Artist	Song
The Mars Volta	Inertiatic ESP
from Deloused In the Comatorium (2003)
Coheed and Cambria	Welcome Home
from Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005)
Dream Theater	These Walls
from Octavarium (2005)
Muse	Knights of Cydonia
from Black Holes and Revelations (2009)
Mew	The Zookeeper's Boy
from And the Glass Handed Kites (2006)
Porcupine Tree	Deadwing
from Deadwing (2005)
Glass Hammer	Longer
from Shadowlands (2004)
Pure Reason Revolution	Apprentice of the Universe
from The Dark Third (2006)
echolyn	Heavy Blue Miles
from The End Is Beautiful (2005)
Spock's Beard	Skeletons At the Feast
from Spock's Beard (2006)
Blackfield	Blackfield
from Blackfield (2005)
Rocket Scientists	Sky Is Falling
from Revolution Road (2006)
IZZ	Ancient Memory
from Ampersand, Volume 1 (2004)
3	Alien Angel
from Wake Pig (2005)
Salem Hill	A Perfect Light
from Be (2003)
Zombi	Cetus
from Cosmos (2004)
Oceansize	I Am the Morning
from Effloresce (2003)
Hobbit	Everywhere
from All for the One (2003)
Abigails Ghost	Close
from Selling Insincerity (2007)

Comment:

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