Best of 2014

[PurpleDemon]

You know the fuckin' drill. Top 10 albums and gigs.

Albums

10: "Year of the Ox" by The Burning of Rome
9: ".5: The Grey Chapter" by Slipknot
8: "Fair Youth" by Maybeshewill
7: "Runes" by Bury Tomorrow
6: "Royal Blood" by Royal Blood
5: "Himalayan" by Band of Skulls
4: "Z2" by the Devin Townsend Project
3: "Groovehammer" by The Hell
2: "Lunatic" by KONGOS
1: "Remind Games" by Silent Descent

Gigs

10: Nordic Giants @ ArcTanGent Festival
9: Pulled Apart By Horses @ a shoe shop in Brighton
8: Kings of Leon @ Isle of Wight Festival
7: Anamanaguchi @ Heaven
6: Maybeshewill @ ArcTanGent Festival
5: The JCQ @ The Old Blue Last
4: Turbowolf @ Camden Rocks Festival
3: Dream Theater @ Wembley Arena
2: The Hell @ Nightmare Festival
1: Red Hot Chili Peppers @ Isle of Wight Festival

[Blackwater]

Albums

Solstafir - Otta
BabyMetal - BabyMetal
Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum
Voices - London
Old Man Gloom - Ape Of God
Anathema - Distant Satellites
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun
Dirge - Hyperion

[mrpaul]

Albums (no particular order):
Enabler - La Fin Absolue Du Monde
Mongol Horde - Mongol Horde
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Mantar - Death By Burning
Baptists - Bloodmine
Mutoid Man - Mutoid Man
Trap Them - Blissfucker
Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
Graves At Sea - Split EP with Sourvein
Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed

Many great gigs, can't recall them all. Sonisphere was great (particularly Mastodon, Gojira, Gallows and Metallica), and Converge and Mongol Horde at Manchester Academy 3 stand out for me. Mastodon at Academy 1 was fantastic too.

[Syxxpackid420]

Gigs
1. The Hives - Groezrock
2. The Offspring - Groezrock
3. Larry and his Flask - Groezrock
4. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Barcelona
5. I Killed the Prom Queen - Groezrock
6. Snuff - Groezrock
7. Pennywise - London
8. The Wonder Years - Groezrock
9. La Fuga - Avila
10. Alkaline Trio/Gameface - Groezrock