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2014- MZ's Favorite Albums


2014 was great year, especially for black metal. Here are my most favorite records of the year. Open to suggestions, as always.
Edit: I might have a little of change in the order of albums at the end.

Created by: mz | 20.10.2014



1. Qualeaceans - Capture Of Ziz
http://qualeaceans.bandcamp.com/releases
2. Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-but-the-whole
3. Schammasch - Contradiction
http://schammasch.bandcamp.com/
4. Execration - Morbid Dimensions
http://duplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/morbid-dimensions
5. Darkspace - Dark Space III I
http://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/dark-space-iii-i
6. Plebeian Grandstand - Lowgazers
http://plebeiangrandstand.bandcamp.com/album/lowgazers
7. Nero Di Marte - Derivae
http://nerodimarte.bandcamp.com/
8. Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io
http://theflenser.bandcamp.com/album/coffins-on-io
9. Rishloo - Living As Ghosts With Buildings As Teeth
https://soundcloud.com/rishloo/landmines
10. Impetuous Ritual - Unholy Congregation Of Hypocritical Ambivalence
http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/unholy-congregation-of-hypocritical-ambivalence
11. Infestus - The Reflecting Void
http://dmp666.bandcamp.com/album/the-reflecting-void
12. Owl - The Last Walk
http://zeitgeister.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-walk
13. Vanhelgd - Relics Of Sulphur Salvation
http://pulverised.bandcamp.com/album/relics-of-sulphur-salvation
14. Blood Bright Star - The Silver Head
https://soundcloud.com/cvltnation/sets/blood-bright-star-ash-through
15. Ravcan - Chernobyl Disaster
http://ravcan.bandcamp.com/album/chernobyl-disaster
16. Slugdge - Gastronomicon
http://slugdge.bandcamp.com/
17. Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema
http://majorparkinson.bandcamp.com/album/twilight-cinema
18. Indian - From All Purity
http://indiandoom.bandcamp.com/
19. Merkabah (Poland) - Moloch
http://merkabahpl.bandcamp.com/
20. Torrential Downpour - Truth Knowledge Vision
http://torrentialdownpour.bandcamp.com/album/truth-knowledge-vision
21. Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
http://seasonofmist.bandcamp.com/album/esoteric-warfare
22. Inquisitor - Clinamen - Episteme
http://inquisitor.bandcamp.com/
23. Morpheus Tales - Secular Noir
http://morpheustales.bandcamp.com/track/secular-noir
24. Manimalism - Manimalism
https://manimalism.bandcamp.com/
25. Earth And Pillars - Earth I
http://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/earth-i
26. Noûs - ἀηδής
http://nousband.bandcamp.com/
27. The Eye Unclouded - Listening
http://theeyeunclouded.bandcamp.com/album/listening
28. Morbus Chron - Sweven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWL25VQ8QM
29. Dimesland - Psychogenic Atrophy
http://dimesland.bandcamp.com/releases
30. Pyrrhon - The Mother Of Virtues
http://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/the-mother-of-virtues
31. Taurus - No​/​Thing
http://taurusisdust.bandcamp.com/album/no-thing
32. Haikai No Ku - Ultra High Dimensionality
http://haikainoku.bandcamp.com/album/ultra-high-dimensionality-lp
33. Igorrr - Maigre [Collaboration] [EP]
https://adnoiseam.bandcamp.com/album/maigre
34. HAL HUTCHINSON - Wreckage Installations & Metalworks
http://crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/wreckage-installations-metalworks
35. Lvcifyre - Svn Eater
http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sun-eater
36. Swallowed - Lunarterial
http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lunarterial
37. Los Random - Pidanoma
http://randomprog.bandcamp.com/
38. Nibiru - Netrayoni
http://nibiru666.bandcamp.com/album/netrayoni-ritual-ii-tears-of-kaly
39. The Great Old Ones - Tekeli-Li
http://thegreatoldones.bandcamp.com/album/tekeli-li-2
40. Serpents Lair - Demo MMXIV
http://serpentslair.bandcamp.com/album/demo-mmxiv



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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21.10.2014 - 22:46
Paz
Elite
Written by mz on 21.10.2014 at 22:33

Good. They are both similar but SL outdid your most favorite BM record of the year in every aspect =p

These Icelanders have moar awesome drumming and riffs imo.

