The Best Metal Albums of 2014, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part IV
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 small groups throughout the week.
Below, check out the fourth batch… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!
Tommy Rogers, Between the Buried and Me
- Junius – Days of the Fallen Sun
- The Faint – Doom Abuse
- Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
- Abigor – Leytmotif Luzifer
- Kasabian – 48:13
- Mutoid Man – Helium Head
- Swans – To Be Kind
- Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright In The End
- Wovenhand – Refractory Obdurate
- 1349 – Massive Cauldron of Chaos
Mike Hill, Tombs
- Atriarch – An Unending Pathway
- Black Anvil – Hail Death
- Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
- Impetuous Ritual – Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence
- Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta III : Satyrbauab Poetry
- Godflesh – A World Lit Only by Fire
- YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend
- Behemoth – The Satanist
- Swans – To Be Kind
- Inter Arma – The Cavern
Alan Averill, Primordial
- Wovenhand –Refractory Obdurate
- Nick Cave – Push the Sky Away
- Dead Congregation – Promulgation of the Fall
- Kriegsmaschine – Enemy of Man
- Sólstafir – Otta
- Bolzer – Aura
- Unit Black Flight – Tracks from the Trailer
- Necros Christos – Nine Graves
- Satan – Life Sentence
Patrick Alberts, Call of the Void
- Dead Congregation – Promulgation of the Fall
- Merchandise – After The End
- Midnight – No Mercy For Mayhem
- Future Islands – Singles
- Old Man Gloom – Ape of God
- Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral
- Full Of Hell / Merzbow split
- Obliterations – Poison Everything
Brandon Gallagher, Old Wounds
- Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown
- Phantogram – Voices
- Obliterations – Poison Everything
- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata
- Banks – Goddess
- Exalt – Pale Light
- FKA Twigs – LP1
- Baptists – Bloodmines
- Aborted – The Necrotic Manifesto
- The Budos Band – Burnt Offering
Torkjell Rød, a.k.a. Toschie, Audrey Horne
- Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun
- Rival Sons – Great Western Valkyrie
- Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Phosphorescent Harvest
- Steve Nicks – 24 Karat Gold
- Foo Fighters – Sonic Highways
- Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown
- Rancid – Honor is All We Know
- Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
- Bob Mould – Beauty and Ruin
- Fucked Up – Glass Boys
Erik, Blockheads
12″ favorites, in no particular order:
- ACxDC – Antichrist Demoncore
- Dopelord – Black Arts, Riff Worship and Weed Cult
- Earth – Primitive and Deadly
- Eyehategod, S/T
- Fucking Invincible – It’ll Get Worse Before It Gets Better
- Godflesh – A World Lit Only by Fire
- Government Flu – Tension
- Massgrav – Extra Nitad
- Off! – Wasted Years
- Punch – The Don’t Have to Believe
