Major 2014 releases you picked up so far

Overkill - White Devil Armory
Exodus - Blood In Blood Out
Obituary - Inked in Blood
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves

Skull fist is a great cd which I forgot to mention in my list. Excellent speed platter.

Gilbert wrote:

Lari wrote:

What qualifies as a major release?

big bands mostly. Those common to the average fan...

Much of what is being mentioned wouldn't qualify, I'd say. This thread has been more of a "favorites of 2014" or "what 2014 releases did you buy, in general" type of thing. Which is fine with me. Because I don't think I bought any of the more major metal/rock releases this year. The most major one would've been Ace's Space Invader.

And Bruce Springsteen is pretty major, but not metal.

I think that albums by bands like judas priest, iced earth, riot v, primal fear, accept, sanctuary and grave digger do qualify as major. Of course, some bands will be subject
To debate.having said that, I could have titled the topic "most awaited releases you picked up in 2014". But pardon my bad english :-)

These are the 2014 releases that I have picked up so far. I'll let you decide whether they are major or not (they are to me)

Epitimia - (un)Reality
Autumns Dawn - Gone & Autumns Dawn EP
Triptykon- Melana Chasmata
Alcest- Shelter
E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr - Spiralo & Der Planet der Melancholie
Saor - Aura
Mors Voluntaria - Welcome to the End
Kuolemanlaakso - Tulijoutsen
The Ghost of a Sabre Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun
Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn
Opeth - Pale Communion
Legowelt - Crystal Cult 2080
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Sylvaine - Silent Chamber Noisy Heart
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
Devin Townsend Sky Blue/Dark Matters
Panopticon Roads to the North
Saturn - Live Ascending
The Oath - The Oath
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Shylmagoghnar - Emergence
Death Penalty - Death Penalty
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
Wayfarer - Children of the Iron Age
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
Spiders Shake Electric
Volur - Disir
Bloody Hammers - Under Satans Sun
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestite
Reek - Necrogenesis
Shrapnel - The Virus Conspires
Brody Dalle - Diploid Love
The Wytches - Annabel Reader
New Light Choir - Volume II
Sabbath Assembly - Quaternity
Demon Eye - Leave the Light
Electric Citizen - Sateen
Crone -Gehenna
Aphex Twin - Syro
Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
Goat - Commune
Landskap - I

Purson - In the Meantime
Jess & the Ancient Ones - Castaneda
The Sabbatian - Ritual Rites

I tried listening to the new Exodus again this morning. There is something that bugs me. Pretty much every thrash record in the past several years--maybe this whole millennium even?--have a weird, I don't know, sound. They all have them. New records by old bands. New, young bands. I don't know the technical aspects of music, so I don't know how to explain or what to call it, but it's the musical equivalent of a current horror/slasher movie being made as a retro/throwback/homage to the 70s/80s movies, and even though it is done well, it will always be plainly evident that it was made with a 21st century sensibility and equipment and technique and effects. Make any sense? The old thrash records don't have the sound I'm referring to.

And I guess I should throw out my short list of all releases I bought this year, major or not. Which is not many, though I have listened to most of the actual major releases on Spotify.
-Bruce Springsteen- High Hopes
-Bruce Springsteen- the RSD EP, but I bought the MP3 version
-Battle Ruins LP
-Boston Strangler- Fire LP
-Ace Frehley- Space Invader

That might be it. I still need to buy the Kix record and She & Him's classics, which I dig quite a bit. I'm hoping for the new 6-disc Bob Dylan Basement Tapes for Christmas...but I don't know if that'd qualify, since it's old material.

ZombieHavoc wrote:

I tried listening to the new Exodus again this morning. There is something that bugs me. Pretty much every thrash record in the past several years--maybe this whole millennium even?--have a weird, I don't know, sound. They all have them. New records by old bands. New, young bands. I don't know the technical aspects of music, so I don't know how to explain or what to call it, but it's the musical equivalent of a current horror/slasher movie being made as a retro/throwback/homage to the 70s/80s movies, and even though it is done well, it will always be plainly evident that it was made with a 21st century sensibility and equipment and technique and effects. Make any sense? The old thrash records don't have the sound I'm referring to.

I hear ya. It's overproduced and compressed, really. Those old beloved thrash classics usually had either a poor yet endearing mix, or an even, full, yet somewhat dry mix. Everything today is very goopy, saturated in bottom end and this comically big drum sound. I'm happier with how Exodus turned out compared to a lot of the pack. Another favorite was Death Angel's album last year. But they're still far from ideal, and for me listener's fatigue usually seems to click on about four tracks in.

Picked up the new nazareth last night. On a first spin I loved it.

might make my top 10 for 2014.

Gilbert wrote:

Picked up the new nazareth last night. On a first spin I loved it.

might make my top 10 for 2014.

There's a new Nazareth? O.o