First of all, Happy Newyear, wishing you all a healthy, blessed and prosperous 2015!

Thanks for your support over the past year, we really appreciate that. The past year has brought us loads of decent new releases, new bands and nice concerts/festivals. We expect that 2015 will be even better! The next year will be the 9th year of ‘The Metal Resource’.

A little bit later then expected: We are having each staff member of our team list their choices for The Top 10 Best Albums Of 2014 (In no particular order). Check it out below:

Márllon:
1. Puritan Mosh – “Nesse Chiqueiro Ninguem Vai Pro Céu”
2. Hating Evil – “Rotten Inside” [BR Version]
3. Demon Hunter – “Extremist” [Deluxe Edition]
4. UncaveD – “Meaning Of Death” [BR Version]
5. Mercy – “The Seven Signs”
6. Daniela Araújo – “Criador do Mundo”
7. Felipe Fr3ak – “Out Of Darkness”
8. A Hill to Die Upon – “Holy Despair”
9. Worst – “Cada Vez Pior”
10. Neversatan – “Walking At The Cold Night”

John:
1. A Hill to Die Upon – “Holy Despair”
2. Iron Savior – “Rise of the Hero”
3. Arch Enemy – “War Eternal”
4. Sick of It All – “Last Act of Defiance”
5. Malchus – “Dom Zly”
6. freaKINGS – “Gladiator”
7. Suicidal Tendencies – “13”
8. Joan Jett – “Unvarnished”
9. Empire 21 – s/t
10. Moral Monsters – “Postmodern Failurism”

Samuel:
1 Islander – Violence & Destruction
2 Beartooth – Disgusting
3 Bane – Don’t Wait Up
4 ’68 – In Humor and Sadness
5 Fit For A King – Slave to Nothing
6 ††† – †††
7 Mouth Of The South – “Struggle Well”
8 Silent Planet – “The Night God Slept”
9 Levi The Poet – “Correspondence: A Fiction”
10 Affiance – “Blackout”

Pete:
1. Disciple – “Attack”
2. Project 86 – “Knives To The Future”
3. War of Ages – “Supreme Chaos”
4. Platens – “Out Of The World”
5. Ambassadors Of Shalom – “Abdicate Self”
6. Demon Hunter – “Extremist”
7. Wolves At The Gate – “VxV”
8. Anberlin – “Lowborn”
9. For Today – “Fight The Silence”
10. Sleeping Giant – “Finished People”

Mauce:
1. Epica – “The Quantum Enigma”
2. Mayan – “Antagonise”
3. Harmony – “Theatre of Redemption”
4. Evergrey – “Hymns for the broken”
4. Demon Hunter – “Extremist”
5. Michael Sweet – “I’m Not Your Suicide”

Thrashboy:
1. Malchus – “Dom Zly” (The Evil House)
2. freaKINGS – “Gladiator”
3. Iron Savior – “Rise of the Hero”
4. Demon Hunter – “Extremist”
5. The Skull – “For Those Which Are Asleep”
6. Platens – “Out of the World”
7. Michael Sweet – “I’m Not Your Suicide”
8. Morning Dwell – “Morning Dwell”
9. Harmony – “Theatre of Redemption”
10. Axenstar – “Where Dreams Are Forgotten”

Evelyne:
1. Fit for a king – “Slave to nothing”
2. Wolves at the gate – “VxV”
3. War of ages – “Supreme chaos”

Donovan:
1. Sleeping Giant – “Finished People”
2. Suicidal Tendencies – “13”
3. Morning Dwell – “Morning Dwell”
4. Joan Jett – “Unvarnished”
5. Sick of it All – “Last Act Of Defiance”
6. Ambassadors of Shalom – “Abdicate Self”
7. Iron Savior – “Rise of the Hero”
8. Billy Idol – “Kings & Queens Of The Underground”
9. Demon Hunter – “Extremist”
10. Michael Sweet – “I’m Not Your Suicide”

Tobias:
1. Machinae Supremacy – “Phantom Shadow”
2. Gloryhammer – “Tales from the kingdom of Fife”
3. Betraying the Martyrs – “Phantom”
4. Sinbreed – “Shadow”
5. Dropkick Murphys – “Signed and Sealed in Blood”

Arjan:
1. Sleeping Giant – “Finished People”
2. Iron Savior – “Rise of the Hero”
3. Gloryhammer – “Tales from the kingdom of Fife”
4. freaKINGS – “Gladiator”
5. Harmony – “Theatre of Redemption”
6. Beyond Creation – “Earthborn Evolution”
7. Wovenwar – “Wovenwar”
8. War of Ages – “Supreme Chaos”
9. The Royal – “Dreamcatchers”
10. Morning Dwell – “Morning Dwell”

Bram:
1. Benea Reach – “Possession”
2. Ne Obliviscaris – “Portal Of I”
3. Persefone – “Spiritual Migration”
4. In Vain – “Ænigma”
5. The Common Linnets – “The Common Linnets”
6. Everything In Slow Motion – “Phoenix”
7. MaYaN – “Antagonise”
8. Beartooth – “Disgusting”
9. Extol – “Extol”
10. Teramaze – “Esoteric Symbolism”

(based on his last.fm top 10 most listened albums in 2014)

Rene:
1. Beartooth – “Disgusting”
2. Memphis May Fire – “Unconditional”
3. For Today – “Fight The Silence”
4. The Ghost Inside – “Dear Youth”
5. Wolves At The Gate – “VxV”
6. Silent Planet – “The Night God Slept”
7. Fit For A King – “Slave To Nothing”
8. Betraying The Martyrs – “Phantom”
9. Gideon – “Calloused”
10. Sleeping Giant – “Finished People”

Gijs:
1. Gideon – “Calloused”
2. Sólstafir – “ótta”
3. Sleeping Giant – “Finished People”
4. Mr Big – “…The Stories We Could Tell”
5. Demon Hunter – “Extremist”
6. War of Ages – “Supreme Chaos”
7. Cannibal Corpse – “A Skeletal Domain”
8. Vader – “Tibi Et Igni”
9. Nightranger – “Highroad”
10. Aborted – “The Nerrotic Manifesto”

Geert:
1. Fit For A King – “Slave to Nothing”
2. Silent Planet – “The Night God Slept”
3. Redeemer – “Dead Weight”
4. Colossus – “Badlands”
5. The Overseer – “Rest & Let Go”
6. Being as an Ocean – “How we both wonderously perish”
7. Demon Hunter – “Extremist”
8. Wolves at the Gate – “VxV”
9. Hotel Books – “I was almost happy but i never feel at home”
10. War of Ages – “Supreme Chaos”

*** What is your favorite album of 2014, leave your comment below ! ***