2014

Clearing the Path to Ascend

YOB

• Label: Relapse
• Released: 2 September 2014

• Doom metal
• Stoner metal

1. In Our Blood
2. Nothing to Win
3. Unmask the Spectre
4. Marrow

Roads to the North

Panopticon

• Label: Bindrune
• Released: March 2014

• Atmospheric black metal
• Melodic black metal

1. The Echoes of a Disharmonic Evensong
2. Where Mountains Pierce the Sky
3. One Last Fire (The Long Road I)
4. Capricious Miles (The Loong Road II)
5. The Sigh of Summer (The Long Road III)
6. Norwegian Nights
7. In Silence
8. Chase the Grain

Heathen

Thou

• Label: Gilead Media
• Released: 25 March 2014

• Atmospheric sludge metal
• Doom metal

1. Free Will
2. Dawn
3. Feral Faun
4. Into the Marshland
5. Clarity
6. At the Foot of Mount Driskill
7. In Defiance of the Sages
8. Take off Your Skin and Dance in Your Bones
9. Immorality Dictates
10. Ode to Physical Pain

Citadel

Ne Obliviscaris

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 7 November 2014

• Progressive metal
• Melodic death metal

1. Painters of the Tempest (Part I): Wyrmholes
2. Painters of the Tempest (Part II): Triptych Lux
3. Painters of the Tempest (Part III): Reveries from teh Stained Glass Womb
4. Pyrrhic
5. Devour Me, Colossus (Part I): Blackholes
6. Devour Me, Colossus (Part II): Contortions

Hypnotic Eye

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 9 August 2014

• Heartland rock
• Blues rock

1. American Dream Plan B
2. Fault Lines
3. Red River
4. Full Grown Boy
5. All You Can Carry
6. Power Drunk
7. Forgotten Man
8. Sins of My Youth
9. U Get Me High
10. Burnt out Town
11. Shadow People

The Joy of Motion

Animals as Leaders

• Label: Sumerian
• Released: 25 March 2014

• Progressive metal
• Jazz fusion

1. Kascade
2. Lippincott
3. Ait Chrysalis
4. Another Year
5. Physical Education
6. Tooth and Claw
7. Crescent
8. The Future That Awaited Me
9. Para Mexer
10. The Woven Web
11. Mind-Spun
12. Nephele

Magic Mountain

Black Stone Cherry

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 6 May 2014

• Hard rock
• Southern rock

1. Holding on ... to Letting Go
2. Peace Pipe
3. Bad Luck & Hard Love
4. Me and Mary Jane
5. Runaway
6. Magic Mountain
7. Never Surrender
8. Blow My Mind
9. Sometimes
10. Fiesta del fuego
11. Dance Girl
12. Hollywood in Kentucky
13. Remember Me

No Guts, No Glory

moe.

• Label: Sugar Hill
• Released: 27 May 2014

• Jam rock

1. Annihilation Blues
2. White Lightning Turpentine
3. This I Know
4. Same Old Story
5. Silver Sun
6. Calyphornya
7. Little Miss Cup Half Empty
8. Blond Hair and Blue Eyes
9. Do or Die
10. The Pines and the Apple Tree
11. Billy Goat

New Crown

Wolfmother

• Label: n/a
• Released: 23 March 2014

• Hard rock
• Heavy psych

1. How Many Times
2. Enemy Is in Your Mind
3. Heavy Weight
4. New Crown
5. Tall Ships
6. Feelings
7. I Ain't Got No
8. She Got It
9. My Tangerine Dream
10. Radio
11. I Don't Know Why

In the Red

Crucified Barbara

• Label: Despotz
• Released: 10 September 2014

• Hard rock
• Heavy metal

1. I Sell My kids for Rock 'n' Roll
2. To Kill a Man
3. Electric Sky
4. The Ghost Inside
5. Don't Call on Me
6. In the Red
7. Lunatic #1
8. Shadows
9. Finders Keepers
10. Do You Want Me
11. Follow the Stream

The Best Day

Thurston Moore

• Label: Matador
• Released: 21 October 2014

• Noise rock
• ALternative rock

1. Speak to the Wild
2. Forevermore
3. Tape
4. The Best Day
5. Detonation
6. Vocabularies
7. Grace Lake
8. Germs Burn

They Worshipped Cats

Les Big Byrd

• Label: A
• Released: 12 May 2014

• Psychedelic rock
• Neo-psychedelia

1. Indus Waves
2. Tinnitus Ætérnum
3. They Worshipped Cats
4. Vi borde prata men det är för sent
5. Just One Time
6. White Week
7. War in the Street
8. 1, 2, 3, 4 Morte
9. Back to Bagarmossen

