End of the year...or actually the beginning of the year!

Hello and welcome to the end of the year post! This was something I used to write every time a year came close to an end but in the fashion of last year I didn't do it because things happened and stuff. This is the first time I broke the tradition and it makes me sad. So yeah, as usual, I broke much more promises than I fulfilled. I don't know, I begin with earnest determination to do something but always get lost along the way in something else. I guess I'm just like that, not a very pleasant trait to be honest. Back in November I started the "black metal November" thing and never finished it because I decided to play a round of Counter Strike and all of a sudden it's the end of January in 2015 and I did absolutely nothing else but Counter Strike. CS really ate all of my productivity this year, the game is just that addicting for me. I started playing it, again, when the latest iteration came out in 2012 (I think) and slowly but steadily it's eating everything else I really love to do. I even got invited into a clan and I might do some local cups and whatnot in 2015. I guess it was foolish of me to buy something out of nostalgia sake. I really loved the 1.6 days, playing it with friends in random internet cafes around town. Good times were had but these new CS times seem to be good as well.

The only thing I'll really remember from 2014 is attending a Herbie Hancock concert. It was my first time seeing a jazz giant in person and I was enjoying it immensely. Not only that but every piece he played I recognized (and loved as album versions) so it felt like a concert tailored just for my taste. Excellent stuff. I also got photobombed by Sean Bonnette (of Andrew Jackson Jihad fame) because I was too shy to get up and meet him after the concert. Anyway, that's pretty much it, most days just kinda went by.

As for plans for 2015 I don't really know. I started uploading all the albums I didn't post during the Nothing But Black Metal November so I'll probably do a batch post with all of them in it. I'm not sure when that will exactly happen because there's a lot of files to upload and I also have a few more things on my mind that I want to post but all in due time. I don't really know how frequent these posts will be but I'll try my best to break old negative habits.

In the meantime I've made a list of albums that made an impression on me from 2014 for you to check out and maybe enjoy them as well. By "made an impression" I mean that I liked them and I don't necessarily mean they're my AOTY or something like that. My AOTY was Death by Teitanblood if anybody is curious, in fact all top 10 places were taken by that one single album. I won't be sharing any of them as download links but I'm sure most of them are super easy to find on youtube or wherever you go for music that's not here.

Here's the list in alphabetical order:

With youtube samples this time that you'll have to copy/paste because I was too lazy to embed them all (hopefully they're not all dead by the time I'm posting this or you reading this)!

A Silver Mt. Zion - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp1aP_CEq44)

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Atomos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FgWIBJTkE)

Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5DEXrwpaUA)

Aenaon - Extance (http://youtu.be/qiN_jWI0-gE)

Ai Aso - Lone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P5ucXgoOWc)

Akrotheism - Behold The Son Of Plagues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhLVopS9nD0)

Alcest - Shelter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADIEAW65H5o)

Alvvays - Alvvays (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV7OVcOHJwg)

Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tjqpE_uVvk)

Aphex Twin - Syro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUAJ8KLGqis)

Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation (http://youtu.be/7OMxnngReo4)

Ascension - The Dead Of The World (http://youtu.be/Zhu595QL66k)

Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves (http://youtu.be/NXbeK9Iarm0)

Ava Luna - Electric Balloon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvpaela7xrA)

BADBADNOTGOOD - III (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWF2jHFkNpk)

Bastard Sapling - Instinct Is Forever (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QLQDK-G7Ws)

Blood Of Kingu - Dark Star On The Right Horn Of The Crescent Moon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd9lUECmrew)

Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNnYZhW9Z28)

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Piano Nights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiBsJPEDJeg)

Boris - Noise (http://youtu.be/M6KQRopdyls)

Botanist - VI Flora (http://youtu.be/fCqFqC2Ew9Q)

Camera Shy - Jack-O-Lantern (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFANeyaztbM)

