| 1 | Delain | "Hideaway Paradise" | Dark Waters | This is a golden era for melodic metal albums, |
| 2 | Elyose | "Ils t'ont dit" | Déviante | and by "era" I mean "three weeks": Dark Sarah; Xandria and REXORIA; |
| 3 | Infinite & Divine | "Ashes to Ashes" | Ascendancy | Delain, Elyose and Infinite & Divine. |
| 4 | Ankor | "Oblivion" | Oblivion +1 | Bright swords, gothic gradients, regal serifs. |
| 5 | Delain | "Invictus (feat. Marko Hietala & Paolo Ribaldini)" | Dark Waters | But take those six records away and it's still an inexhaustibility of hyperbolic grandeur. |
| 6 | Elysion | "Crossing Over" | single | This is how it is with everything, now: |
| 7 | Elyose | "De la Lune à la Terre" | Déviante | mastered beyond all historical precedent, |
| 8 | Forever We Roam | "A Crash Course in the Laws of Gravity" | single | but then also infinite; |
| 9 | Infinite & Divine | "Remedy" | Ascendancy | meticulously assembled, |
| 10 | Fraser Edwards | "My Great Escape" | single | but then also casually plundered; |
| 11 | Cawston | "DFYF" | single | blithely distressed |
| 12 | IKINÄ | "Riivaaja" | single | and afraid of nothing. |
| 13 | Locus Animæ | "Magia D'Inchiostro" | single | I've been listening to metal like this since there wasn't any metal like this, |
| 14 | Djunah | "Phaethon" | single | and every week its unmanageable extents seems to exponentiate: |
| 15 | Shores Of Null | "My Darkest Years" | My Darkest Years +2 | airy transcendence and grim catharses, |
| 16 | Vvilderness | "Orm's Odyssey" | Path | cryptic lexicons and stormbringers, |
| 17 | Wounds of Recollection | "Pale Blue Light" | Warm Glow of the End of Everything | the void's regard. |
| 18 | Entropia | "Final" | single | You could forget everything you think you know about the ending world |
| 19 | Moonthoth | "MARtwe TWe żywOTA" | Uroczysko | and redestroy it from scratch starting every Friday. |
| 20 | Old Forest | "Faust Recants (Satan Cometh)" | single | Satan no longer arrives with a demon host |
| 21 | Doomas | "Cult Yog-Sothoth" | R´LYEH | at an epochal moment of cosmic prolapse, |
| 22 | Vaget | "Axis Mundi" | Axis Mundi | he is omnipresent, manipulating the ley lines of entropy in order to |
| 23 | Narnia | "Rebel" | single | install an app on our phones that singes us with notifications every 45 seconds. |
| 24 | Avaland | "Betrayers" | single | There is a new song. |
| 25 | Wig Wam | "Uppercut Shazam" | Out of the Dark | There is another new song. |
| 26 | Revolution Saints | "Talking Like Strangers" | single | The next one is a pastiche of ideas that were dubious when they were Journey songs, |
| 27 | Khymera | "Don't Wait for Love" | Hold Your Ground | but somehow become transformed to marvel by double kick-drums. |
| 28 | Klone | "Elusive" | Meanwhile | The next one is evasive, reticent, |
| 29 | Osada Vida | "Make Us Proud" | single | and we follow it into countries whose silhouettes we would never recognize in Worldle, |
| 30 | The Antarctica Project | "Owari" | Owari +1 | or the vortices between and outside of them, |
| 31 | Einar Solberg | "Grotto (feat. Magnus Børmark)" | single | only to find ourselves adrift in bioluminescent reverie. |
| 32 | THE ORAL CIGARETTES | "Enchant" | single | This is a golden era for Japanese music you no longer have to go to Japan to hear, |
| 33 | KAKUMAY | "nearly equal" | single | and of course for not-going everywhere and hearing every noise. |
| 34 | Dragon Ash | "VOX" | single | Sighing choruses of strangers want us to feel their love |
| 35 | BLUE ENCOUNT | "vendetta" | Journey through the new door 5 | and to suffer their origin myths of betrayal. |
| 36 | ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION | "ウェザーリポート" | 宿縁 3 | This is the generation that receives magic as ordinary, but weather as inscrutable, |
