TOP 25 of 2014

01. The Afghan Whigs 'Do To The Beast'
Choice Cut: "Matamoros" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C5et72znyw


02. Nux Vomica 'Nux Vomica'
Choice Cut: "Sanity is for the Passive" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdNB96SzFK8


03. Mastodon 'Once More Around The Sun'
Choice Cut: "The Motherload" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp7CYvh8FwA


04. Woods of Desolation 'As The Stars'
Choice Cut: "This Autumn Light" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7E2ykNATUg


05. King Dude 'Fear'
Choice Cut: "Empty House" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JCdB9VSw4A


06. Machine Head 'Bloodstones & Diamonds'
Choice Cut: "Now We Die" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewbdItvn2iI


07. As We Draw 'Mirages'
Choice Cut: "Shipwreck" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5WIFiTAxZw


08. Biblical 'Monsoon Season'
Choice Cut: "Traitors" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Psx_m4Iiw


09. Hotel Books 'I'm Almost Happy Here, But I Never Feel At Home'
Choice Cut: "Dreaming or Sinking" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q2EzlLzWOk


10. Protestant 'In Thy Name'
Choice Cut: "In Thy Name (Hells Insanity)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9fXrn7F4Es

11. Darkest Hour 'Darkest Hour'
12. Raveonettes 'Pe'ahi'
13. Sleepwave 'Broken Compass'
14. Thou 'Heathen'
15. A Pregnant Light 'My Game Doesn't Have a Name'
16. Nightfell 'The Living Ever Mourn'
17. Bohren & der Club de Gore 'Piano Nights'
18. Chiodos 'Devil'
19. Nothing 'Guilty of Everything'
20. United Nations 'Next Four Years'
21. Downfall of Gaia 'Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay'
22. Blut Aus Nord 'Memoria Vestusa III: Saturnian Poetry
23. Solstafir 'Otta'
24. Autobody 'Indiana'
25. Crowbar 'Symmetry in Black'

BEST OF THE REST (Loved em but couldn't be bothered to rank them outside of alphabetical order)
'68 'In Humor & Sadness'
Agalloch 'The Serpent & The Sphere'
Appalachian Winter "The Epochs That Built The Mountains'
Arctic Sleep 'Passage of Gaia'
Bastard Sapling 'Instinct Is Forever'
Chevelle 'La Gargola'
City Water 'I'
Crosses 'Crosses'
Daggers 'It's Not Jazz, It's Blues'
Dawnbringer 'Night of the Hammer'
Death From Above 1979 'Physical World'
Direwolves 'Aegri Somnia'
Dreadlords 'Death Angel'
Earth 'Primitive and Deadly'
Fen 'Carrion Skies'
Foo Fighters 'Sonic Highways'
Ghost Brigade 'IV: One With The Storm'
Honeyblood 'Honeyblood'
I Am Heresy 'Thy Will'
I Killed The Prom Queen 'Beloved'
Insomnium 'Shadows of the Dying Sun'
J. Mascis 'Tied To A Star'
Jessica93 'Rise'
JPNGRLS 'Circulation'
Linkin Park 'The Hunting Party'
Mark Lanegan 'Phantom Radio'
Menace Ruine 'Venus Armata'
N. Tesla 'Lux Manifesto'
Nero di Marte 'Derivae'
Raspberry Bulbs 'Privacy'
Rob Sonic 'Telicatessen'
Shooting Guns 'Wolfcop Soundtrack'
Sister 'Hated'
The Coathangers 'Suck My Shirt'
Zerath 'III'


SONG OF THE YEAR
"War" by Linkin Park from 'The Hunting Party'
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3GUYSJ_oyk

SHOWS OF THE YEAR
9.13.14 Deafheaven @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, NY
Video: "Dream House" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGdQ8ITGc_E (filmed by yours truly)
10.5.14 Afghan Whigs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, NY
Video: "Climax" w/ Usher = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkgyzA95MUs (filmed by yours truly)
11.19.14 Deafheaven @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, NY
Video: "Unrequited" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aA29A2Nehc (wrong show, I know. Sue Me!)

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I like that Nux Vomica album. That Agalloch was a lot better than I thought it'd be and a lot better than their previous album.

Been meaning to check out those Woods of Desolation, Bohren & der Club de Gore, Nothing, and Blut Aus Nord albums.

The Whigs & Nux Vomica were my #1 & 2 since the summer, and nothing came close to changing my decision....#3-10 changed constantly and I'm already re-ordering them in my head...

I gotta stop doing these things, cause now I'm gonna over fret over the order of the list for the next two weeks...lol

Checking this stuff out now!

Update: I like Mastadon and Biblical.

this was one of my favorite songs of 2014 as well.....shhhhhh.....#metalcred

I never even listened to that Mastodon.

Need to check out that King Dude release.

We both liked Nothing, DFA79 and Earth.


You should check out All Them Witches and Wovenhand from my list.

i still stand by my assessment that the Afghan Whigs album should've just been another Twilight Singers release. i mean, i like it just fine (like all the TS albums), but it doesn't hold a candle to the classic AW albums.

It's less 'beat' oriented than any AW release, but of course both bands are gonna sound very similar....
While 'do to the beast' tails off a bit over the last 5 songs, i think it on par with anything they have done; albeit maybe more mature...

The big heavy sound, eh? How is Pallbearer not on your list. Saw Solstafir in concert in Iceland a couple years ago, and a couple weeks ago in a small club in SF, definitely appealing, though more Doors than Metallica.

Pallbearer should be on my list too, had I listened to it.

I'm afraid this happened to me too..
Was on my queue since it's release, just never got to it..
Played it once so far, and I could have seen it being top 10, potentially top 5 easily....
one of the many pitfalls of having easy access to so much music....tons get left by the wayside.....:/

what do you think of the new Generation of Vipers? i really like it

I liked it....Came out late in the year...Another record I haven't had the time to live with for a bit either....

in 2015, I am gonna try and spend more time listening to the records I come across and like, than trying to catch up on everything in my queue.....it takes away from why i love listening...the constant 'i have 800 records in my spotify queue' sense of obligation...