We Are The Damned - Doomvirate

Genre: Crust/Death/Black
Country: Portugal
Year: 2014

1. Ghastly Humans
2. Dreams Under Surveillance
3. Revealing Morality
4. Rain Of Spikes
5. Soul Entropy
6. Imposter
7. The Threshold
8. Macabre Expedition
9. Angelsick
10. Flight Of The Phoenix

The 4th album by We Are The Damned, finds the duo mature enough to blend different genres in a release full of aggression and anger. You will enjoy D-Beat rhythms mixed with blastbeats, death metal riffing with black metal bursts, all these surrounded by a blackened, crusty atmosphere. 

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Vindicator - Sleeping With Evil 'Ep

Genre: Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014


1. The Succubus
2. Sleeping With Evil
3. Hockey Stick Vengeance
4. New Clear Assault: End Of An Error
5. Destruction Of Justice
6. Rampage (Demo)
7. Vindicator (Live)

7-song 'Ep by Vindicator. The group gives us 5 new songs (incl. an intro), 1 demo and 1 live song. Pretty satisfactory release for the fans. It’s these new tracks that continue to showcase a band growing in maturity in their song writing, beyond the sort of thrash spitting they had on their first two albums.

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The Great Old Ones - Tekeli-Li

Genre: Black
Country: France
Year: 2014



1. Je Ne Suis Pas Fou
2. Antarctica
3. The Elder Things
4. Awakening
5. The Ascend
6. Behind The Mountains

2nd album by The Great Old Ones. With their highly acclaimed debut 'Al Azif' the band has already gained a devoted fan base, and not without a reason. With its successor, Tekeli-Li, they have only gone further and grown stronger. It’s dark and extreme; incorporating bone crushing guitar riffs, fast drumming and wretched vocals, accompanied by some spoken words and embraced with slower-paced, serene and hypnotizing moments, with just the right pinch of melodic aspects.

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Singularity - Singularity

Genre: Progr.Death/Black
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014

1. A Withdrawal Of Salvation
2. Remnant Of Stellar Evolution
3. Spacetime Devourment
4. Monolith
5. Throne Of Thorns
6. Desert Planet
7. Utopian Flesh
8. The Descent
9. The Ascension
10. The Resolution

Debut album by Singularity. What we have here is black, progressive and death metal, all formed into one aggressive and slick package. The group manage to mix to perfection typical technical death metal elements with symphonic black metal influences, giving birth to a very intense album that shows their undeniable songwriting skills.

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Revenge - Harder Than Steel

Genre: Heavy/Speed
Country: Colombia
Year: 2014

1. Heabangers Brigade
2. Harder Than Steel
3. Witching Possession
4. Gravestone
5. Back For Vengeance
6. Torment & Sarifice
7. Flying To Hell
8. At The Gates Of Hell
9. Motorider
10. Chains And Leather (Running Wild cover)

6th album by Revenge. The things have been slowed down a bit here, but without loosing any of the passion or aggression, found in earlier releases. Razor sharp riffing, epic atmosphere, distinctive vocals and a heavy/speed holocaust!

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Panopticon - Roads To The North

Genre: Black/Bluegrass
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014

1. The Echoes Of A Disharmonic Evensong
2. Where Mountains Pierce The Sky
3. The Long Road Part 1: One Last Fire
4. The Long Road Part 2: Capricious Miles
5. The Long Road Part 3: The Sigh Of Summer
6. Norwegian Nights
7. In Silence
8. Chase The Grain

6th album by Panopticon. From blisteringly ferocious black metal, through to expansive sections of bluegrass style music, Roads to the North is very much the journey to listen to. It deserves to be heard not only by those who liked the project’s previous material, but anyone who can appreciate ambitious, honest, and emotionally resonant metal.

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Obituary - Inked In Blood

Genre: Death
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014

1. Centuries Of Lies
2. Violent By Nature
3. Pain Inside
4. Visions In My Head
5. Back On Top
6. Violence
7. Inked In Blood
8. Deny You
9. Within A Dying Breed
10. Minds Of The World
11. Out Of Blood
12. Paralyzed With Fear

9th album by Obituary. Obituary suffer the curse of being a big name in death metal, and with that name and elevation, there’s a brutal expectation when new material is released. Fortunately, this time we can find heavy riffing, with straight to the point leads by Kenny Andrews, unique spitting lyrics from John Tardy and of course, killing drums/bass lines, which are a trademark of the band through the years. 