| 37 | a flood of circle | "月夜の道を俺が行く" | single | and you have not walked a mile in their zero-drop shoes. |
| 38 | HOWL | "AndarTeikar" | AndarTeikar +2 | They move like assassins dance. |
| 39 | NANO | "FIGHT SONG" | NOIXE | They have temples in 38th-floor corridors, |
| 40 | KRD8 | "Queen Glory" | single | and posters of Rihanna as a cyborg, |
| 41 | Quubi | "Take me now" | single | and every time you look in a new direction there are 48 more of them, telling you what they want: |
| 42 | Schrödinger's dog | "Reincarnation" | single | frenetic transience and impossible loyalty; |
| 43 | アカネサス | "Saitei" | single | the courage to sing like you are trying to awaken stones; |
| 44 | Cocco | "Kujira no Stage" | single | the pealing purity of shimmery islands. |
| 45 | YU-KA | "星月夜" | single | Sometimes the drums are latches, not so much opening or closing |
| 46 | GANGDEMIC | "Up All Night Fuckers" | single | as practicing for the sudden need to reveal a passageway |
| 47 | OWl | "Everything" | IJigen 2 | or sow it with spikes. |
| 48 | SpecialThanks | "All right!!!" | Sweet pea E.P. 5 | The best new songs remind us of all of the old ones, |
| 49 | AFTER SQUALL | "Crush" | single | or the spaces betwixt. |
| 50 | Skeletal Family | "Beautiful Disaster" | single | The songs are made of numbers, |
| 51 | Raed Raees | "Tesla Beats Exclusive" | single | are about the insufficiency of numbers, |
| 52 | Rebecca Black | "Erase You" | Let Her Burn | are proof of the redemptive power of forgetting. |
| 53 | Transviolet | "Naive" | Naive | Sometimes the drums are just the little sounds that the parts of your head make as you breathe, |
| 54 | Charlotte Clark | "Of Course You're Bored" | Of Course You're Bored +2 | as you look around for landmarks or horizons, |
| 55 | Sophie Ellis-Bextor | "Breaking the Circle" | single | as you anticipate a still- or again-hypothetical audience. |
| 56 | Daughter | "Party" | single | Sometimes the drums are tracked in a stunned haze, |
| 57 | Taylor Acorn | "I Think I'm in Love" | single | sometimes the song gets away from you and you run after it. |
| 58 | Reyna Roberts | "Another Round (feat. Tayler Holder)" | single | There is music, and then there's country music, |
| 59 | Elizma Theron | "Man so na my hart" | single | and then there are countries where country has been through enough unforgivability to burn off all the coyness |
| 60 | Ray Dylan | "Kom Lê My Voor Jou" | single | so that the entrails of joy are exposed. |
| 61 | Herbert Grönemeyer | "Angstfrei" | Angstfrei +1 | This is a golden era for declamatory 80s-revival Euro-dance-pop, |
| 62 | Marion Ravn | "Danse" | Ti ville hester | for Swedish songs that turn out to be Norwegian, |
| 63 | Bee | "Viimeisiä sanoja" | single | for Alessia Cara songs from a different north, |
| 64 | Jakub Zytecki | "Remind Me" | single | for gently sentimental djent, |
| 65 | Enter Shikari | "It Hurts" | It Hurts +1 | for post-hardcore that sounds like Jesus Jones lost Jesus, |
| 66 | familypet | "good book" | single | for maudlin emo hyperpop torn between the plangent need to drink the energy drink and the compulsion to collect it, |
| 67 | Letting Up Despite Great Faults | "Halfway Crooks" | single | for kickstarter shoegaze, |
| 68 | Small Black | "Desert of the Heart" | single | for cyclical spells. |
| 69 | Repion | "Sin Hablar" | Repion | This is a tortured and undaunted golden era for unglobal European blare, |
| 70 | Pan | "La gran lección de soltar" | single | not dressed as Americans dressed as Prussians |
| 71 | Niña Polaca | "Mucho tiempo contigo" | single | but heraldic of their own cities, |
| 72 | Muro María | "Ese Sentimiento" | Ese Sentimiento +1 | indigenous to narrow lanes |
| 73 | Quinto Diario | "Vuelves pa verano" | single | and forgiven returns. |
