The Best Metal Albums of 2014, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part II

Every year, MetalSucks asks musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsphere) what their favorite albums of the year have been. Death metallers, thrash metallers, black metallers, stoners, grinders, and djenters alike graciously contributed lists to MS, and we’ll be running them in groups of three to four musicians at a time twice a day for the whole week.

Below, check out the second batch… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!

Vulvatron, GWAR

1. Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta III – Saturnian Poetry
2. Black Anvil – Hail Death
3. Mayhem – Esoteric Warfare
4. Obituary – Inked in Blood
5. Grand Magus – Triumph and Power
6. Midnight – No Mercy for Mayhem
7. Bolzer – Soma
8. Twilight – III: Beneath Trident’s Tomb
9. Decapitated – Blood Mantra
10. Varathron – Untrodden Corridors of Hade

Brad Fickeisen, Trap Them

1. The Deathtrip – Deep Drone Master
2. Aphex Twin – Syro
3. Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta – Saturnian Poetry
4. Mayhem – Esoteric Warfare
5. Okkultokrati – Night Jerks
6. Sinoia Caves – Beyond the Black Rainbow Soundtrack
7. Secret Chiefs 3 – Ishraqiyun: Perichoresis
8. Venetian Snares – My Love is a Bulldozer
9. Nasheim – Solens Vemod
10. Darkspace – III I

Justin Matthews, Toothgrinder

1. Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun
2. Umphrey’s McGee – Similar Skin
3. At The Gates – At War With Reality
4. Against Me – Transgender Dysmorphia Blues
5. The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt
6. Opeth – Pale Communion
7. Electric Wizard – Time to Die
8. The Contortionist – Language
9. David Crosby – Croz
10. Old Wounds – Death Projection EP