The Best Metal Albums of 2014, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves — Part I

Every year, MetalSucks asks musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsphere) what their favorite albums of the year have been. Death metallers, thrash metallers, black metallers, stoners, grinders, and djenters alike graciously contributed lists to MS, and we’ll be running them in groups of three to four musicians throughout the week.

Below, check out the first batch… we hope you enjoy seeing what some of metal’s heaviest hitters were into this year as much as we have!

Dave Davidson, Revocation

1. Thantifaxath – Sacred White Noise
2. Morbus Chron – Sweven
3. Artificial Brain – Labyrinth Constellation
4. Alraune – The Process of Self Immolation
5. Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain
6. Goatwhore – Constricting Rage of the Merciless
7. Murmur – Murmur
8. Auroch – Taman Shud
9. Abigor – Leytmotif Lucifer
10. Sinmara – Aphotic Womb

Sean Worrell, Nero Di Marte

1. Kayo Dot – Coffins on IO
2. Fire! Orchestra – Enter
3. Swans – To Be Kind
4. Storm{O} – Sospesi Nel Vuoto Bruceremo In Un Attimo e il Cerchio Sarà Chiuso
5. Artificial Brain – Labyrinth Constellation
6. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
7. Aphex Twin – Syro
8. Sunn O))) + Ulver – Terrestrials
9. Casualties of Cool – Casualties of Cool
10. Emptiness – Nothing But The Whole

Exo, Noctem

1. Taake – Kulde
2. Enthroned – Sovereigns
3. Behemoth – The Satanist
4. Septic Flesh – Titan
5. Arch Enemy – War Eternal
6. Cuelebre – Oinos
7. Machine Head – Bloodstone & Diamonds
8. Agalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere
9. Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain
10. Massacre – Back from Beyond