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2010-2014: Top 111 Songs (1 Per Band; WIP)


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My second 5-year summary list, just to give mentions to some bands that released songs I have loved over the past few years which didn't necessarily deliver a whole package that won me over. The top order of this list will probably have a greater focus on melodic, hooky, punchy-yet-accessible more mainstream songs, as a) those songs are more likely to stand out and worm into your head, especially on an uneven record, and b) they help fuel my workouts so get a lot more plays.

Created by: musclassia | 16.01.2015



1. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Widower (Runners-up: N/A)
Piano ballad/mathcore
2. Be'lakor - In Parting (Runners-up: The Dream And The Waking, Remnants, Of Moon And Star)
Melodeath
3. Voyager - A Beautiful Mistake (Runners-up: The Morning Light)
Poppy Prog Metal
4. Protest The Hero - Drumhead Trial (Runners-up: Skies, C'est La Vie, Sex-Tapes)
Prog Metal
5. Sylosis - Serpent's Tongue (Runners-up: The River, Paradox, Kingdom Of Solitude)
Thrash/Melodeath
6. Mar De Grises - The Bell And The Solar Gust (Runners-up: Starmaker, Shining Human Skin)
Doom Metal
7. Thy Catafalque - Kel Keleti Szel (Runners-up: Fekete Mezok, Tribolita)
Avant-garde/Black/Folk Metal
8. Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster - Wake (Runners-up: Exegesis)
Post-Rock/Metal
9. Nero Di Marte - Time Dissolves (Runners-up: Resilience, Simulacra, Drawn Back)
Extreme Alternative/Prog/Post-Metal or something
10. Pendulum - Crush (Runners-up: Under The Waves, The Fountain, Encoder)
Electronic Rock/Drum n' Bass
11. Karnivool - We Are (Runners-up: N/A)
Progressive Metal
12. Trivium - Caustic Are The Ties That Bind (Runners-up: To Believe, Incineration, Inception Of The End)
Metalcore/Heavy Metal
13. The Gathering - I Can See Four Miles (Runners-up: Heroes For Ghosts)
Alternative/Trip Rock
14. Killswitch Engage - Beyond The Flames (Runners-up: In Due Time, All We Have, The Call)
Metalcore
15. Blood Stain Child - Electricity (Runners-up: S.O.P.H.I.A., Moon Light Wave, Merry-Go-Round)
Electropop Extreme Power Metal
16. Times Of Grace - Worlds Apart (Runners-up: N/A)
Metalcore
17. Coheed & Cambria - Domino The Destitute (Runners-up: N/A)
New Prog
18. Moonsorrow - Huuto (Runners-up: Kuolleiden Maa)
Folk Metal
19. Orphaned Land - From Broken Vessels (Runners-up: The Path (Part 1), Sapari, In Thy Neverending Way)
Folk Progressive Metal
20. Alcest - Percees De Lumiere (Runners-up: Ecailles De Lune - Part 2, Sur l'Ocean Couleur De Fer, Autre Temps)
Blackgaze
21. Subsignal - The Size Of Light On Earth (Runners-up: Feeding Utopia, Wingless, Con Todas Las Palabras)
Progressive Metal
22. Between The Buried And Me - Astral Body (Runners-up: Lay Your Ghosts To Rest, Silent Flight Parliament, Specular Reflection)
Extreme Progressive Metal
23. Cult Of Luna - In Awe Of (Runners-up: The Weapon, Vicarious Redemption, Light Chaser)
Post-Metal
24. Mechina - Xenon (Runners-up: N/A)
Symphonic Death Metal
25. Omnium Gatherum - White Palace (Runners-up: Nightwalkers, The Unknowing)
Melodeath
26. Amorphis - Mermaid (Runners-up: Narrow Path, Nightbird's Song, Enchanted By The Moon)
Melodic Metal
27. Blind Guardian - Sacred Worlds (Runners-up: Wheel Of Time)
Power Metal
28. In Vain - Against The Grain (Runners-up: Rise Against, Image Of Time)
Meloblack
29. Torchbearer - Death Meditations (Runners-up: To Takao River, The Aphotic Depths)
Meloblack
30. New Keepers Of The Water Towers - Visions Of Death (Runners-up: Pyre For The Red Sage, Lapse)
Prog/Psychedelic Stoner Metal
31. Abigail Williams - Beyond The Veil (Runners-up: Final Destiny Of The Gods, The Mysteries That Bind The Flesh, What Hell Awaits Me)
Atmos-Black/Meloblack
32. Enslaved - Lightening (Runners-up: Ethica Odini, Giants, Thoughts Like Hammers)
Progressive Black Metal
33. Persefone - Inner Fullness (Runners-up: The Majestic Of Gaia, The Great Reality, Returning To The Source)
