My favourite albums from 2014

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Clearing the Path to Ascend

YOB
1. In Our Blood
2. Nothing to Win
3. Unmask the Spectre
4. Marrow ●
- Doom metal
- Stoner metal
50

Roads to the North

Panopticon
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
- Atmospheric black metal
- Melodic black metal
49

Heathen

Thou
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
- Atmospheric sludge metal
- Doom metal
48

Citadel

Ne Obliviscaris
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
- Progressive metal
- Melodic death metal
47

Hypnotic Eye

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
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
- Heartland rock
- Blues rock
46

The Joy of Motion

Animals as Leaders
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
- Progressive metal
- Jazz fusion
45

Magic Mountain

Black Stone Cherry
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
- Hard rock
- Southern rock
44

No Guts, No Glory

moe.
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
- Jam rock
43

New Crown

Wolfmother
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
- Hard rock
- Heavy psych
42

In the Red

Crucified Barbara
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
- Hard rock
- Heavy metal
41

The Best Day

Thurston Moore
1. Speak to the Wild ●
2. Forevermore
3. Tape
4. The Best Day
5. Detonation
6. Vocabularies
7. Grace Lake
8. Germs Burn
- Noise rock
- ALternative rock
40

They Worshipped Cats

Les Big Byrd
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 ●
- Psychedelic rock
- Neo-psychedelia
39

Catacombs of the Black Vatican

Black Label Society
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
- Southern metal
- Groove metal
38

Refractory Obdurate

Wovenhand

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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
- Gothic Americana
- Folk rock
37

Lazaretto

Jack White
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
- Blues rock
- Garage rock revival
36

Kill the Power

Skindred
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
- Reggae metal
- Rap metal
35

Bloodstone & Diamonds

Machine Head
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
- Groove metal
- Thrash metal
34

The Black Market

Rise Against
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
- Melodic hardcore
- Punk rock
33

Grand Morbid Funeral

Bloodbath
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 ●
- Death metal
32

The Unnatural World

Have a Nice Life
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
- Post-punk
- Shoegaze
31

Pandemonium

Cavalera Conspiracy
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
- Death metal
- Thrash metal
30

Primitive and Deadly

Earth
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
- Drone metal
- Post-rock
29

Life in Lucidity

The Kindred
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
- Math rock
- progressive metal
28

Origins

Eluveitie
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
- Folk metal
- Celtic metal
27

Shadows of the Dying Sun

Insomnium
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
- Melodic death metal
26

Turn Blue

The Black Keys
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
- Psychedelic rock
- Blues rock
25

Jetpack Soundtrack

Lionize
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
- Blues rock
- Funk rock
24

Monuments to an Elegy

The Smashing Pumpkins
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
- Alternative rock
- Synth-pop
23

St. Vincent

St. Vincent
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
- Art rock
- Art pop
22

Stay Gold

First Aid Kit
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
- Indie folk
- Americana
21

Tied to a Star

J Mascis
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
- Folk
20

Something Supernatural

Crobot
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
- Psychedelic metal
- Hard rock
19

9 Dead Alive

Rodrigo y Gabriela
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
- Flamenco rock
18

Language

The Contortionist
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
- Progressive metal
- Post-metal
17

Coffins on Io

Kayo Dot
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
- Dark wave
- Gothic rock
16

Dawn of the 5th Era

Mors Principium Est
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 ●
- Melodic death metal
15

Ótta

Sólstafir
1. Lágnætti
2. Ótta ●
3. Rismál
4. Dagmál
5. Miðdegi
6. Nón
7. Miðaftann
8. Náttmál
- Post-metal
- Post-rock
14

The Serpent & the Sphere

Agalloch
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)
- Atmospheric black metal
- Post-metal
13

Blood in, Blood out

Exodus
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
- Thrash metal
12

Shelter

Alcest
1. Wings
2. Opale
3. La nuit marche avec moi
4. Voix sereines
5. L'Éveil des muses
6. Shelter
7. Away
8. Délivrance ●
- Shoegaze
- Dream pop
11

Trails & Passes

Greenleaf
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
- Stoner rock
10

Triumph and Power

Grand Magus
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
- Heavy metal
9

Blues Pills

Blues Pills
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
- Blues rock
- Psychedelic rock
8

Morning Phase

Beck
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
- Folk
- Dream pop
7

Back from the Abyss

Orange Goblin
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
- Stoner metal
6

Once More 'Round the Sun

Mastodon
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
- Progressive metal
- Sludge metal
5

Pagan Fruit

Dwellers
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
- Stoner rock
4

Redeemer of Souls

Judas Priest
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
- Heavy metal
3

Foundations of Burden

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

Pale Communion

Opeth
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 ●
- Progressive metal
- Progressive rock
1

Great Western Valkyrie

Rival Sons
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
- Blues rock

My favourite albums from 2014

Clearing the Path to Ascend

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Roads to the North

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Heathen

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Citadel

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Hypnotic Eye

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The Joy of Motion

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Magic Mountain

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No Guts, No Glory

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New Crown

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In the Red

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The Best Day

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They Worshipped Cats

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Catacombs of the Black Vatican

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Refractory Obdurate

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Lazaretto

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Kill the Power

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Bloodstone & Diamonds

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The Black Market

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Grand Morbid Funeral

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The Unnatural World

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Pandemonium

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Primitive and Deadly

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Life in Lucidity

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Origins

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Shadows of the Dying Sun

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Turn Blue

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Jetpack Soundtrack