Your top 3 album picks of 2014?

[M3CHK1LLA]

i should have started a poll of some sort

 

[scherzo1928]

I'm picking the same bottom 2, but Inferi's "The Path of Apotheosis" is easily album of the year for me. I thought it was album of the year in January when I first heard it and nothing has beaten it since then.

I'm surprised this album has only been mentioned twice (by you and me)... Perhaps nobody heard it?

People of SSO, go and listen to it!!
The Path of Apotheosis | Inferi

 

[Gothic Headhunter]

I'm pretty sure Vhyle is a huge fan as well, so people have heard of them. Such an amazing album though. I put it ahead of Hannes Grossman and Christian Muenzner for a reason- it's just fvcking epic sounding

 

[BlackMastodon]

Top 3:
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Deathmole - Permanence
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

Honourable Mentions:
Devin Townsend - Z2
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Cloudkicker - Little Histories

Not as much of a powerhouse year as 2013 was with Queens of the Stone Age, Rosetta, The Ocean, Russian Circles, and Cloudkicker's previous release, but still some good stuff.

Unfortunately this was the year that I was underwhelmed by 3 of my favourite heavy/techincal bands where I came from their previous EP or album with high expectations. Still, Black Crown Initiate, Fallujah, and Beyond Creation had solid albums this year, though admittedly I need to listen to them more and see if they click better.

Also gotta check out new Inferi, Specticflesh, and probably Insomnium. I really liked Inferi's The End of an Era back in the day but have since not been too big on melodic death metal so I kinda just stopped paying attention. Until I finally got around to buying Insomnium's Above the Weeping World this year and holy shit, I'm not sure any melo-death album can top it.

 

[Tenacious]

The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

 

[M3CHK1LLA]

unbelievable how many albums came out this year...

 

[rokket2005]

I'm going to add Forus' Lights to my list. Really awesome album, even clocking in at just 21 minutes.

 

[Bucks]

good year I think.
my top 3.

#1. Phish - Fuego
#2. Cynic - kindly bent to free us
#3. Transatlantic - kaleidoscope

 

[ArchonicYordi]

1. Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
2. Hannes Grossmann - The Radial Covenant
3. Soreption - Engineering The Void

2014 was an amaaaaazing year for music!

 

[HurrDurr]

If I had to pick, they're mostly EP's (splits).

1. Whirr/Nothing - split EP
2. Cloakroom - 'Lossed Over' EP
3. Whirr - Sway

 

[Guamskyy]

1. Intervals- A Voice Within
2. SOJA- Amid the Noise and Haste
3. Childish Gambino- Kauai

 

[MAJ Meadows SF]

Way too Manu awesome albums to list, so many favorites, but of the ones I returned to listen to the most and with great digest:

Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Inanimate Existence - Never Ending Cycle of Atonement
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry

Quick hitters:
Desecravity
Decapitated
At The Gates
The Kennedy Veil
Revocation
Behemoth
Animals As Leaders
Pallbearer

Phenomenal year for metal.

 

[M3CHK1LLA]

my list of albums to check out is getting longer & longer...

 

[Dusty Chalk]

I know, right? 2014 is over, so I should be catching up, but rather I'm realizing more and more how far behind I am.

 

[The_Mop]

These lists pretty much just highlight to me how little I pay attention to current music, which is a bit of a problem. However, my solitary contribution is thus:

Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire

Fucking great album and a brilliant return for one of the old guard.

 

[M3CHK1LLA]

really enjoyed this...

 

[NorCal_Val]

Animals As Leaders-"Joy of Motion"
Devin Townsend-"Z2"
Lana Del Rey-"Ultraviolence"
A late nomination to Russian Circles for "Memorial".

 

[Bodes]

So three days of sitting around the house whilst tradesmen come and go have allowed you guys to not only introduce me to some bands I have never heard of before, but also drain the bajezus out of my bank account...

Thanks and Thanks

 

[dlam_ivs]

1. Chevelle - La Gargola
2. Down Royale - Sway
3. Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

 

[Dan]

1. Dirty Loops - Loopified
2. Dirty Loops - Loopified
3. Dirty Loops - Loopified

Says it all really.