Cannabis Corpse - From Wisdom to Baked (http://youtu.be/82pGrkF5dYE)

Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAIX2vISe3M)

clipping. - CLPPNG (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2GozE6XEqg)

Coffin Birth - Necrotic Liquefaction (http://youtu.be/B9o7oY6U8rg)

Conan - Blood Eagle (http://youtu.be/-of5C1OHX_8)

Cormorant - Earth Diver (http://youtu.be/rja4mxwZDxo)

Corpsessed - Abysmal Thresholds (http://youtu.be/sjXeeWHyX9Q)

Darkspace - Dark Space III I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiK3b3Gzm10)

Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall (http://youtu.be/hkE9h1eqcTQ)

Deus Ignotus - Procession Of An Old Religion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We-Ctw6rphs)

Diocletian - Gesundrian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1p6Kwzz0AY)

Drudkh / Winterfylleth - Thousands of Moons Ago / The Gates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHpaU7edIHE)

Dying Out Flame - Shiva Rudrastakam (http://youtu.be/kjl1B-HcvbE)

Earth - Primitive and Deadly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71nROr1yLgI)

Endlichkeit - III–V (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94-jUIktU8Y)

Eno • Hyde - High Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnxypgED6s)

Eric Revis - In Memory of Things Yet Seen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyGjvDGkj3A)

Execration - Morbid Dimensions (http://youtu.be/gwf4SkoRMG4)

Falls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming Shore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOU0Zc4gQwQ)

Fides Inversa - Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o84SIndUJ_4)

Fire! Orchestra - Enter! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpEF1nWCHrM)

Fire! Orchestra - Second Exit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7KgvJVg2Nw)

Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfOndsW0D70)

Free Nelson MandoomJazz - Saxophone Giganticus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mAnX4GyTkU)

Full Of Hell & Merzbow - Full Of Hell & Merzbow (http://youtu.be/M1wGpGU79Ik)

Furia - Nocel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t58A_78E9E)

Gridlink - Longhena (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_wQ10KTTgg)

Grouper - Ruins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i31zFiwBFho)

Heresiarch - Wælwulf (http://youtu.be/DWgOsn7lMMg)

Hod - Book Of The Worm (http://youtu.be/f9tRv8wdKAk)

Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dE3qmNKZl8)

Ifing - Against This Weald (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSsLyrHhVJU)

Impetuous Ritual - Unholy Congregation Of Hypocritical Ambivalence (http://youtu.be/8YCtjX6D7SI)

Incantation - Dirges of Elysium (http://youtu.be/L0616LeCpCg)

Indian - From All Purity (http://youtu.be/2QG5nqf1sZw)

Infestus - The Reflecting Void (http://youtu.be/1QeXCWoqDM4)

Iron Reagan - The Tyranny of Will (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhiBDQF_0HM)

Jar - Po Drugiej Stronie Mgly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzR88t9KHjw)

Jizue - Shiori (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaSIqoEPU3o)

Juçara Marçal - Encarnado (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEtzUtNNtzg)

Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls and Windows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOiGKtBBK9I)

Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io (http://youtu.be/YnIu7lp5mxE)

Khthoniik Cerviiks - Heptaedrone (http://youtu.be/Du7GttdP5T8)

Kiša Metaka - Kiša Metaka (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA0UDoOCMeo)

Kishi Bashi - Lighght (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJj0ZEDWcsY)

Kriegsmaschine - Enemy of Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anpevl45iGk)

Lemon's Chair - My Favorite Reverb (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzjBOBB1fA)

Lvcifyre - Svn Eater (http://youtu.be/Hwlir9wUW_o)

Malum In Se - ...of Death ...of Lurid Soul... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=377HWHFUuL8)

Mannveira - Von Er Eitur (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmozE9FWgV8)

Manon meurt - Manon meurt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sLoJj7jD_A)

Melvins - Hold It In (http://youtu.be/Chz53eUtjwU)