PS. You've ears in the ass
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21.10.2014 - 22:46
Zap
Guest
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 21.10.2014 at 22:14


Probably the same reasons for me as well. Plus I find Aura way more memorable.

Yeah, that riff on Entranced By The Wolfshook alone is more memorable than the whole Soma EP.
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22.10.2014 - 04:57
Diverge
Goddamn that Capture of Ziz is astounding.
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22.10.2014 - 11:34
angel.
Evil Butterfly
Written by Erik M. on 20.10.2014 at 19:16

Doom:VS

It's interesting that you're obsessed with this band
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22.10.2014 - 12:44
mz
Written by Diverge on 22.10.2014 at 04:57

Goddamn that Capture of Ziz is astounding.

Finally someone else likes that album, too. I'm accomplished now.
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23.10.2014 - 01:29
mz
Added Merkabah and Major Parkinson.
Edit: and also Vermin Womb.
Edit 2: also Taurus . Thanks Jay for this recommendation (although it was not directed to me)
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23.10.2014 - 12:11
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by mz on 23.10.2014 at 01:29

Edit: and also Vermin Womb.

I see that my lobbying is taking effect.
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23.10.2014 - 14:31
mz
Written by Ilham on 23.10.2014 at 12:11


I see that my lobbying is taking effect.


Haha but no. I think I listened to that album before you hyping it :p
I,m not usually asshole but coulndt help it this time
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23.10.2014 - 16:30
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by mz on 23.10.2014 at 14:31

Haha but no. I think I listened to that album before you hyping it :p
I,m not usually asshole but coulndt help it this time

Oh wow, "hyping" it. Now you're using strong words. Sorry for the disturbance then, "mister-I-knew-it-three-days-before-you-discovered-it".
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23.10.2014 - 16:36
mz
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23.10.2014 - 17:04
mz
I feeel so dumb for that comment now.
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23.10.2014 - 17:06
Ilham
Giant robot
Haha it's okay. A bit dickish, but I have humour . It's just that I didn't hear anything that I liked as much this from this year, so I talk about it a lot. I'm even submitting a review for it, haha.
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23.10.2014 - 22:08
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Contributor
#10 is sooo....mean. Just evil - love it!
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24.10.2014 - 02:22
Zap
Guest
Written by mz on 21.10.2014 at 00:25

Written by Zap on 20.10.2014 at 23:10

One of the better lists I've seen this year. Not too long and with some albums I don't know yet.

Thank you. Hopefully you'd like those ones you don't know yet if you ever checked then

Yeah, that Execration album is tits. Thanks
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25.10.2014 - 18:17
mz
Written by Zap on 24.10.2014 at 02:22

Yeah, that Execration album is tits. Thanks


Cheers
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26.10.2014 - 05:06
Diverge
Written by mz on 22.10.2014 at 12:44

Written by Diverge on 22.10.2014 at 04:57

Goddamn that Capture of Ziz is astounding.

Finally someone else likes that album, too. I'm accomplished now.

Yeah that album is still slaying. Probably my album of the year at the moment...It's brilliant from start to finish, imo.
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31.10.2014 - 02:55
mz
Added urls to full streams (well, they are not technically "links") except for Wolves and Morbus Chron, which I just could find link to some songs.
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31.10.2014 - 03:03
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
Written by mz on 31.10.2014 at 02:55

Added links
(well, they are not technically "links")

urls* =]
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31.10.2014 - 03:15
mz
Written by Karlabos on 31.10.2014 at 03:03

Written by mz on 31.10.2014 at 02:55

Added links
(well, they are not technically "links")

urls* =]

thanks =]
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31.10.2014 - 12:04
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
Slugdge: http://slugdge.bandcamp.com/album/gastronomicon

Emptiness: http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-but-the-whole

=P
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31.10.2014 - 12:10
mz
Written by Guest on 31.10.2014 at 12:04

Slugdge: http://slugdge.bandcamp.com/album/gastronomicon

Emptiness: http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-but-the-whole

=P


OOps. Done.
Sorry.
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31.10.2014 - 12:12
!J.O.O.E.!
Account deleted
Written by mz on 31.10.2014 at 12:10


OOps. Done.
Sorry.

Heheh, that looks much better
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31.10.2014 - 12:15
mz
Written by Guest on 31.10.2014 at 12:12

Written by mz on 31.10.2014 at 12:10


OOps. Done.
Sorry.

