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 New Album, Share “Scandinavian Gods” Video: Stream appeared first on Consequence. Doom metal legends Candlemass have announced a new album, Sweet Evil Sun, coming November ...

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 ...

Legendary Swedish doom metal band Candlemass-- whose 1986 debut 'Epicus Doomicus Metallicus' and 1987 follow-up 'Nightfall' are essential listening for fans of lumbering post-Black Sabbath metal -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

The problem with reviewing veteran metal artists is that undeniable urge to create a comparison to the past. Mostly to things that might have happened thirty years ago, with an entirely different ...