On this year a lots of excellent metal albums invaded our ears once again and it’s time to name the greatest achievements of 2014.indeed this year is remarkable for metal music because a plenty of excellent,engrossing,spectacular,rich albums released.I’ll say on this year especially black metal albums slays though this year is excellent too for death metal,thrash & other genre albums . Basically I’ve focused on critical acclaim,creative progression, originality, songwriting prowess, technical achievements and many more dynamics. so,it’s kinda hard to sort out. well,here is my top listed albums,Demo,Ep,Split of 2014 from a vast checked out list. Though it's lengthy I’m pretty damn sure u’ll enjoy it.cheers.
- Top listed Full length albums of 2014
1. Behemoth - The Satanist
2. Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us
3. Corpsessed - Abysmal Thresholds
4. Acheron - Kult des Hasses
5. Soreption - Engineering The Void
6. Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
7. Monument of Misanthropy - Anger Mismanagement
8. Decomposed - Devouring
9. Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis
10. Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun
11. Electrocution - Metaphysincarnation
12. Pestifer - Reaching the Void
13. Catharsis - Rhyming Life and Death
14. Alterbeast - Immortal
15. Desecresy - Chasmic Transcendence
16. Clouds - Doliu
17. Sectu - Nefarious
18. Kriegsmaschine - Enemy of Man
19. Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
20. Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
21. Infestus - The Reflecting Void
22. Maat - As We Create the Hope from Above
23. srogosc - W Szaleþstwie
24. Phobocosm - Deprived
25. Saor - Aura
26. Oubliette - Apparitions
27. Antropomorphia - Rites Ov Perversion
28. Drowned - Idola Specus IsraMetal
29.Funest – Desecrating Obscurity
30.Mass Infection – For I am Genocide
31.Infest – Cold Blood War
32. Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
33. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry
34. Ascension - The Dead of the World
35. Dark Fortress - Profane Genocidal Creations
36. Execration - Morbid Dimensions
37. Winterfylleth - The Divination Of Antiquity
38. Vampire - Vampire
39. Schammasch - Contradiction
40. Calm Hatchery - Fading Reliefs
41. Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
42. Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
43. Furia - Nocel
44. Horrendous - Ecdysis
45. Narada - Dead Waters
46. Solbrud - Jærtegn
47.Wayfarer - Children Of The Iron Age
48. Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer - The 7 Temptations Of Man
49. Ancient Ascendant - Echoes And Cinder
50. Archspire – The Lucid Collective
51. Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
52. Crescent – Pyramid Slaves
53. Gorgasm - Destined To Violate
54. Ifing - Against This Weald
55. Waldgeflüster - Meine Fesseln
56. Profetus - As All Seasons Die
57. Sinister - The Post-Apocalyptic Servant
58. Odraza - Esperalem tkane
59. Abusiveness – Bramy Nawii
60. Genius Ultor - Nic Co Boskie Nie Jest Mi Obce
61.Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless
62. Doom VS - Earthless
63.Funeral Tears - The World We Lost
64. Hannes Grossmann - The Radial Covenant
65. Decaying - One To Conquer
66. Panopticon - Roads to the North
67. The Contortionist - Language
68. Abysmal Dawn - Obsolescence
69. Voodoo Gods - Anticipation for Blood Leveled in Darkness
70. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
71. 1349 - WhiteWorm Cathedral
72. Centinex - Redeeming Filth
73. Goatwhore - Constricting Rage Of The Merciless
74. Vallenfyre - Splinters
75. Rogash – Supremacy Undone
76. Morbus Chron - Sweven
77. Seprevation - Consumed
78.Gormathon - Following the Beast
79. Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era
80.Fen - Carrion Skies
81. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
82. Vader - Tibi Et Igni
83. At The Gates - At War With Reality
84. Prostitute Disfigurement - From Crotch to Crown
85. Satanic warmaster - Fimbulwinter
86. Rhadamanthys - Midnight Skies
87. Сивый Яр (Sivyj Yar) - Из Тьмы Вымерших Деревень (From the Dead Villages' Darkness)
88. Shylmagoghnar - Emergence
89. The Malefic - Ascension
90. Misery Index – The Killing God
91. Skogen - I Doden
92. Darkspace - Dark Space III I
93.Voices - London
94. Thanatos - Global Purification
95. Hideous Divinity - Cobra Verde
96. Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
97. Inanimate Existence – A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
98. Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet
99. Singularity - Singularity
100. Spectral Lore - III
- Honorable Mention:
(a) Christian Muenzner - Beyond The Wall Of Sleep
(b) Conquering Dystopia - Conquering Dystopia
(c) Hadal Maw - Senium
(d) Revocation - Deathless
(e) Sinmara - Aphotic Womb
(f) Vainaja - Kadotetut
(g) Signs - United in Tragedy
(h) Rauhnacht - Urzeitgeist
(i) Origin - Omnipresent
(j) Necrophagia - WhiteWorm Cathedral
(k) Ophis - Abhorrence in Opulence
(m) Taake - Stridens hus
(n) Vaer - For So Many Reasons
(o) Rude - Soul Recall
(p) Obituary – Inked In Blood
(q) Belphegor - Conjuring the Dead
(r) Teitanblood – Death
(s) Domains - Sinister Ceremonies
(t) The Seer –Prologue
(u) Trench Rot - Necronomic Warfare
(v) Bloodshot Dawn - Demons
(w) Skyforest - Aftermath
(x)Mare Cognitum – Phobos Monolith
(y) Thantifaxath – Sacred White Noise
- :Top listed Single,Demo,Split & EP of 2014
2. Hooded Menace - Labyrinth of Carrion Breeze
3. Hooded Menace & Loss - A View from the Rope
4. Cognizance - Cognizance
5. The Helix Nebula - Meridian
6.Chronologist - Demo
7. Morta Skuld - Serving Two Masters
8. Nader Sadek - The Malefic Chapter III
9. Morgoth – God Is Evil
10. Taake - Kulde
11. Ascension - Deathless Light
12.Bolzer – Soma
13. Gateway – Aeternae
14. Myrkur - Myrkur
15. Eye of Solitude - Dear Insanity
16. Psycroptic - Echoes To Come
17. Chon – Woo Hoo!
18. Svartidauði - The Synthesis of Whore and Beast
19. Necrowretch - Even Death May Die
20. Ardour Loom - Demo
-Souvik Basu