Your Obligatory Top 15 Albums of 2014 Thread

[EspaDa]

I forgot about Lunarterial by Swallowed. It's an obvious choice, great debut.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Bathory~esque Viking metal, and by that i mean epic folky doomy stuff... Not black metal.

will check them out for sure

 

[tagradh]

Arizmenda - Stillbirth in the Temple of Venus
Black Magic - Wizard's Spell
Diocletian - Gesundrian
Darkspace - III I
Drowned - Idola Specus
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Lvcifyre - Svn Eater
Martyrdod - Elddop
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Ordinance - Relinquishment
Sinmara - Aphotic Womb
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
Tortorum - Katabasis
Volahn - Aq'ab'al
Zom - Flesh Assimilation


alphabet is nice

 

[zerostatic]

15)Suicidal Angels - Divide and Conquer
14)Accept - Blind Rage
13)Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
12)Sabaton - Heroes
11)Decapitated - Blood Mantra
10) Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out
9) Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
8) Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
7) Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
6) Alestorm - Sunset on the Golden Age
5) Revocation - Deathless
4) Belphegor - Conjuring the Dead
3) Exmortus - Slave to the Sword
2) Overkill - White Devil Armory
1) Vader - Tibi et Igni

I didn't think there was anything all that great or amazing this year. Nothing that will be considered a classic in five or 10 years. Lots of average and disappointing albums from bands like Conan, Hour of Penance, Aborted, and Goatwhore.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

So I checked out that Reek album since some of you were jizzing over it.

Way to exaggerate about it, you fucking mongs.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Couldn't make it 15 I'm sad to say but here's the 10 that made the year pretty damn sweet I'd say (in no particular order save for the first 2 which are still jockeying for the top spot and I don't think I'll ever be able to pick one over the other):

Eyehategod - Eyehategod
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Crowbar - Symmetry in Black
Melvins - Hold It In
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burdon
Profetus - As All Seasons Die
Mournful Congregation - Concrescence of the Sophia

Clearly I didn't stray very far from my comfort zone.

 

[Baroque]

So I checked out that Reek album since some of you were jizzing over it.

Way to exaggerate about it, you fucking mongs.

Did you listen to the entire thing? Towards the end of song 3 or so, it gets a lot more progressive, and that continues throughout the album.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Checked out Sons of Crom. Will definitely buy.
Been on a huge death metal kick these past 2 years so it's nice to hear some fresh lighter stuff like them.

 

[The Ozzman]

So I checked out that Reek album since some of you were jizzing over it.

Way to exaggerate about it, you fucking mongs.

That's how it is with loads of shit here (Manilla Road, The Chasm, etc)

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Nah, in this case Der Morgenstern is just being a prefixed black metal wimp.

 

[Westsiyeed]

Best:

Wild Throne – Bloodmaker
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Philm – Harmonic
Opeth – Pale Communion
Hail Spirit Noir – Oi Magoi
Spectral Lore – III
Lord Mantis - Death Mask
YOB - Clearing The Path to Ascend

OK:

Cynic – Kindly Bent to Free Us
Stork – Broken Pieces
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Legacy ID - Genesis

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Nah, in this case Der Morgenstern is just being a prefixed black metal wimp.

Every fucking time somebody doesn't have a hard-on for a metal band you like, you bring up "prefixed" black metal, apropos of nothing. I bet you even pull that card with your grandparents. "Oh, you don't like Reek, grandma? I guess you should go back to listening to your post-atmospheric folk blackgaze or whatever the hell it is you listen to"

 

[AlienZombie]

The 2014 releases from these bands are my list I guess since they're all the ones I liked enough to buy, in no particular order:
Panopticon
Kampfar
Alestorm
Valknacht
Equilibrium
1349
Benighted
Goatwhore
Amputated

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Every fucking time somebody doesn't have a hard-on for a metal band you like, you bring up "prefixed" black metal, apropos of nothing. I bet you even pull that card with your grandparents. "Oh, you don't like Reek, grandma? I guess you should go back to listening to your post-atmospheric folk blackgaze or whatever the hell it is you listen to"

One guy says how a relatively little-known thrash band released his potential favorite of the year, and suddenly they're Manilla Road/The Chasm-tier? Der Morgenstern is somebody that would probably like thrash more if it incorporated more Jew's harp.

I don't have a hard-on for Reek btw, I've heard a few songs before and thought they were decent IIRC, but haven't checked out the full album yet.

 

[Baroque]

I don't have a hard-on for Reek btw, I've heard a few songs before and thought they were decent IIRC, but haven't checked out the full album yet.

I would say do yourself a favor as a tech thrash fan and listen to the entire album. These guys are some true musicians, and by the end of the album you should have gained some respect for them. It doesn't show in the first two songs, standard modern thrash stuff in the vein of Hatchet.

But song 3 is quality Megadeth worship, better than anything Megadeth did on Supercollider. Tracks 4, 5 and 8 are progressive instrumentals. Excellent guitar solos in track 5. Track 8 in particular has some sweet counterpoint going on between the lead guitar and the bass, sounds neoclassical. Track 8 is up there with Exmortus (without the vocals) imo. In song 9 they completely change their vocal style and the music to melodic death metal for 4 minutes, then the last 7 minutes are experimental/progressive.

 

[Baroque]

We should do a voting thread for top metal albums of 2014. We could use all the albums posted here as submissions to vote on.

(I know mine won't win but it'd be interesting at least)

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

I'm not even sure the method is proper. It definitely isn't empirical, as in, the OSDM list probably couldn't be replicated without conscious effort. But ya, whatever. Lists are fun.

NP - BS Sabotage...what an incredibly boring album.

 

[EspaDa]

Is that new Melvins album that good? I lost interest in them a few years ago.

 

[divine_torture]

Is that new Melvins album that good? I lost interest in them a few years ago.

Same here. Did they just up and say fuck it, let's be really good this year?

 

[SoundMaster]

1) Anathema - Distant Satellites

the rest, not in any true order:
California Breed
Blackfinger
The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep
Ian Anderson - Homo Eraticus
Devin Townsend - Z2
Blues Pills
Accept - Blind Rage
Rival Sons - Valkyrie
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highway
Triptykon - Melana
Uriah Heep - Outsider
Vader - Tibi et Igni
KXM
Red Zone Rider
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