Prvú dekádu uzavrela Valhalla víťazstvom albumu Nicka Cavea. Tú druhú začína návratom k natlakovanej metalovej sile. Náš obľúbený žáner sa opäť posunul ďalej, opäť narástol nielen do šírky, ale aj do hĺbky. Čoraz viac si uvedomuje, že inovácia nemusí nevyhnutne znamenať eklektizmus a z iných žánrov a vplyvov sa dá požičať aj čosi iné než púha forma.
Najsilnejšie albumy uplynulého roku neznejú od svojich autorov a interpretov vôbec prekvapivo. Žánrovo sa nijako extrémne nevymykajú tomu, na čo sme od kapiel ako OPETH, MASTODON, TRIPTYKON, BEHEMOTH či MAYHEM zvyknutí. Metalovým legendám sa napriek tomu podrilo nielen obhájiť svoje pozície, ale aj novým obsahom prehĺbiť vlastné základy a spevniť základy metalovej hudby, ktorá už niekoľko rokov po sebe nezažila pokles či hluché obdobie.
Za úžasné to považujeme najmä my, ktorí si všetky tieto kapely pamätáme spred desiatich, pätnástich, či dokonca dvadsiatich rokov. Svet sa mení, ľudia sa vyvíjajú. Vnímať takýto dobrý druh “tradičných hodnôt” a v takejto nevídanej sile pôsobí veľmi povzbudzujúco.
1. OPETH - Pale Communion
2. MASTODON - Once More ´Round The Sun
3. SCOTT WALKER + SUNN O))) - Soused
4. TRIPTYKON - Melana Chasmata
5. BEHEMOTH - The Satanist
6. MAYHEM - Esoteric Warfare
7. SÓLSTAFIR - Ótta
8. LUX OCCULTA - Kołysanki
9. SWANS - To Be Kind
10. SLIPKNOT - .5: The Gray Chapter
11. KILLER BE KILLED - Killer Be Killed
12. SANCTUARY - The Year The Sun Died
13. CYNIC - Kindly Bent To Free Us
14. PRIMORDIAL - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
15. ROBERT PLANT - Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar
16. ANIMALS AS LEADERS - The Joy Of Motion
17. ČAD - Čertova kovadlina
18. GODFLESH - A World Lit Only By Fire
19. CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - White Light Generator
20. FALLUJAH - The Flesh Prevails
21. MISERY INDEX - The Killing Gods
22. INSOMNIUM - Shadows Of The Dying Sun
23. MEKONG DELTA - In A Mirror Darkly
24. GROUPER - Ruins
25. PALLBEARER - Foundations Of Burden
Arrow
1. TRIPTYKON - Melana Chasmata
2. OPETH - Pale Communion
3. BEHEMOTH - The Satanist
4. MAYHEM - Esoteric Warfare
5. CODE ORANGE - I Am King
6. NACHTMYSTIUM - The World We Left Behind
7. CYNIC - Kindly Bent To Free Us
8. MASTODON - Once More ´Round The Sun
9. LUX OCCULTA - Kołysanki
10. EMPYRIUM - The Turn Of The Tides
Dalas
MANTAR - Death By Burning
BECK - Morning Phase
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - The Joy Of Motion
FALLUJAH - The Flesh Prevails
GREENLEAF - Trails & Passes
MOTORPSYCHO - Behind The Sun
TRAP THEM - Blissfucker
THE WAR ON DRUGS - Lost In The Dream
GROUPER - Ruins
GIANT SQUID - Minoans
MASTODON - Once More ´Round The Sun
LIARS - Mess
YOUNG AND IN THE WAY - When Life Comes to Death
ICEAGE - Plowing Into the Field of Love
THE TIDAL SLEEP - Vorstellungskraft
KAYO DOT - Coffins On IO
OLD MAN GLOOM - The Ape Of God
GET YOUR GUN - The Worrying Kind
LORD MANTIS - Death Mask
YOUNG WIDOWS - Easy Pain
Deadmann
BEHEMOTH - The Satanist
LUX OCCULTA - Kołysanki
LYKKE LI - I Never Learn
MAYHEM - Esoteric Warfare
NACHTMYSTIUM - The World We Left Behind
NOXAGT - Brutage
PALLBEARER - Foundations Of Burden
