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| Launching the doom metal
movement, Candlemass was the brain child of former Nemesis man Leif
Edling. While the1986 debut (preceded by the Witchery demo) remains
a respected milestone, the band developed its reputation with Marcolin
who joined the band after the album. Rumours have it that Tales
Of Creation is in fact a reworked Nemesis album. At this point the
band had toured with the likes of Nuclear Assault, Savatage and
Slayer. Live is a fantastic representation of doom metal. An unsuccessful
US tour with Atheist followed. At this juncture Marcolin leaves
the band following differences with Edling over the former's vocal
style. The nineties saw Candlemass do the unthinkable and move away
from doom metal. Edling spent most of the nineties with his heavy
metal band Abstrakt Algebra and hosting a metal show on Swedish
radio until his return (sans Marcolin) for Dactylis. A Swedish-only
EP was released in 1993 via Megarock but this was merely a collection
of old Swedish folk songs. The current Cabdlesmass is mostly heavy/power
with some doom moments. Predictably, the band reformed in 2002.
The band's first show was the Sweden Rocks Festival. The lineup
was vocalist Messiah Marcolin, bassist Leif Edling, guitarists Mats
Bjorkman and Lars Johansson and drummer Jan Lindh. The act released
a DVD called Candlemass Documents Of Doom culled from 1990 and announced
plans for a live album. The Swedes played at the BW&BK festival
in the USA in the summer of 2003. The band wrote several new songs, but abruptly threw in the towel again in the winter of 2004. The band members did not get along. As abruptly, the band regrouped later in the year. Simultaneously, the band announced a new compilation CD, entitled Essential Doom, through GMR Music. It featured the band's favourite songs plus the unreleased track Witches. The band was writing new material and signed to Nuclear Blast in early 2005. Candlemass returned to the scene with a new studio album in May, 2005. The album was recorded at Sweden's Polar Studio. The band was soon booked at Several European festivals including Rockwave Festival. The band hit the European road with former label-mates Destruction, and Finland's Deathchain, in the autumn. Candlelight Records issued six back catalog titles from the band in the USA in February of 2006. The titles included four unavailable albums, a live record and the band's CD/DVD collection. In April of 2006 vocalist Messiah Marcolin quit Candlemass as he had just prior to Chapter VI, although the band’s website predicted he would soon return. |
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