Catacombs of the Black Vatican

Black Label Society

• Label: Mascot
• Released: 21 October 2014

• Southern metal
• Groove metal

1. Fields of Unforgiveness
2. My Dying Time
3. Believe
4. Angel of Mercy
5. Heart of Darkness
6. Beyond the Down
7. Scars
8. Damn the Flood
9. I've Gone Away
10. Empty Promises
11. Shades of Grey

Refractory Obdurate

Wovenhand

• Label: Deathwish
• Released: 29 April 2014

• Gothic Americana
• Folk rock

1. Corsicana Clip
2. Masonic Youth
3. The Refractory
4. Good Shepherd
5. Salome
6. King David
7. Field of Hedon
8. Obdurate Obscura
9. Hiss
10. El-Bow

Lazaretto

Jack White

• Label: Third Man
• Released: 10 June 2014

• Blues rock
• Garage rock revival

1. Three Women
2. Lazaretto
3. Temporary Ground
4. Would You Fight for My Love?
5. High Ball Stepper
6. Just One Drink
7. Alone in My Home
8. Entitlement
9. That Black Bat Licorice
10. I Think I Found the Culprit
11. Want and Able

Kill the Power

Skindred

• Label: Red River
• Released: 27 January 2014

• Reggae metal
• Rap metal

1. Kill the Power
2. Ruling Force
3. Playing with the Devil
4. World's on Fire
5. Ninja
6. The Kids Are Right Now
7. We Live
8. Open Eyed
9. Dollars & Dimes
10. Saturday
11. Proceed with Caution
12. More Fire

Bloodstone & Diamonds

Machine Head

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 7 November 2014

• Groove metal
• Thrash metal

1. Now We Die
2. Killers & Kings
3. Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones
4. Night of Long Knives
5. Sail into the Black
6. Eyes of the Dead
7. Beneath the Slit
8. In Comes the Flood
9. Damage Inside
10. Game Over
11. Imaginal Cells
12. Take Me Through the Fire

The Black Market

Rise Against

• Label: Interscope
• Released: 15 July 2014

• Melodic hardcore
• Punk rock

1. The Great Die-Off
2. I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore
3. Tragedy + Time
4. The Black Market
5. The Eco-Terrorist in Me
6. Sudden Life
7. A Beautiful Indifference
8. Methadone
9. Zero Visibility
10. Awake Too Long
11. People Live Here
12. Bridges

Grand Morbid Funeral

Bloodbath

• Label: Peaveville
• Released: 17 November 2014

• Death metal

1. Let the Stillborn Come to Me
2. Total Death Exhumed
3. Anne
4. Church of Vastitas
5. Famine of God's Word
6. Mental Abortion
7. Beyond Cremation
8. His Infernal Necropsy
9. Unite in Pain
10. My Torturer
11. Grand Norbid Funeral

The Unnatural World

Have a Nice Life

• Label: The Flenser
• Released: 4 February 2014

• Post-punk
• Shoegaze

1. Guggenheim Wax Museum
2. Defenestration Song
3. Burial Society
4. Music Will Untune the Sky
5. Cropsey
6. Unholy Life
7. Dan and Time, Reunited by Fate
8. Emptiness Will Eat the Witch

Pandemonium

Cavalera Conspiracy

• Label: Napalm
• Released: 31 October 2014

• Death metal
• Thrash metal

1. Babylonian Pandemonium
2. Bonzai Kamikazee
3. Scum
4. I, Barbarian
5. Cramunhão
6. Apex Predator
7. Insurrection
8. Not Losing the Edge
9. Father of Hate
10. The Crucible

Primitive and Deadly

Earth

• Label: Southern Lord
• Released: 2 September 2014

• Drone metal
• Post-rock

1. Torn by the Fox of the Crescent Moon
2. There Is a Serpent Coming
3. From the Zodiacal Light
4. Even Hell Has Its Heroes
5. Rools Across the Gate
6. Badgers Bane

Life in Lucidity

The Kindred

• Label: Sumerian Records
• Released: 25 February 2014

• Math rock
• progressive metal

1. Wolvish
2. Heritage
3. Everbound
4. An Evolution of Thought
5. Decades
6. Millenia
7. A Grand Debate
8. Seekers & Servants
9. Dreambender
10. Like a Long Life

Origins

Eluveitie

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 1 August 2014

• Folk metal
• Celtic metal

1. Origins
2. The Nameless
3. From Darkness
4. Celtos
5. Virunus
6. Nothing
7. The Call of the Mountains
8. Sucellos
9. Inception
10. Vianna
11. The Silver Sister
12. King
13. The Day of Strife
14. Ogmios
15. Carry the Torch
16. Eternity

