Decibel Top 40 Albums of 2014

Rough Trade was the first record shop to issue a 2014 chart, Decibel is the first influential magazine. The Top 40 comes from the January 2015 issue of the US metal publication. While Mastodon are on cover, Pallbearer lead the chart. 

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Previously on the Decibel side of Spotirama:

Decibel Top 40 Albums of 2013

The Complete Spotirama EOY 2014 playlist series:

Decibel Top 40 Albums of 2014

Rough Trade Top 100 Albums of 2014

Previous EOY series:
2013
2011
2010

DECIBEL TOP 40 ALBUMS OF 2014

(from #1 to #40, full albums)

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1. Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
2. At The Gates – At War With Reality
3. Horrendous – Ecdysis
4. Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
5. Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire
6. Thou – Heathen
7. YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend
8. Vallenfyre – Splinters
9. Panopticon – Roads to the North
10. Morbus Chron – Sweven
11. Dead Congregation – Promulgation of the Fall
12. Machine Head – Bloodstone & Diamonds
13. Woods of Desolation – As The Stars
14. Tombs – Savage Gold
15. Krieg – Transient
16. Iron Reagan – The Tyranny of Will
17. Cult of Fire – मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान
18. Gridlink – Longhenna
19. The Oath – The Oath
20. Behemoth – The Satanist
21. Agalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere
22. Autopsy – Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
23. Primordial – Where Greater Men Have Fallen
24. Beyond Creation – Earthborn Evolution
25. Wreck & Reference – Want
26. Teitanblood – Death
27. Trap Them – Blissfucker
28. Young and in the Way – When Life Comes to Death
29. Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun
30. Eyehategod – Eyehategod
31. Cretin – Stranger
32. Midnight – No Mercy for Mayhem
33. Thantifaxath – Sacred White Noise
34. Lord Mantis – Death Mask
35. Mayhem – Esoteric Warfare
36. Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain
37. Solstafir – Otta
38. Execration – Morbid Dimensions
39. Incantation – Dirges of Elysium
40. Floor – Oblation

Metal Hammer, Kerrang! and Decibel Best Albums of 2013

Welcome to the heavy thursday, with playlists based on end-of-year charts by three established metal magazines: Metal Hammer (Top 50), Kerrang! (Top 25) and Decibel (Top 40). Three different #1 albums: Clutch's Earth Rocker (Metal Hammer), Bring Me The Horizon's Sempiternal (Kerrang!) and Carcass' Surgical Steel (Decibel). Just two albums are present in all charts: Deafheaven's Sunbather (#17, #19, #11) and Watain's The Wild Hunt (#9, #12, #37). Final curiosity that may kill your cat: Kerrang! Top25 is the first end-of-2013 list with 100% albums available on Spotify.

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Complete series of Spotirama end-of-2013 playlists (with charts by Amazon, BuzzFeed, Ibero 90.9, Indiewire, Jazzwise, Les Inrockuptibles, Me Hace Ruido, Mojo, NPR, Panamérika, Paste, Pitchfork, PopMatters, Pretty Much Amazing, Q, Renowned for Sound, Revolver, Rolling Stone, Rough Trade, Stereogum, Uncut, The Wire, XLR8R, Zane Lowe)

METAL HAMMER TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #50)

(3 tracks each album, from #1 to #50)

KERRANG! THE ALBUMS THAT ROCKED 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #25)

(3 tracks each album, from #1 to #25)

DECIBEL TOP 40 ALBUMS OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #40)

(3 tracks each album, from #1 to #40)

