We’ve been taking your votes for a couple of weeks for the Top 25 albums of 2014. Voting closes at Midnight (Eastern Time) tonight and then we start tabulating the hundreds of votes we’ve received. Find out how you, our readers are voting for the 2014 Album of the Year after the jump.
When you vote here:
Vote for Your Top 25 Metal (or Any Other) Releases of 2014.
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Your first choice will be for your #1 Album of the Year. So far we’ve had 111 different choices for the best record of this very impressive year. Here’s the complete list on the final day of voting
Band-Album with First Place Votes (in Alphabetical Order with the Number of First Place Votes in Parentheses)
Acrania – Totalitarian Dystopia (4)
Aeon of Hours – Existence
Agalloch – The Serpent and the Sphere
Alaya – Thrones
Alcest – Shelter
Allegaeon – Elements of the Infinite
Allen/Lande – The Great Divide
Alterbeast – Immortal
Animals as Leaders – The Joy of Motion (9)
Architects – Lost Forever // Lost Together (4)
Archspire – The Lucid Collective (35)
Artificial Brain – Labyrinth Constellation (3)
At The Gates – At War With Reality
AVERSIONS CROWN – Tyrant (2)
Baring Teeth – Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins
Behemoth – The Satanist (7)
Beyond Creation – Earthborn Evolution (8)
Black Crown Initiate – The Wreckage Of Stars (5)
Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain (2)
Casualties of Cool – Casualties of Cool (2)
Clément Belio – Contrast
Crosses – Crosses
Cult Leader – Nothing For Us Here
Cynic – Kindly Bent to Free Us (3)
Dark Fortress – Venereal Dawn
Dead Congregation – Promulgation of the Fall
Death Grips – Niggas on the moon
Destrage – Are You Kidding Me? No (6)
Devin Townsend – Casualties of Cool
Devin Townsend Project – Z2 (3)
Devin Townsend Project – Dark Matters
Disentomb – Misery (2)
Epica – The Quantum Enigma
Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown (3)
Exist – Sunlight
Eye of the Enemy – The Vengeance Paradox
Eyehategod – Eyehategod
Fallujah – The Flesh Prevails (39)
Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas – Phase 2
Floor – Oblation
Godsmack – 1000HP
Gridlink – Longhena
Hadal Maw – Senium
Hail Spirit Noir – Oi Magoi
Haken – Restoration EP
Horrendous – Excdysis (2)
Horseback – Piedmont Apocrypha
I Killed the Prom Queen – Beloved
Inferi – The Path of Apotheosis (7)
Insomnium – Shadows Of The Dying Sun (2)
Intervals – A Voice Within (4)
Into Infernus – The End of Eden (3)
Job for a Cowboy – Sun Eater
Kenn Nardi – Dancing With The Past
Lies of Nazca – Aleph
Machine Head – Bloodstone & Diamonds (2)
Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun (4)
Misery Index – The Killing Gods
Monuments – The Amaneunsis (3)
Ne Obliviscaris– Citadel (42)
Nero di Marte – Derivae
Nightbringer – Ego Dominus Tuus
Nux Vomica – Nux Vomica
Old Man Gloom – The Ape of God
Opeth – Pale Communion (3)
Orange Goblin – Back From The Abyss
Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
Panopticon – Roads to the North
Pantera – Far Beyond Driven (RE-ISSUE)
Polyphia – Muse
Psalm Zero – The Drain
Raunchy – Vices.Virtues.Visions. (2)
Revocation – Deathless (5)
Rings of Saturn – Lugal Ki En (5)
Sabaton – Heroes (2)
Scar Symmetry – The Singularity Phase I: Neohumanity
Scott Walker /w Sunn – Soused
Septicflesh – Titan (2)
Serdce – Timelessness
Skyharbor – Guiding Lights (8)
Slipknot – .5: the Gray Chapter
Soen – Tellurian
Sólstafir – Ótta (3)
Son of Aurelius – Under a Western Sun (12)
Soreption – Engineering the Void
Space Vacation – Cosmic Vanguard
Sukekiyo – Immortalis
Sun Worship – Elder Giants
Swans – To Be Kind
Swarrrm – Flower
Teitanblood – Death
Thantifaxath – Sacred White Noise (2)
The Acacia Strain – Coma Witch
The Contortionist – Language (16)
The Misanthrope – Supersession
The Orwells – Disgraceland
Thou – Heathen
Torrential Downpour – Truth Knowledge Vision
Trap Them – Blissfucker
Tricot – Break
Triptykon – Melana Chasmata (2)
Vainaja – Kadotetut
Voyager – V
Vulvodynia – Cognizant Castigation
Warforged – Essence of the Land
Whispered – Shogunate Macabre
Wings Denied – Mirrors For a Prince
Wolcott Falls – Our Nuclear Option
Woods of Desolation – As The Stars (2)
Xerath – III (2)
YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend (2)
You can’t look at this list and say who will be in the Top 25 of our 2014 Readers Poll since we have a complex formula figuring in all of your votes. Keep an eye on Heavy Blog is Heavy for the final results soon.
— BS