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Nekrofilth - Acid Brain 'Ep

Genre: Crossover/Punk/Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014



1. Beware The Witch Of Death
2. Levamisole
3. Night Of The Shit Creep
4. I Breed In The Swamp
5. Acid Brain

5-song killer 'Ep by Nekrofilth. This time, they've bumped up the catchy thrash and turned down the death metal influences from the previous releases. The group plays its part perfectly in 9 minutes, with 5 shots of filth! Enjoy!

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Midnight - No Mercy For Mayhem

Genre: Heavy/Speed/Black
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014

1. The Mercy Curse
2. Evil Like A Knife
3. Prowling Leather
4. No Mercy For Mayhem
5. The Final Rape Of Night
6. Degradation
7. Woman Of Flame
8. Try Suicide
9. Whiplash Disaster
10. Aggressive Crucifixion

2nd album by Midnight. Following the successful formula of the debut, Athenar performs everything here and demonstrates the perfect way speed/heavy must be played! The old school vibes, rangy riffs and nasty attitude make this a must have for any fan of blackened metal.

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Loudblast - Burial Ground

Genre: Death/Thrash
Country: France
Year: 2014

1. A Bloody Oath
2. Darkness Will Abide
3. Ascending Straight In Circles
4. Soothing Torments
5. From Dried Bones
6. The Void
7. Abstract God
8. I Reach The Sun
9. The Path
10. The Bird

7th album by Loudblast. It continues the impressing elements which made predecessor 'Frozen Moments ... ' stand out, just to stronger, deeper and more imaginative levels. Guitar work is just over the top, while all the songs have their charms and hooks. A very, very enjoyable release!

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Kayser - Read Your Enemy

Genre: Thrash
Country: Sweden
Year: 2014

1. Bark And Bow
2. Bring Out The Clown
3. I'll Deny You
4. Dreams Bent Clockwise
5. Read Your Enemy
6. Almost Home
7. Where I Belong
8. He Knows Your Secrets
9. Forever In Doubts
10. Carve The Stone
11. Roll The Dice
12. The Fake Rose

3rd album by Kayser, 8 years after their last one. This big gap finds them more mature in crafting catchy thrash songs, thrash songs that don't rely on speed and aggression but in melody and catchiness. Spice's (ex- Spiritual Beggars) vocal delivery really shines and, without a doubt, this is one of the most interesting and original thrash metal albums I've heard in a while.

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Illdisposed - With The Lost Souls On Our Side

Genre: Groove/Mel.Death
Country: Denmark
Year: 2014

1. Going Down
2. The Way We Choose
3. Light In The Dark
4. I Am What I Am
5. Tugging At Your Heart
6. A Dreaded Pursuer
7. To Be Dealt With
8. On A Clouded Morning
9. No More Devil To Show
10. The Plan

12th album by Illdisposed. With two new additions (bass, drums), the group continues balancing between old and modern sound. They successfully blend modern groove metal with a hybrid of melodic death metal. The distorted growls fit well and the result satisfies!

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Hellcrawler & Wölfe - The End Of Humanity split 'Ep

Genre: Crust/Grindcore/Death
Country: Slovenia/Australia
Year: 2014

Hellcrawler
1. Zombie Crawlers
2. Overthrown Paradise
3. Green Machine (Kyuss cover)

Wolfe
4. VIII
5. IX
6. X
7. XI

Killer split 'Ep by Hellcrawler and Wölfe. Hellcrawler's music is based on swedish death metal mixed with a lot of crust/hardcore elements. Wölfe are more chaotic compared to the Slovenians, with more thrashy riffing, with raw and rough production and screaming vokills!

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Gormathon - Following The Beast

Genre: Melodic Death/Heavy
Country: Sweden
Year: 2014

1. Remedy
2. Land Of The Lost
3. Hellbender
4. Break The Chains
5. Celestial Warrior
6. In Benevolence
7. World Of Sin
8. Remember
9. Absence Of Trust
10. Warlords Of Doom

2nd album by Gormathon. A lot of energy and atmosphere with an epic touch. Very clean production with rich and full bodied instruments. This group's strength is when the chorus kicks in, so you are going to hear to very addictive and epic choruses. 

