Metal School - Candlemass

Candlemass is the Goat of Doom Metal 🐐🐐🐐

Messiah isn’t mentioned nearly enough in the conversation of great metal singers. Basically Europe’s answer to Dio.

Cool little fun fact: Dead from mayhem is in the music video for Bewitched and you can spot him for a split second! or watch the bts footage lol

I had never heard them (only heard the band name) until an afternoon in Paris where I saw a few metalheads standing next to a van and looking at a roadmap and I asked if I could give them directions. They replied that they had to go to the Elysée Montmartre and asked if I could get in the passenger seat and guide them. I accepted and asked them who they were (that's the way to go kids, get in the van with stangers and THEN ask who they are...). That's how I found out they were in Candlemass. They put me on the guest list for the evening and I got the chance to do an interview for a fanzine I was working with. That gig was my first thrash concert, with Nuclear Assault, Acid Reign and Dark Angel. The singer (Messiah Marcolin) was a super friendly guy, very simple and patient with my amateurish, badly prepared interview in broken english.

Absolutely one of metal's greatest bands.

The secret ingredient to me is Lars on lead guitar. Such melody and emotion

I love hearing bands being critical of their own music. I just appreciate the honesty.

I can't believe there was no mention of "Samarithan" when discussing Nightfall! That song is beyond amazing, it's magical and inspirational! Their best imo.

I was lucky enough to see Candlemass in the 80s (Messiah era). Love that they're still going.

These guys deserves all the success they can get. They were from Upplands Väsby which was the hotspot in the mid 80's in Sweden for it's glam/hard rock scene (Europe is from there as well). It must have been very tempting to follow the trends but nah they went their own path. All hail Candlemass!

I got to see them on the Tales Of Creation tour, St Andrew's Hall, Detroit. It was in the middle of a snowstorm, and only a handful of people there. Atheist opened just weeks before Roger died. Messiah stuck the mic in my face for a good portion of the show, so i got to sing along, and meet the whole band and hung out until they closed the venue!! Getting to meet Messiah and Leif was the highlight to a crazy year!!

They need to reunite with Messiah and put out one more killer album before it's over. Nothing they ever did tops that classic lineup. He just adds a certain energy and chemistry which makes Candlemass great. Surely grown men can momentarily set aside differences to go out on top?

The jump in quality from Nemesis to Candlemass is astounding!

Johan, Messiah and Rob are fucking great!
Fan since 1986.
Candlemass Rules. Enough said!!!

The band that got me into “Doom Metal”
Incredible writing

Candlemass is definitely one of my favorite bands of all time. I love the first album and the ones with Messiah. I don't think they have put out anything that was bad even when they experimented with other styles.

I went through a huge Candlemass binge a month ago and God damn was I missing out.
IMO not a bad album through the whole discography.
Strong song writing, loved the vocals on every era, and just the overall feel of the atmosphere. Top tier band.

The first time I heard Candlemass, it was the album Nightfall and I realized that I was looking for that great sound and those incredible sensation without even knowing it...

I was just trying to die in solitude but you dropped this awesome video

For me Lasse is the most underrated solo guitarist ever in the Metal scene. His solos are amazing and always fit the song perfect.

Candlemass, one of my all time favorites. And, being an author, they gave lots of inspiration to me. I will always associate their early albums to my time of intense Pen and Paper roleplaying, "Ancient Dreams" accompanying me through the years. I published a fantasy adventure based on "Bearer of Pain" and a short story inspired by "King of the grey islands". "Solitude" helped me through dark times, "Where the Runes still Speak", "Into the unfathomed Tower" and "Samarithan" (and many more) still give me goosebumps every single time I hear them. Lost track of the newer stuff, but now I am inspired to have a closer look. Thank you, great video!

I listened to the Ancient Dreams album yesterday in my car. I absolutely loved it. One awesome song after the other.

Best trad doom band. Love ‘em.

been a fan of the band since 1991. One of my biggest influences too when it comes to how I create slow dark riffs and melodies

Candlemass is one of my band’s biggest influences and it’s always satisfying when folks are able to point it out.

