Best Albums Of 2014 XIV- As It Progresses (Updated Weekly)
Best Albums Of 2014 XIV- As It Progresses (Updated Weekly)
Albums I'm enjoying as 2014 progresses, order and all that is updated weekly. Suggestions and also comments are very welcome, I'm also finally finished my 2013 list. Check that out as well
As new 2014 albums come and go please note the order is subject to change before you have an aneurism.
Definitely always looking for more metal/music friends https://www.facebook.com/derek.handelong (add me)
As new 2014 albums come and go please note the order is subject to change before you have an aneurism.
Definitely always looking for more metal/music friends https://www.facebook.com/derek.handelong (add me)
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Major Parkinson
- Twilight Cinema
Like a Diablo Vulture Orchestra Industries stripped down but still dark
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Whispered
- Shogunate Macabre
Finnish metal with Eastern Folk influences, yes please! I sense Wintersun, Children of Bodom and Chthonic touches throughout, maybe it's just me though. Overall so damn enjoyable for someone that's a melodic death metal fan.
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Babymetal
- Babymetal
Engrossed with this at the moment; I love Japanese films and culture itself. Sure this is some sort of manufactured gimmick but still insanely catchy, fun and adventurous, delving into j-pop, death, power, thrash, djent, techno, industrial, dubstep, rap and more. Fuck guilty pleasures, this is an audio pleasure.
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Terracide
- Existence Asunder
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Shylmagoghnar
- Emergence
What a debut album from the Netherlands. Catchy, melodic and atmospherically ambient. Gives me the same excitement as when Enshine's "Origin" album came out, oozing with mood and soothing tones.
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Human Debris
- Wrought From Anguish
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40.
Words Of Farewell
- The Black Wild Yonder
Melodic death metal. My favorite dish. These Germans know how to write it. Superb production and touches of introspective more softer themes (for metal) fit their album, cover and band name
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Infestum
- Monuments Of Exalted
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Big Elf
- Into the Maelstrom
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Inferi
- The Path Of Apotheosis
A superb blend of catchy riffs and pulse pounding rhythms, when you need your speed fix this will do. Nice to see bands from Nashville breaking the mold and blazing against the grain.
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Wings Denied
- Mirrors for a Prince
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74.
Vanden Plas
- Chronicles Of The Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1)
Another excellent release, on first listen doesn't sound as amazing as Seraphic or Christ 0
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77.
Casualities of Cool
- Casualities of Cool
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82.
Tengger Cavalry
- Ancient Call
Pagan Folk Black Metal from Beijing (Todays beneficiary is the incarnation of his preexisting well-doer; the fate of ones next existence lies in his existence today)
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93.
The Seer
- Prologue
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94.
Escapethecult
- All You Want To
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The Room Colored Charlatan
- Primitives
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Framework
- A World Distorted
These New Jersey guys made some great metal that sounds like it's from late 90's Sweden. Yes melodic death metal. But this feeds my insatiable needs for it.
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Structural Disorder
- The Edge Of Sanity
"Tells the story of a man who suffers from a severe psychosis after finding out that he is about to become a father for the first time in his life. The psychosis manifests itself as a voice that commands the man to kill his pregnant wife and his unborn child. After committing this crime the man ends up at a closed ward where he only has got himself, his questions and his memory gaps to accompany him. During sessions together with a psychiatrist his memories slowly start to return and the man realizes more and more what he actually has done.
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Structures
- Life Through A Window
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116.
Behemoth
- The Satanist
Enjoyable and it's great to see Nergal back but it feels like it's getting overexposed. The 1-2-3 punch Thelema 6, Zos Kia Cultus and Demigod that got me into the band and able to see them a bunch as they toured the USA seems to be giving me that flat feeling on them lately.
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Thyrien
- Hymns of the Mortals
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The Mire
- Glass Cathedrals
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138.
Tellurion
- Tellurion
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Spasmophiliaque
- First Step On The Wild Side
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148.
Iced Earth
- Plagues Of Babylon
Kinda disappointing, especially compared to their old albums back when I first started listening to theme
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151.
Nilfgaard
- Enter Fiction
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164.
Spherian
- Forge
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180.
Exmortus
- Slave To The Sword
Caught a song of them live during before the DT and OG tour and I'm gonna have to check this out more. Better than my initial reaction here?
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181.
Slough Feg
- Digital Resistance
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188.
One Machine
- The Distortion Of Lies And The Overdriven Truth
Damn...with all the talent and names here I braced myself for something special, I'm let down.