Shadows of the Dying Sun

Insomnium

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 25 April 2014

• Melodic death metal

1. The Primeval Dark
2. While We Sleep
3. Revelation
4. Black Heart Rebellion
5. Lose to Night
6. Collapsing Words
7. The River
8. Ephemeral
9. The Promethean Song
10. Shadows of the Dying Sun

Turn Blue

The Black Keys

• Label: Nonesuch
• Released: 12 May 2014

• Psychedelic rock
• Blues rock

1. Weight of Love
2. In Time
3. Turn Blue
4. Fever
5. Year in Review
6. Bullet in the Brain
7. It's up to You Now
8. Waiting on Words
9. 10 Lovers
10. In Our Prime
11. Gotta Get Away

Jetpack Soundtrack

Lionize

• Label: Weathermaker
• Released: 2014

• Blues rock
• Funk rock

1. Intro
2. Breather
3. Evolve
4. Electric Reckoning
5. Jetpack Soundtrack
6. Replaced by Machines
7. Reality Check
8. Lazarus Style
9. A,azing Science Facts
10. Skynet
11. Sea of Tranquility

Monuments to an Elegy

The Smashing Pumpkins

• Label: Martha's Music
• Released: 9 December 2014

• Alternative rock
• Synth-pop

1. Tiberius
2. Being Beige
3. Anaise!
4. One and All (We Are)
5. Run2Me
6. Drum + Fife
7. Monuments
8. Dorian
9. Anti-Hero

St. Vincent

St. Vincent

• Label: Loma Vista
• Released: 25 February 2014

• Art rock
• Art pop

1. Rattlesnake
2. Birth in Reverse
3. Prince Johnny
4. Huey Newton
5. Digital Witness
6. I Prefer Your Love
7. Regret
8. Bring Me Your Loves
9. Psychopath
10. Every Tear Disappears
11. Severed Crossed Fingers

Stay Gold

First Aid Kit

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 6 June 2014

• Indie folk
• Americana

1. My Silver Lining
2. Master Pretender
3. Stay Gold
4. Cedar Lane
5. Shattered & Hollow
6. The Bell
7. Waitress Song
8. Fleeting One
9. Heaven Knows
10. A Long Time Ago

Tied to a Star

J Mascis

• Label: Sub Pop
• Released: 24 August 2014

• Folk

1. Me Again
2. Every Morning
3. Heal the Stars
4. Wide Awake
5. Stumble
6. And Then
7. Drifter
8. Trailing off
9. Come Down
10. Better Plane

Something Supernatural

Crobot

• Label: Wind-up
• Released: 28 October 2014

• Psychedelic metal
• Hard rock

1. Legend of the Spaceborne Killer
2. Nowhere to Hide
3. The Necromancer
4. La mano de Lucifer
5. Skull of Geronimo
6. Cloud Spiller
7. Fly on the Wall
8. Night of the Sacrifice
9. Chupacabra
10. Wizards
11. Queen of the Light

9 Dead Alive

Rodrigo y Gabriela

• Label: Rubyworks
• Released: 25 April 2014

• Flamenco rock

1. The Soundmaker
2. Torito
3. Sundat Neurosis
4. Misty Moses
5. Somnium
6. Fram
7. Megalopolis
8. The Russian Messenger
9. La salle des pas perdus

Language

The Contortionist

• Label: eOne
• Released: 16 September 2014

• Progressive metal
• Post-metal

1. The Source
2. Language I: Intuition
3. Language II: Conspire
4. Integration
5. Thrive
6. Primordial Sound
7. Arise
8. Ebb & Flow
9. The Parable

Coffins on Io

Kayo Dot

• Label: The Flenser
• Released: 14 August 2014

• Dark wave
• Gothic rock

1. The Mortality of Doves
2. Offramp Cycle, Pattern 22
3. Longtime Disturbance on the Miracle Mile
4. Library Subterranean
5. The Assassination of Adam
6. Spirit Photography

Dawn of the 5th Era

Mors Principium Est

• Label: AFM
• Released: 5 December 2014

• Melodic death metal

1. Enter the Asylum
2. God Has Fallen
3. Leader of the Titans
4. We Are the Sleep
5. Innocence Lost
6. I Am War
7. Monster in Me
8. Apricity
9. Wrath of Indra
10. The Journey
11. The Forsaken

Ótta

Sólstafir

• Label: Season of Mist
• Released: 29 August 2014

• Post-metal
• Post-rock

1. Lágnætti
2. Ótta
3. Rismál
4. Dagmál
5. Miðdegi
6. Nón
7. Miðaftann
8. Náttmál

The Serpent & the Sphere

Agalloch

• Label: Profound Lore
• Released: 13 May 2014

• Atmospheric black metal
• Post-metal

1. Birth and Death of the Pillars of Creation
2. (serpens caput)
3. The Astral Dialogue
4. Dark Matter Gods
5. Celestial Effigy
6. Cor Serpentis (the sphere)
7. Vales Beyond Dimension
8. Plateau of the Ages
9. (serpens cauda)

