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ALBUMSweet Evil SunCandlemass
Albums by Candlemass
ALBUMSweet Evil SunCandlemass
ALBUMThe Door to DoomCandlemass
ALBUMPsalms for the DeadCandlemass
ALBUMDeath Magic DoomCandlemass
ALBUMDactylis Glomerate & Abstrakt Algebra IICandlemass
ALBUMKing of the Grey IslandsCandlemass
ALBUMCandlemassCandlemass
ALBUMFrom the 13th SunCandlemass
ALBUMChapter VICandlemass
ALBUMTales of CreationCandlemass
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Candlemass Essentials
They're so dark they've got the words "death" and "doom" in the same album title.
Artist Biography
Sweden's Candlemass helped reintroduce the lumbering power chords of Black Sabbath to an entire generation of post-New Wave of British Heavy Metal and post-thrash metalheads, almost single-handedly writing the handbook for the modern doom metal movement in the process. Emerging in 1986 with the landmark Epicus Doomicus Metallicus -- the LP 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, which saw them adopt a more avant-garde approach, but called it quits again shortly thereafter. The group 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).
Hometown
Stockholm, Sweden
Genre
Metal