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/M4licious10: 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/Squ1DD0S10. Faced With Ruins - Scene Of Devastation9. DeadAlive - Reinforcement8. I am Revenge - Red Gold7. Killwhitneydead - Suffer My Wrath6. Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker - Advanced Basics5. Existence - Naivety4. Boris The Blade - The Human Hive3. Zealot - Learned Hate2. Black Tongue - Born Hanged
1. Carnifex - Die Without HopeMost Anticipated: Widow - Intrusive Thoughts, Villains - Untitled, Chelsea Grin - Ashes to AshesHector/DeathMountainDew:10: For All Those Sleeping - Incomplete Me 9: Linkin Park - The Hunting Party8: Upon This Dawning - We Are All Sinners 7: Nightmares - Susprira6: Dead By April - Let the World Know5: For Today - Fight the Silence4. Of Mice & Men - Restoring Force 3: Miss Fortune - A Spark to Believe2: Ice Nine Kills - The Predator Becomes the Prey
1: Architects - Lost Forever // Lost TogetherMost Anticipated: Suicide Silence - You Can't Stop Me, Volumes - No Sleep, Upon a Burning Body - The World is Now My Enemy, Motionless In White - ReincarnateBarrett/BearlySinister10. Black Oxygen - Beating Time9. Ice Nine Kills - The Predator Becomes the Prey 8. Feel Never Real - Rock Rebel Gold7. Breathe Carolina - Savages6. Nothing More - Nothing More 5. Seether - Isolate and Medicate4. 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 Reflections7. Laws of Inertia – Laws of Inertia6. Vanna – Void 5. Seditionist – Retract/Relapse4. Nexilva - Eschatologies3. 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.