ROBERT PLANT - Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar
RÖYKSOPP - The Inevitable End
RUN THE JEWELS - Run The Jewels 2
SCOTT WALKER + SUNN O))) - Soused
SWANS - To Be Kind
THE TWILIGHT SAD - Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
Dudri
††† - Crosses
ANTEMASQUE - Antemasque
BEHEMOTH - The Satanist
ČAD - Čertova Kovadlina
EVERY TIME I DIE - From Parts Unknown
KILLER BE KILLED - Killer Be Killed
MACHINE HEAD - Bloodstone & Diamonds
MASTODON - Once More ´Round the Sun
SKINDRED - Kill The Power
SLIPKNOT - .5: The Gray Chapter
WEEZER - Everything Will Be Alright In the End
Hooya
ENCHANT - The Great Divide
KOCÁB/PROUDFOOT/DONATI/SHEEHAN - Aftershock
MASTODON - Once More ´Round The Sun
MEKONG DELTA - In A Mirror Darkly
OPETH - Pale Communion
SANCTUARY - The Year The Sun Died
THRESHOLD - For The Journey
Klypso
1. SCOTT WALKER + SUNN O))) - Soused
2. GROUPER - Ruins
3. JENNY HVAL & SUSANNA - Meshes Of Voice
4. WHITE LUNG - Deep Fantasy
5. JANA WINDEREN - Out Of Range
6. AEOGA - Temple Treye
7. YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend
8. DIAMOND VERSION - CI
9. VATICAN SHADOW - Death Is Unity With God
10. CURRENT 93 - I Am The Last Of All The Field That Fell
11. A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN - Atomos
12. JACASZEK & KWATRLUDIUM - Catalogue Des Arbres
Koscj
CYNIC - Kindly Bent To Free Us
ČAD - Čertova kovadlina
FULL OF HELL & MERZBOW - Full Of Hell & Merzbow
HOLOTROPIC - Permeate
LUNOKHOD - Black Flame Burning
MEKONG DELTA - In A Mirror Darkly
MISERY INDEX - The Killing Gods
PESTILENCE - Obsideo
PINK FLOYD - The Endless River
SCOTT WALKER + SUNN O))) - Soused
SWANS - To Be Kind
ZNOUZECTNOST - Beat Simplicitas
Louis
1. AVATAR - Hail The Apocalypse
2. SANCTUARY - The Year The Sun Died
3. OBITUARY - Inked In Blood
4. RIOT V - Unleash The Fire
5. ASMODEUS - Past na Davida Kleinera
6. ARAKAIN - Adrenalinum
7. TANKARD - R.I.B.
8. SLOBODNÁ EURÓPA - Štvorka
9. ZNOUZECTNOST - Beat Simplicitas
10. MASTER´S HAMMER - Vagus Vetus
11. ARCH ENEMY - War Eternal
12. DEVILMENT - The Great And Secret Show
13. BEHEMOTH - The Satanist
14. IN FLAMES - Siren Charms
15. JUDAS PRIEST - Redeemer Of Souls
Manatar
1. INSOMNIUM - Shadows Of The Dying Sun
2. EVERGREY - Hymns For The Broken
3. EPICA - The Quantum Enigma
4. DELAIN - The Human Contradiction
5. TRIOSPHERE - The Heart Of The Matter
6. LACUNA COIL - Broken Crown Halo
7. ARCH ENEMY - War Eternal
8. ALLEN/LANDE - The Great Divide
9. UNISONIC - Light Of Dawn
10. THRESHOLD - For The Journey
11. WITHIN TEMPTATION - Hydra
12. WOVENWAR - Wovenwar
Marigold
1. PRIMORDIAL - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
2. OPETH - Pale Communion
3. NE OBLIVISCARIS - Citadel
4. SAOR - Aura
5. PANOPTICON - Roads To The North
6. ALT-J - This Is All Yours
7. WOODS - With Light And With Love
8. ASTRONAUTS - Hollow Ponds
9. GET YOUR GUN - The Worrying Kind
10. ARCHITECTS - Lost Forever // Lost Together
11. AUDREY FALL - Mitau
12. ALLEGAEON - Elements Of The Infinite
13. ASPHERIUM - Fall Of Therenia
14. THE WAR ON DRUGS - Lost In The Dream
15. INSOMNIUM - Shadows Of The Dying Sun
Bez poradia:
PALLBEARER - Foundations Of Burden
SOEN - Tellurian
TALONS - New Topographics
TEMPLES - Sun Structures
WHITE LUNG - Deep Fantasy
CIRCA SURVIVE - Descensus
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - The Joy Of Motion
FALLUJAH - The Flesh Prevails
MAYHEM - Esoteric Warfare
SÓLSTAFIR - Ótta
BEHEMOTH - The Satanist
Martin
1. OPETH - Pale Communion
2. CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - White Light Generator
3. MONO - The Last Dawn / Rays Of Darkness
4. SÓLSTAFIR - Ótta
5. BEHEMOTH - The Satanist
6. PRIMORDIAL - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Martin L.
BENIGHTED - Carnivore Sublime
BRUTE - Pillory
NAUSEA - Condemned To The System
SVART CROWN - Profane
7 H. TARGET - 0.00 Apocalypse
GRIDLINK - Longhena
GREY SKIES FALLEN - The Many Sides Of Truth
DESTROYING DIVINITY - Hollow Dominion
CRIPPLE BASTARDS - Nero In Metastasi
TEITANBLOOD - Death
IMPETUOUS RITUAL - Unholy Congregation Of Hypocritical Ambivalence
COPROCEPHALIC - The Oath Of Relinquishment
GORETRADE - Doomsday Device
ARTIFICIAL BRAIN - Labyrinth Constellation
KILLCHAIN - Where Is Your Saviour
CRETIN - Stranger
DEICIDE - In The Minds Of Evil
INCANTATION - Dirges Of Elysium
GOD DEFAMER - Relics
MAJSTER KAT - Memento...
IMPALED NAZARENE - Vigorous And Liberating Death
GORGASM - Destined To Violate
HOLOTROPIC - Permeate
PESTILENCE - Obsideo
ABORTED - The Necrotic Manifesto
CEREBRAL EFFUSION - Idolatry Of The Unethical
DAGOR DAGORATH - Dissident
COLUMNS - Please Explode
POSTHUMOUS BLASPHEMER - Exhumation Of Sacred Impunity
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN - Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath
Radicalcut
1. ROBERT PLANT - Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar
2. OPETH - Pale Communion
3. MAYHEM - Esoteric Warfare
4. SÓLSTAFIR - Ótta
5. ANIMALS AS LEADERS - The Joy Of Motion
6. GODFLESH - A World Lit Only By Fire
7. PONTIAK - Innocence
8. THE AFGHAN WHIGS - Do The Beast
9. LEONARD COHEN - Popular Problems
10. MASTODON - Once More ´Round The Sun
11. PIXIES - Indie Cindy
12. NEIL YOUNG - Storytone
13. WOVEN HAND - Refractory Obdurate
14. EARTH - Primitive And Deadly
15. ELECTRIC WIZARD - Time To Die
16. SWANS - To Be Kind
17. MELVINS - Hold It In
18. MANES - Be All End All
19. FLOOR - Oblation
20. TRAP THEM - Blissfucker
Reaper
BEYOND CREATION - Earthborn Evolution
IMPETUOUS RITUAL - Unholy Congregation Of Hypocritical Ambivalence
BENEATH - The Barren Throne
FALLUJAH - The Flesh Prevails
DEAD CONGREGATION - Promulgation Of The Fall
AUROCH - Taman Shud
ORIGIN - Omnipresent
ARCHSPIRE - The Lucid Collective
INCANTATION - Dirges Of Elysium
NEAR DEATH CONDITION - Evolving Towards Extinction
RIP
ANTEMASQUE - Antemasque
GOATWHORE - Constricting Rage Of The Merciless
CODE ORANGE - I Am King
MARS RED SKY - Stranded In Arcadia
MANON MEURT - Manon meurt
SÓLSTAFIR - Ótta
HANBA - Silou kovadliny
OPETH - Pale Communion
NOD NOD - Nod Nod
GODFLESH - A World Lit Only By Fire
ORIGIN - Omnipresent
MISERY INDEX - The Killing Gods
TRAP THEM - Blissfucker
MASTODON - Once More ´Round The Sun
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - The Joy Of Motion
SWANS - To Be Kind
LUX OCCULTA - Kołysanki
KALLE - Live From The Room
UNITED NATIONS - Serious Business
RADŮZA - Gaia
MANTAR - Death By Burning
INDIAN - From All Purity
CYNIC - Kindly Bent To Free Us
FALLUJAH - The Flesh Prevails
THE SHRINE - Bless Off
TOMBS - Savage Gold