Heheh, that looks much better

Yeah. I don't know why I didn't do it from the beginning.
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11.11.2014 - 01:12
mz
The fact that not enough suggestions are given on this list is depressing. You guys suck :p
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11.11.2014 - 01:19
Ilham
Giant robot
You're the hardest to give recommendations to. I mean, out of the "usual gang".
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11.11.2014 - 01:21
mz
Written by Ilham on 11.11.2014 at 01:19

You're the hardest to give recommendations to. I mean, out of the "usual gang".

Seriously? why?
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11.11.2014 - 01:29
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by mz on 11.11.2014 at 01:21

Seriously? why?

Well, for me at least. You surprised me many times with statements like "I don't like instrumental music", "I don't like extreme stuff" (which I find weird when I read your lists) and polarised ratings for the exact same band (I am thinking about Aevangelist and Aluk Trololo for example). I am not criticizing your tastes or your voting patterns, it's just that I don't feel very inclined to go out on a limb and recommend stuff to you. I also think I tried a couple of times and you said you didn't want any more new music. I'm sure that has passed, but you get what I mean. I guess I just lost the reflex of thinking of you when I hear something new.
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11.11.2014 - 01:36
mz
Written by Ilham on 11.11.2014 at 01:29

Well, for me at least. You surprised me many times with statements like "I don't like instrumental music", "I don't like extreme stuff" (which I find weird when I read your lists) and polarised ratings for the exact same band (I am thinking about Aevangelist and Aluk Trololo for example). I am not criticizing your tastes or your voting patterns, it's just that I don't feel very inclined to go out on a limb and recommend stuff to you. I also think I tried a couple of times and you said you didn't want any more new music. I'm sure that has passed, but you get what I mean. I guess I just lost the reflex of thinking of you when I hear something new.


Yeah true. I indeed don't like instrumental metal most of the time (except when it's simplistic stuff like drone ). I don't know when I have said that "I don't like extreme stuff". I was mostly into prog stuff 2-3 years ago and that might be the time I've said that.
Oh, also I'm not the only one who has contradicting rating for Aevangelist
And finally, yeah I've decided many times to give up on new music for a while, but I couldn't keep my promise :'(
Sorry I seem to have a messy mind
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11.11.2014 - 01:50
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by mz on 11.11.2014 at 01:36

Yeah true. I indeed don't like instrumental metal most of the time (except when it's simplistic stuff like drone ). I don't know when I have said that "I don't like extreme stuff". I was mostly into prog stuff 2-3 years ago and that might be the time I've said that.
Oh, also I'm not the only one who has contradicting rating for Aevangelist
And finally, yeah I've decided many times to give up on new music for a while, but I couldn't keep my promise :'(
Sorry I seem to have a messy mind

No I didn't ask for justifications! It's all fine really. Oh and the extreme thing, I am sure it was quite recent because it really left an imprint on my mind. I think you were talking about brutal death or grindcore. And you made a generalisation similar to "I don't like anything too extreme in metal". Also, I wasn't here during your prog years.
For the ratings, I know that album was polarizing, but I guess that + the other stuff just threw me off balance.

If you want, I can fix this right now and rec you a few albums. But be nice, don't be a dick if you heard them all already .

- Paz shared this today, I think you'll like it:



- The latest Nightbringer if you haven't got to it yet.
- The three 2014 Necro Deathmort releases
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11.11.2014 - 01:59
mz
Written by Ilham on 11.11.2014 at 01:50

No I didn't ask for justifications! It's all fine really. Oh and the extreme thing, I am sure it was quite recent because it really left an imprint on my mind. I think you were talking about brutal death or grindcore. And you made a generalisation similar to "I don't like anything too extreme in metal". Also, I wasn't here during your prog years.
For the ratings, I know that album was polarizing, but I guess that + the other stuff just threw me off balance.

If you want, I can fix this right now and rec you a few albums. But be nice, don't be a dick if you heard them all already .

- Paz shared this today, I think you'll like it:

Video

- The latest Nightbringer if you haven't got to it yet.
- The three 2014 Necro Deathmort releases

Haha I think I know what you mean now. Let me put it this way : I don't like the most extreme sorts of death metal, which is brutal death, not because of extremity itself. BDM lacks any type of soul for me. Grind is a little to much for me to handle because it gets a little too samey, and that makes the extremity a little unbearable.
And I pretend that I haven't heard half of that video today :p
Not heard anything from the other two bands you've mentioned. Will check ASAP tnx.
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