| 74 | Diezell | "A Golpe De Mar, Pecho Sereno" | single | The soul may request asylum only once, |
| 75 | El Capitán Elefante | "Contigo no hay Paz" | Asuntos Exteriores | and thereafter has to learn to dance in coalition. |
| 76 | GLAS | "Vuelves" | single | The things that seem oppressively regular tonight |
| 77 | BRDigung | "So High" | So High 5 | will be tomorrow how we march: |
| 78 | Emscherkurve 77 | "Leinen Los" | single | back along the same close streets |
| 79 | Betontod | "Nie mehr St. Pauli ohne Dich" | Nie mehr St. Pauli ohne Dich +1 | to where our apartment was |
| 80 | König Kobra | "Fallen" | Hirn und weg 5 | before they tore that building down and built a new one out of our regrets |
| 81 | ZSK | "Ich liebe dieses Leben" | HassLiebe | and some new material that makes the new occupants better people |
| 82 | Schrottgrenze | "Boomer-Tränen" | Das Universum ist nicht binär | than we were. |
| 83 | Diary Of Dreams | "Viva la Bestia" | Viva la bestia 2 | Maybe our regrets are that substance, |
| 84 | Ucha | "Artefacts" | single | alloyed to a gossamer tensile strength |
| 85 | &lez | "Traps" | Traps +1 | and arrayed in lattice. |
| 86 | Bwax | "Bola Ibaki Story" | Mashabiki 5 | It's a golden era for whatever this is, a Yamaha demo-loop Canterbury Tales or a Swahili "Shaddap You Face", I'm not sure. |
| 87 | Leo Guardo | "Imikhuleko" | Imikhuleko +1 | One day we will have a love, and it will be divine. |
| 88 | Msaki | "Come In" | single | We are not the first creatures to have new songs, |
| 89 | David Jones David | "Na You" | Na You +2 | not the ones to discover joy |
| 90 | Vico da sporo | "Thola" | single | and claim the absurd right to name it. |
| 91 | One Blood Namibia | "Okahererako (Haiboyebo)" | single | This is still an era of blood, uncontainable, |
| 92 | Mychildhood | "Thembi Mtshali 'Sgudi Snaysi'" | single | just gyroscopic enough to keep us usually upright. |
| 93 | Ocelazimnike | "INJ' Uqhwalahle" | INJ'UQHWAYILAHLE | The things that seem spectral tonight |
| 94 | Stabhilithi | "iPIN kaMampintsha" | single | will be earthen by daylight. |
| 95 | Ntozabantu | "Ndiyamsola" | single | We are standing outside an abandoned phone booth with pity in our hands |
| 96 | Yikii | "Memoirs of the Corrupted City 堕落之城回忆录" | The Crow-Cyan Lake 鸦青湖畔 | and transponders in our cortices. |
| 97 | Faten Kanaan | "Ebla" | Ebla +2 | Take all this away and you will be left with just enough |
| 98 | MONO | "Silent Embrace" | single | silence |
| 99 | The Dark Atom | "Unrestricted" | Unrestricted +1 | to hear yourself explode. |
| 100 | Divided by Design | "I, Establish" | The Fear of Being Forgotten | The next song wants you to disassemble yourself in studious preparation, |
| 101 | Teeth Of The Sea | "Vortex of Release" | Vortex of Release +3 | and rebuild as a boat or a bridge or diving bell that rings. |
| 102 | Izzy Perri | "Mr. Brightside" | single | We hear a song about lovers for the seven-thousandth time, and finally think to wonder |
| 103 | Fame on Fire | "Mr. Brightside" | single | about the saints, and the sea. |
| 104 | SMR LVE | "Missing You" | Flashback Memories | We hear a song about longing, |
| 105 | Kontrollverlust | "You're the Voice - Rock Version" | You're the Voice 3 | and make it about ourselves by singing it. |
| 106 | SILENZER | "out of the dark" | single | Dark, light: this is a golden era for binary metaphors |
| 107 | Violet Orlandi | "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" | single | and unlimited will. |
| 108 | The Native | "Wildest Dreams" | Looking Back | We'll remember us. Our voice is our most familiar sound. |
| 109 | Matt Nathanson | "Coming up Close" | The Lexington EP 5 | Don't you know that we can make the wildest dreams come true? |