The 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2014

4. Pallbearer – Foundations Of Burden

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The riffs, oh the riffs!

Trance-like and gargantuan in nature, Pallbearer have composed an album dripping with atmosphere and dank desperation and those riffs really are the stuff of morbid nightmares; a funeral procession put to music for want of a better analogy.

Pallbearer’s classic Doom, bringing to mind the likes of Doom pioneers Trouble and Candlemass but without ripping them off wholesale, is a deeply emotional experience that happens to be backed up with riffs powerful enough to shake the very ground on which you walk.

Balancing the mournful nature of Doom with a melancholy that hints at salvation, each lengthy track (only one song comes in under 8mins) is a journey through personal experience and the intricacies of life

2012’s Sorrows Of Extinction was very good, Foundations Of Burden is simply outstanding.