Album of the Year Nominations 2014

Passenger

It's that time of year where we consider the best releases of 2014.

So go ahead and nominate your favourite albums of the year and at the appropriate time I'll start a thread of the most nominated albums for everybody to vote for the overall winner. If anybody has any suggestions for this thread, feel free.

*Try keep your nominations to around 5 releases this year for the interest of quality.


Last years winner was... Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

With runners up... Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing and Carcass - Surgical Steel

Say Your Number

Alestorm - Sunset on the Golden Age
California Breed - California Breed
Black Stone Cherry - Magic Mountain
AC/DC - Rock or Bust
Lordi - Scare Force One

Mushy

Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Royal Blood - Royal Blood

KAGY

It'll have to be
Mastadon once more round the sun &
Opeth - pale communion
As they're the only 2 from this year I got

badabing106

Swans :To be kind

Nea

Aw 5 is not enough. There has been some great releases this year.

1. Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi. My album of the year without doubt
2. Opeth - Pale Communion
3. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
4. Anathema - Distant Satellites
5. Darkest Era - Severance
6. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IrkRMAdas

SilverScreen

Some damn fine albums released this year.

1. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
2. Anathema - Distant Satellites
3. Myrkur - Myrkur
4. Sólstafir - Ótta
5. Slomatics - Estron

Knifey Spoony

1. Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
2. Slomatics - Estron
3. Wild Rocket - Geomagnetic Hallucinations
4. Earth - Primitive and Deadly

Still have to give the new Yob a good listening to, so it still may make the list yet.

GLaDOS

Slomatics - Estron
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Sabaton - Heroes
Pink Floyd - the Endless River

Devin's Casualties of Cool was easily one of my favourites this year, though not sure it really counts as rock/metal.

Lithium93_

Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Slash ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - World On Fire
Arch Enemy - War Eternal
Judas Priest - Redeemer Of Souls
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways

Dublin Red Devil

BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL (self Titled)



When it comes to Metal in 2014, Look no further than the massive, break out, debut album from a 7 piece band from Japan that not only produced the album of the year. but also changed the game in Metal. Creating their own sub-genre they call, Kawaii Metal

They took their album on the world stage, Performing to sell out venues in Paris, London, Los Angles and New York as well as major, global heavy metal music festivals, Sonisphere, Heavy Montreal and Summer Sonic.

Their album topped metal charts all over the world and topped the Bilboard World Album chart on 3 occasions in the past 6 month


You can argue that you don't like the content of this album but you cannot name an Album that had as much impact, An Album that divide opinion as much in the metal community, An Album that made waves all over the world

Ronan|Raven

Solstafir - Otta
Primordial - Where greater men have fallen.

Liam McPoyle

Behemoth : The Satanist
The Acacia Strain : Coma Witch
Decapitated : Blood Mantra

Links234

My picks probably won't be all that popular, but I'll get a vote in anyway

Lynch. - Gallows
Orphaned Land - All Is One
Wagakki Band - Vocalo Zanmai

nacho libre

Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Solsatifir - Otta
Saor - Aura
Stilla - Ensamhetens Andar
Taake - Stridens Hus
Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity

RayCon

There's only one for me :

Opeth : Pale Communion

buck65

Pallbearer

Earth

devildriver

Sólstafir - Ótta

Behemoth - The Satanist

Allegaeon - Elements of the Infinite

Bloody Hammers - Under Satan's Sun

Misery Index - The Killing Gods

blackwave

Opeth Pale Communion

Anathema Distant Satalites

Mickey H

Toss up between these three for me:

Within Temptation - Hydra
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Delain - The Human Contradiction

Mushy

I'm going to add anathema- Distant Satellites to my nominations

Gonzovision

Black Monolith - Passenger
Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun

Somnus

For me it'd have to be
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Behemoth - The Satanist

Angron

I admit I didn't get as many albums as I'd intended to, so I only have two nominations:

Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Misery Index - The Killing Gods

There's a few others I don't doubt were great such as Behemoth, Decapitated, and Anaal Nathrakh, but I haven't gotten a chance to listen to them much.

Useful.Idiot

such a great year, countless amazing releases. I think my album of the year might be:

Thantifaxath - Great White Noise

then

Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Emptiness - Nothing but the Whole
Morbus Chron - Sweven

Honourable mentions to Teitanblood, Primordial, Swallowed, Spectral Lore, Slomatics, Blut Aus Nord, Howls of Ebb, Stargazer, Godflesh, Triptykon...could go on

Passenger

Keep your nominations coming folks as they'll be closing the in next few days. I'll be creating the poll during the week too.