These were my favorite releases of 2014... at least as of this moment. The order is debatable. No reissues or compilations though.
Top 10 Noise/Industrial/Power Electronics:
Trepaneringsritualen "Perfection and Permanence"
Wolves of Heaven / Nyodene D split
Michael Idehall "Svartkonster" and "Deep Code"
Shift "Altamont Rising"
Private Archive "Honey Aspic Enema"
Pharmakon "Bestial Burden"
Laureate "Synthesized Utopia"
S.T.A.B. Electronics "Instrument for Operating on Mutant Women"
Puce Mary "Persona"
Iron Clad "Strike to Kill"
Top 10 Metal:
Swallowed "Lunarterial"
Ride for Revenge "Enter the Gauntlet"
StarGazer "A Merging to the Boundless"
Ill Omen "Enthroning the Bonds of Abhorrence"
Necros Christos "Nine Graves"
Encoffination "III: Hear Me, O' Death (Sing Thou Wretched Choirs)"
Vassafor / Sinistrous Diabolos split
Midnight "No Mercy for Mayhem"
Volahn "Aq'Ab'Al"
Impetuous Ritual "Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence"
Top 10 Other Sounds:
Swans "To Be Kind"
The Body "I Shall Die Here"
Gas Chamber "Hemorrhaging Light"
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra "Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything"
Croatian Amor "The Wild Palms"
Cult of Youth "Final Days"
PIG DNA "DOM (Demonstrate Overpowering Might)"
Perturbator "Dangerous Days"
Ionophore "Through Light Fractures"
Matthew Akers "A History of Arson"
I still need to hear the new ones from Mortuary Drape, Hetroertzen, Yob, Drowned, Goatmoon, Godflesh and some others, but I can't see much changing. There were plenty of other great releases in 2014, but these are the ones I narrowed it down to.
