In heavy metal, originality counts for almost everything. As the genre took root around the world, the gamesmanship found artists challenging what was previously thought to be possible on traditional ...

The post Candlemass announce The Pendulum EP, share lyric video for title track: Stream appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The band shared the thrashy title track, which touts a raw chugging riff ...

Swedish metal pioneers Candlemass seem to be bringing the doom cycle around full circle, parting ways with singer Mats Levén and hiring original vocalist Johan Längqvist, who last performed on the ...

If you love modern doom, you owe a debt of gratitude to Candlemass. Formed in Stockholm in 1984, the group were among a handful of early purveyors of the slow, down-tuned, and monumentally forlorn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Candlemass 1986. When Leif Edling founded doom pioneers Candlemass in the Swedish municipality of Upplands Väsby in late 1984, he ...

Candlemass laid the blueprint for so-called epic doom metal, a style that borrows from both early iterations of Black Sabbath: the extended, bluesy structure of the first 6 albums and the soaring ...

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HAPPY VALENTIMES! Candlemass are doing all they can to make the most romantic day of the year extra sensual by releasing a new song, “Porcelain Skull.” And SENSUAL it is! In terms of soundtracks for ...

“The Omega Circle” is the first Candlemass song in over THIRTY YEARS to feature the voice of original singer Johan Längquist, who left the band after their 1986 debut Epicus Doomicus Metallicus.

Swedish band Candlemass’ 1986 debut album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is a bona doom metal landmark, giving the template laid down by Black Sabbath in the early 70s and developed in the US by The ...