Candlemass is the eighth studio album by Swedish doom metal

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 band Candlemass

Candlemass

Candlemass are an influential Swedish doom metal band established in 1984 by Leif Edling , their leader and songwriter. The band is originally from Stockholm. After releasing five full-length albums and touring extensively throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Candlemass disbanded in 1994, but...

 released in 2005. This was the first (and only) album to feature Messiah Marcolin

Messiah Marcolin

Messiah Marcolin , also known as 'Eddie Marcolin', is a vocalist best known for his work in the doom metal band Candlemass.-1984-1985:...

 on vocalist since 1989's Tales of Creation

Tales of Creation

Tales of Creation is the fourth album by Swedish doom metal band Candlemass released in 1989 and reissued with bonus CD in 2001.Some of the material from this album were originally recorded in 1985 by one of the earliest incarnations of Candlemass...

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A video for the album's opener, "Black Dwarf", was made. The song "Witches" was also included in the soundtrack for the 2009 video game "Brütal Legend

Brütal Legend

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Track listing

All songs written by Leif Edling

Leif Edling

Leif Edling is best known as the main songwriter and bass player of the Swedish doom metal band Candlemass.Edling started his musical career in the band Trilogy, then under the name of Toxic, as a singer together with Ian Haugland in 1979. He then played in a band named Witchcraft but left in...

1. "Black Dwarf" – 5:43
2. "Seven Silver Keys" – 4:59
3. "Assassin of the Light" – 6:29
4. "Copernicus" – 7:17
5. "The Man Who Fell from the Sky" – 3:26
6. "Witches" – 6:22
7. "Born in a Tank" – 4:56
8. "Spellbreaker" – 7:02
9. "The Day and the Night" – 8:52
10. "Mars and Volcanoes" – 3:23 (Bonus track on digipak
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     and double vinyl)

Credits

• Messiah Marcolin
  Messiah Marcolin
  Messiah Marcolin , also known as 'Eddie Marcolin', is a vocalist best known for his work in the doom metal band Candlemass.-1984-1985:...
  
   - vocals
• Mats Mappe Björkman - rhythm guitar
• Lars Johansson - lead guitars
• Leif Edling
  Leif Edling
  Leif Edling is best known as the main songwriter and bass player of the Swedish doom metal band Candlemass.Edling started his musical career in the band Trilogy, then under the name of Toxic, as a singer together with Ian Haugland in 1979. He then played in a band named Witchcraft but left in...
  
   - bass
• Jan Lindh
  Jan Lindh
  Jan Lindh is a Swedish musician, drummer of doom metal band Candlemass. He has left and rejoined Candlemass three times: he joined the band in 1987 and stayed with them until their first breakup in 1994, then briefly rejoined in 2002 and again in 2004....
  
  - drums