From best to worst of all the albums I listened along the 2014

1.Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden

2.Neurotech - Infra Versus Ultra

3.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

4.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

5.Earth - Primitive And Deadly

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1.Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain

2.Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi

3.Stream Of Passion - A War Of Our Own

4.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

5.Soreption - Engineering The Void

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Cos, y'know, same shiz different year. Ran out of space again so will post final album opinions in comments.

1.Infestus - The Reflecting Void

2.Dirge - Hyperion

3.Nero Di Marte - Derivae

4.Steve Rothery - The Ghosts Of Pripyat

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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1.Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out

2.Darkspace - Dark Space III I

3.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

4.DragonForce - Maximum Overload

5.Opeth - Pale Communion

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Every year, hundreds of albums are written and released for people to buy and hopefully not steal. I spend most of my free time searching far and wide for new music, most of which only very few people know about. This list will contain all the albums released this year that I listened to, and what I thought of it. The rating system is as follows:
Based = Awesome, Perfect
Chill = Solid, Substantial
Dope = Good-not-great, Something I'll only listen to if I'm bored
Retarded = Mediocre, Unremarkable
Mindfucked = Complete waste of time
Also, there will be albums that aren't metal that will appear here, just cause.

1.1349 - Massive Cauldron Of Chaos

2.Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer - The 7 Temptations Of Man

3.Aborted - The Necrotic Manifesto

4.Aenaon - Extance

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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This is my personal list based on the albums i've enjoyed listening to the most this year, consider it a best to worst based on all the albums i've checked out from 2014. Bear in mind i'm a power metal fan for the most part - also this list does not reflect the views of others on MS, but some of the albums here are pretty decent and you should check some of them out.!!!!

1.Galneryus - Vetelgyus

2.Equilibrium - Erdentempel

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

4.The Algorithm - OCTOPUS4

5.Ancient Bards - A New Dawn Ending

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My best album list to 2014 so far (january-september)

1.Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails

2.Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion

3.Serdce - Timelessness

4.Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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100% subjective.
I also listened to albums far from metal or metal world (Hanggai, Lisa Gerrard, ...) but I decided not to list them there.

Updated constantly - feel free to recommend something to check out.

1.Darkspace - Dark Space III I

2.Blues Pills - Blues Pills

3.Earth - Primitive And Deadly

4.Aenaon - Extance

5.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

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Only metal (and appeared on MetalStorm) here, for my "all-genres" top album, it's right here : https://rateyourmusic.com/list/mKekchoz/2014___music/

1.Darkspace - Dark Space III I

2.Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails

3.Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden

4.The Great Old Ones - Tekeli-Li

5.Monuments - The Amanuensis

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1.Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us

2.Chon - Woohoo!

3.Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn

4.RX Bandits - Gemini, Her Majesty

5.Hannes Grossmann - The Radial Covenant

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Ranking some of the albums I got this year. I will return to edit accordingly with my favorites. Thumbs up if you concur.

1.Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

2.Allegaeon - Elements Of The Infinite

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

4.Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era

5.Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)

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My favourite albums of 2014. (In order of preference, and only including albums I would rate 7+).

1.The Contortionist - Language

2.Rings Of Saturn - Lugal Ki En

3.Archspire - The Lucid Collective

4.Xerath - III

5.Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails

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1.Septicflesh - Titan

2.Allegaeon - Elements Of The Infinite

3.Illdisposed - With The Lost Souls On Our Side

4.Inanimate Existence - Never-Ending Cycle Of Atonement

5.Monuments - The Amanuensis

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1.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

2.Threshold - For The Journey

3.Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us

4.Lacuna Coil - Broken Crown Halo

5.Septicflesh - Titan

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Just an organized list of my favorite albums of the year, in order of most liked, onward.

How I rate albums has little to do with the order of this list. Obviously, I'm not going to give an album a low rating and include it (anything I rate below an "8" gets left out), but there's a sense of semblance, regardless. Also, just because I give a rating of 8+ doesn't mean I will include it. An album can be good and also be something I don't care to listen to more than a few times.

1.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

2.The Great Old Ones - Tekeli-Li

3.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

5.Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

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