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Stereogum: 50 Best Metal Albums of 2014
Posted on 12/16/14 at 8:56 am
Posted on 12/16/14 at 8:56 am
As a non-fanatical fan of metal, I depend on stereogum's Black Market column to turn me onto interesting metal throughout the year. I always really like their end of list and find a few new albums off of it that I slept on. Anyway, if you like metal or just interesting music, give it a read:
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I'm not going to transcribe all 50 (and they didn't do a text based list, so you'll have to click through). The writing is good, though.
My top metal album of the year was probably YOB's "Clearing the Path to Ascend." I love the low key, downtempo stoner doom stuff, and this album excelled at it.
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I'm not going to transcribe all 50 (and they didn't do a text based list, so you'll have to click through). The writing is good, though.
My top metal album of the year was probably YOB's "Clearing the Path to Ascend." I love the low key, downtempo stoner doom stuff, and this album excelled at it.
This post was edited on 12/16/14 at 8:57 am
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Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:06 am to hogfly
That list seems like its trying too hard to be underground, but I'm not really a fan of atmospheric or experimental black metal either. Nice to see Baton Rouge's own Thou at number 9 though.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:07 am to Brosef Stalin
anybody familiar with Liturgy?
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Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:08 am to hogfly
I have heard of 1 of those 50.
Guess I am officially not a metal head anymore.
Guess I am officially not a metal head anymore.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:10 am to Brosef Stalin
I mean, stereogum is an "indie" (whatever that means any more when a site can have Swans as Album of the Week one week and Taylor Swift the next) music site, so I guess their metal coverage trends that way as well. I don't really follow metalsucks and other metal sites, so I have no idea of the level of "mainstream" metal they're covering.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:31 am to hogfly
The only remotely mainstream band on that list is Behemoth. Just seems odd in a year with new releases from Mastodon, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Opeth, and Machine Head to not see any of them listed. Not saying those are the best albums, just that you usually see more mainstream stuff in a list that big.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:34 am to Brosef Stalin
The omission of Mastodon and Opeth are pretty glaring (and people mention that in the comments), though Mastodon's album veers pretty far away from metal doesn't it? (though so did Baroness Yellow & Green, and that made their list that year).
Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:39 am to hogfly
Here's an excerpt from the synopsis of the list that sort of sheds a little more light on it:
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But other things are missing, too, and when you don’t see them here, you will have questions: How do you make a list of 2014's FIFTY best metal albums and not include, like, Mayhem? Coffinworm? Midnight? Electric Wizard? Earth? Motherfricking EYEHATEGOD?! I don’t know; I really don’t. But we did. There’s more: Trap Them, Cannibal Corpse, Lord Mantis … We didn’t forget about those albums, nor did we dislike them. We wrote about them throughout the year! We loved them! But when it came time to vote, none of us took the stump for them.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:41 am to hogfly
They've got 20 black albums from bands no one has heard of that all sound about the same but no Mayhem. Very odd for sure.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:44 am to Brosef Stalin
Yeah. It's probably a result of the group nature of their list (5 dudes write the column together). They all want to one-up each other and stump for their personal favorites, so some obvious ones get omitted.
That being said, I like lists that don't have the same shite on them. I don't really need to read another best of 2014 list that tells me that Run the Jewels 2 was a really good album.
That being said, I like lists that don't have the same shite on them. I don't really need to read another best of 2014 list that tells me that Run the Jewels 2 was a really good album.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:52 am to Brosef Stalin
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The only remotely mainstream band on that list is Behemoth. Just seems odd in a year with new releases from Mastodon, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Opeth, and Machine Head to not see any of them listed. Not saying those are the best albums, just that you usually see more mainstream stuff in a list that big.
You also left off Z2, the highly anticipated followup to Ziltoid the Omniscient.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 9:59 am to Galactic Inquisitor
Listening to that Giant Squid album, "Minoans" right now. Damn... good.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 10:02 am to hogfly
I have heard of three bands on that list.
Is it all Death/Black metal??
Is it all Death/Black metal??
Posted on 12/16/14 at 10:06 am to Brosef Stalin
quote:I am jamming their latest release now. Very very stoned tempo and spacey too.
Baton Rouge's own Thou at number 9 though.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 10:07 am to JohnZeroQ
Quite a bit of doom, sludge and some progressive as well.
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Posted on 12/16/14 at 10:10 am to hogfly
Yes, which I can tolerate still.
All this Black/Death is behind me for the most part.
I tend to be Stoneer/Sludgy/Progressive/Slight Doom...
...Over the more popular Death/Thrash/Black metal that is insanely fast and technical in sound.
All this Black/Death is behind me for the most part.
I tend to be Stoneer/Sludgy/Progressive/Slight Doom...
...Over the more popular Death/Thrash/Black metal that is insanely fast and technical in sound.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 10:12 am to JohnZeroQ
I'm totally the same way, JZQ.
I like the downtempo, long stuff that takes me away somewhere. I occasionally listen to the faster stuff like when I'm at the gym, but I'd just as soon listen to hip hop at the gym.
I like the downtempo, long stuff that takes me away somewhere. I occasionally listen to the faster stuff like when I'm at the gym, but I'd just as soon listen to hip hop at the gym.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 10:19 am to hogfly
When did Opeth get this progressive sounding???
Did I miss something since Blackwater Park and Deliverance? Seems like
Did I miss something since Blackwater Park and Deliverance? Seems like
Posted on 12/16/14 at 10:25 am to JohnZeroQ
Heritage was the album where they really went full-on progressive, I believe.
Posted on 12/16/14 at 10:52 am to Brosef Stalin
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That list seems like its trying too hard to be underground, but I'm not really a fan of atmospheric or experimental black metal either.
Ditto.
I have heard of only 3 of the 50 bands mentioned on the list and I consider myself to be a metal fanatic.
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