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1986 was one of the best years in the history
of metal - Metallica released their "Master Of Puppets" album and Slayer
released "Reign In Blood", two of the most successful metal albums ever
released. What many younger metal fans don't know is that this was also the
year that a whole new subgenre of metal was brought to life through this close
to legendary album. "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" is perhaps not the most
intelligent album title you could come up with but what matters is the
wonderful music Leif Edling and his Candlemass created. Candlemass was formed
in 1985 after the demise of his old band Nemesis and as you can see it didn't
take long before they ended up with a record deal. This album was released
before the charismatic front man Messiah Marcolin entered the band but even
though I think his voice is wonderful and enhances the coming albums I don't
seem to miss it very much on this album. The music we are talking about is
powerful doom metal, not the ultra-slow Skepticism style, not the gothic
Tristania style but pure Candlemass doom metal with slow, ultra-heavy pounding
rhythms and epic clean vocals done by Johan Langqvist. Leif Edling has always
been a very fine song writer but it is the older albums that we will always
remember Candlemass for. This is without a doubt one of the most impressive
debut albums ever released.
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Solitude 2. Demons Gate 3. Crystal Ball 4. Black Stone |
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Wielder 5. Under The Oak 6. A Sorcerer's Pledge |
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