BEST OF 2014 – THE BEST RELEASES OF THE YEAR

Here’s the result of our BEST OF 2014 readers poll (thanks again to all those of you who sent in their lists)

01. DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
02. INCANTATION – Dirges Of Elysium
03. TRIPTYKON – Melana Chasmata
04. BEHEMOTH – The Satanist
05. TEITANBLOOD – Death
06. MORBUS CHRON – Sweven
07. DROWNED – Idola Specus
08. BÖLZER – Soma
09. AUTOPSY – Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves
10. AT THE GATES – At War With Reality

…and in case you’re curious to find out what the VOICES FROM THE DARKSIDE staff enjoyed the most this year, here’s some of our favorites in alphabetical order…

Alfonso Perez
BÖLZER – Soma
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
GRIDLINK – Longhena
IMPALED NAZARENE – Vigorous And Liberating Death
INCANTATION – Dirges Of Elysium
MISERY INDEX – The Killing Gods
NAUSEA – Condemned To The System
NE OBLIVISCARIS – Citadel
PHOBOCOSM – Deprived
WVRM – Swarm Sound

Anders P. Jørgensen
AUTOPSY – Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves
CENTINEX – Redeeming Filth
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
INCANTATION – Dirges Of Elysium
KHOLD – Ved Endes
RITUAL NECROMANCY – Void Manifest
SINISTER – The Post-Apocalyptic Servant
TEITANBLOOD – Death
THY SERPENT’S CULT  – Sedition, Sorcery And Blasphemy
ZOMBIFICATION – Procession Through Infestation

Bart Gabriel
DEAF DEALER – Journey Into Fear
JUDAS PRIEST – Redeemer Of Souls
NECROPHAGIA – White Worm Cathedral
OBITUARY – Inked In Blood
OCTOBER 31 – Bury The Hatchet
PRIMORDIAL – Where Greater Men Have Fallen
RIOT V – Unleash The Fire
SAVAGE MASTER – Mask Of The Devil
TRIPTYKON – Melana Chasmata
WOLF – Devil Seed

Curtis Dewar
AUROCH – Taman Shud
CASTLE – Under Siege
DISMEMBERMENT – Embrace The Dark
ENTHRONED – Sovereigns
HESSIAN – Bachelor Of Black Arts
SKELATOR – King Of Fear
SUFFERING HOUR – Foreseeing Exemptions To A Dismal Beyond
THE OATH – The Oath
VOID RITUAL – Holodomor
WITCH MOUNTAIN – Mobile Of Angels

Frank Stöver
ATOMIC AGGRESSOR – Sights Of Suffering
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
DEATHRONATION – Hallow The Dead
DESTROYING DIVINITY – Hollow Dominion
INCANTATION – Dirges Of Elysium
MANTAR – Death By Burning
NAUSEA – Condemned To The System
TEITANBLOOD – Death
TERRORIZER – Before The Downfall 1987 / 1989
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath

Hacker
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
INCANTATION – Dirges Of Elysium

Jaime Perez
ABIGOR – Leytmotif Luzifer
ACHERON – Kult Des Hasses
AUTOPSY – Tourniquets, Hacksaws, And Graves
CORPSESSED – Abysmal Thresholds
CYNIC – Kindly Bent To Free Us
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
DOOM:VS – Earthless
ENTHRONED – Sovereigns
HORRENDOUS – Ecdysis
TEITANBLOOD – Death

Julian Nuñez
AT THE GATES – At War With Reality
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
FORCE OF DARKNESS – Absolute Verb Of Chaos And Darkness
HORRENDOUS – Ecdysis
INFINITUM OBSCURE – Ascension From The Luminous Black
LVCIFYRE – Sun Eater
MORBUS CHRON – Sweven
MORTUARY DRÅPE – Spiritual Independence
NAUSEA – Condemned To The System
VADER – Tibi Et Igni

Kunal Choksi
DOMAINS – Sinister Ceremonies
GODFLESH – Decline And Fall
INCANTATION – Dirges Of Elysium
MISERY INDEX – The Killing Gods
MOURNFUL CONGREGATION – Consecresence Of The Sophia
NECROS CHRISTOS – Nine Graves
NORSE – Pest
SAOR – Aura
WINDBRUCH – No Stars, Only Full Dark
WOODS OF DESOLATION – As The Stars

Lem Lycurgus
BLOOD STORM – The Stellar Exorcism
DOMAINS – Sinister Ceremonies
GOATPENIS – Flesh Consumed On The Battlefield
NECROHOLOCAUST – Holocaustic Goat Metal
NIGHTBRINGER – Ego Dominus Tuus
NUCLEARHAMMER – Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer
SOULBURN – The Suffocating Darkness
STARGAZER – A Merging To The Boundless
TRUPPENSTURM / THORYBOS – Approaching Conflict Split
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath

Mauricio Sanchez
ANGUISH – Mountain
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
EXECRATION – Morbid Dimensions
MORBUS CHRON – Sweven
PORTRAIT – Crossroads
STENCH – Venture
THE ATLAS MOTH – The Old Believer
TOMBS – Savage Gold
YOB – Clearing The Path To Ascend
ZOMBIEFICATION – Procession Through Infestation

Michael Kujawska
AT THE GATES – At War With Reality
BEHEMOTH – The Satanist
BLOODBATH – Grand Morbid Funeral
DESERTED FEAR – Kingdom Of Worms
INSOMNIUM – Shadows Of The Dying Sun
NAZGHOR – Through Darkness And Hell
ONHEIL – Storm Is Coming
ORDER TO RUIN – The Path To Atrocity
PORTAL – For All That Is Damned To Vanish
UNLIGHT – The Katalyst Of The Katharsis

