| 1 | Madder Mortem | "Towers" | single | An American band might hesitate, even in 2023, to cast the bringing down of towers as heroic, |
| 2 | Hellgroove | "Horizon On Hold" | single | but Madder Mortem are Norwegian, and anyway, if we had to retire every metaphor |
| 3 | Amaranthe | "Outer Dimensions" | Outer Dimensions +2 | that ever had a tragic real-world referent |
| 4 | Everdawn | "Century Black" | single | we would be wordless, and no safer or happier. |
| 5 | Beyond God | "A Siren's Cry" | single | Pain cannot be allowed to merely accumulate, |
| 6 | Phoenix Lake | "Fractured Wings" | single | even when it cannot be forgotten. |
| 7 | Kobra Paige | "Under One Sun" | single | The total amount of pain is not reduced by the allocation of blame |
| 8 | Septarian | "Gravity" | single | or the application of vengeance, |
| 9 | Therion | "Ayahuasca" | Ayahuasca +2 | and the first transformative step of becoming human is learning to consider perspectives beyond your own. |
| 10 | Veil of Mist | "Indelible" | Another End Is Possible | Of course this is the implicit challenge of every new song, |
| 11 | CELESTE | "Plisse les yeux jusqu'au sang" | Epilogue(s) 3 | and every new day, |
| 12 | Hiraes | "Through The Storm" | single | whether they noisily embrace or confront the past or not. |
| 13 | Ihsahn | "PILGRIMAGE TO OBLIVION" | PILGRIMAGE TO OBLIVION +1 | How do we continue our own purposeful actions |
| 14 | Helfró | "Traðkandi Blómin í Eigin Hjartagarði" | Traðkandi Blómin í Eigin Hjartagarði +2 | when the casualties of purpose surround us? |
| 15 | King | "Mountains Of Ice" | Fury and Death | How do we understand the derivation of vividly apparent evil from mundane humanity |
| 16 | Malist | "Ode to the Night" | single | without lapsing into a self-defeating taxonomy of otherness? |
| 17 | DGM | "The Calling" | Life | We are, individually, capable of assigning internal rationalization to stark insanities: |
| 18 | Myrath | "Child of Prophecy" | Child of Prophecy +2 | shooting people at a music festival in the name of freedom, |
| 19 | Astral Experience | "Volver a Empezar" | Espiral, Pt.2 4 | dropping bombs on children in hospitals in the name of safety, |
| 20 | Eternal Storm | "A Dim Illusion" | single | constructing obdurately dehumanizing processes in the name of equity. |
| 21 | Draconicon | "Slumber Paralysis" | Pestilence | But we are also, collectively, capable not just of slow comprehension, |
| 22 | Master | "Walk in the Footsteps of Doom" | single | but of evolution. |
| 23 | Eldritch | "Handful Of Sand" | Innervoid | We often only think we mean, when we say "change our minds", that we choose a different answer |
| 24 | Abäk | "Balam" | single | from among a set that already exists, |
| 25 | Crecended | "Victory" | Wasting Away | but this is circular: every new belief exists once it is believed, |
| 26 | Fifth Dawn | "The Day Brings" | The Day Brings +3 | but maybe only just in time. |
| 27 | Skarlett Riot | "Hold Tight" | single | We change our minds by accepting incompletion as a premise, |
| 28 | Dogma | "Pleasure From Pain" | Dogma | by thinking of the things we already know as pieces of a new structure we don't, |
| 29 | Lacey Sturm | "Are You Listening" | Kenotic Metanoia | or sometimes, at best, as rubble offering us the meditative labor of clearance. |
| 30 | Taylor Acorn | "Basement" | single | The mental exercise of considering the unfamiliar |
| 31 | Charlotte Sands | "pity" | pity +2 | is morally aerobic |
| 32 | Beren Olivia | "Drown It In Grey" | single | or teleologically plyometric |
| 33 | Definitely Maybe | "One More Night" | single | or some new revelatory combination of breathtaking and perspective-straining. |
| 34 | Rakky Ripper | "ROTTEN" | single | The willingness to listen to your supposed enemy's story, |
| 35 | Snow Strippers | "Just Your Doll" | single | the courage to expose yourself to the risk of catastrophic empathy, |
| 36 | Thy Slaughter | "Lost Everything" | Lost Everything / Reign 2 | the strength to tear yourself out of a dry, outgrown skin |
| 37 | Divorce | "Sex & The Millennium Bridge" | Heady Metal 6 | even when you don't know what color will be revealed: |
| 38 | VUKOVI | "MERCY KILL" | MERCY KILL +1 | these are the distant possibilities towards which we micronavigate |
| 39 | DARLAH | "Willow Tree" | Human Nature 5 | when we allow ourselves to hear a song we do not know, |
| 40 | Cho Tokimeki Sendenbu | "Sora" | Sora +1 | not yet sanitized by the application of previous assumptions |
| 41 | CANDY GO!GO! | "Anymore" | IDOROCK-legacy- | to guarantee a regulatory threshold of unincorporated ideas |
| 42 | TRiDENT | "KICKASS" | Dream Up 5 | like a maximum number of insect thoraxes per kilogram of okra. |
| 43 | zanka | "Akatokiyami" | Time 5 | This is what you open your heart towards |
| 44 | Ado | "unravel" | single | when you accept that it is an active organ, |
| 45 | Shiina Natsukawa | "メイクストロボノイズ !!!" | ケーブルサラダ | not a hermetic terrarium predicated on stasis. |
| 46 | peanut butters | "スイカP" | peanut butters II | We are not enemies, |
