Teach's Class Of Metal's "Best of 2014"

TOP 25 ALBUMS OF 2014

Now that this awe-inspiring year is drawing to a close, it is time to share my list of the finest releases of 2014 with you, my cherished and beloved readers. But this year, instead of the customary list of ten, the overall volume of material that the metal world released was so great, I was happily forced to expand the list to twenty-five. If you have not heard the music contained on any of these fine albums, please do not hesitate to click on the name of the band, as each is a link to their respective websites. Enjoy, and KEEP IT METAL! \m/

Geoff Teach

Owner, Editor, and Head Writer

Teach's Class of Metal

# 1 - ARCHSPIRE - "The Lucid Collective" (Season of Mist)

# 2 - BLACK CROWN INITIATE - "The Wreckage of Stars" (eOne Heavy)

# 3 - FALLUJAH - "The Flesh Prevails" (Unique Leader)

# 4 - WHITE ARMS OF ATHENA - "White Arms of Athena" (Prosthetic)

# 5 - ACRANIA - "Totalitarian Dystopia" (Unique Leader)

# 6 - HIDEOUS DIVINITY - "Cobra Verde" (Unique Leader)

# 7 - THE ROOM COLORED CHARLATAN - "Primitives" (Subliminal Groove)

# 8 - DECAPITATED - "Blood Mantra" (Nuclear Blast)

# 9 - INANIMATE EXISTENCE - "A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement" (Unique Leader)

# 10 - ALLEGAEON - "Elements of the Infinite" (Metal Blade)

# 11 - CIMMERIAN - "Hollowing" (Independent)

# 12 - ANIMALS AS LEADERS - "The Joy of Motion" (Sumerian)

# 13 - MACHINE HEAD - "Bloodstone & Diamonds" (Nuclear Blast)

# 14 - SEREN - "Eye of Malignance" (Independent)

# 15 - INTERNAL BLEEDING - "Imperium" (Unique Leader)

# 16 - SOREPTION - "Engineering the Void" (Unique Leader)

# 17 - REVOCATION - "Deathless" (Metal Blade)

# 18 - ASPHERIUM - "The Fall of Therenia" (Independent)

# 19 - BONGRIPPER - "Miserable" (The Great Barrier)

# 20 - ELUVEITIE - "Origins" (Nuclear Blast)

# 21 - OBITUARY - "Inked In Blood" (Relapse)

# 22 - ORIGIN - "Omnipresent" (Nuclear Blast)

# 23 - ARMORED ASSAULT - "Call the Beast" (Independent)

# 24 - LELAHELL - "Al Insane...The (Re)Birth of Abderrahmane" (Horror Pain Gore Death)

# 25 - EXISTENTIAL ANIMALS - "Surrealith" (Independent)

Honorable Mentions: Buckshot Facelift - "Living Ghosts of the North Shore" (Independent), Wretched - "Cannibal" (Victory), Aborted - "Necrotic Manifesto" (Nuclear Blast), Alestorm - "Sunset on the Golden Age" (Napalm), Verse Vica - "Endeavor" (Independent), Triptykon - "Melana Chasmata" (Century Media), Goatwhore - "Constricting Rage of the Merciless" (Metal Blade), Cognitive - "Cognitive" (Pathologically Explicit), Warforged - "Essence of the Land" (Independent), Disrupting the Abacus - "The Arrival" (Independent)