Sunday 6 July 2014

2014 Faves

I always do a half year list and here it is. There's quite a lot on it after a pretty slow start. The last 3 months have seen a huge step up in quality releases.

Death Metal

Allegaeon - Elements of the Infinite
Alterbeast - Immortal
Architect of Seth - The Persistence of Scars
Aronious - Truth In Perception
Beneath - The Barren Throne
Beyond The Structure - Nauseating Truth
Brewed and Canned - Execute The Innocent
Cannabis Corpse - From Wisdom to Baked
Carnivored - No Truth Found
Death - Leprosy (Reissue)
Decaying Purity - Malignant Resurrection Of The Fallen Souls
Desecration - Cemetary Sickness
Divine Chaos - A New Dawn In The Age Of War
Embryonic Devourment - Reptilian Agenda
Empirine - Oculi (EP)
Ending Quest - The Summoning
Fractal Entropy - Evolution
Id - Philosofia
Inanimate Existence - A Never Ending Cycle of Atonement
Mass Infection - For I Am Genocide
Pestifer - Reaching The Void
Sectu - Nefarious
Seprevation - Consumed
Serdce - Timelessness
Soreption - Engineering the Void
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Volturyon - Human Demolition [ep]
Voodoopriest - Mandu
Witheria - Devastating Return
Words Of Farewell - The Black Wild Yonder

Thrash

Axegressor - Last
Delirium Tremens - Read My Fist
Demon Prayers - Evoke The Pain
Dust Bolt - Awake The Riot
Executer - Helliday
Face Down Hero - Product Of Injustice
Fadom - Pantophobia
Fatal Mutiny - Existence In Extinction
Game Over - Burst Into The Quiet
GumoManiacs - Out Of Disorder
Hatriot - Dawn Of The New Centurion
Helstar - The Wicked Nest
Hirax - Immortal Legacy
Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed
Lost Society - Terror Hungry (Limited Edition)
Mekong Delta - In A Mirror Darkly
Napalm Storm - Harmless Cruelty
Nocturnal - Storming Evil
Poligon - ?????
Prematory - Corrupting Influence
Pripjat - Sons of Tschernobyl
Reactory - High On Radiation
Reek - Necrogenesis
Scared To Death - Fatal Destroyer
Shrapnel - The Virus Conspires
Space Chaser - Watch the Skies
Strikeback - Share Your Hate
Suffocation Of Soul - The First Attack
Suicidal Angels - Divide and Conquer
DEATHBLOW - PROGNOSIS NEGATIVE
Tankard - R.I.B
Skeptor - United We Stand...Together We Fall


Mixed/Prog/Modern

21 Octayne - Into The Open
3 Years Hollow - The Cracks
Astral DNA - Supergod
Autumn Burning - st
Collibus - The False Awakening
Crowbar - Symmetry in Black
Devin Williams - Destruction Of Kings
Equilibrium - Erdentempel
Gravity Rain - The Shining Silence EP
Never Awake - Underground
Teramaze - Esoteric Symbolism
Vanishing Point - Distant Is The Sun
Voyager - V
MagnetiC - One Step To The Sun

Power

Adamantra - Act II - Silent Narratives
Ahola - Tug Of War
Amberian Dawn - Magic Forest
Ancient Bards - A New Dawn Ending
Anubis Gate - Horizons
Black Label Society - Catacombs Of The Black Vatican
Boguslaw Balcerak's Crylord - Gates Of Valhalla
Crosswind - Vicious Dominion
Crown Of Glory - King For A Day
Dynazty - Renatus
EDGE OF THORNS - Insomnia
Edgedown - Statues Fall
Edguy - Space Police - Defenders Of The Crown
Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto
Etherna - Forgotten Beholder
Exmortus - Slave to the Sword
Freedom Call - Beyond
Gamma Ray - Empire Of The Undead
Iced Earth - Plagues Of Babylon
Iron Savior - Rise Of The Hero
Kirk - Masquerade
Kobra And The Lotus - High Priestess
Lords Of Black - Lords Of Black
Metal Inquisitor - Ultima Ratio Regis
Monument - Renegades
Night Mistress - Into The Madness
Nightmare - The Aftermath
Noble Beast - Noble Beast
Noturnall - Noturnall
Persuader - The Fiction Maze
Primal Fear - Delivering the Black
Psycrence - A Frail Deception
Rager Blaze - Rager Blaze
Sabaton - Heroes
Savage Messiah - The Fateful Dark
Sinbreed - Shadows
Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream
Starchild - Starchild
Stormwarrior - Thunder & Steele
Trigger - Machina ep
Twilight Force - Tales of Ancient Prophecies
Weapon UK - Rising From The Ashes
Winterstorm - Cathyron
Within Temptation - Hydra

AOR/Melodic Rock

Acacia Avenue - Cold
Alien - Eternity
Brother Firetribe - Diamond In The Firepit
Captain Black Beard - Before Plastic
Cullooden - Silent Scream
Free Spirit - All The Shades Of Darkened Light
Gunner - Keep Fighting
House Of Lords - Precious Metal
Kings Dreams - Kings Dreams
Loud Lion - Die Tough
Night By Night - NxN
Night Ranger - High Road
Outloud - Let's Get Serious
Overland - Epic
Perfect View - Red Moon Rising
Positive Touch - Positive Touch
Ronny Lee - Original Retro
Satin - st
Seven - 7
Sonic Station - Next Stop
Stamina - Perseverance
Stan Bush - The Ultimate
Three Lions - Three Lions
Toseland - Renegade
United Nations - 2014