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 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 ...

If you love modern doom, you owe a debt of gratitude to Candlemass. Formed in Stockholm in 1984, the group were among a handful of early purveyors of the slow, down-tuned, and monumentally forlorn ...

HAPPY VALENTIMES! Candlemass are doing all they can to make the most romantic day of the year extra sensual by releasing a new song, “Porcelain Skull.” And SENSUAL it is! In terms of soundtracks for ...

It was going to be heavy week until I decided to sneak in the first disc. And One do their best to produce a German version of Depeche Mode. S.T.O.P is chock full of hard electronica of the type that ...

“The Omega Circle” is the first Candlemass song in over THIRTY YEARS to feature the voice of original singer Johan Längquist, who left the band after their 1986 debut Epicus Doomicus Metallicus.

Bloodstock Open Air has announced a Winter Gathering offshoot for December. The Derbyshire-based festival will take over KK’s ...

Ahead of Candlemass' appearance at Desertfest this weekend Dan Franklin talks to guitarist Lars Johansson and takes us on a whistle-stop trip through the annals of doom... Dan Franklin Published ...

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 ...