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Candlemass

Sweden's Candlemass are one of the key bands to come out of the post-New Wave of British Heavy Metal and post-thrash scenes and have remained at he forefront of the modern doom metal movement. Emerging in 1986 with Epicus Doomicus Metallicus the landmark album that helped coin the genre, the band issued four more influential albums before ceasing operations in 1994. They reunited three years later and released Dactylis Glomerata, adopting a more avant-garde approach, but called it quits again shortly thereafter. They officially re-formed in 2004 and remained at the vanguard of the doom metal scene, issuing a string of acclaimed albums including Candlemass (2005), Psalms for the Dead (2012), The Door to Doom (2019), and Sweet Evil Sun (2022). In 2024, the live Tritonus Nights was released, followed in May 2025 by the four-track Black Star EP.After the breakup of his first band, Nemesis, in 1984, bassist Leif Edling founded Candlemass with vocalist Johan Lanquist, guitarist Mats Bjorkman, and drummer Matz Ekstroem. Their watershed debut, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, was released the following year, and though it immediately secured their standing within metal circles, it was only with the arrival of new vocalist Messiah Marcolin for 1987's Nightfall that the band found its true voice -- quite literally -- as the singer's vibrato-laden operatic tone remains completely original to this day. The album, which also saw the arrival of lead guitarist Lars Johansson and new drummer Jan Lindh, combined massive riffs and dark melodies into songs of epic proportions, which were made even more dramatic by Marcolin's religious lyrics and monk's habit stage costume. Candlemass repeated this formula on ensuing albums Ancient Dreams (1988) and Tales of Creation (1989), each of which also saw a noticeable improvement in the production department. The appropriately titled Live closed the golden era of their career with Marcolin departing to form his own band, Memento Mori. Singer Tomas Vikstrom was drafted as his replacement for 1992's Chapter VI (featuring a more conventional metal sound), but the band's popularity was in swift decline and Edling decided to disband soon thereafter. He formed a new group with decidedly Euro-metal leanings called Abstrakt Algebra in 1994, but after only two albums, he decided to resurrect Candlemass once again. The avant-garde metal of 1998's Dactylis Glomerata bore little resemblance to Candlemass' doom metal past, featuring Edling along with vocalist Björn Fklodkvist, guitarist Mike Amott, keyboard player Carl Westholm, and drummer Jejo Perkovic. Further lineup changes would occur, with guitarist Mats Stahl replacing Amott prior to the release of 1999's From the 13th Sun, after which the group would endure another long hiatus.Several years later, the classic lineup reconvened and released a self-titled 2005 album, which took home a Swedish Grammy. Messiah Marcolin left the fold shortly after the album's release, making way for new vocalist Robert Lowe of Solitude Aeturnus, who made his studio debut on 2007's King of the Grey Islands. Lowe appeared on 2009's Death Magic Doom as well, but left the group in 2012. Now signed to Napalm, the group enlisted longtime friend and collaborator Mats Leven (Yngwie Malmsteen, At Vance, Therion) to take the mike, resulting in the release of Psalms for the Dead. Leven's tenure with the group was short-lived, as the band brought back Epicus Doomicus Metallicus singer Johan Längqvist for album number 12, 2019's punishing Door to Doom. The album cut "Astorolus," featuring Tony Iommi, was later nominated for a Grammy for Best Metal Performance. 2020 saw the release of the Pendulum EP, followed by the full-length Sweet Evil Sun in 2022. In May 2024, Peaceville released the double-length live set Tritonus Nights. The label issued two compilations in April and May 2025, The Coming of Nightfall, and Dark Are the Veils of Death. Between them, the band released the four-track Black Star EP on the label. It collected the title cut and the instrumental "Corridors of Chaos," with covers of Pentagram's "Forever My Queen" and Black Sabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath."
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