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METAL HAMMER TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2013
1. Clutch - Earth Rocker
2. Carcass - Surgical Steel
3. Black Sabbath - 13
4. Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats - Mind Control
5. Ghost - Infestissumam
6. Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
7. Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
8. Motörhead - Aftershock
9. Watain - The Wild Hunt
10. Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
11. Cathedral - The Last Spire
12. Letlive - The Blackest Beautiful
13. In Solitude - Sister
14. Alter Bridge - Fortress
15. Purson - The Circle And The Blue Door
16. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer
17. Deafheaven - Sunbather
18. Kvelertak - Meir
19. Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent
20. The Bronx - The Bronx (IV)
21. Five Finger Death Punch - The Wrong Side Of Heaven…Vols 1 & 2
22. Heart Of A Coward - Severance
23. Malevolence - Reign Of Suffering
24. Nails - Abandon All Life
25. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
26. Tesseract - Altered State
27. Philip H Anselmo & The Illegals - WalkThrough Exits Only
28. Wardruna - Yggdrasil
29. Hell - Curse & Chapter
30. Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
31. Cult Of Luna - Vertikal
32. Dream Theater - Dream Theater
33. Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
34. Beastmilk - Climax
35. Twilight Of The Gods - Fire On The Mountain
36. Orchid - The Mouths Of Madness
37. Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy
38. Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
39. Avatarium - Avatarium
40. Black Spiders - This Savage Land
41. Jex Thoth - Blood Moon Rise
42. Wilson - Full Blast Fuckery
43. Argus - Beyond The Martyrs
44. Bleed From Within - Uprising
45. HIM - Tears On Tape
46. Satan - Life Sentence
47. Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
48. The Defiled - Daggers
49. Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
50. Bruce Soord And Jonas Renkse - Wisdom Of Crowds

KERRANG! THE ALBUMS THAT ROCKED 2013
1. Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
2. Biffy Clyro - Opposites
3. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
4. Asking Alexandria - From Death To Destiny
5. Avenged Sevenfold- Hail to the King
6. Paramore - Paramore
7. LetLive - The Blackest Beautiful
8. The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
9. The Bronx - The Bronx IV
10. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
11. Tonight Alive - The Other Side
12. Watain - The Wild Hunt
13. Black Sabbath - 13
14. Deaf Havana - Old Souls
15. Alter Bridge - Fortress
16. Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
17. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control
18. Fall Out Boy - Save Rock And Roll
19. Deafheaven- Sunbather
20. State Champs - The Finer Things
21. Nails - Abandon All Life
22. The Defiled - Daggers
23. Panic At The Disco - Too Weird To Live,Too Rare To Die
24. Jamie Lenman - Muscle Memory
25. A Day To Remember - Common Courtesy

DECIBEL TOP 40 ALBUMS OF 2013
1. Carcass - Surgical Steel
2. In Solitude - Sister
3. Gorguts - Colored Sands
4. SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
5. Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
6. Cult of Luna - Vertikal
7. Melt-Banana - Fetch
8. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
9. Noisem - Agonies Defined
10. Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
11. Deafheaven - Sunbather
12. Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness
13. Nails - Abandon AllLife
14. Inter Arma - Sky Burial
15. Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
16. Secrets of the Sky - To Sail Black Waters
17. Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door
18. Lycus- Tempest
19. Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
20. The Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer
21. Antigama - Meteor
22. Kylesa - Ultraviolet
23. Immolation - Kigdom of Conspiracy
24. Exhumed -Necrocracy
25. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
26. Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
27. Ulcerate - Vermis
28. Anciients - Heart Of Oak
29. Craven Idol - Towards Eschaton
30. Iron Reagan - Worse Than Dead
31. Portal - Vexovoid
32. Coliseum - Sister Faith
33. Cathedral - The Last Spire
34. Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
35. Noctum - Final Sacrifice
36. Aevangelist - Omen Ex Simulacra
37. Watain - The Wild Hunt
38. Corrections House - Last City Zero
39. Dark Tranquility - Construct
40. Batillus - Concrete Stain

Revolver Mag Top 20 Albums of 2013

Sometimes they come back. Well, in rock music, many times they come back. But not often old and honourable acts from the XX century have the quid Black Sabbath showed in their comeback album 13. A quid that allowed Ozzy & C. to rule the Top Albums of the Year chart by Revolver Magazine. #2 is occupied by Deafheaven's Sunbather, #3 by Avenged Sevenfold's Hail To The King. Choices reflect the metal/rock orientation of the magazine. All 20 albums are available on Spotify and they are collected - #20 to #1 - in this playlist.

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REVOLVER MAG TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2013

(from #20 to #1)

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The 100 Best and Absolute Greatest Heavy Metal Albums in the World Ever

About 20 years ago, at high school, under request, a friend of mine made me a "best of heavy metal" tape. I remember the sense of epic I felt listening for the first time to Iron Maiden's The Trooper. God, that was music! Actually, my metal epiphany lasted a couple of weeks. In that same tape, that friend of mine put some Pearl Jam and Nirvana songs. And I picked the grunge road.

