January-July: 2014 First-Half Staff Round Up!
Hey there friends and followers! Today, we at New Transcendence have a little bit of a treat for you. As you’re hopefully aware, at the end of each month, New Transcendence staff have been preparing brief lists of the month’s most noteworthy releases–and why they think they warrant noteworthiness. Below you’ll find something…similar. Rather, this is a retrospective look at the best that 2014 has had to offer so far, and a glimpse at what is still to come! As the year goes on, these are releases various writers and staff at New Transcendence believe will definitely be holding down their albums/EPs-of-the-year lists.
Leo/M4licious
10: Illuminator – Letters to No One
9: Kublai Khan – Balancing Survival and Happiness
8: I Am Revenge – Red Gold
7: Carnifex – Die Without Hope
6: I Declare War – We Are Violent People by Nature
5: Knocked Loose – Pop Culture
4: Boris the Blade – The Human Hive
3: Dealey Plaza – Provoke the Human
2: Shivers – Shivers
1: Black Tongue – Born Hanged and Traitors – Traitors
Most Anticipated: Continent – Wasteland, Beacons – Dead Thoughts, Wraiths – Hollow, Tormentor Absolute – Rotted.
Chad/Squ1DD0S
10. Faced With Ruins – Scene Of Devastation
9. DeadAlive – Reinforcement
8. I am Revenge – Red Gold
7. Killwhitneydead – Suffer My Wrath
6. Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker – Advanced Basics
5. Existence – Naivety
4. Boris The Blade – The Human Hive
3. Zealot – Learned Hate
2. Black Tongue – Born Hanged
1. Carnifex – Die Without Hope
Most Anticipated: Widow – Intrusive Thoughts, Villains – Untitled, Chelsea Grin – Ashes to Ashes
Hector/DeathMountainDew:
10: For All Those Sleeping – Incomplete Me
9: Linkin Park – The Hunting Party
8: Upon This Dawning – We Are All Sinners
7: Nightmares – Susprira
6: Dead By April – Let the World Know
5: For Today – Fight the Silence
4. Of Mice & Men – Restoring Force
3: Miss Fortune – A Spark to Believe
2: Ice Nine Kills – The Predator Becomes the Prey
1: Architects – Lost Forever // Lost Together
Most Anticipated: Suicide Silence – You Can’t Stop Me, Volumes – No Sleep, Upon a Burning Body – The World is Now My Enemy, Motionless In White – Reincarnate
Barrett/BearlySinister
10. Black Oxygen – Beating Time
9. Ice Nine Kills – The Predator Becomes the Prey
8. Feel Never Real – Rock Rebel Gold
7. Breathe Carolina – Savages
6. Nothing More – Nothing More
5. Seether – Isolate and Medicate
4. Atlas – Wake Me When I’m Famous!
3. Mirror:Mirror – Black and White
2. Being As An Ocean – How We Both Wondrously Perish
1. Arch Enemy – War Eternal
Most Anticipated: Suicide Silence – You Can’t Stop Me, Crown the Empire – The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways, Famous Last Words – Council of the Dead.
Connor Welsh/Eccentricism:
10. Apex – MMXIV
9. Hail to the King – Nomicon
8. Blackwell – Bitter Reflections
7. Laws of Inertia – Laws of Inertia
6. Vanna – Void
5. Seditionist – Retract/Relapse
4. Nexilva - Eschatologies
3. Dealey Plaza – Provoke the Inhuman
2. Traitors – Traitors
1. Martyr Defiled – No Hope. No Morality.
Most Anticipated: Widow – Intrusive Thoughts, Face Your Maker – Blood Tides, Heavy Lies the Crown – Heavy Lies the Crown, Beacons – Dead Thoughts, Barrier – Untitled, Villains – Untitled.
