CANDLEMASS

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: expressive monumental doom heavy metal

this latest studio recording from the doom legend stabilizes and solidifies direction set by 2019's album, with Johan's voice sounding more natural and organically integrated into the monumental framework, shedding excessive theatricality, while the instrumentation leans toward a somewhat simpler expression, shifting closer to heavy and classic rock paradigm, where instead of grand, solemn structures a more direct, compact, riff-driven approach is chosen, without losing their signature weight, thus maintaining a balance between the genre's massiveness and creative dynamics, as entire illustrious five-piece operates with confidence, free of nostalgic shadow, where concept symbolically reflects the duality of light and darkness as both tempting and burning force, continuing mature and expressive phase; Austrian three-panel digisleeve edition comes with twenty page booklet