CANDLEMASS

Release Year: 2018
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: dark epic heavy doom metal

grandiloquent Nightfall opus was unbelievably outstanding, so it was quite crazy trying to beat or even equal it, but Swedish pioneers of doom and gloom were bald enough to go same monumental, dark and epic direction, prevailing on the third full-length album [1988] with almost as effective delivery minus a somehow weaker production - even though these songs run in the seven-minute range with apt, dramatic intricacy to them, memorable choruses and Messiah's vibrato overload, they are just as compelling and expressive, especially when it comes to absolute highlight Mirror Mirror, also paying tribute to Black Sabbath with a seven track medley as a grand finale; recent British edition comes with a remastered sound