rc's best albums of 2014 top lists

[einride]

as if!

 

[NAD]

1. Nasheim - Solens vemod
2. Swans - To Be Kind
3. Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God (the other one)
4. Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
5. Electric Wizard - Time To Die

 

[Hell Mike]

Solens Vemod
Satanatas (to be proven in like ten minutes)
Sweven
Unanimated's album form like 09

 

[Ellestin]

I'll make a proper list in January sometime.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

1. KAYO DOT - Coffins On Io
1. NASHEIM - Solens Vemod
3. A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW - Sea When Absent
4. LYDIA AINSWORTH - Right From Real
5. TODD TERJE - It’s Album Time
6. DEVIN TOWNSEND - Z2
7. TOTAL CONTROL - Typical System
8. SWANS - To Be Kind
9. RUN THE JEWELS - 2
10. THE HORRORS - Luminous

 

[ChaosLee]

1. KAYO DOT - Coffins On Io 1. NASHEIM - Solens Vemod 3. A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW - Sea When Absent 4. LYDIA AINSWORTH - Right From Real 5. TODD TERJE - It's Album Time 6. DEVIN TOWNSEND - Z2 7. TOTAL CONTROL - Typical System 8. SWANS - To Be Kind 9. RUN THE JEWELS - 2 10. THE HORRORS - Luminous

That is the second time in a week "The Horrors" have been referenced. How would you describe them and should I look into them?

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Depends on which album. They started out as a kind of (shitty) horror punk thing, then moved to post-punk stuff and are now on a kinda psychedelic pop thing. The best comparison I can make would be to a beefed up, trippier Echo and the Bunnymen. I have a hard time imagining anyone at RC being into them, honestly.


Here's one from their 2011 album, Skying:

 

[General Zod]

My (likely) Top 20 (in order):

Dynazty - Retanus
Behemoth - The Satanist
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Sanctuary - The Year the Sun Died
Binary Creed - Restitution
Junius - Days of the Fallen Sun
Anubis Gate - Horizons
Nasheim - Soelns Vemod
Iced Earth - Plagues of Babylon
Kamchatka - The Search Goes On
Grand Magus - Triumph And Power
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Darkest Era - Severance
Red Circuit - Haze of Nemesis
The Morningside - Letters from the Empty Towns
Brainstorm - Firesoul
Overkill - White Devil Armory
Acheron - Kult des hasses
Persuader - The Fiction Maze
Voyager - V

EDIT: I expect that Primordial and A Pregnant Light will occupy a spot in this Top 20 before it's finalized.

 

[Krilons Resa]

So far...

Jazz
Halvorson/Formanek/Fujiwara - Thumbscrew
Steve Lehman - Mise En Abime
Angles - 9 Injuries
Adam Lane's Ful Throttle Orchestra - Live In Ljubljana
Oblik - Order Disorder
Tyshawn Sorey - Alloy
Kullhammar/Aalberg/Zetterberg - Basement Sessions Vol.2
Kullhammar/Aalberg/Zetterberg/Mathisen - Basement Sessions Vol.3 (The Ljubljana Tapes)
Mary Halvorson - Reverse Blue
Fire! Orchestra - Enter!
Matt Bauder - Nightshades
Kris Davis Trio - Waiting For You To Grow
Anna Webber - Simple

Avant-Rock
Seven Impale - City Of The Sun
Jack O' The Clock - Night Loops
Factor Burzaco - 3
Blue-Eyed Hawk - Under The Moon
Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io

Rock/Metal
Lagwagon - Hang
YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend
Witch Mountain - Mobile Of Angels
Ogre - The Last Neanderthal

Hip Hop
Run The Jewels - 2

 

[MFJ]

Show-off

 

[ChaosLee]

That Angles 9 Injuries release may seriously be my favorite jazz release this year (thanks for pointing me to it mate)

 

[J.]

Summonings discography
Hirilorn - Legends of Evil and Eternal Death
DT - Skydancer
Graveland mid period
Aeternus - BtWM and AstNB
prog Enslaved

 

[theoden236]

new Fen came in the mail today. gotta listen to that before i do a list.

 

[einride]

SOME OF THE THINGS I KNOW I SHOULD LISTEN TO (MORE) BECAUSE I MIGHT ENJOY THEM
stench - venture
horrendous - ecdysis
mortuus - grape of the vine
fen - carrion skies
morbus chron - sweven
primordial - where greater men have fallen


THINGS I WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF NOT LISTENING TO
agalloch - the serpent and the sphere
empyrium - the turn of the tides
at the gates - at war with reality


NOT YET SURE WHETHER IT BELONGS ON THE FIRST OR THE SECOND OF THE ABOVE LISTS
sólstafir - ótta


FUCK 2014 THOUGH HERE'S WHAT I ACTUALLY LISTENED TO
summoning - old mornings dawn
folque - folque
folque - vardøger
folque - fredløs
fates warning - awaken the guardian
queensrÿche - rage for order
arch/matheos - sympathetic resonance
forgotten woods - the curse of mankind
atlantean kodex - the white goddess
adramelch - irae melanox

 

[Ellestin]

forgotten woods - the curse of mankind

All hail this band

 

[Tranquillian]

Solstafir
Primordial
Nasheim
At The Gates
Bloodbath
Fen
Agalloch
Dread Sovereign

 

[Ellestin]

ok so I might have a definitive top ten, subject to subsequent finetuning

Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry
Lux Occulta - Kołysanki
Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall
Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io
Dirge - Hyperion
Stille Volk - La Peira Negra
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
Barren Harvest - Subtle Cruelties
Kermania - Kehre heim...
Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldafǫðr ok munka dróttinn

I might do a proper post with comments and links in January if I still care by the time

 

[General Zod]

queensrÿche - rage for order

In my all-time Top 5, and quite possibly #1.

 

[NAD]

Holy living fuck.

New Zod Avatar!

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This here new Swans album is the boobies. I keep updating my first post herein.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

I really need to hear the new Old Old Old Man Man Man Gloom Gloom Gloom