Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is the debut album

Studio album

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 of the Swedish

Sweden

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 Doom metal

Doom metal

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 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 June 10, 1986 on Black Dragon Records. It was re-issued in 2003 with a bonus live CD

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. The album title Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is a Dog Latin

Dog Latin

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 rendering of "Epic Doom Metal", the genre

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 with which the band is most commonly identified.

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...

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1. "Solitude" – 5:37
2. "Demons Gate" – 9:12
3. "Crystal Ball" – 5:23
4. "Black Stone Wielder" – 7:36
5. "Under the Oak" – 6:56
6. "A Sorcerer's Pledge" – 8:12

Bonus live CD tracks

Recorded live in Birmingham

Birmingham

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, March 1988.

1. The Well of Souls — 7:25
2. Demons Gate — 9:02
3. Crystal Ball — 5:18
4. Solitude — 6:25
5. Bewitched — 6:24
6. A Sorcerer's Pledge — 10:53
7. Black Sabbath
   Black Sabbath
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    Medley — 6:12

The song "Demon's Gate" is based on the 1981 film, The Beyond

The Beyond

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Credits

• 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 guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Mats Björkman - rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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• Mats Ekström - drums
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• Johan Längqvist - vocals
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• Klas Bergwall - lead guitar
  Lead guitar
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• Cille Svenson - additional vocals on "A Sorcerer's Pledge"

Bonus CD line-up

• 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 Björkman — guitar
• Lars Johansson — lead guitar
• 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 guitar
• 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