INTER ARMA - The Cavern
PHARMAKON - Bestial Burden
YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend
THOU - Heathen
Rudi
1. SLIPKNOT - .5: The Gray Chapter
2. IN FLAMES - Siren Charms
3. MASTODON - Once More ´Round The Sun
4. OPETH - Pale Communion
5. KILLER BE KILLED - Killer Be Killed
6. TRIPTYKON - Melana Chasmata
7. ČAD - Čertova kovadlina
8. BEHEMOTH - The Satanist
9. INDIAN - From All Purity
10. HANBA - Silou kovadliny
11. VOICES - London
12. FOO FIGHTERS - Sonic Highways
13. SWANS - To Be Kind
14. TOMBS - Savage Gold
15. ARCH ENEMY - War Eternal
16. TRAP THEM - Blissfucker
17. AT THE GATES - At War With Reality
18. MISERY INDEX - The Killing Gods
19. WHITECHAPEL - Our Endless War
20. IRON REAGAN - The Tyranny Of Will
Šagrát
1. DEVIN TOWNSEND - Z²
2. TRIPTYKON - Melana Chasmata
3. KILLER BE KILLED - Killer Be Killed
4. MASTODON - Once More ´Round The Sun
5. OPETH - Pale Communion
6. CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - White Light Generator
7. CYNIC - Kindly Bent to Free Us
8. CONQUERING DYSTOPIA - Conquering Dystopia
9. CANNIBAL CORPSE - A Skeletal Domain
10. CASUALTIES OF COOL - Casualties Of Cool
Bez poradia:
ANIMALS AS LEADERS - The Joy of Motion
AT THE GATES - At War With Reality
BEHEMOTH - The Satanist
BEYOND CREATION - Earthborn Evolution
CROWBAR - Symmetry In Black
MISERY INDEX - The Killing Gods
NARCOTIC WASTELAND - Narcotic Wasteland
OBITUARY - Inked In Blood
SLASH - World On Fire
VALLENFYRE - Splinters
Shnoff
1. LUX OCCULTA - Kołysanki
2. TRIPTYKON - Melana Chasmata
3. GODFLESH - A World Lit Only By Fire
4. OPETH - Pale Communion
5. MAYHEM - Esoteric Warfare
6. ABIGOR - Leytmotif Luzyfer
7. SCOTT WALKER + SUNN O))) - Soused
8. DORNENREICH - Freiheit
9. BLUT AUS NORD - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry
10. KHOLD - Til Endes
Bez poradia:
ANAAL NATHRAKH - Desideratum
BORIS - Noise
CASUALTIES OF COOL - Casualties Of Cool
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - White Light Generator
GIANT SQUID - Minoans
KAYO DOT - Coffins On Io
LANA DEL REY - Ultraviolence
MANES - Be All End All
MASTER´S HAMMER - Vagus Vetus
MASTODON - Once More ´Round The Sun
MISERY INDEX - The Killing Gods
MONO - The Last Dawn / Rays Of Darkness
NOVEMBERS DOOM - Bled White
NOXAGT - Brutage
PAIN OF SALVATION - Falling Home
PALLBEARER - Foundations Of Burden
PRIMORDIAL - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
SANCTUARY - The Year the Sun Died
SIGUR RÓS - Kveikur
SÓLSTAFIR - Ótta
Thorn
EARTH - Primitive And Deadly
LEONARD COHEN - Popular Problems
NEIL YOUNG - A Letter Home
PEARL JAM - Big Day Out, Sydney Fairgrounds (Sun 26 January, 2014)
PRIMUS - Primus & the Chocolate Factory With Fungi Ensemble
SCOTT WALKER + SUNN O))) - Soused
TORI AMOS - Unrepentant Geraldines
V-dur
CLARK - Clark
DOT HACKER - How’s Your Process?
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Lament
ENABLER - La Fin Absolute Du Monde
HUNDRED WATERS - The Moon Rang Like a Bell
HVIEZDA - Tu v Bratislave
LYKKE LI - I Never Learn
MASTODON - Once More ´Round the Sun
MONIKINO KINO - Prázdniny
NUX VOMICA - Nux Vomica
PALLBEARER - Foundations of Burden
RUN THE JEWELS - Run The Jewels 2
SLIPKNOT - .5: The Gray Chapter
SÓLSTAFIR - Ótta
SCOTT WALKER + SUNN O))) - Soused
JENNY HVAL & SUSANNA - Meshes Of Voice
SWANS - To Be Kind
TOMBS - Savage Gold
TRIPTYKON - Melana Chasmata
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend