9) Wheel - Preserved in Time
This record can easily be sold to both grizzly old Warning fans and shiny new Pallbearer fans. The classic doom style showcased here is a hard one to get right and great records in the genre become more and more rare as the years pass and the veterans get older. Thankfully, Wheel showed up this year to inject the fading style with a fresh infusion of killer riffs and hooks you can't help but sing along to. The title, Preserved in Time, makes this record sound like you'd have to dig it up from a forgotten crypt and accept that it was from a different era, one operating on reel to reel recording machines. This couldn't be further from the truth however, as the production shines with clarity, each detail nurtured and set free to soar, the result of a masterfully modern mixing job.
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