My favourite albums from 2014

1. 50

   Clearing the Path to Ascend

   YOB

   

   

   Doom metal | Stoner metal

   Tracks:

   1. In Our Blood
   2. Nothing to Win
   3. Unmask the Spectre
   4. Marrow ●

2. 49

   Roads to the North

   Panopticon

   

   

   Atmospheric black metal | Melodic black metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Echoes of a Disharmonic Evensong ●
   2. Where Mountains Pierce the Sky
   3. One Last Fire (The Long Road I)
   4. Capricious Miles (The Loong Road II)
   5. The Sigh of Summer (The Long Road III)
   6. Norwegian Nights
   7. In Silence
   8. Chase the Grain

3. 48

   Heathen

   Thou

   

   

   Atmospheric sludge metal | Doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. Free Will
   2. Dawn
   3. Feral Faun ●
   4. Into the Marshland
   5. Clarity
   6. At the Foot of Mount Driskill
   7. In Defiance of the Sages
   8. Take off Your Skin and Dance in Your Bones
   9. Immorality Dictates
   10. Ode to Physical Pain

4. 47

   Citadel

   Ne Obliviscaris

   

   

   Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

   Tracks:

   1. Painters of the Tempest (Part I): Wyrmholes
   2. Painters of the Tempest (Part II): Triptych Lux ●
   3. Painters of the Tempest (Part III): Reveries from teh Stained Glass Womb
   4. Pyrrhic
   5. Devour Me, Colossus (Part I): Blackholes
   6. Devour Me, Colossus (Part II): Contortions

5. 46

   Hypnotic Eye

   Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

   

   

   Heartland rock | Blues rock

   Tracks:

   1. American Dream Plan B
   2. Fault Lines ●
   3. Red River
   4. Full Grown Boy
   5. All You Can Carry
   6. Power Drunk
   7. Forgotten Man
   8. Sins of My Youth
   9. U Get Me High
   10. Burnt out Town
   11. Shadow People

6. 45

   The Joy of Motion

   Animals as Leaders

   

   

   Progressive metal | Jazz fusion

   Tracks:

   1. Kascade
   2. Lippincott
   3. Ait Chrysalis
   4. Another Year
   5. Physical Education ●
   6. Tooth and Claw
   7. Crescent
   8. The Future That Awaited Me
   9. Para Mexer
   10. The Woven Web
   11. Mind-Spun
   12. Nephele

7. 44

   Magic Mountain

   Black Stone Cherry

   

   

   Hard rock | Southern rock

   Tracks:

   1. Holding on ... to Letting Go
   2. Peace Pipe
   3. Bad Luck & Hard Love
   4. Me and Mary Jane ●
   5. Runaway
   6. Magic Mountain
   7. Never Surrender
   8. Blow My Mind
   9. Sometimes
   10. Fiesta del fuego
   11. Dance Girl
   12. Hollywood in Kentucky
   13. Remember Me

8. 43

   No Guts, No Glory

   moe.

   

   

   Jam rock

   Tracks:

   1. Annihilation Blues
   2. White Lightning Turpentine
   3. This I Know
   4. Same Old Story
   5. Silver Sun
   6. Calyphornya ●
   7. Little Miss Cup Half Empty
   8. Blond Hair and Blue Eyes
   9. Do or Die
   10. The Pines and the Apple Tree
   11. Billy Goat

9. 42

   New Crown

   Wolfmother

   

   

   Hard rock | Heavy psych

   Tracks:

   1. How Many Times
   2. Enemy Is in Your Mind
   3. Heavy Weight
   4. New Crown
   5. Tall Ships ●
   6. Feelings
   7. I Ain't Got No
   8. She Got It
   9. My Tangerine Dream
   10. Radio
   11. I Don't Know Why

10. 41

    In the Red

    Crucified Barbara

    

    

    Hard rock | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. I Sell My kids for Rock 'n' Roll ●
    2. To Kill a Man
    3. Electric Sky
    4. The Ghost Inside
    5. Don't Call on Me
    6. In the Red
    7. Lunatic #1
    8. Shadows
    9. Finders Keepers
    10. Do You Want Me
    11. Follow the Stream

11. 40

    The Best Day

    Thurston Moore

    

    

    Noise rock | ALternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Speak to the Wild ●
    2. Forevermore
    3. Tape
    4. The Best Day
    5. Detonation
    6. Vocabularies
    7. Grace Lake
    8. Germs Burn

12. 39

    Catacombs of the Black Vatican

    Black Label Society

    

    

