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

Skalmold - Með Vættum

Genre: Heavy/Viking/Epic
Country: Iceland
Year: 2014


1. Að Vori
2. Með Fuglum
3. Að Sumri
4. Með Drekum
5. Að Hausti
6. Með Jötnum
7. Að Vetri
8. Með Griðungum

3rd album by Skalmold. The folk elements are lesser here, while the epic/viking moments are taking over. The instrumentation is of high quality, it is more aggressive compared to the earlier releases, with distinctive vocal delivery. 

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Trap Them - Blissfucker

Genre: Hardcore/Crust/Sludge
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014

1. Salted Crypts
2. Habitland
3. Gift And Gift Unsteady
4. Lungrunners
5. Organic Infernal
6. Sanitations
7. Bad Nones
8. Former Lining Wide The Walls
9. Savage Climbers
10. Ransom Risen
11. Let Fall Each And Every Sedition Symptom

4th album by Trap Them. The album is surprisingly downtempo with respect to older material, with a lot of sludgy moments taking the place of the more speedy ones. Interesting songwritting, production by Kurt Ballou, not so dark atmosphere. It is a solid addition to their discography, a transitional album that proves that even after 13 years, they still have it.

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Overkill - White Devil Armory

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

1. XDM
2. Armorist
3. Down To The Bone
4. Pig
5. Bitter Pill
6. Where There's Smoke...
7. Freedom Rings
8. Another Day To Die
9. King Of The Rat Bastards
10. It's All Yours
11. In The Name

18th album by Overkill. At 10 tracks and 50 minutes, this is a tight album with a bit more of a rocking, punked-out feel than 'Ironbound' or 'The Electric Age' had, without sacrificing any of the frantic thrash frenzy. The band sounds tight as hell, very much in their prime and they’re writing with true inspiration and conviction. (thanx to Angry Metal Guy)!

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