Sólstafir - Ótta

Number 1 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year 2014 is the Icelandic four-piece Sólstafir.

It's a challenging record, but satisfying in kind and universal in its expressiveness.

"Ótta"is like a seductive cocktail of something to come. They touch something ancient and timeless. An atmospheric shoegaze psychedelic metal appetizers that captivates the listener. The album has excellent production with a great mood and structure, it will touch you deeply within its beauty and leave a mark that can't be washed away even if you used the most heaviest dirt remover. You will play this record over and over again, I have and you will! Just lean back, close your eyes, take your time and lose yourself in this masterpiece called "Ótta"!

Todays tune "Lágnætti" is a very elegant well-shaped tune, enjoy!



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Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie

Number 2 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year 2014 is the Long Beach, California soulful blues rockers Rival Sons with the record "Great Western Valkyrie".

Great Western Valkyrie is an album that you must have and I mean that. This one have a great sex appeal, it's timeless with a soul that really will hit you in the forehead, the tunes have great groove that will get you up on the dance floor, if you do not dance then you surely will play air drums or lying on the floor trying to get the riffs right. Rival Sons have done it again and taken us to new places I could never have predicted, but it works a dream!

The album explodes out of the blocks in very similar fashion to Head Down, but this is far better. I feel like Im in heaven when the yellow piece of plastic is spinning on my record player, the volume is getting higher and higher and I guess my neighbours soon will hit the bell and tell me to fuck off!

Todays tune "Where I've Been" is a beautiful piece taken from "Great Western Valkyrie" but todays Video is from the Rival Sons EP 'WiMP Presents Juke Joint Sessions'. Recorded in Juke Joint Studio, Notodden, Norway, July 31st 2014. Recorded as part of the streaming company WiMP's, exclusive Rival Sons EP, 'Juke Joint Sessions', released on August 18th. A co-operation between WiMP, Notodden Bluesfestival, and Juke Joint Studio.



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Agalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere

 

 Number 3 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year is the Portland progressive avant-garde metal band "Agalloch" with the latest effort "The Serpent & The Sphere"

"The Serpent & the Sphere" represents the most glorious sounding Agalloch album to date. It's a great addition to the band's legacy and a brilliant set of work, where you will get a great mix of progressive avant-garde style of folk metal that encompasses an eclectic range of tendencies including neofolk, post-rock, black metal and doom metal. This is one of those albums that is able to gain the perfect balance between the extreme and the quietly beautiful.

Agalloch's imagery and subject matter are natural beauty, melancholy and allusions to ancestral Heathenry. "The Serpent and the Sphere" is something you need to have.

Todays tune "The Astral Dialogue" is taken from the the fifth full-length record "The Serpent & The Sphere" and will get you something to dream off. Enjoy!



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Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden

Number 4 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year 2014 is a fabulous dark doomish dudes of the Arkansas outfit's latest super-heavy slab.

This doom metal will poison your mind. Pallbearer have successfully put down a versatile piece of stone on the already dilapidated road to the ultimate doom passage.

The music here is timeless.

As Canon got the title "Best Heavy Drone Doom" album of the year I guess I have to say that this is best Doom record of the year.

Todays tune "The Ghost I Used to Be" is taken from the second full length album "Foundations Of Burden", enjoy! Todays clip is a Live Concert @ Lo-Fi ARCI club - Milano, so the quality aint the best. So click on the Spotify link, fall back, close your eyes and listen, when all of the instruments return at full volume, it's physically impossible not to want to move.



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Greenleaf - Trails & Passes

Number 5 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year 2014 is this Scandinavian music collective "Greenleaf" with their the fifth long-player "Trails & Passes"

"Trails & Passes" is filled up with great harmony, skill full riffs and expressive melodies signed by the guitarist Tommi Holappa. It's a great blend of fuzzy psychedelic stoner rock with classic heavy rock. The new singer Arvid Jonsson sings with high class, the vocals are mature and deep and suits Greenleaf perfectly. The album delivers a production that is both deep, sharp and more complex than previous releases. Greenleaf have released a really pleasant album.

Todays tune "Our Mother Ash", recorded live at sala maravillas (Madrid) 29-11-2014. Yes the sound is crap, but what the heck, this is freaking good.



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Royal Blood - Royal Blood

Number 6 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year 2014 is the British brash-rock duo "Royal Blood" that kicks us in the ass with the self titled début album.

Royal Blood with their mixture of anguished cocky vocals, vigorous drumming and bass of chugging menace. A tight bind of rhythm and noise that will kick you off your hard wooden chair! Royal Blood have made a very fresh and inventive album that works all the way from beginning to end. This is a fantastic record that is definitely worth to add to your collection.

On the 23rd of Mars next year these duo will play at Debaser Medis, Stockholm, Sweden. A show that I am almost certain it will be sold out, if it's not already.

Todays tune "Figure It Out" is taken from Royal Blood's self titled debut.



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Opeth – Pale Communion

Number 7 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year 2014 is the Progressive Swedes in "Opeth" and the record "Pale Communion"

Pale Communion does really fill me up with exciting moments, it's an album where the compositions are magnificence and full of dynamics and contrast. Pale Communion is just an extremely compelling album.

Todays tune "Moon Above, Sun Below" is a magnificent piece of art.



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Anciients - Heart Of Oak

Number 1 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year 2013 is the Vancouver-based rock juggernaut "Anciients" with thier debut album "Heart Of Oak"

 

The band concits of: 

Kenny - Lead Guitar & Vocals

Chris - Guitar & Vocals

Booner - Bass & Vocals

Hannay - Drums

What a debut, what a refreshing slice of progressive music. A record that should be enjoyed in its entirety, for it is a journey through a deep progressive landscape, a large and rich dynamic maze, chances are that you will be stuck there forever.

Somewhere between sheer, apocalyptic heaviness and precise riffing, lays otherworldly Anciients, a forging crushing heavy metal evocative of veterans High on Fire and contemporary sonic craftsmen, Opeth, with Mastodon and Baroness finesse. The band have combined fuck-off-huge chords with mind-altering riffage that takes you on an unfamiliar trip.

Todays tune "Raise The Sun" gives you a taste on what's waiting for you!



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SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods

Number 2 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year 2013 is the absolutely amazing SubRosa, Sludge Doom from Salt Lake City, where the record More Constant Than The Gods reaches really high on this year's list. A record filled with heavy riffs and dueling violins, where Rebecca Vernon's plainsong is as striking as it is sludgy depressed.

Within the Subrosa crucible, sludgy low-end and high volume lock arms with ultra-melodicism, folk and experimental elements delivered through the haunting ambience of two electric violins.

Todays tune "Cosey Mo" is taken from the third album "More Constant Than The Gods"



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Windhand - Soma

Number 3 on Tune Of The Days best album list of year 2013 is the record "Soma", that is both ominously and inviting, sticky riffs and melodies from the south filled with ghost-like screams from vocalist Dorthia Cottrell, whose vocals sounds like she's singing them from another world. Deeply hypnotic and powerful album.

Soma is a record more than just doom-metal fanatics—this is an superb record for all fans of guitar driven trancendental, syrupy slow, monolithic and downtuned doom and it's as catchy as it is heavy. Propelled by singer Dorthia Cottrell’s beautifully haunting bellow, Windhand’s dual guitar attack sounds like the glorious misfit offspring of early Black Sabbath and Sleep.

Todays tune "Woodbine" is a great piece taken from Soma, enjoy!



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