The post Candlemass Announce 2023 West Coast Tour appeared first on Consequence. Swedish doom metal legends Candlemass have announced their first batch of 2023 US tour dates. The run is comprised of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I don't know how they feel. They're probably tired of me already, but I just think it would be great." The singer recalled their very first gig together in Jönköping back in 1987: "It was our very ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Candlemass are without a doubt one of the most influential and groundbreaking doom-metal bands in the history of heavy music. Starting in 1986 with their mammoth-sized debut album Epicus Doomicus ...

Candlemass’ early lineup shuffling suggests that it might actually be that easy. Of the six people that play on Epicus, only two, bassist Leif Edling and rhythm guitarist Mats Björkman, showed up on ...

Candlemass is looking to have a banner year in 2020, with bassist Leif Edling's health rebounding, and renewed energy from a Grammy nod. And another positive is swinging the group's way: the March 27… ...