It's hard to believe how fast 2014 flew by. For seeming like such a short period of time, there was a lot of great music that came out. And being the indecisive bastard I am, there was no shortage of pain sorting it out. Therefore, I'll follow a model similar to last year with a big ol', all you can eat music buffet. This includes my top 15 full lengths, top 10ish EPs (in no particular order), and about a million runner ups.
But first thing's first.. Go a head and take a gander at the rest of the team's favorite new music if you haven't already.
JOHN WHITMORE'S BEST OF 2014 // MATTIA'S BEST OF 2014 // BRADLEY D'S BEST OF 2014 // KOLBY'S BEST OF 2014 // THE VOCIFERATOR'S BEST OF 2014 // m/EYER'S BEST OF 2014
TOP 15 ALBUMS
15. Intervals – A Voice Within
Links: Facebook // Twitter // YouTube // Bandcamp
14. Inanimate Existence – A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
Links: Facebook // Twitter // Merch
13. Alterbeast – Immortal
Links: Facebook // Bandcamp // Merch
12. Beyond Creation – Earthborn Evolution
Links: Facebook // Twitter // Merch
11. Hannes Grossmann – The Radial Covenant
Links: Facebook // Official Website // Bandcamp
10. Job For A Cowboy – Sun Eater
Links: Facebook // Official Website // Merch // iTunes
9. Clément Belio – Contrast
Links: Facebook // Soundcloud // Bandcamp
8. Conquering Dystopia – Self-Titled
Links: Facebook // Official Website
7. Black Crown Initiate – The Wreckage of Stars
Links: Facebook // Bandcamp // Merch
6. Skyharbor – Guiding Lights
Links: Facebook // Twitter // iTunes
5. The Contortionist – Language
Links: Facebook // Twitter // Merch
4. Archspire – The Lucid Collective
Links: Facebook // Twitter // iTunes // Merch
3. Ne Obliviscaris – Citadel
Links: Facebook // Bandcamp // iTunes
2. Animals As Leaders – The Joy of Motion
Links: Facebook // Twitter // iTunes
1. Fallujah – The Flesh Prevails
Links: Facebook // Twitter // iTunes
TOP 10(ISH) EPs
(In no particular order)
Cloudkicker – Little Histories
Jules Julio Martinez – DSM
Links: Facebook // Soundcloud // Bandcamp
Haamoja – Liberation
Links: Facebook // YouTube // Bandcamp
The Helix Nebula – Meridian
Links: Facebook // Official Website // Bandcamp // iTunes
Noise Trail Immersion – Self-Titled
CHON – Woohoo!
Links: Facebook // Twitter // Bandcamp // Merch
Periphery – Clear
Links: Facebook // Twitter // iTunes
Misophonia – Vinctus
Plaguebringer – Hollowed
Pathways – Harlot
Anup Sastry – Titan
Links: Facebook // Youtube // Bandcamp
Humality – Nowhere
Links: Facebook // YouTube // Bandcamp
Maxi Curnow – STEM
Links: Facebook // Soundcloud // YouTube // Bandcamp
BUFFET
(In no particular order)
Killitorous – Party, Grind
Cynic – Kindly Bent To Free Us
Xerath – III
Widek – Outside The Universe
Destrage – Are You Kidding Me? No.
Seeming Emptiness – Conversion
Outrun The Sunlight – Terrapin
Krimh – Krimhera
Polyphia – Muse
Abysmal Dawn – Obsolescence
Spawning Abhorrence – The Cursed Earth
Horrendous – Ecdysis
Paroxysmal Butchering – Human Smasher
Sound Struggle – Self-Titled
Destiny Potato – Lun
Devin Townsend – Sky Blue / Dark Matters
Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain
Unearth – Watchers Of Rule
Flub – Advent
Origin – Omnipresent
Behemoth – The Satanist
Allegaeon – Elements of the Infinite
Aborted – The Necrotic Manifesto
Monuments – The Amanuensis
Mastodon – Once More 'Round The Sun
Alcest – Shelter
Petrychor – Makrokosmos
Dysphoria – The Apogee
Nexilva – Eschatologies
Anaal Nathrakh – Desideratum
Lies Of Nazca – Aleph
Shokran – Supreme Truth
Tankard – R.I.B.
Infecting The Swarm – Pathogenesis
Ov Hollowness – The World Ends
Killer Be Killed – Self-Titled
Machine Head – Bloodstone & Diamonds
Within The Ruins – Phenomena
ERRA – Moments Of Clarity
Volumes – No Sleep
Wings Denied – Mirrors For A Prince