Michael Oelschlegel
AT THE GATES – At War With Reality
ATOMIC AGGRESSOR – Sights Of Suffering
BULLETBELT – Rise Of The Banshee
DEATHRONATION – Hollow The Dead
DROWNED – Idola Specus
EVIL FORCE – Ancient Spores
ORACULUM – Sorcery Of The Damned
REVEL IN FLESH – Death Kult Legions
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath
VANHELGD – Relics Of Sulphur Salvation

Michael Tak
ATOMIC AGRESSOR – Sights Of Suffering
BÖLZER – Soma
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
DROWNED – Idola Specus
FORCE OF DARKNESS – Absolute Verb Of Chaos And Darkness
GRAVEYARD GHOUL / CRYPTIC BROOD – The Graveyard Brood
KHTHONIIK CERVIIKS – Heptaedrone
MIASMAL – Cursed Redeemer
SLAUGHTBBATH – The Grand Dialogue & Mortal Paradigma
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath

Mindaugas “Plix” Lapinskas
ACHERON – Kult Des Hasses
AUTOPSY – Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves
BONESAW – The Illicit Revue
ENTOMBED A.D. – Back To The Front
NAUSEA – Condemned To The System
PHILL RUDD – Head Job
RATOS DE PORAO – Seculo Sinistro
RIGOR MORTIS – Slaves To The Grave
TRIPTYKON – Melana Chasmata
VIOLATION WOUND – Violation Wound

Mirco Szymyslik
ASKRINN – Hjørleifsljóð
DEATH VOMIT – Gutted By Horrors
DESERTED FEAR – Kingdom Of Worms
DRÅP – En Naturlig Död
GLUTTONY – Beyond The Veil Of Flesh
GRAVECRUSHER – Morbid Black Oath
HELLSODOMY – Masochistic Molestation
KEITZER – The Last Defence
TRIPTYKON – Melana Chasmata
VADER – Tibi et Igni

Nathaniel Shapiro
ABSU: Origin – War And Magick
ABYSMAL LORD – Storms Of Unholy Black Mass
BLASPHERIAN / IMPRECATION – Split
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
KURNUGIA – Tribulations Of The Abyss
NUNSLAUGHTER – Angelic Dread
OCTOBER 31 – Gone To The Devil
SADISTIC INTENT – Reawakening Of Horrid Thoughts
TEITANBLOOD – Death
TRIPTYKON – Melana Chasmata

Rafael Bracero
ASPHERIUM – The Fall Of Therenia
AT THE GATES – At War With Reality
BLOODBATH – Grand Morbid Funeral
GHOST BRIGADE IV – One With The Storm
MORBUS CHRON – Sweven
NE OBLIVISCARIS – Citadel
PANOPTICON – Road To The North
REVOCATION  – Deathless
RIGOR MORTIS – Slaves To The Grave
RIOT V – Unleashed The Fire

Richard Osmond
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
DISEMBALLERINA – Undertaker
DYING SUN – Transcendence
EMPTINESS – Nothing But The Whole
GORGASM – Destined To Violate
GRAND MAGUS – Triumph And Power
HOD – Book Of The Worm
JUDAS PRIEST – Redeemer Of Souls
LVCIFYRE – Svn Eater
SARGEIST – Feeding The Crawling Shadows

Sergei Pismeny
HIGH SPIRITS – You Are Here
INCANTATION – Dirges Of Elysium
INFERNAL CURSE – The End Upon Us
KEVER – Eon Of Cycling Death
MIDNIGHT – No Mercy For Mayhem
NOCTURNAL – Storming Evil
NOCTURNAL BREED – Napalm Nights
RIPPER – Raising The Corpse
SLOUGH FEG – Digital Resistance
WITCHING HOUR – Where Pale Winds Take Them High…

Stefan Franke
ATOMIC AGGRESSOR – Sights Of Suffering
BÖLZER – Soma
CANNIBAL CORPSE – A Skeletal Domain
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
ETERNAL KHAN – A Poisoned Realm
MORBUS CHRON – Sweven
NEW LIGHT CHOIR – Volume II
TEMPLE OF VOID – Of Terror And The Supernatural
THE HOUSE OF CAPRICORN – Morning Star Rise
VILLAINY – The View From My Ivory Tower EP / Villainy I

Steven Willems
BEASTMILK – Climax
DEAD CONGREGATION – Promulgation Of The Fall
INCANTATION – Dirges Of Elysium
INFINITUM OBSCURE – Ascension Through The Luminous Black
MORBUS CHRON – Sweven
NECROS CHRISTOS – Nine Graves
OPETH – Pale Communion
PRIMORDIAL – Where Greater Men Have Fallen
SOULBURN – The Suffocating Darkness
TRIPTYKON – Melana Chasmata

Thomas Georg
BURIAL HORDES – Incendium
DEAD CONGREGATION – Premulgation Of The Fall
DOMAINS – Sinister Ceremonies
DROWNED – Idola Specus
ENSNARED – Ravenous Damnation’s Dawn
MAVETH / EMBRACE OF THORNS – A Plaque Through The Heavens
NECROS CHRISTOS – Nine Graves
NIDSANG – Into The Womb Of Dissolving Flames
NIGHTBRINGER – Ego Dominus Tuus
VANHELGD – Relics Of Sulphur Salvation

Thomas Meyer
CALIFORNIA BREED – California Breed
DRÅP – En Naturlig Dod
EXIT HUMANITY – Undead Savior
GRAVE CRUSHER – Morbid Black Oath
MANTAR – Death By Burning
MORDBRAND – Imago
NECROS CHRISTOS – Nine Graves
REVEL IN FLESH – Death Kult Legions
SKELETHAL – Deathmanicvs Revelation
SKELETHAL – Interstellar Knowledge Of The Purple Entity