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193.
Sunn O))) / Ulver
- Terrestrials [Collaboration]
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194.
Caliban
- Ghost Empire
Past few albums got me back into this band. Sadly this seems all too forgettable. More listens needed though.
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196.
Hollow My Eyes
- Separate
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198.
The Unguided
- Fragile Immortality
I would enjoy this sooo much more without the Atreyu-like strained vomit vocals.
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204.
Of Man and Machine
- Emergence
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209.
Solar Halos
- Solar Halos
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210.
Valtari
- Hunter's Pride
Commendable but I feel like there's a lot of other bands doing the same thing and so much better.
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212.
The Ragnarok Prophecy
- The Dark Realms
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214.
Eternus
- Labyrinth of Reason
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215.
Crosses
- ???
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216.
Soul Collector
- Masters of Madness
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227.
Man Down
- Invasion
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229.
Drofnosura
- I
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232.
Of Mice And Men
- Restoring Force
Odd how such blah stuff is popular here in E-Merica
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235.
Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together
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236.
Amoral
- Fallen Leaves & Dead Sparrows
All that spins through my mind is how kickass this band was with Decrowning and now...this?
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Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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You're a metal listening machine. You've listened to more albums in two entire months than I listened to all of last year.  Great stuff. I'll have to check this out more!
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Posts: 87 Written by Diverge on 03.03.2014 at 04:44 Thank You, I make sure I give myself time to be creative (I write, other projects, etc.) daily. During that time music is my soundtrack. For a few years (2010-2012ish) I got away from browsing for new music and keeping updated on my favorite bands. I think that was a stagnate period in my life. So with this newly allotted time to listen to music I thought I'd present what I'm listening to with others. I think my 2014 list will be a lot more vast and invested than 2013 (which I recently uploaded, check it out). So thanks again, talk to you more as 2014 progresses.
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Posts: 87 Written by [user id=110592] on 03.03.2014 at 14:42 Hello, I'll try to add what I think of each album if I get a chance, even it's just a passing sentence or an interesting thought. The thing with genre's is I think they either lure a mind into pre-conceived notions or push someone away in a subliminal judgmental way from checking it out. I'm not huge into raw black metal, drone, shoegaze or leathercore for example so when I see that I tend to shy away from it. I'd rather see someones excitement or passion for a band/album/song and follow along with them down that path. I also think the genre's wars I see throughout the metal community builds barriers and immature and needless arguments among listeners instead of unity and intelligent conversations. That being said hopefully you'll get a good feel and about each album based off any anecdote I give, thank you for your interest.
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I've been listening to that Shylmagoghnar album. Dam fine debut. I haven't seen it on any list but yours. I will be adding it to mine 
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Posts: 87 Written by tea[m]ster on 12.03.2014 at 20:09 Yes! and it's a two man project with one guy just doing vocals I believe, pretty awesome stuff. Let me know of anything else you think I'd like
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Posts: 87 Written by deadone on 13.03.2014 at 00:04 Perhaps you have me confused with someone else? I have not commented on your list. I'm assuming bag was meant to be bug though. And I'm sure Babymetal will fall in my list but I order it by what I'm listening to at the moment and enjoying the most. I'm sure the album will get a lot of hate. My description explains why I'm a fan though.
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Posts: 87 Written by deadone on 13.03.2014 at 02:46 It's cool, I figured it was mistaken identities  . Enjoy the list  
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Posts: 87 Written by HyperDrifter on 07.04.2014 at 00:03 Seems so, I don't know what that is honestly but didn't Vader make a kickass song from the video game?
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Posts: 348 Written by EnigmaLake on 07.04.2014 at 01:57 Ah cool! I'll have a listen to that too
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Posts: 87 Written by HyperDrifter on 07.04.2014 at 14:21 Vader "Sword of the Witcher"
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F*ck yeah, Babymetal, that's hell of a guilty pleasure, count me in ! Good list so far, but I think you overrated Arch Enemy a bit Listen to the current hyped releases: Monuments - The Amanuensis and Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun, to see what it looks like 
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Posts: 87 Written by BigBangParty on 22.06.2014 at 22:34 Yes! The hate of Babymetal is really humorous to me. Honestly they sound like no one else, especially the live show. I've learned metalheads just complain about every day thing. I plan to check them out soon. AE has been one of my fav bands since around like '98 so I suppose that would happen, was nice to see something new elements mixed in. I see how people see the genre getting stale but MDM is one of my favorites. It's like good food. Doesn't get old. Thanks for the comment.
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