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Stockholm, Sweden (1984 – 1992, 1997 – 2002, 2005 – present)

Candlemass is a doom metal band formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1984. Candlemass arose from the earlier Nemesis outfit belonging to bassist Leif Edling and guitarist Christian Weberyd. Prior to the dissolvement of the group, Nemesis had released the highly praised ‘Day Of Retribution’ album in 1984. Debuting Candlemass on the tape trading circuit with the four song ‘Witchcraft’ demo in 1984, featuring a line-up of Edling, Weberyd and drummer Mats Ekström, and a second demo that November, the band promptly signed to the French Black Dragon label. Having added former A.T.C. guitarist Mats Björkman (a.k.a. ‘Mappe’) the band began recording what would become the ‘Epicus, Doomicus, Metallicus’ debut at Thunderload Studios with Ragne Wahlquist, frontman for Heavy Load, manning the desk.

During the recording of the album Christian Weberyd opted to leave and by the time it was released the group’s newly acquired vocalist, Johan Lanquist, a former member of Jonah Quizz, and drummer Mats Ekström, had also departed. Still, the album, emerging in June 1986, considerably raised the band’s profile and impressed many critics with a penchant for specialising in grandiose, Doom laden Metal dirges that, at times, were hideously depressing but always exceptionally heavy. With Doom being scarce on the Metal landscape in 1986 many reviewers simply tagged the band as BLACK SABBATH clones but record buyers soon put this assumptions aside, recognising the band as an original force.

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SelenaSweety wrote:
46 minutes ago

just got this Artist's ringtones at www.itsflycell.com. Solitude is my favorite, love it!

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bloodwolfhunter wrote:
7 hours ago

No such thing as false doom, thats for sure. CRYPT OF DESPAIR!!!!

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szczypiorofix wrote:
yesterday evening

@krumbledkookie : true! What makes some bands more "true" than others?

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krumbledkookie wrote:
yesterday evening

So what's an example of FALSE doom metal? TRUE and HIPSTER are the two most overused words in metal discussion because both mean absolutely nothing and arbitrarily used by anyone who thinks they're better than someone else. I'm not implying that that's what you're going for, just sayin'.

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Mgferraresso wrote:
Monday afternoon

One of the best metal bands EVER... This is TRUE doom metal.

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Hidrio wrote:
7 days ago

Nightfall is awesome.

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veyita_88 wrote:
7 days ago

Epicus Doomicus Metallicuss is one of the best metal albums ever!.

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Carnassial1 wrote:
10 days ago

Cheers everyone! You can vote for "Doom metal" in "Favorite Heavy metal Sub-genre Poll" on my profile page Carnassial1 It's over 2300 votes now. I'll be glad if you take a shot.

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Lahiri wrote:
10 days ago

Check this out! http://www.lastfm.it/music/And+This+Again/_/Inscrutable

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ReDGreeNBoY wrote:
16 days ago

Doom-Doom-Doom DOOM-DOOM DoooooooooM!!!

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Jodoomster wrote:
19 days ago

Kings of Doom... I worship Candlemass!

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konokrad wrote:
22 days ago

ага

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dragonuts wrote:
24 days ago

Good ol' pic

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Henkka93 wrote:
24 days ago

Quote from Inferno magazine: "We are just doing what we do best, which is making really good heavy-albums."

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scapino wrote:
last month

I agree. The band denied it after all.

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lijemo wrote:
last month

@scapino-- I'm not familiar with that publication. How reliable is it as a new source? I'm unable to find any other source mentioning this, which always makes me suspicious. (Also, the article is dated March 2008, which means if it WERE accurate, would have been in prison all this year.) I roll to disbelieve...

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llyonz wrote:
last month

good band

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HighLordMhoram wrote:
last month

Wonder how they'll tour with him imprisoned. Cheers for the link.

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Herm88 wrote:
last month

I love Candlemass... pure fuckin' doom metal...

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scapino wrote:
last month

Grand theft, 2 years (for stealing CDs worth $ 3 Million). The band denies though.

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