    Southern metal | Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fields of Unforgiveness
    2. My Dying Time
    3. Believe
    4. Angel of Mercy
    5. Heart of Darkness
    6. Beyond the Down ●
    7. Scars
    8. Damn the Flood
    9. I've Gone Away
    10. Empty Promises
    11. Shades of Grey

13. 38

    Refractory Obdurate

    Wovenhand

    

    

    Gothic Americana | Folk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Corsicana Clip ●
    2. Masonic Youth
    3. The Refractory
    4. Good Shepherd
    5. Salome
    6. King David
    7. Field of Hedon
    8. Obdurate Obscura
    9. Hiss
    10. El-Bow

14. 37

    Lazaretto

    Jack White

    

    

    Blues rock | Garage rock revival

    Tracks:

    1. Three Women
    2. Lazaretto
    3. Temporary Ground
    4. Would You Fight for My Love? ●
    5. High Ball Stepper
    6. Just One Drink
    7. Alone in My Home
    8. Entitlement
    9. That Black Bat Licorice
    10. I Think I Found the Culprit
    11. Want and Able

15. 36

    Kill the Power

    Skindred

    

    

    Reggae metal | Rap metal

    Tracks:

    1. Kill the Power
    2. Ruling Force
    3. Playing with the Devil
    4. World's on Fire
    5. Ninja ●
    6. The Kids Are Right Now
    7. We Live
    8. Open Eyed
    9. Dollars & Dimes
    10. Saturday
    11. Proceed with Caution
    12. More Fire

16. 35

    Bloodstone & Diamonds

    Machine Head

    

    

    Groove metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Now We Die
    2. Killers & Kings
    3. Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones
    4. Night of Long Knives
    5. Sail into the Black
    6. Eyes of the Dead
    7. Beneath the Slit ●
    8. In Comes the Flood
    9. Damage Inside
    10. Game Over
    11. Imaginal Cells
    12. Take Me Through the Fire

17. 34

    The Black Market

    Rise Against

    

    

    Melodic hardcore | Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Great Die-Off
    2. I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore ●
    3. Tragedy + Time
    4. The Black Market
    5. The Eco-Terrorist in Me
    6. Sudden Life
    7. A Beautiful Indifference
    8. Methadone
    9. Zero Visibility
    10. Awake Too Long
    11. People Live Here
    12. Bridges

18. 33

    Grand Morbid Funeral

    Bloodbath

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Let the Stillborn Come to Me
    2. Total Death Exhumed
    3. Anne
    4. Church of Vastitas
    5. Famine of God's Word
    6. Mental Abortion
    7. Beyond Cremation
    8. His Infernal Necropsy
    9. Unite in Pain
    10. My Torturer
    11. Grand Norbid Funeral ●

19. 32

    The Unnatural World

    Have a Nice Life

    

    

    Post-punk | Shoegaze

    Tracks:

    1. Guggenheim Wax Museum
    2. Defenestration Song ●
    3. Burial Society
    4. Music Will Untune the Sky
    5. Cropsey
    6. Unholy Life
    7. Dan and Time, Reunited by Fate
    8. Emptiness Will Eat the Witch

20. 31

    Pandemonium

    Cavalera Conspiracy

    

    

    Death metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Babylonian Pandemonium ●
    2. Bonzai Kamikazee
    3. Scum
    4. I, Barbarian
    5. Cramunhão
    6. Apex Predator
    7. Insurrection
    8. Not Losing the Edge
    9. Father of Hate
    10. The Crucible

21. 30

    Primitive and Deadly

    Earth

    

    

    Drone metal | Post-rock

    Tracks:

    1. Torn by the Fox of the Crescent Moon ●
    2. There Is a Serpent Coming
    3. From the Zodiacal Light
    4. Even Hell Has Its Heroes
    5. Rools Across the Gate
    6. Badgers Bane

22. 29

    Life in Lucidity

    The Kindred

    

    

    Math rock | progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Wolvish ●
    2. Heritage
    3. Everbound
    4. An Evolution of Thought
    5. Decades
    6. Millenia
    7. A Grand Debate
    8. Seekers & Servants
    9. Dreambender
    10. Like a Long Life

23. 28

    Origins

    Eluveitie

    

    

    Folk metal | Celtic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Origins
    2. The Nameless
    3. From Darkness
    4. Celtos ●
    5. Virunus
    6. Nothing
    7. The Call of the Mountains
    8. Sucellos
    9. Inception
    10. Vianna
    11. The Silver Sister
    12. King
    13. The Day of Strife
    14. Ogmios
    15. Carry the Torch
    16. Eternity