This amazing anecdote is to say heavy metal is another of the infinite music genres I'm rather ignorant about. Ignorant, but voraciously curious. Even if I'm not in high school, anymore. So welcome to the lovely and humbly named "The 100 Best and Absolute Greatest Heavy Metal Albums in the World Ever" Spotify playlist, based from the book of the same name.

With the like of Alice Cooper, Anthrax, Black Sabbath, Danzig, Deftones, Dream Theater, Guns n'Roses, Iron Maiden (The Trooper included, yes!), Judas Priest, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Metallica, Motley Crue, Neurosis, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Rage Against the Machine, Sepultura, Slayer, Slipknot, System of a Down, Van Halen, White Zombie and many more.

Full list is below the playlists. Plural: one playlist with complete albums and the second one with three tracks each album.

Loudly enjoy.

THE 100 BEST AND ABSOLUTE GREATEST HEAVY METAL ALBUMS 
IN THE WORLD EVER

(full albums)

THE 100 BEST AND ABSOLUTE GREATEST HEAVY METAL ALBUMS 
IN THE WORLD EVER

(3 tracks each album)

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The full list (source).

In alphabetical order, by artist. Strikethrough albums (9/100) are not available on Spotify.

Accept, 'Balls To The Wall' (1983)

AC/DC, 'Highway To Hell' (1979)

AC/DC, 'Back In Black (1980)

Alice Cooper, 'Billion Dollar Babies' (1973)

Alice In Chains, 'Dirt' (1992) 

All Shall Perish, 'The Price Of Existence' (2006) 

Anthrax, 'Among The Living' (1987) 

Arch Enemy, 'Burning Bridges' (1999) 

At The Gates, 'Slaughter Of The Soul' (1995) 

Behemoth, 'Demigod' (2004) 

Benighted, 'Icon' (2007) 

Black Label Society, 'Hangover Music Vol VI' (2004) 

Black Sabbath, 'Black Sabbath' (1970) 

Black Sabbath, 'Paranoid' (1970) 

Black Sabbath, 'Heaven And Hell' (1980) 

Bruce Dickinson, 'The Chemical Wedding' (1998) 

Candlemass, 'Nightfall' (1987) 

Cannibal Corpse, 'Tomb Of The Mutilated' (1992) 

Carcass, 'Heartwork' (1993) 

Cradle Of Filth, 'Damnation And a Day: From Genesis To Nemesis' (2003) 

Danzig, 'Danzig' (1988) 

Dark Tranquility, 'The Gallery' (1985) 

Death, 'Human' (1991) 

Deicide, 'Deicide' (1990) 

Despised Icon, 'The Ills Of Modern Man' (2007) 

Deep Purple, 'Machine Head' (1971) 

Deftones, 'Around The Fur' (1997) 

The Dillinger Escape Plan, 'Miss Machine' (2004) 

Dimmu Borgir, 'Death Cult Armageddon' (2003) 

Dio, 'Holy Diver' (1983) 

Dream Theater, 'Images And Words' (1992) 

Entombed, 'Wolverine Blues' (1991) 

Exodus, 'Bonded By Blood' (1985) 

Gamma Ray, 'Land Of The Free' (1995) 

Godsmack, 'IV' (2006) 

Gojira, 'The Way Of All Flesh' (2008) 

Guns N' Roses, 'Appetite For Destruction' (1987) 

Helloween, 'Keeper Of The Seven Keys Pt ll' (1988) 

Hammerfall, 'Legacy Of Kings' (1998) 

The Haunted, 'Made Me Do It' (2000) 

In Flames, 'Whoracle' (1997) 

Iron Maiden, 'The Number Of The Beast' (1982) 

Iron Maiden, 'Piece Of Mind' (1983) 

Iron Maiden, 'Powerslave' (1984) 

Isis, 'Panopticon' (2004) 

Judas Priest, 'British Steel' (1980) 

Judas Priest, 'Painkiller' (1990) 

King Diamond, 'Abigail' (1987) 

Killswitch Engage, 'The End Of Heartache' (2004) 

