YES HERE WE ARE AGAIN YOU THOUGHT WE WERE DEAD AND MAYBE WE WERE BUT NOW WE ARE BACK AGAIN but yeah this one is late too no surprises there really.
By all accounts, 2014 was balls-out insane, starting with #SochiProblems and ending with #ICantBreathe. Personally, The first half of the year consisted of somehow managing to snag a Biology degree (cue Final Fantasy victory music) and the rest of the year was spent working nights. 2014 was an amazing year in heavy noisy music, and without further ado, here are the year's best from the local scene's finest musicians that responded to emails and/or posted a list on facebook that I am summarily pirating here:
Michael Kadnar (Downfall of Gaia, Black Table) -
Alaskan - Despair, Erosion, Loss
Bastard Sapling - Instinct is Forever
Bereft - Lost Ages
Bird Eater - Dead Mothers Make the Sun Set
Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII
Cult Leader - Nothing for Us Here
The Great Old Ones - Tekeli-Li
Gridlink - Longhena
Hexis / Primitive Man - 10” Split
Hush - Unexist
Implore - Black Kneel
Indian - From All Purity
Mutilation Rites - Harbinger
Sonance - Blackflower
Tempel - On The Steps of The Temple
Torchrunner - Endless Nothing
Trap Them - Blissfucker
Woods of Desolation - As The Stars
Yellow Eyes - Stillicide
Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Chris Click (Greywoods, Evil Bebos) -
Full Lengths:
Alraune- the process of immolation
Blut aus Nord- memoria vetusta iii
Coffinworm-iv.i.viii
Indian- from all purity
Yob- clearing the path to ascend
EPs and splits:
Barghest/ False split
Fister/ Primitive Man split
Forest of Tygers-bruises
Recluse- Black Famine
Wolvhammer/ Krieg split
Yellow Eyes- the desert mourns
Jeff Hyde (Lark's Tongue) -
1.Damien Jurado: Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
2.Sun Kil Moon: Benji
3.Fire! Orchestra: Enter
4.Dama/Libra: Claw
5.Timbre Timber: Hot Dreams
6.Yob: Clearing the Path to Ascend
7.Beck: Morning Phase
8.Hookworms: The Hum
9.Weed: Deserve
10.Neneh Cherry: Blank Project
11.Inter Arma: The Cavern
12.Maggie Bjorklund: Shaken
13.The Amazing Snakeheads: Amphetamine Ballads
14.The Bad Plus: The Rite of Spring
15.Black Bombaim: Far Out
16.Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness
17.Nothing: Guilty of Everything
Reissue: Dollface: Lights the Pilot/ Corvette Summer
Blake Edward Conley (Brother Ares, Spoon Thief Cosmic Yawn (shameless plug)) -
clipping
lana
sun kil moon
carla
earth
dama/libra
jenny lewis
horseback
trophy wife
il sogno del marinaio
swans
the body
angel olson
sherbert
broughton's rules
local-
boo dudes
forest of tygers
fragments of god
skoolgirl
sheep bella tine
RI
p*ssed jeans
afghan whigs
HM-
ex hex
mogwai
afghan whigs
nothing
death grips
shabazz palaces
d'angelo
lark's tongue
(editor's note: smh)
Rachel and Jim Valosik (Forest of Tygers) -
Bands that released our favorite records in 2014:
Botanist
Yellow Eyes
Baptists
Tombs
Bastard Sapling
Generation of Vipers
Artificial Brain
Young and In the Way
Lord Mantis
Yautja
Dead In The Manger
Run The Jewels
Mutilation Rites
Decapitated
Panopticon
Anicon
Favorite Movies of 2014:
Proxy
Oculus
Enemy
The Sacrament
Interstellar
A Field In England
Afflicted
Neighbors
Noah
Blue Ruin
Under The Skin
Food of 2014:
Pho
Josh Cochran (Billy Castro) -
Best New Artist - Bog Oak for their EP, which is A Treatise On Resurrection and the Afterlife.
1. Dude Incredible - Shellac
2. Too Bright - Perfume Genius
3. Once More 'Round The Sun - Mastodon
4. Foundations of Burden - Pallbearer
5. Sonic Highways - Foo Fighters
Pleasant Surprise of the Year: El Pintor - Interpol
Disappointment of the Year: Time to Die - Electric Wizard
Christopher Frey (Tijuana Goat Ride) -
Young Widows- Easy Pain
Generation of Vipers- Coffin Wisdom
The Austerity Program- Beyond Calculation
Helms Alee- Sleepwalking Sailors
Godflesh- A World Lit Only By Fire
Ex Hex- Rips
Swans- To Be Kind
Rodan- Fifteen Quiet Years (technically a '13 release, but I don't care!)
United Nations- The Next Four Years
WHORES- Jumping Someone Else's Train (single)
Greg Swinehart
Top 5 metal albums
1. Misery Index - The Killing Gods
2. Indian - From all Purity 3. Lord Mantis - Death Mask
4. Bongripper- Miserable
5. Chigger - Stupid Motherfucker
Top strains of weed
Green crack
Chocolope
Zombie
White rhino (wax)
Cheese
Mikey Owyn (Ascent of Everest, Boo Dudes)
Boo Dudes #1 forever
Zombie
White rhino (wax)
Cheese
Mikey Owyn (Ascent of Everest, Boo Dudes)
Boo Dudes #1 forever
Kayhan Vaziri (Coliseum, Yautja, Choking on Ash) -
As for me, I listened to a lot of great and a few awful records, but probably missed more than I heard. As such, I'm just going to go with a top 3 this year.
#3: Lord Mantis' "Death Mask"
This album just fires on all cylinders for me. It does fast right, it does slow right, and it mixes it up perfectly with an unexpected robot voice and perhaps even more unexpected melodic lines rounding out this powerful album. Even as a whole the album has a fantastic package feel, and is satisfying to the last putrid drop.
#2: Couch Slut's "My Life as a Woman"
2014 has been a year of incredible social exposition if not outright change. After a number of events, 2014 was the year I started to call myself a feminist. This album goes a long way in making the listener really feel the horrific reality many women face today in modern America, if not all over the world. I defy you to listen to the track "Rape Kit" without saying "holy shit" or "oh my fucking god". Also hella NSFW art, so much so that I'm still waiting on my copy because printer's have backed out of printing the artwork.
#1 Clipping's "CLPPNG"
ZOMG THAT'S RIGHT IT'S A HIP HIP ALBUM BITCHES BETCHA DIDNT SEE THAT COMING "BUT WAIT THIS IS A METAL REVIEW SITE WHAT THE FUCKSHIT ARE YOU DOING" THIS ALBUM IS 100% HOOD ASS NOISE HIP HOP BITCHES IT IS UNBELIEVABLE IT IS SO GOOD I CAN'T STOP YELLING THEY HAVE A SONG BASED AROUND A GODDAMN ALARM CLOCK THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS RECORD IT IS THE BEST DAMN THING RELEASED IN 2014 AND EVEN THE VINYL RECORD HAS A SICK ASS SPLATTER PATTERN YOU CAN ONLY SEE IF YOU HOLD IT UP TO THE LIGHT
AIGHT WE DONE TIL NEXT YEAR PEACE OUT
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