The Metallurgian's Top 20 Albums of 2014

2014 was a very good year for metal. Probably a great year. Even when some albums leave you a tad to seriously disappointed, there are always records out there just waiting to blow you away. Some are easy to find because people (journalists, bloggers, your friends, etc.) can't stop talking about them, whereas others are left for you to discover if you're willing to dig deep enough. That's how I view this past year. Some of my favorites of 2014 seem to be on everybody's year-end list, while others didn't get anywhere near the attention they deserved.

Here are my top/favorite albums of 2014:

20. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
19. At the Gates - At War With Reality
18. Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
17. The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master
16. Vanhelgd - Relics of Sulphur Salvation
15. Keeper - MMXIV
14. Sivyj Yar - From the Dead Villages' Darkness
13. Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
12. Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
11. Phobocosm - Deprived
10. Wolf Blood - Wolf Blood
09. Nightfell - The Living Ever Mourn
08. Misery Index - The Killing Gods
07. Old Graves - Like Straining Boughs
06. Thou - Heathen
05. Gridlink -  Longhena
04. Locktender - Rodin
03. Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
02. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
01. Panopticon - Roads to the North