2014 Summary

First thing first: I wasn't able to afford every important record this year so my list of best albums this year are not accurate,
For this moment I don't have a new Alestorm album, new Hammerfall album and a new Skalmold album, my guess is that either Alestorm or Skalmold are the best folk metal album this year (I don't take under consideration albums of Grai, Arkona, Eluveitie or Equilibrium). But I operate with what I have so

Best folk metal album of 2014 goes to Trollfest for Kaptein Kaos. Even though the cd didn't really grew on my like their previous ALL then Ave Maria and title track are really fun to hear over and over again. Not as good as last year's Finntroll, that was something

Best power metal album of 2014 goes to Enceladus, a newcomer. The mixing and production are on a lower level than Dragonforce and both bands delivered some solid material this year. After long listens Enceladus wins, with less catchy songs and worse vocals but better bass and more fresh solos&ideas (DF is too damn repetitive)

Best melodic death metal album of 2014 goes to, of course, Insomnium. Do I even have to say why?

And as I said earlier this year, best album of 2014 is Babymetal. A overpacked with hit songs monster with crazy level mixing and sound quality, sea of ideas that were perfectly used and everything is just FUCKING CATCHY. Great vocals, great live performances of said songs, the only mediocre thing about this band is the album intro but who cares, skip it and enjoy.


In 2014 I saw many bands live, 3 Titanium shows and made some great friends (bro!) and met in person some old ones (Gunsen, Lena, Elodie). Also my dream of seeing Pathfinder came true.
Sadly the personal stuff went to hell, I thought 2013 was the worst year in this case but it wasn't even close. People died, others treated me like shit, left me and I was an asshole sometimes as well. Not really sure what to do now.

Crapus

Every guy who says that music, metal music or whatever ended on a band x/before 2000/again whatever is a fucking idiot. And his dick is small. Aaaand he probably smells bad too. Plus his house is ugly. Who picked this color?
Anyway, my point is that sometimes a new band pops out, out of nowhere, and destroys the system, amazes us with a new approach at music and goes big. For me it was Pathfinder or Babymetal, even Alestorm back in the day was a great surprise with a fresh idea. Those bands usually have a big problem with follow ups, people are so amazed by their first album that they usually start hating on the next one even if it's as good as the first one or better than any work by similar artist.

But there is a case when a band after their first success decides to release a crap

( I know it's from their third album, not the second one, whatever)

. Thus hereby I shall call them Crapus from this day now. Don't get me wrong, they were never big, but it was a surprisingly fresh approach in 2011-2012 to folk music with metalcorish vocals and nice clean ones. Songs were pretty complex (mostly catchy songs so never like Wintersun-complex) and their fanbase was nice and strong.
But it seems our italian friends were not happy with this. As b0ss Franku says:

So they decided to water down the folk part of their music to, I have no idea actually, attract more teenage girls for their small italian dicks? Their second release was quite bad but still passable "now with 50% less folk! and 100% more crap" and the new one is just terrible. I like how they brag that they released it without any label help. My guess is that no label wanted to be partially resposible for this :P Anyway, the fans are pissed off and start to leave while bitching a lot. I was never a fan but bitching a lot is what I do so thanks Crapus for getting me material to write about :P


Do I hate this song? No. It's poppy, I like(d) pop. Shines like an emerald like rainbow in the sky, whatever. But compare the views of their first album music video on yt and views of their new works. Math is hard, I know

I should stop bitching for now, they are not worth my time. So why do I give a shit? Because like with every band that goes the wrong direction (cough, cough, Sonata, cough) I STILL HAVE HOPE

Ok, enough with the pics for now :P