Blood in, Blood out

Exodus

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 14 October 2014

• Thrash metal

1. Black 13
2. Blood in, Blood out
3. Collateral Damage
4. Salt the Wound
5. Body Harvest
6. BTK
7. Wrapped in the Arms of Rage
8. My Last Nerve
9. Numb
10. Honor Killings
11. Food for the Worms

Shelter

Alcest

• Label: Prophecy Productions
• Released: 17 January 2014

• Shoegaze
• Dream pop

1. Wings
2. Opale
3. La nuit marche avec moi
4. Voix sereines
5. L'Éveil des muses
6. Shelter
7. Away
8. Délivrance

Trails & Passes

Greenleaf

• Label: Small Stone
• Released: 2014

• Stoner rock

1. Our Mother Ash
2. Ocean Deep
3. Equators
4. Depths of the Sun
5. Humans
6. With Eyes Wide Open
7. The Drum
8. Bound to Be Machines
9. Trails & Passes

Triumph and Power

Grand Magus

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 31 January 2014

• Heavy metal

1. On Hooves of Gold
2. Steel versus Steel
3. Fight
4. Triumph and Power
5. Dominator
6. Arv
7. Holmgång
8. The Naked and the Dead
9. Ymer
10. The Hammer Will Bite

Blues Pills

Blues Pills

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 24 July 2014

• Blues rock
• Psychedelic rock

1. High Class Woman
2. Ain't No Change
3. Jupiter
4. Black Smoke
5. River
6. No Hope Left for Me
7. Devil Man
8. Astralplane
9. Little Sun

Morning Phase

Beck

• Label: Capitol
• Released: 21 February 2014

• Folk
• Dream pop

1. Cycle
2. Morning
3. Heart Is a Drum
4. Say Goodbye
5. Blue Moon
6. Unforgiven
7. Wave
8. Don't Let It Go
9. Blackbird Chain
10. Phase
11. Turn Away
12. County Down
13. Waking Light

Back from the Abyss

Orange Goblin

• Label: Candlelight Records
• Released: 6 October 2014

• Stoner metal

1. Sabbath Hex
2. Ubermensch
3. The Devil's Whip
4. Demon Blues
5. Heavy Lies the Crown
6. Into the Arms of Morpheus
7. Mythical Knives
8. Bloodzilla
9. The Abyss
10. Titan
11. Blood of Them
12. The Shadow over Innsmouth

Once More 'Round the Sun

Mastodon

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 24 June 2014

• Progressive metal
• Sludge metal

1. Tread Lightly
2. The Motherload
3. High Road
4. Once More 'Round the Sun
5. Chimes at Midnight
6. Asleep in the Deep
7. Feast Your Eyes
8. Aunt Lisa
9. Ember City
10. Halloween
11. Diamond in the Witch House

Pagan Fruit

Dwellers

• Label: Small Stone Records Co
• Released: 6 May 2014

• Stoner rock

1. Creature Comfort
2. Totem Crawler
3. Return to the Sky
4. Rare Eagle
5. Son of Raven
6. Devoured by Lions
7. Spirit of the Staircase
8. Waiting on Winter
9. Call of the Hallowed Horn

Redeemer of Souls

Judas Priest

• Label: Epic
• Released: 8 July 2014

• Heavy metal

1. Dragonaut
2. Redeemer of Souls
3. Halls of Valhalla
4. Sword of Damocles
5. March of the Damned
6. Down in Flames
7. Hell & Back
8. Cold Blooded
9. Metalizer
10. Crossfire
11. Secrets of the Dead
12. Battle Cry
13. Beginning of the End

Foundations of Burden

Pallbearer

• Label: Profound Lore
• Released: 19 August 2014

• Doom metal

1. Worlds Apart
2. Foundations
3. Watcher in the Dark
4. The Ghost I Used to Be
5. Ashes
6. Vanished

Pale Communion

Opeth

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 26 August 2014

• Progressive metal
• Progressive rock

1. Eternal Rains Will Come
2. Cusp of Eternity
3. Moon Above, Sun Below
4. Elysian Woes
5. Goblin
6. River
7. Voice of Treason
8. Faith in Others

Great Western Valkyrie

Rival Sons

• Label: Earache
• Released: 6 June 2014

• Blues rock

1. Electric Man
2. Good Luck
3. Secret
4. Play the Fool
5. Good Things
6. Open My Eyes
7. Rich and the Poor
8. Belle Starr
9. Where I've Been
10. Destination on Course
11. Too Much Love
12. My Nature