Too Soon? Kip Wingerschmidt’s Best of 2014… So Fahrvergnügen

This has been quite a year so far, and yes I’m mostly talking about Game of Thrones.

But we’ve also had several exciting contributions to our scene of heavy, and should all be pumped for a dynamic, copious second-half of 2014 (including my band’s next album)…

Here are ten releases that have tickled my pickle so far this year:

Animals As Leaders — The Joy of Motion (Sumerian)
Destrage  — Are You Kidding Me? No. (Metal Blade)
Dust Moth  — Dragon Mouth (The Mylene Sheath)
Killer Be Killed — self-titled (Nuclear Blast)
Mastodon — Once More ‘Round the Sun (Reprise)
Mutilation Rites — Harbinger (Prosthetic)
Opeth — Pale Communion (Roadrunner)
Tiger Flowers — Dead Hymns (Melotov)
Torrential Downpour — Truth Knowledge Vision (self-released)
Trap Them — Blissfucker (Prosthetic)