The 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2014

3. Opeth – Pale Communion

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Opeth released a new album this year, so inevitably they find themselves on our end of year, ‘Best of’, list.

Seemingly incapable of dropping the ball, Pale Communion mixes elements of Jazz-Fusion, Prog-Rock and Folk-Metal with their days of growling and blast-beating so far behind them as to be non-existent.

The Opeth of 2014 is a Progressive Rock monster, forging ahead with inexhaustible creativity and sublime melody and Pale Communion will impress anybody who fell in love with 2003’s Damnation and 2011’s Heritage.  

It’s completely irrelevant that Opeth are not a Death Metal band anymore, or even a Heavy Metal band for that matter, what they are is the representation of all that Heavy Metal stands for; experimentation, the breaking down of boundaries and defiantly doing whatever the hell you feel like doing.

Their journey from Death Metal mavericks to Progressive Rock messiahs continues….