Progressive Melodeath
34. Bossk - Pick-up Artist (Runners-up: N/A)
Post-Metal
35. Riverside - We Got Used To Us (Runners-up: The Depth Of Self-Delusion, Feel Like Falling, Escalator Shrine)
Progressive Rock
36. Melechesh - The Epigenesis (Runners-up: Ghouls Of Niveneh)
Folk Black Metal
37. Symphony X - When All Is Lost (Runners-up: Reign In Madness)
Progressive Metal
38. Mastodon - Blasteroid (Runners-up: Octopus Has No Friends, Tread Lightly, The Motherload)
Proggy Stoner Metal/Hard Rock
39. Dream Theater - The Looking Glass (Runners-up: Breaking All Illusions)
Progressive Metal
40. Foo Fighters - Walk (Runners-up: Dear Rosemary)
Hard Rock
41. Nader Sadek - Sulffer (Runners-up: N/A) Death Metal
42. Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine (Runners-up: After The Fall, Fragile Minds Collapse, The King In The North)
Power Metal
43. Weedpecker - Berenjena Pipe (Runners-up: Mindbreath, Don't Trust Your Elephant, Sativa Landscapes)
Stoner Metal
44. Rise Against - Satellite (Runners-up: Make It Stop (September's Children))
Melodic Hardcore/Pop-punk
45. When Icarus Falls - The Great North (Runners-up: Erectheion, Celestial Bodies, Nyx)
Post-Metal
46. Forefather - By Thy Deeds (Runners-up: N/A)
Black/Viking Metal
47. Haken - Celestial Elixer (Runners-up: Aquarium, Sun)
Progressive Metal
48. The Faceless - Autotheistic Movement (Runners-up: In Solitude)
Progressive Death Metal
49. Dirge - Circumpolaris (Runners-up: Hyperion Under Glass, Filigree, Remanentie)
Post-Metal
50. Caravan Palace - Clash (Runners-up: Dramophone)
Electroswing
51. Wolverine - Embrance (Runners-up: Into The Great Nothing)
Progressive Metal
52. Iced Earth - Iron Will (Runners-up: N/A)
Heavy/Power Metal
53. Gojira - The Axe (Runners-up: L'enfant Sauvage, Explosia)
Progressive Metal
54. Eden Circus - Playing You (Runners-up: Her Lovely Hands Upon The Black Earth)
Post-Metal
55. Amaranthe - Invincible (Runners-up: The Nexus, Trinity, Razorblade)
Pop Metal
56. Machine Head - Who We Are (Runners-up: Be Still And Know, Locust, Darkness Within)
Groove/Thrash Metal
57. Woods Of Desolation - Darker Days (Runners-up: An Unbroken Moment, November, Anamnesis)
Atmospheric Black Metal
58. Infestus - Down Spiral Depersonification (Runners-up: Mirror Mind Reality, Cortical Spreading Depression)
Atmospheric Black Metal
59. Intronaut - Milk Leg (Runners-up: Killing Birds With Stones, A Sore Sight For Eyes, Harmonomicon)
Jazzy Post-Metal
60. Myrath - Time To Grow (Runners-up: Braving The Seas, Beyond The Stars)
Folk Progressive Metal
61. Veil Of Maya - Resistance (Runners-up: N/A)
Deathcore
62. Helloween - Nabataea (Runners-up: Straight Out Of Hell)
Power Metal
63. Klone - Rocket Smoke (Runners-up: N/A)
Alternative Metal
64. Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Hanuman (Runners-up: Santo Domingo)
Latin Guitar Virtuoso
65. Devin Townsend - Kingdom (Runners-up: Rejoice, Fallout, A New Reign)
Progressive Metal
66. Ouroboros - Black Hole Generator (Runners-up: Lashing Of The Flames, Sanctuary, Panacea)
Deathrash
67. Cattle Decapitation - Kingdom Of Tyrants (Runners-up: N/A)
Deathgrind
68. Von Hertzen Brothers - Gloria (Runners-up: N/A)
Progressive Rock
69. Anubis Gate - Circumstanced (Runners-up: Golden Days, Destined To Remember, Hear My Call)
Progressive Power Metal
70. Alice In Chains - Phantom Limb (Runners-up: Stone)
Hard Rock/Alternative Metal
71. Enshine - Refraction (Runners-up: Stream Of Light, Cinders)
Gothic Doom Metal
72. In The Silence - 17 Shades (Runners-up: Serenity, Ever Closer, Beneath These Falling Leaves)
Atmospheric Progressive Metal
73. Kongh - Tamed Brute (Runners-up: Sole Creation, Portals, Skymming)
Sludge Doom Metal
74. Monolithe - Monolithe IV (Runners-up: Harmony Of Null Matter - Parts 1 and 2)
Extreme Doom/Drone
75. Soen - Fraccions (Runners-up: N/A)
Alternative Metal
76. High On Fire - King Of Days (Runners-up: N/A)
Sludge Metal
77. Equilibrium - Waldschrein (Runners-up: Wellengang, Wirtshaus Gaudi, Aufbruch)
