The 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2014

5. Triptykon – Melana Chasmata

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Melana Chasmata is pure nihilistic experimentation set to music, with Progressive Metal, Doom Metal and  all avenues of Extreme Metal thrown into Tom G Warrior’s mixer and reformed, remoulded and restructured into something unique and unforgiving.

Arriving in April, its place in our end of year list was guaranteed on the very first listen. “In The Sleep Of Death” creeps and crawls under your skin while “Breathing” assaults like an unprovoked attack leaving you reeling and breathless.

Captivating and spellbinding, the riffs hypnotise and the dynamics enthrall, culminating in a record which punishes one second and cajoles the next; a divine exercise in pleasure and pain and a defining moment in Tom G Warrior’s peerless history.

With Melana Chasmata, Tom G Warrior has obliterated the boundaries of Metal once again. Taking his Celtic Frost blueprint to far-reaching extremes, Triptykon’s 2nd album is wholly unique and completely devoid of bullsh*it.