wanted to show you, |
| 66 | Ryan Oakes | "DOWN" | single | or a song they want you to hear. |
| 67 | snow ellet | "Elevator" | Elevator +1 | It lifted them. |
| 68 | WHISPER OUT LOUD | "STEP" | CIRCLE OF LOVE | It isn't magic, songs aren't magic, we don't want you to hear it so you will be changed, |
| 69 | Aiko el grupo | "Peñacastillo" | single | we want you to listen to it with us so you see how we allow the song to change us. |
| 70 | Repion | "Pronto" | Pronto 5 | Labor laws vary; |
| 71 | Monteperdido | "VAS A PETAR" | single | fates and failures are the same. |
| 72 | Pecker | "En los suburbios" | Peso pluma | Your home will fill, gradually, with useless things for which you paid too much |
| 73 | Biela | "Todo va a ir a mejor" | single | and talismans you found by a streetlight post as you were walking to pick up your bubble-tea order. |
| 74 | Joven Dolores | "Sin Más" | single | Gifts find ways to be discarded from the grip of the superfluous into the path of the needy. |
| 75 | Fanáticos | "¿Quién Te Dijo?" | single | It's not your job to know the future, |
| 76 | levitants | "Adelante" | single | nor to receive culpability for the past. |
| 77 | Sugarcrush | "María José" | single | You have only to love what we are doing together, |
| 78 | Wakame | "Enero" | single | what we could do, |
| 79 | Cora Yako | "Noche Estelar" | Noche Estelar +1 | what will happen without us or joyously with us. |
| 80 | Vlimmer | "Platzwort" | single | Not everybody has the hairline or the eyeshadow to be a supervillain. |
| 81 | Sea of Sin | "Don't Let Go - Single Edit" | single | Hardly anybody, really. |
| 82 | Flyying Colours | "Goodbye to Music" | single | The blasting call to unite to defeat evil with grand self-sacrifice is a rare and overvalued squawk. |
| 83 | Batu | "Built On Sand" | single | The good songs aren't good by staying on message, |
| 84 | Vėlių Namai | "Aftensinn" | Alkai | they're good by echoing the ghosts of other messages into the soundstage of what you think you have to say. |
| 85 | Vaget | "Jaruna" | single | Studied tradition, equanimous ink, moral mass, a beat: |
| 86 | SKÁLD | "Ljósálfur" | Huldufólk | these are all hopeful introductions |
| 87 | Uuhai | "Khurai" | single | to new volumes. |
| 88 | Sáasil | "Roses" | Ephemeral | Not "Changes aren't permanent, but change is", |
| 89 | Insomnium | "The Witch Hunter" | single | but "love and life are deep". |
| 90 | Imperium Dekadenz | "Forests in Gale" | Into Sorrow Evermore | What you say about our company is what we say to society. |
| 91 | Dead Wasteland | "Black Rose" | single | Fools obey commands. |
| 92 | Leipa | "Fremdkörper" | Reue | We chose to arrive here, our rewards unpromised, |
| 93 | Vitrail | "Cette source" | Le mépris du monde | not because we distrust the rest of the world, |
| 94 | Atrocity | "Teufelsmarsch" | OKKULT III | but to dance: |
| 95 | Full Of Hell | "Rubble Home" | single | among ruins, when storms bring ruins; |
| 96 | Stömb | "The Realm of Delirium" | single | loyally oblivious in periodic darkness; |
| 97 | Hypno5e | "Lava from the Sky" | Lava from the Sky +2 | burned by debris from beyond our control; |
| 98 | Isole | "The Songs of the Whales" | single | but justified by the sound. |
| 99 | The Ocean | "Preboreal" | single | We have come to be the ones who carry us from before to during. |
| 100 | Oak Pantheon | "Dissociate" | The Absence | Severance is our privilege, not yours. |
| 101 | Katatonia | "Colossal Shade" | Sky Void of Stars | You may not know our names, |
| 102 | Redemption | "Seven Minutes from Sunset" | Seven Minutes from Sunset +1 | or the maps of our journeys home, magnanimously deferred so that we can be here, |
| 103 | Riverside | "Friend or Foe?" | ID.Entity (Deluxe Edition) | but we are the substance of your legacy. |
| 104 | Haken | "Taurus" | Taurus +2 | "We have no choice but retreat?" All definitions of choice are phrased in movement. |
| 105 | Cosmograf | "A Better World" | Heroic Materials | "I gave you the world", you start, |
| 106 | Sepha. | "the moon is on fire" | single | and there it is in the sky, burning, with all the other beautiful useless corporate rocks you gave us in welcome. |
| 107 | Sleaford Mods | "UK GRIM" | single | Nobility is not always the intent of our expressions. |
| 108 | Cornelius SA | "Center of the Soul" | single | We didn't choose to arrive here, exactly, listening to you describing your philosophical entitlement of puppetry, |
| 109 | Nhii | "Rusted Rose" | Rusted Rose +1 | but do not mis-deduce that this implies we need to have our next step directed |
| 110 | Msaki | "Zibonakalise - Radio Edit" | single | or motivated. |
| 111 | Kelly Khumalo | "Uzoma" | single | We know where to find the music, |
| 112 | Joeboy | "Body & Soul" | single | and we know that it forgives us for what we lose on the way, |
| 113 | Lwah Ndlunkulu | "Ngiyeza" | single | mislayed gifts that somebody else will find next to a streetlight. |
| 114 | Umdumazi | "Ngakutheka" | Iphutha | Every language has a word for "maybe", |
| 115 | Phathizwe Ntuli | "Idanasoli" | single | and thus all of our disguises are facets of people we could still become. |
| 116 | Thulebuka | "Ngibhalele" | Angaliwa Mina | Give up on one of us, you give up on yourself; |
| 117 | Ntozabantu | "Asibulawa" | single | believe in all of us, and we will write a story that doesn't end here. |
| 118 | Maredi | "Wa Ditoro Mmapelo" | Mmapelo 3 | We do not become twice as strong by shrinking our hearts to 94% of their size, |
| 119 | Methuli Mlungwana | "Suku nkungu emihlweni ami - Special Version" | single | but by learning to hear "Here we are now, entertain us" as a wedding song. |
| 120 | Kirsten Adamson | "My Father's Songs" | single | We have the sun and moon as gifts. You can feel how we must feel. |
| 121 | Ruston Kelly | "The Weakness" | single | We don't give in to the weakness. |
| 122 | Ptolemea | "Balanced Darkness" | Balanced Darkness | We don't make robots in our image to take over our chores, but to show us what it looks like when we do them heartlessly. |
| 123 | Shereign | "Strong" | Ghost Diaries | We don't band together to infuse a single purpose with more certainty, |
| 124 | Issa | "It's Over" | Lights of Japan | we do it to shred selfishness's conviction. |
| 125 | Broken Peach | "What A Feeling" | single | "Positioned for the future" is our fond attempt to make you feel less bad for standing around, not yet unscared of dancing, less like that defines you. |
| 126 | Megaraptor | "A Thousand Miles" | single | The distance from the wall to the center of the floor is short, and yet crosses worlds, |
| 127 | Agordas | "Running Up That Hill" | single | transcends negotiations. |
| 128 | The Animal In Me | "Kill Bill" | single | Would you rather be here alone? |
| 129 | Aedliga | "Streets of Cambridge" | single | Take back every broken word, and the way you said goodbye, and we'll see you in the morning. |