Top 10 2014
What the actual fuck! I have like twenty tabs open with stuff I've never heard and it's all great!
It's threads like these, where I recognise maybe half of the bands, that make me realize how much of a filthy casual I am. Write on, brothers. Give the rest of us some material to listen to during the holidays.
Introduction
Welcome to Shreddit's Top 10 of 2014. We did it guys and girls. Once again we waited until the end of the yearish. This is the first year we have done quarter voting in which allowed those interested to keep track of long year contenders versus late season upstarts. I have found this fascinating to see albums which has withstood initial hype and release and slugged it out on mystical mountains with other heavyweights. Though there will be some differing opinions, let us truly remember this holiday season that top 10 lists are for finding the most amount of music. Though your taste may not match all of these records in this particular order, comb through the responses and find someone you trust and listen to everything.
Additionally, this list is going to be submitted to r/listentothis for their top 10 because they are in need to heavy metal albums. Make it good guys and girls. Voting will be done the same in which each album will count for 1 regardless of its position. Feel free to put it in order but your number 1 will have no more weight than your number 10. I am counting votes all day between running a DND session later tonight. We will keep voting open for Saturday until Monday morning to give people time to craft lists. Be sure to also make up your superlatives and your honorable mentions (these wont be counted towards the final list).
Top 10 of 2014 (counting ~100 unique ballots)
Runners Up (Votes Between 5-10)
- Devin Townsend Project - Z2 [10]
- Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails [10]
- Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun [10]
- Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen [9]
- Domains - Sinister Ceremonies [9]
- Hoth - Oathbreaker [8]
- Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel [8]
- Conan - Blood Eagle [7]
- Old Man Gloom - The Ape God [7]
- Electric Wizard - Time to Die [6]
- Morbus Chron - Sweven [6]
- Falls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming Shore [5]
- StarGazer - A Merging to the Boundless [5]
Commentary:
First Leg: Wow. where is your Devil god now Behemoth? I feel that Behemoth's poor beginnings is due to almost a year of oppression in the charts. compare this with Panopticon which came out of nowhere and shot up to number two. while it may look like there are a lot of new contenders, Trenchrot came out in February of this year and never charted on any of our lists. Dead Congregation continues is decimation of the lists and will probably be the Grand Marshall of 2014.
Second Leg: It is pretty clear that Dead Congregation has established an unconquerable lead. I can see overnight, Behemoth sliding into second over Panopticon. I was surprised at the drop in standings for Slough Feg but less shocked at Mastodon, Woods of Desolation, and Agalloch. The most surprising instance has to go to Saor's massive jump in standings from mid position last quarter to almost top echelon. Gridlink also has to be congratulated for not placing last quarter and then coming out swinging at the end of the year. While an album's quality isn't measured by its release in the year, these long standing albums have to be at least silently noted against their newer contemporaries.
Superlatives
Album(s) that didn't appear on your list but was probably played more than most.
Album(s) that you could't get into despite multiple attempts and desire to be apart of the hype
Most Overhyped
Most Overlooked
Album you didn't know came out until looking at this thread
Easiest Pick for Instant Metal Cred
Mod VIP Lists
Deathofthesun
All picks in order (and subject to change since it's not actually 2015 yet)
Full-lengths
- Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
- Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall
- Drowned - Idola Specus
- John Gallow - Violet Dreams
- Domains - Sinister Ceremonies
- October 31 - Bury the Hatchet
- Capilla Ardiente - Bravery, Truth and the Endless Darkness
- Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
- Mortuary Drape - Spiritual Independence
- Hitten - First Strike With the Devil
EPs/singles/splits/etc.
- Nifelheim - Satanatas
- Walpyrgus - s/t
- Sadistic Intent - Reawakening Horrid Thoughts
- Necros Christos - Nine Graves
- Black Magic - Wizard's Spell
- Hierophant's Descent - The Apocalypse of Evil
- Portrait/Ram - Take Command
- Blaze - The Rock Dinosaur
- Outcast - s/t
- Ranger - Shock Skull
Severedfragile
Albums
- Sivyj Yar – From the Dead Villages’ Darkness
- Howls of Ebb – Vigils of the 3rd Eye
- John Gallow – Violet Dreams
- Kuolemanlaakso - Tulijoutsen
- Odraza - Esperalem Tkane
- Capilla Ardiente – Bravery, Truth and the Endless Darkness
- Spectral Lore - III
- Domains – Sinister Ceremonies
- Nux Vomica – Nux Vomica
- Coltsblood – Into the Unfathomable Abyss
EPs/Singles/Releases I May Have Made Up
- Inter Arma – The Cavern
- Goats of Doom – Ashes From the Past
- Godflesh – Decline and Fall
- Cara Neir – The Overwatch
- Malignant Mist – Celestial Doom
- Fuck The Facts – Abandoned EP
- Bloodway – Sunstone Voyager and the Clandestine Horizon
- Secret Creation – Holding My Carrot
- Bleed the Pigs – Overcompensation for Misery EP
- Ornamental Headpiece – Masks of Ash EP
Kaptain Carbon
- Death Fortress - Among the Ranks of the Unconquerable
- Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall
- Horrendous - Ecdysis / Morbus Chron - Sweven / Execration - Morbid Dimensions (no votes awarded)
- Darkspace - Darkspace III I
- Plebeian Grandstand - Lowgazers
- Sun Worship - Elder Giants
- Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
- Swallowed - Lunartial,
- StarGazer - A Merging to eh Boundless
- Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
- Honorable mentions: Woman is the Earth - Depths, Shroud of the Heretic - Revelations in Alchemy. , John Gallow - Violet Depths, Sempiternal Dusk - Sempiternal Dusk, 13th Moon - Abhorrence of Light
Demos / Splits / EPs
- Forthcoming article