So, my pick of top 10 albums of the year 2014

1.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

2.Behemoth - The Satanist

3.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

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A very heavy year for progressive metal and for the first time in 10 years, an unknown band to me takes the crown.

1.Need - Orvam: A Song For Home

2.Vanden Plas - Chronicles Of The Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1)

3.RPWL - Wanted

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

5.Anubis Gate - Horizons

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1.Freak Kitchen - Cooking With Pagans

2.Threshold - For The Journey

3.Serdce - Timelessness

4.Lux Occulta - Kołysanki

5.Freedom Call - Beyond

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1.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

2.Empyrium - The Turn Of The Tides

3.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

5.In Flames - Siren Charms

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Suggestions For The Eclectic Metalhead - 2014 Edition. I spent over half of 2014 NOT absorbing new metal, and thus spent the rest of the year catching up. I'm pretty certain I missed many great albums, as well as missing a few entire genres, so know that this isn't an exhaustive list (and why it is only 30 instead of 50). These albums all easily rate an 8 or higher and are my favorite and most recommended albums. If your tastes are equally varied, please recommend me your favorites in return!

1.Evenoire - Herons

2.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

3.Wayfarer - Children Of The Iron Age

4.November-7 - Awaraxid 7mg

5.Sivyj Yar - From The Dead Villages' Darkness

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1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Metallica - Metallica

3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

4.Scorpions - Face The Heat

5.Stratovarius - Dreamspace

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Great year, especially when it comes to melodic stuff. So glad that At the Gates and Empyrium delivered something solid. Even happier that Vanhelga really has become a "Lifelover 2", only darker. Although I am dissapointed that Deathstars didn't release a #1 album.

1.Vanhelga - Längtan

2.Harakiri For The Sky - Aokigahara

3.Twilight Force - Tales Of Ancient Prophecies

4.Duskmourn - Legends

5.Saor - Aura

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1.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

2.Vanden Plas - Chronicles Of The Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1)

3.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

4.Pretty Maids - Louder Than Ever

5.Teramaze - Esoteric Symbolism

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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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1.Slash - World On Fire

2.Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn

3.Electric Wizard - Time To Die

4.Xerath - III

5.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

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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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So here it is > These are the releases i tend to hear most of the time this year. Some of my all time favourite bands released weak albums while others suprised me while i was cooking pasta .Fell free to comment and tell me your positive opinion (or else you will reveive tons of shit etc)

1.Aenaon - Extance

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

3.Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema

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

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

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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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1.Opeth - Pale Communion

2.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

3.Delain - The Human Contradiction

4.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

5.Within Temptation - Hydra

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