24. 27

    Shadows of the Dying Sun

    Insomnium

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Primeval Dark ●
    2. While We Sleep
    3. Revelation
    4. Black Heart Rebellion
    5. Lose to Night
    6. Collapsing Words
    7. The River
    8. Ephemeral
    9. The Promethean Song
    10. Shadows of the Dying Sun

25. 26

    Turn Blue

    The Black Keys

    

    

    Psychedelic rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Weight of Love
    2. In Time
    3. Turn Blue ●
    4. Fever
    5. Year in Review
    6. Bullet in the Brain
    7. It's up to You Now
    8. Waiting on Words
    9. 10 Lovers
    10. In Our Prime
    11. Gotta Get Away

26. 25

    Jetpack Soundtrack

    Lionize

    

    

    Blues rock | Funk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Intro
    2. Breather
    3. Evolve
    4. Electric Reckoning
    5. Jetpack Soundtrack
    6. Replaced by Machines
    7. Reality Check ●
    8. Lazarus Style
    9. A,azing Science Facts
    10. Skynet
    11. Sea of Tranquility

27. 24

    Monuments to an Elegy

    The Smashing Pumpkins

    

    

    Alternative rock | Synth-pop

    Tracks:

    1. Tiberius
    2. Being Beige
    3. Anaise! ●
    4. One and All (We Are)
    5. Run2Me
    6. Drum + Fife
    7. Monuments
    8. Dorian
    9. Anti-Hero

28. 23

    St. Vincent

    St. Vincent

    

    

    Art rock | Art pop

    Tracks:

    1. Rattlesnake
    2. Birth in Reverse
    3. Prince Johnny
    4. Huey Newton
    5. Digital Witness ●
    6. I Prefer Your Love
    7. Regret
    8. Bring Me Your Loves
    9. Psychopath
    10. Every Tear Disappears
    11. Severed Crossed Fingers

29. 22

    Stay Gold

    First Aid Kit

    

    

    Indie folk | Americana

    Tracks:

    1. My Silver Lining ●
    2. Master Pretender
    3. Stay Gold
    4. Cedar Lane
    5. Shattered & Hollow
    6. The Bell
    7. Waitress Song
    8. Fleeting One
    9. Heaven Knows
    10. A Long Time Ago

30. 21

    Tied to a Star

    J Mascis

    

    

    Folk

    Tracks:

    1. Me Again
    2. Every Morning
    3. Heal the Stars
    4. Wide Awake ●
    5. Stumble
    6. And Then
    7. Drifter
    8. Trailing off
    9. Come Down
    10. Better Plane

31. 20

    Something Supernatural

    Crobot

    

    

    Psychedelic metal | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Legend of the Spaceborne Killer ●
    2. Nowhere to Hide
    3. The Necromancer
    4. La mano de Lucifer
    5. Skull of Geronimo
    6. Cloud Spiller
    7. Fly on the Wall
    8. Night of the Sacrifice
    9. Chupacabra
    10. Wizards
    11. Queen of the Light

32. 19

    9 Dead Alive

    Rodrigo y Gabriela

    

    

    Flamenco rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Soundmaker
    2. Torito
    3. Sundat Neurosis
    4. Misty Moses
    5. Somnium
    6. Fram ●
    7. Megalopolis
    8. The Russian Messenger
    9. La salle des pas perdus

33. 18

    Language

    The Contortionist

    

    

    Progressive metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Source
    2. Language I: Intuition
    3. Language II: Conspire
    4. Integration
    5. Thrive
    6. Primordial Sound
    7. Arise
    8. Ebb & Flow ●
    9. The Parable

34. 17

    Coffins on Io

    Kayo Dot

    

    

    Dark wave | Gothic rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Mortality of Doves ●
    2. Offramp Cycle, Pattern 22
    3. Longtime Disturbance on the Miracle Mile
    4. Library Subterranean
    5. The Assassination of Adam
    6. Spirit Photography

35. 16

    Dawn of the 5th Era

    Mors Principium Est

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Enter the Asylum
    2. God Has Fallen
    3. Leader of the Titans
    4. We Are the Sleep
    5. Innocence Lost
    6. I Am War
    7. Monster in Me
    8. Apricity
    9. Wrath of Indra
    10. The Journey
    11. The Forsaken ●

36. 15

    Ótta

    Sólstafir

    

    

    Post-metal | Post-rock

    Tracks:

    1. Lágnætti
    2. Ótta ●
    3. Rismál
    4. Dagmál
    5. Miðdegi
    6. Nón
    7. Miðaftann
    8. Náttmál

37. 14

    The Serpent & the Sphere

    Agalloch

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Birth and Death of the Pillars of Creation
    2. (serpens caput)
    3. The Astral Dialogue
    4. Dark Matter Gods
    5. Celestial Effigy ●
    6. Cor Serpentis (the sphere)
    7. Vales Beyond Dimension
    8. Plateau of the Ages
    9. (serpens cauda)