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Wotan - Carmina Barbarica

Genre: Epic/Heavy
Country: Italy
Year: 2004

1. Lord Of The Wind
2. Under The Sign Of Odin's Ravens
3. Hussard De La Mort
4. Ride Of Templars
5. Innoxia
6. Wrath Of The North
7. King Of Crows
8. Stone Giants
9. Black Conqueror
10. The Cave
11. Thermopyle
12. Iron Shadows

Debut album by Wotan. This was recorded in Doomsword's own Conqueror Studio and that should give you an idea of what kind of album this is. All the songs have a really strong epic feeling and melody. Guitarist Mario is a riffmaster general and vocalist Vanni is a great singer with grit to match his upper ranges.

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Folkearth - Balder's Lament

Genre: Epic/Folk/Viking
Country: International
Year: 2014

1. Beliskner
2. Balder's Lament
3. From Volga To Bosphorus
4. Farewell To The North
5. The Crimson Wine Of Battle
6. Eyes Of The Volva
7. Donar's Hammer
8. The Silent Warrior
9. The Wine-Sacks Of The Emperor
10. The Anvil Of Storms

12th album by Folkearth. 10 songs, lasting for a little over 40 minutes, moving in the typical style of Folkearth, but with a slightly heavier sound. They combine epic metal riffs and folk influenced melodic lead guitars with traditional instruments (accordion, cello and violin) and a great variety of male and female vocals and choirs. The album is dedicated to the memory of Ruslanas Danisevskis.

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Einherjer - Av Oss, For Oss

Genre: Viking/Black/Heavy
Country: Norway
Year: 2014


1. Fremad
2. Hammer I Kors
3. Nidstong
4. Hedensk Oppstandelse
5. Nord Og Ner
6. Nornene
7. Trelldom
8. Av Oss, For Oss

6th album by Einherjer. It leans heavily towards heavy metal in sound but with croaky blackened vocals and an approach to songwriting that is just about varied and interesting enough. It is a widely varying album, riddled with unexpected twist and turns that leave you with a feeling of fascination for all that the album stands for.

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Darker Half - Never Surrender

Genre: Power/Speed
Country: Australia
Year: 2014

1. Nemesis
2. Never Surrender
3. End Of The Line
4. Stranger
5. As Darkness Fades
6. Duality
7. Blinded By Darkness
8. Lost In Space
9. Heads Are Gonna Roll
10. Anthem For A Doomed Youth

3rd album by Darker Half. They have unquestionably matured in their song writing and general mastery of their instruments. Tighter riffs, groovier twin guitar solos and consistently solid drumming. They moved a little bit away from thrash, flirting more with the power metal genre.

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Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire

Genre: Death/Black
Country: Australia
Year: 2014


1. Fork Through Pitch
2. Maw
3. Discarded Death
4. A Litany Of Sailors Sins
5. Bats
6. Cavern Fever
7. From Whence The Old Skull Came
8. The Devil's Trotters
9. Speliogenesis

3rd album by Cauldron Black Ram, the brainchild of members from the slightly better known proponents of bands such as Mournful Congregation and Stargazer. Here, they have fused together some notable influences and molded an incredibly strong and unique sound. Disgusting, filthy, infectious music!

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Baptists - Bloodmines

Genre: Crust/Hardcore
Country: Canada
Year: 2014


1. Chamber
2. Wanting
3. String Up
4. Closed Ports
5. Vistas
6. Harm Induction
7. Festered
8. Dissembler
9. Bloodmines
10. Calling
11. For Profit

2nd album by Baptists. It is quite similar in its character to their debut. While a Converge influence can still be detected, with Kurt Ballou sitting behind the boards, they flirt with a more straightforward attitude than Converge. The album consists of 11 brutal, aggressive, intense tracks that are all condensed into just 25 minutes, where there’s no room for filler.

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Aborted - The Necrotic Manifesto

Genre: Death/Grindcore
Country: Belgium
Year: 2014

1. Six Feet Of Foreplay
2. The Extirpation Agenda
3. Necrotic Manifesto
4. An Enumeration Of Cadavers
5. Your Entitlement Means Nothing
6. The Davidian Deceit
7. Coffin Upon Coffin
8. Chronicles Of Detruncation
9. Sade & Libertine Lunacy
10. Die Verzweiflung
11. Excremental Veracity
12. Purity Of Perversion
13. Of Dead Skin & Decay
14. Cenobites

8th album by Aborted. This time Sven (vocals) brought next to him two new guitarists and the result is a fresh and brutal death/grind release. Without losing the melodic lines of the previous record, the groups flirts more with grinding moments. 