Merkabah - Moloch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqucbepjzho)

Morgan Delt - Morgan Delt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52JzFsCK_HQ)

Mortuus - Grape of the Vine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa6_Zt52jX0)

Naðra - Eitur (http://youtu.be/ukWnFcKrb5I)

Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus (http://youtu.be/T9DwEPpkOzE)

Ordinance - Relinquishment (http://youtu.be/rhFetr9jbL0)

Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley, Randall Dunn - Shade Themes from Kairos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuypqjZRsU)

Panopticon - Roads to the North (http://youtu.be/df_Fp2xY6lQ)

Perturbator - Dangerous Days (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2UKhmH03uc)

Professor Soap - Spacetime Fabric Softener (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3Gf-8lGtI)

Protomartyr - Under Color Of Official Right (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glCHUFGfZ8A)

Pyrrhon - The Mother of Virtues (http://youtu.be/cuBPGlfmP7Y)

Razorheads - Razorheads (http://youtu.be/uJNaByk7o5E)

Rome - A Passage to Rhodesia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdVs6Brenl0)

Rude - Soul Recall (http://youtu.be/aeB0_E6r2YY)

Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-S9mtYowPY)

Sacrocurse - Unholier Master (http://youtu.be/NPhbqdssInw)

Saor - Aura (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a41bIBvqTP0)

Sargeist - Feeding The Crawling Shadows (http://youtu.be/Oy6weaACAiE)

Sectu - Nefarious (http://youtu.be/IMT-eFrEEfQ)

sick/tired - Dissolution (http://youtu.be/Og1-6leSW7Q)

Sinmara - Aphotic Womb (http://youtu.be/-Fzyh1AvYmc)

Slugdge - Gastronomicon (http://youtu.be/MwPXFCgm6zA)

Sólstafir - Ótta (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8n8Uy5KmvU)

Spectral Lore - III (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5LGi4BQQZs)

St. Vincent - St. Vincent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVAxUMuhz98)

Sunn O))) - LA Reh 012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw44kaxzmwM)

Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ1-QfeE5tw)

Svartidauði - The Synthesis Of Whore And Beast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4GAzJOallA)

Swans - To Be Kind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSdTBGhDSg)

Teitanblood - Inferno (http://youtu.be/ny9Rzz2NFv8)

Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet (http://youtu.be/Q2hhLzUJ0Q8)

Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1llevuLQ4)

Tombs - Savage Gold (http://youtu.be/4ecRGfgk90c)

Tortorum  - Katabasis (http://youtu.be/zlPikahuvfM)

TrenchRot - Necronomic Warfare (http://youtu.be/2SnWYj6mss8)

Tyrants Of Hell - Repulsive Worship (http://youtu.be/6CSB07XPbCw)

Uchuu Konbini - Tsuki no Hansha de Miteta (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR8CwENcgEk)

Ulvegr - The Call Of Glacial Emptiness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nph6-FdBgCk)

Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath (http://youtu.be/2uHLctTTsXw)

Urzeit - Der zweite Drei (http://youtu.be/oXgButVy7k4)

Vermin Womb - Permanence (http://youtu.be/dQJvyDJl1qw)

Void Wraith - Ø (http://youtu.be/gDWTFNtUnjY)

Vuyvr - Incinerated Gods (http://youtu.be/iyzccPNb-gA)

Water Torture - Pillbox (http://youtu.be/itc-Mdi3hP8)

Winter Of Sin - Violent Reigns Supreme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnBWEB-HZAQ)

Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite (http://youtu.be/NG67MoJGmvE)

YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend (http://youtu.be/viatji__YX8)

Zaum - Oracles (http://youtu.be/vOcbEL2CT_w)

ZOM - Flesh Assimilation (http://youtu.be/0qVUEs5RvLU)

Happy new year, try to enjoy it and thank you for coming by the Flying Teapot for all these years!