My Best (Mostly) Metal Albums of 2014 list so far in alphabetical order (Bold are Top picks):

Abigor – Leytmotif Luzifer (Avantgarde)

Abysmal Dawn – Obsolescence (Relapse)
#2: Agalloch – The Serpent and the Sphere (Profound Lore)
Alestorm – Sunset on the Golden Age
Allegaeon – Elements of the Infinite
Alunah – Awakening The Forest
Anaal Nathrak – Desideratum (Metal Blade)
Arthedain - Arias Exalted (EP)
#1: Behemoth –The Satanist (Metal Blade)
Behemoth – XIADZ (EP)
#5: Belphegor – Conjuring The Dead (Nuclear Blast)
Black Crown Initiate – The Wreckage of Stars
Black Monolith – Passenger (All Black)
#7: Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral
Bloody Hammers – Under Satan's Sun
#13: Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry (Debemur Morti)
#11: Bongripper – Miserable
#12: Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain
Coffinworm – IV.I.VIII (Profound Lore)
Cruachan – Blood For The Blood God
Couch Slut – My Life As A Woman
Dead Congregation – Promelgation of the Fall (Profound Lore)
Decapitated – Blood Mantra
Earth – Primitive And Deadly (Southern Lord)
#10: Electric Wizard – Time To Die (Witchfinder)
Emme Ya – Ophidian Fetish Mandala (Noctivagant)
Eluveitie – Origins (Nuclear Blast)
Enthroned – Soveriegns (Agonia )
Epica – The Quantum Enigma
Exodus – Blood In, Blood Out (Nuclear Blast)
Eyehategod – Eyehategod (Housecore)
Fen – Carrion Skies
#20: Goatwhore – Constricting Rage of The Merciless (Metal Blade)
Great Old Ones – Tekeli-Li
Heresiarch – Waelwulf (Iron Bonehead)
Inter Arma – The Cavern
Kali Ma – The Devil Knows You're Dead!
Kawir - ΝΥΧΤΟΣ ΤΕΛΕΤΗΣΙΝ 20 Years of Recordings (Deathrune)
King Crimson – The Elements of King Crimson 2014 Tour Box (DGM)
King Diamond – Dreams of Horror (Metal Blade)
Korn – Paradigm Shift World Tour Edition
Linkin Park – The Hunting Party (Warner Bros Machine Shop)
#14: Lord Mantis - Death Mask (Profound Lore)
#4: Mayhem – Esoteric Warfare (Season of Mist)
Misery Index – The Killing Gods (Season of Mist)
Mortals – Cursed to See The Future
Mortuary Drape – Spiritual Independence
6: Nightbringer – Ego Dominus Tuus (Season of Mist)
Noctem - Exilium
Norot - Nathrakh
Omnia – Earth Warrior (Pagan Scum Records)
Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden (Profound Lore)
Panopticon – Roads to the North (Bindrune)
Primordial – Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Robert Plant - lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar (Nonesuch)
Sargeist – Feeding The Crawling Shadows (Moribund )
#19: Septicflesh – Titan (Season of Mist)
Slipknot - .5 The Gray Chapter
Solstafir – Otta (Season of Mist)
Swans – To Be Kind (Young God)
Swashbuckle – We Hate The Sea (EP)
Taake – Kulde (EP)
Taake – Stridens Hus
Teitanblood - Death
Thanatos – Global Purification
#8: Thy Darkened Shade – Liber Lvicifer I: Khem Sedjet
Tinariwen – Emmaar (Wedge)
Tongues – Thelesis Ignis
Torn The Fuck Apart – Sexually Transmitted Torture (Ossuary Industries)
Trepaneringsritualen – Perfection & Permanence (Cold Spring)
#3: Triptykon –Melana Chasmata (Century Media)
Vampire - Vampire
Varathron – Untrodden Corridors of Hades
Voices - London
Winterfylleth – The Divination of Antiquity (Candlelight/Back On Black)
#15: Witchblood – Hail To Lyderhorn
Witch Mountain – Mobile of Angels (Profound Lore)
#16: Wormreich – Wormcult Revelations (Moribund)
#18: Young And In The Way - When Life Comes To Death (Deathwish)
#17: YOB – Clearing The Path To Ascend (Relapse)
#9: 1349 – Massive Cauldron of Chaos (Season of Mist)