Kiss, 'Kiss' (1974) Kiss, 'Destroyer' (1976) 

Korn, 'Korn' (1994) 

Korn, 'Follow The Leader' (1998) 

Kreator, 'Pleasure To Kill' (1986) 

Lamb Of God, 'Sacrament' (2006) 

Machine Head, 'The Blackening' (2007) 

Marily Manson, 'Antichrist Superstar' (1996) 

Mastodon, 'Leviathan' (2004) 

Mayhem, 'Wolf's Lair Abyss' (1997) 

Megadeath, 'Rust In Peace' (1990) 

Mercyful Fate, 'Don't Break The Oath' (1984) 

Meshuggah, 'Destroy Erase Improve' (1995) 

Metallica, 'Ride The Lightning' (1984) 

Metallica, 'Master Of Puppets' (1986) 

Metallica - '...And Justice For All' (1988) 

Metallica, 'Metallica' - aka The Black Album - (1991) 

Monster Magnet, 'Powertrip' (1998) 

Morbid Angel, 'Blessed Are The Sick' (1991) 

Motley Crue, 'Shout At The Devil' (1983) 

Motörhead, 'Ace Of Spades' (1980) 

Napalm Death, 'Utopia Banished' (1992) 

Neurosis, 'The Eye Of Every Storm' (2004) 

Nightwish, 'Once' (2004) 

Opeth, 'Blackwater Park' (2001) 

Ozzy Osbourne, 'Blizzard Of Ozz' (1980) 

Ozzy Ozbourne, 'Bark At The Moon' (1983) 

Paradise Lost, 'Draconian Times' (1995) 

Pantera, 'Vulgar Display Of Power (1992) 

Queensryche, 'Operation: Mindcrime' (1988) 

Rage Against The Machine, 'Rage Against The Machine' (1992) 

Rainbow, 'Long Live Rock 'N' Roll' (1978) 

Rammstein, 'Mutter' (2001) 

Sepultura, 'Chaos A.D.' (1993) 

Saxon, 'Strong Arm Of The Law' (1980) 

Skid Row, 'Skid Row' (1989) 

Slayer, 'Reign In Blood' (1986) 

Slayer, 'Seasons In The Abyss' (1990) 

Slayer, 'God Hates Us All' (2001) 

Slipknot, 'lowa' (2001) System Of A Down, 'Toxicity' (2001) 

Testament, 'The Legacy' (1987) 

Tool, 'Xenima' (1996) 

Trouble, 'Manic Frustration' (1992) 

Type O Negative, 'October Rust' (1996) 

Van Halen, 'Van Halen' (1978) 

Venom, 'Black Metal' (1982) 

W.A.S.P, 'W.A.S.P' (1984) 

White Zombie, 'Astro Creep: 2000 (1995) 

Yngwie Malmsteen, 'Rising Force' (1984) 

Unearth, 'lll: In The Eyes Of Fire' (2006)

Los Angeles Weekly Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time

Everybody knows it, Slash, Axl and Maya included: 2012 is the year of Guns n'Roses reunion. So, let's warm up with a hair metal revival. No, don't you dare thinking it's a skeleton I'm taking out of my musical closet! But yes, at high school I did listen to Appetite For Destruction (and, er, well, sometimes to White Lion and Bon Jovi too...). :o)
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LOS ANGELES WEEKLY TOP 20 HAIR METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
Source: Los Angeles Weekly.
Albums available on Spotify: 18/20 (90%)

20. Junkyard - Junkyard (1989)
19. White Lion - Pride (1987)
18. Dokken - Tooth and Nail (1984)
17. Europe - The Final Countdown (1986)
16. Whitesnake - Whitesnake (1987)
15. Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap Soundtrack (1984)
14. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime (1988)
13. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry (1984)
12. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet (1986)
11. Cinderella - Night Songs (1986)
10. Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (1989)
9. Ratt - Out of the Cellar (1984)
8. Def Leppard - Hysteria (1987)
7. Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat (1987)
6. Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In (1986)
5. Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil (1983)
4. Skid Row - Skid Row (1989)
3. Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love (1981)
2. Def Leppard - Pyromania (1983)
1. Guns n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction (1987)

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