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1349 - Massive Cauldron Of Chaos

Genre: Black
Country: Norway
Year: 2014


1. Cauldron
2. Slaves
3. Exorcism
4. Postmortem
5. Mengele's
6. Golem
7. Chained
8. Godslayer

6th album by 1349. This release stays as a brutal and occult variety opposed to some very modern approaches as seen in the recent years. This is basically a stew of ingredients of old and new, with a variety of their favorite influences and blackened sub-genres mixed in for spice.

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Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

Genre: Black
Country: Ireland
Year: 2014

1. Where Greater Men Have Fallen
2. Babel's Tower
3. Come The Flood
4. The Seed Of Tyrants
5. Ghosts Of The Charnel House
6. The Alchemist's Head
7. Born To Night
8. Wield Lightning To Split The Sun

8th album by Primordial. It continues the trademark gloomy yet fierce, melancholic yet aggressive sound. It features a few of the best tracks these guys have ever put out, and the albums captivates effortlessly for an hour.

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Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry

Genre: Black
Country: France
Year: 2014



1. Prelude
2. Paien
3. Tellus Mater
4. Forhist
5. Henosis
6. Metaphor Of The Moon
7. Clarissima Mundi Lumina

11th album by Blut Aus Nord. It is the third chapter in the Memoria Vetusta series and their first release with new drummer Thorns. While the songs are all much more alike than they are different, they are so well-conceived, so well-executed, and so memorable that they still left this listener wanting more, not less. The production of the album matches the music very well.

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Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral

Genre: Death
Country: Sweden
Year: 2014

1. Let The Stillborn Come To Me        
2. Total Death Exhumed        
3. Anne        
4. Church Of Vastitas        
5. Famine Of God's Word        
6. Mental Abortion        
7. Beyond Cremation        
8. His Infernal Necropsy        
9. Unite In Pain        
10. My Torturer        
11. Grand Morbid Funeral

4th album by Bloodbath, 6 years after their last one and with Nick Holmes (Paradise Lost) behind the mic. This is an album loaded with catchy death metal, crushing doom and a heightened sense of atmosphere and mood that suits the disturbing album cover, and general theme of this album. 

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Top Albums for 2014

2014 was a strange and tough year for me. I had a very limited time to listen to music, very limited time to post in this blog. So, the list below is just the best albums i managed to listen to, through 2014. (links that don't exist, will be added in the next days!).

Thrash

1. Nocturnal - Storming Evil

2. Hirax - Immortal Legacy

3. Iron Reagan - The Tyranny Of Will

4. Ringworm - Hammer Of The Witch

5. Goatwhore - Constricting Rage Of The Merciless

6. Overkill - White Devil Armory

Death

1. Entombed A.D. - Back To The Front

2. At The Gates - At War With Reality

3. Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral

4. Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain

5. Misery Index - The Killing Gods

6. Obituary - Inked In Blood

Black

1. Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi

2. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

3. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry

4. Master's Hammer - Vagus Vetus

5. Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum

6. Winterfylleth - The Divination Of Antiquity

Folk/Viking/Pagan

1. Trollfest - Kaptein Kaos

2. Metsatoll - Karjajuht

3. Cruachan - Blood For The Blood God

4. Valknacht - Le Sacrifice D'Ymir

5. Skalmold - Með Vættum

6. Eluveitie - Origins

Crust/Grindcore/Hardcore/Punk

1. Martyrdod - Elddop

2. Gridlink - Longhena

3. Ratos De Porao - Seculo Sinistro

4. Kataxnia - Kataxnia

5. Nausea - Condemned To The System

6. Trap Them - Blissfucker

Heavy/Power/Speed

1. Riot V - Unleash The Fire

2. Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age

3. Space Eater - Passing Through The Fire To Molech

4. Slough Feg - Digital Resistance

5. Dark Forest - The Awakening

6. Bullet - Storm Of Blades

Doom/Sludge/Stoner

1. Electric Wizard - Time To Die

2. Darkest Era - Severance

3. Sorrows Path  - Doom Philosophy

4. Doom's Day - The Devil's Eyes

5. Dö - 2014 'Ep