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

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 small groups throughout the week.

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

Max Cavalera, Soulfly/Cavalera Conspiracy/Killer Be Killed

1. The Acacia Strain – Coma Witch
2. Incite – Up in Hell
3. Lody Kong – Dreams and Visions
4. Noisem – Consumed
5. Full of Hell & Merzbow Split
6. Code Orange Kids—I am King
7. Hour of Penance—Regiticide
8. Aborted – Necrotic Manifesto
9. Killer Be Killed – Killer Be Killed
10. Cavalera Conspiracy – Pandemonium

Giulio Moschini, Hour of Penance

1. Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
2. Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral
3. Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain
4. Trap Them – Blissfucker
5. Misery Index – The Killing Gods
6. Aborted – The Necrotic Manifesto
7. Schammasch – Contradiction

George Paul, Mutilation Rites

1. Teitanblood – Death
2. Horrendous – Ecdysis
3. Diocletian – Gesundrian
4. Indian – From All Purity
5. Dead Congregation – Promulgation of the Fall

Lasse Pyykko, Hooded Menace 

1. Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
2. Mournful Congregation – Concrescence of the Sophia EP
3. Dead Congregation – Promulgation of the Fall
4. Godflesh – Decline & Fall EP
5. Godflesh – A World Lit Only by Fire
6. Anguish – Mountain
7. Horrendous – Ecdysis
8. Shellac – Dude Incredible
9. Algoma – Reclaimed by the Forest
10. Cemetery Fog – Towards the Gates EP

Ryan Lipynsky, Serpentine Path/The Howling Wind/Force & Fire/Humanless

1. Abigor – Leytmotif Luzifer
2. Antemasque – Antemasque
3. Nightfell – The Ever Living Mourn
4. Volahn – Aq’ab’al
5. White Lung – Deep Fantasy
6. Eyehategod – S/T
7. Vallenfyre – Splinters
8. Ulver – Trolsk Sortmetall 1993-1997
9. Bölzer – Soma
10. Naðra – Eitur

Mike Moynihan, Hollow Earth

1. Run with the Hunted – The Sieve and the Sand
2. Exalt – Pale Light
3. Weird Al – Mandatory Fun
4. Black Anvil – Hail Death
5. Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun
6. Behemoth – The Satanist
7. Praise – Lights Went Out
8. Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
9. At the Gates – At War with Reality
10. Hounds of Hate – Hate Springs Eternal

Bobby Mansfield, The Drip 

1. Trap Them – Blissfucker
2. Misery Index – The Killing Gods
3. Skinfather – None Will Mourn
4. Iron Reagan – Tyranny of Will
5. EYEHATEGOD – S/T
6. Agalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere
7. YAITW – When Life Comes To Death
8. Enabler – La Fin Absolue Du Monde
9. Gridlink – Longhena
10. Cloudkicker – Live with Intronaut

Cameron Miller, Seizures

1. Lust For Youth – International
2. Swans – To Be Kind
3. Creative Adult – Psychic Mess
4. Mossbreaker – Transmission
5. Hollow Earth – Silent Graves
6. Idylls – Prayer for Terrene
7. Run With The Hunted – The Sieve and The Sand
8. Old Wounds – Death Projection
9. Brody Dalle – Diploid Love
10. Tiger Flowers – Dead Hymns

JSS, The Banner

1. Youth Code – A Place to Stand
2. Xibalba/Suburban Scum – Split
3. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
4. Sex Cross – Seasons of Decay
5. Godflesh – A world Lit Only by Fire
6. Have a Nice Life – The Unnatural World
7. New Lows – Abhorrent Endings
8. Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
9. Old Wounds – Death Projection
10. Obituary – Inked in Blood

Mem Von Stein, Exumer

1. Electric Wizard – Time to Die
2. Portrait – Crossroads
3. Death Penalty – Same
4. Monolord- Empress Rising
5. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell – Check ‘Em Before You Wreck ‘Em
6. Sleep- The Clarity EP
7. Truth & Janey – Erupts reissue
8. Midnight- No Mercy for Mayhem
9. Vampire – Same
10. Wo Fat – The Conjuring