| 47 | milkyway | "I want to be able to do it in Amemura" | Death is calling us 2 | we are commensurate fugitives from what we used to think we knew, |
| 48 | ReoNa | "原作者" | R.I.P.(Special Edition) | all in flight from the same ignorance |
| 49 | ACE COLLECTION | "Driving My Life" | single | towards the same peace. |
| 50 | Cassidy Paris | "Walking On Fire" | single | We are innumerable centers of infinitesimal microgravity, |
| 51 | Paradise Walk | "Fix Your Heart" | single | networks of chaotically intertwined barycentricity, |
| 52 | 10eighty6 | "Closer" | single | choruses of every noise at once, |
| 53 | Ryno Velvet | "Moet Jou Hê" | single | and yes, your next innocent noise may helplessly remind somebody else of unrestorable loss, |
| 54 | The Ultimate Heroes | "Raining in Manila" | single | but this is a gift we give each other, |
| 55 | 123 Pikit! | "K4ND1L4" | single | exemplary persistence |
| 56 | Bad Suns | "Lunar Shadows" | Infinite Joy 6 | and mutually complementary headlong defiance. |
| 57 | Modern English | "Crazy Lovers" | Crazy Lovers +1 | We can't stop the world. We can't not melt. |
| 58 | Lauran Hibberd | "mary" | single | We can't not flow crazily together. |
| 59 | Mo Troper | "Citgo Sign" | Troper Sings Brion | We need to hear our own thoughts in other people's throats, |
| 60 | Teens in Trouble | "Winter In The Trap" | Teens In Trouble / Desert Mambas 4 | every song a split EP of dreams voice and unvoiced, |
| 61 | worlds greatest dad | "Concrete (A Love Song)" | Concrete (A Love Song) +1 | stolid infrastructure and diaphanous escape, |
| 62 | Luukas Oja | "Sanomatta selvää" | single | subsistent nutrience and viridian luminosity. |
| 63 | Wanitwa Mos | "Makhelwane (feat. Casswell P)" | Makhelwane 2 | We have to be able to step outside of our pain |
| 64 | Son of Africa | "Ubuhle bendalo" | single | and regard it, fondly, |
| 65 | Gadla Nxumalo | "Mamgwaba" | Amatemu Alombhemu | in the crumpled hollowness to which it naturally reverts without our bodies to give it shape. |
| 66 | Ziyangegugu | "Babehlala bekuzonda" | single | Hold it up by the shoulders, |
| 67 | Gqibu | "Usukhethe abancono" | single | at the height of your shoulders. |
| 68 | Ezrah | "Gae Bare Emetse" | Gae Bare Emetse | Listen to these songs at the altitude of tongues. |
| 69 | uMjabulisi | "Ngizalwekabusha" | Umshini wamahits | We hurt, but that is not who we are, |
| 70 | Pleasure Tsa Manyalo | "Belebele Tsieng" | single | and thus not what we need to impose on others in order to be free of it. |
| 71 | Mahlomola | "Tshireletso" | Tshireletso +2 | That's what these wedding songs are telling us, of course -- |
| 72 | Harpya | "EHLİLEŞMEZ" | single | what all of these songs are telling us, maybe the ones that speak to us in words we don't know yet |
| 73 | Janset | "Laser Spot" | R.A.W 3 | even more than the ones that try to reason with us in accents we don't expect: |
| 74 | Werd (SOS) | "Un-United Kingdom" | But Doctor, I Am Pagliacci | peace comes only by undrawing the borders from within. |
| 75 | Pollen | "Hive Mind" | Uncanny Valley | This is the same emotional truth when you reach out a hand to a single other human you think you know, |
| 76 | Olumbe Falú | "The Albatross" | single | or an unseen multitude you can barely integrate as individuals. |
| 77 | The Genotype | "Oneiromancer" | single | Towers will be put up and pulled down |
| 78 | DEATH'S-HEAD AND THE SPACE ALLUSION | "Graceless Under Pressure" | Luc-II-Farul | according to constantly changing needs. |
| 79 | Vaudlow | "Embrace" | single | We're making up songs about things that we've all heard before, like romance and engage and divorce, |
| 80 | Sunlight Ascending | "Finding Your Way Back" | single | because each time we recreate the same shapes we discover a new flaw |
| 81 | Deep Red | "Soft Light" | How This Ends / Soft Light 2 | that could become a new contour |
| 82 | HEALTH | "UNLOVED" | UNLOVED 5 | that could lead us to a different geometry |
| 83 | Melt Motif | "The Night Before" | single | and a different way to think about how things end |
| 84 | Everything Everything | "The Mad Stone" | The Mad Stone +1 | or don't. |
| 85 | vōx | "Wild Animal" | Wild Animal +1 | We stand apart, some chasmic width wider than skin. |
| 86 | Atrium Carceri | "Pathway to Nothing" | Forgotten Gods | The empty space between us contains every way we can possibly cross. |
| 87 | Vince Clarke | "Cathedral" | Songs of Silence | Towers will be assembled in reverent ceremony, |
| 88 | LLUVA | "Arrebol" | single | or dissolved in roiling grace. |
| 89 | Anna Meredith | "Tull" | single | Every human thing you fear is somebody's earnest labor of yearning, |
| 90 | Donovan Woods | "I'm Around (Both Sides)" | I'm Around (Both Sides) +1 | however misguided in its expression but containing every possible solution in its regrets. |
| 91 | Sunrise Skater Kids | "Face Down - Japanese Version" | Emotaku | So look up. We spin, but not entirely in place. |
| 92 | Dolly Parton | "Stairway To Heaven" | Rockstar | We careen back and forth across the same narrowly ancient stones, but end up in the same place along only some of the axes. Along others, we move. |