Folk Metal
78. Rintrah - World And Man (Runners-up: Salt Of The Earth, Masters Of Our Fate, Separated)
Stoner Metal
79. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (Runners-up: Drive Home, The Great Watchmaker)
Progressive Rock
80. Moanaa - Away (Runners-up: Repulsive, Lit, Lost In The Noise)
Post-Metal
81. Lunatic Soul - Pygmalion's Ladder (Runners-up: Sky Drawn In Crayon, Walking On A Flashlight Beam)
Atmospheric Rock
82. Hark - Clear Light Of... (Runners-up: Palendromeda)
Stoner Metal
83. Insomnium - Lay The Ghost To Rest (Runners-up: N/A)
Melodeath
84. Rush - Clockwork Angels (Runners-up: The Garden, Caravan)
Progressive Rock
85. Helms Alee - Pinniped (Runners-up: Dangling Modifiers)
Sludge Metal/Noise Rock
86. Witherscape - Astrid Falls (Runners-up: N/A)
Extreme Progressive Metal
87. Ortega - The Serpent Stirs (Runners-up: Crows)
Sludge Doom Metal
88. Quantum Fantay - Cowdians (Runners-up: Azu Kene Dekke Leppe, Chopsticks and Gongs)
Folk Space Progressive Rock/Metal
89. Obscura - Septuagint (Runners-up: Ocean Gateways, Eucledian Spheres, Celestial Spheres)
Technical Death Metal
90. Behemoth - The Satanist (Runners-up: Messe Noire, Amen, O Father O Sun O Satan)
Blackened Death Metal
91. Suidakra - Dowth 2059 (Runners-up: N/A)
Folk Metal
92. Anathema - The Beginning And The End (Runners-up: N/A)
Atmospheric Rock
93. Primordial - Bloodied Yet Unbowed (Runners-up: No Grave Deep Enough, Born To Night)
Pagan Metal
94. Atoma - Skylight (Runners-up: N/A)
Post-Metal
95. Evile - Tomb (Runners-up: In Memorian)
Thrash Metal
96. Pagan's Mind - Live Your Life A Dream (Runners-up: Intermission, Power Of Mindscape)
Progressive Power Metal
97. Borknagar - Frostrite (Runners-up: The Winter Eclipse)
Meloblack
98. Long Distance Calling - Waves (Runners-up: Into The Black Wide Open)
Post-Metal
99. Amiensus - Dawn Of Release (Runners-up: Become The Fear, I Am, Thanatos)
Meloblack
100. Fallujah - Chemical Cave (Runners-up: Allure, Sapphire, Cerebral Hybridization)
Tech/Prog Death Metal
101. Fen - Our Names Written In Embers (Runners-up: Sentinels, Menhir - The Supplicant, Gathering The Stones)
Post/Atmospheric Black Metal
102. Cynic - The Lion's Roar (Runners-up: True Hallucination Speak, Kindly Bent To Free Us)
Progressive Metal
103. Black Country Communion - One Last Soul (Runners-up: N/A)
Hard Rock
104. Down - Steeple (Runners-up: Dogshead/Hogshead)
Southern Metal
105. Process Of Guilt - Harvest (Runners-up: Empire, Cleanse, Faemin)
Sludge Doom/Post-Metal
106. Tribulation - Randa (Runners-up: Suspiria, Spell, Apparitions)
Black/Death Metal
107. Stratovarius - Unbreakable (Runners-up: Elysium, Halcyon Days)
Power Metal
108. Agalloch - Black Lake Nidstang (Runners-up: Celestial Effigy, Plateau Of The Ages, The Watcher's Monolith)
Black Metal
109. Pet Slimmers Of The Year - La Tormenta (Runners-up: N/A)
Post-Metal
110. Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Sweet Thoughts And Visions (Runners-up: A Thousand Years Of Servitude, The Fall)
Post-Black Metal
111. Gorguts - An Ocean Of Wisdon (Runners-up: The Battle Of Chamdo)
Progressive/Technical Death Metal
112. Consciousness Removal Project - Mercurial (Runners-up: Colossus II: Thrashing, Colossus III: Deadlock, The Unknown Knows)
Post-Metal



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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17.01.2015 - 02:25
Ilham
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Nice work! I would debate the way you tagged many of these bands, but that's a detail .
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17.01.2015 - 09:26
musclassia

Written by Ilham on 17.01.2015 at 02:25

Nice work! I would debate the way you tagged many of these bands, but that's a detail .


Thanks! Yeah some of the tags might be debatable, most of them I either went with what I'd assumed them to be or what MS had them tagged as, but yeah I'm not too concerned about them being exactly right
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