Year-End Lists: Decibel's Top 40

While I'm still putting the finishing touches on my favorites of 2014, let's take a look at what some others are saying about the year in metal.

Decibel is the only magazine to which I subscribe, and I always look forward to getting the new issue every month. I may not always agree with everything written, but props to Decibel for remaining relevant as a print magazine in this digital age.

I'm not going to agree/disagree with each album, but here are a few thoughts:
-The new At The Gates is good, but is it #2 good?
-Machine Head at #12? Gimme a break.
-I can understand Agalloch being on this list, but this latest one didn't do it for me.
-I can't get into the new Sólstafir. 
-I'm not overly surprised by the top 10, but it seems out of order.
-Three of the top 10 are absolutely tremendous albums.

Here are Decibel's top 40 albums of 2014:
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