38. 13

    Blood in, Blood out

    Exodus

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Black 13
    2. Blood in, Blood out ●
    3. Collateral Damage
    4. Salt the Wound
    5. Body Harvest
    6. BTK
    7. Wrapped in the Arms of Rage
    8. My Last Nerve
    9. Numb
    10. Honor Killings
    11. Food for the Worms

39. 12

    Shelter

    Alcest

    

    

    Shoegaze | Dream pop

    Tracks:

    1. Wings
    2. Opale
    3. La nuit marche avec moi
    4. Voix sereines
    5. L'Éveil des muses
    6. Shelter
    7. Away
    8. Délivrance ●

40. 11

    Trails & Passes

    Greenleaf

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Our Mother Ash ●
    2. Ocean Deep
    3. Equators
    4. Depths of the Sun
    5. Humans
    6. With Eyes Wide Open
    7. The Drum
    8. Bound to Be Machines
    9. Trails & Passes

41. 10

    Triumph and Power

    Grand Magus

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. On Hooves of Gold
    2. Steel versus Steel
    3. Fight
    4. Triumph and Power ●
    5. Dominator
    6. Arv
    7. Holmgång
    8. The Naked and the Dead
    9. Ymer
    10. The Hammer Will Bite

42. 9

    Blues Pills

    Blues Pills

    

    

    Blues rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. High Class Woman
    2. Ain't No Change
    3. Jupiter
    4. Black Smoke
    5. River ●
    6. No Hope Left for Me
    7. Devil Man
    8. Astralplane
    9. Little Sun

43. 8

    Morning Phase

    Beck

    

    

    Folk | Dream pop

    Tracks:

    1. Cycle
    2. Morning
    3. Heart Is a Drum
    4. Say Goodbye
    5. Blue Moon
    6. Unforgiven
    7. Wave
    8. Don't Let It Go
    9. Blackbird Chain
    10. Phase
    11. Turn Away ●
    12. County Down
    13. Waking Light

44. 7

    Back from the Abyss

    Orange Goblin

    

    

    Stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sabbath Hex
    2. Ubermensch
    3. The Devil's Whip
    4. Demon Blues
    5. Heavy Lies the Crown ●
    6. Into the Arms of Morpheus
    7. Mythical Knives
    8. Bloodzilla
    9. The Abyss
    10. Titan
    11. Blood of Them
    12. The Shadow over Innsmouth

45. 6

    Once More 'Round the Sun

    Mastodon

    

    

    Progressive metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Tread Lightly
    2. The Motherload
    3. High Road
    4. Once More 'Round the Sun
    5. Chimes at Midnight
    6. Asleep in the Deep
    7. Feast Your Eyes
    8. Aunt Lisa
    9. Ember City ●
    10. Halloween
    11. Diamond in the Witch House

46. 5

    Pagan Fruit

    Dwellers

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Creature Comfort
    2. Totem Crawler ●
    3. Return to the Sky
    4. Rare Eagle
    5. Son of Raven
    6. Devoured by Lions
    7. Spirit of the Staircase
    8. Waiting on Winter
    9. Call of the Hallowed Horn

47. 4

    Redeemer of Souls

    Judas Priest

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Dragonaut
    2. Redeemer of Souls
    3. Halls of Valhalla
    4. Sword of Damocles
    5. March of the Damned ●
    6. Down in Flames
    7. Hell & Back
    8. Cold Blooded
    9. Metalizer
    10. Crossfire
    11. Secrets of the Dead
    12. Battle Cry
    13. Beginning of the End

48. 3

    Foundations of Burden

    Pallbearer

    

    

    Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Worlds Apart
    2. Foundations
    3. Watcher in the Dark
    4. The Ghost I Used to Be
    5. Ashes ●
    6. Vanished

49. 2

    Great Western Valkyrie

    Rival Sons

    

    

    Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Electric Man
    2. Good Luck
    3. Secret
    4. Play the Fool
    5. Good Things
    6. Open My Eyes
    7. Rich and the Poor ●
    8. Belle Starr
    9. Where I've Been
    10. Destination on Course
    11. Too Much Love
    12. My Nature

50. 1

    Pale Communion

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Eternal Rains Will Come
    2. Cusp of Eternity
    3. Moon Above, Sun Below
    4. Elysian Woes
    5. Goblin
    6. River
    7. Voice of Treason
    8. Faith in Others ●