Bewitched is the greatest metal video ever

I was 15 when I went to my first metal concert, Dynamo Open Air 1988. When I entered the festival, I went straight to the front a band I didn't know, but with very interesting looking singer just started a song of which I later understood it was Candlemass At The Gallows End. It was epic!

My favorite Candlemass albums are:
1.Nightfall because it features my favorite Candlemass song on it which is Bewitched,
2.Death Magic Doom because it's part of the Robert Lowe era,
3.Door To Doom because Astorolus-The Great Octopus features Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath as a guest guitarist,
4.Epicus Doomicus Metallicus because the title's a dead giveaway that it's Epic Doom Metal

Candlemass ‘05 is one of my favorite metal albums ever! Black Dwarf, Witches, Seven Silver Keys etc. the whole album is monstrous! I got introduced to them after listening to a demo of Witches with Tony Martin on vocals during a deep dive into his discography.

From the 13th sun is an amazing album..So psychedelic and heavy..From the beginning to the end its like one long song altogether..So different from the others,thats why lots of people have a hard time with it..But if the name Candlemass wasnt on the cover then what???Is that the problem??Its a masterpiece...!!!

Killed it in denver 1st time here ever. And only 3 shows in the US this year how lucky for us hope they come back left wanting more

I discovered Candlemass in 1989 when I found the Live album on cassette in an American convenience store in upstate New York, I'm from Canada. Instant fan. They proved to me that all metal doesn't have to be all speed. The live versions of all their classics were better than anything I'd ever heard before.

Just watched 5 minutes so far but this is great. Candlemass is such an amazing band. Love 'em.

A greater lesson in Northern Doom. Sweden should be proud. You should also be proud of this fine piece of Metalworks. My quest for Candlemass isn't over , there are still 2 or 3 hard to find RECENT albums that i must go after.

I’ve given this a thumbs up before I’ve even watched it. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 At The Gallows End is just pure Doom magic! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🔥and what a voice Messiah had back in the day 👏🏻🤘🏻

Excellent video! Thanks for all you did. Candlemass forever!🤘🏻🥃
If only we could get a Trouble/Candlemass tour…🤘🏻

I am a fan of My dying bride, but when I heard the term epic doom metal, I get curious and my first cds were Solitude Aternus Through the darkest hour and Saint Vitus C.O.D. and then I learned about the godfathers of epic doom metal CANDLEMASS.

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, Nightfall & Anceient Dreams...epic doom metal gold. I love Candlemass, thanks! 👊💯👍

I used to play Candlemass for my mom back in 92. As an opera singer she appreciated Marcolin's vocals & said that his vocals were top notch professional.

I first discovered Candlemass in 1990 when I ran across "Tales of Creation" on cassette in one of those little music stores they used to have at the mall. I thought, "This oughtta be interesting," and so began my doom metal journey. Ch. VI is criminally underrated, by the way!

This band never came into my vision. Excellent, all of it. Music sounds crafted for a great singer.

Hot take - From the 13th Sun is one of the best albums from them. I wrote it off at first and stuck to Messiah's/Rob's albums (Clearsight was the very first song i heard from them and i was hooked), but after going back to 13th Sun, I have to put that in the top 2 or 3 albums. It's so insanely unique, the vocals are haunting, and with appropriate "mood enhancers", it's an entire experience just listening to it through headphones in a dark room. Acquired taste, sure, but amazing.

Came across the video of bewitched about a year ago, and so thankful I did this band was incredible.

I remember seeing them live somewhere around `89/`90, I think they were opening for King Diamond. And to this day it's astounding me, how a band with such a depressive vibe in their music can spread so much fun and positive energy on stage. We had an excellent party, dancing, moshing, banging and singing along with smiling faces everywhere.

Even though I'm more into Power Metal along with (Traditional) Heavy Metal and not much into Doom Metal, there was a time I did listen to Candlemass before. I mainly like them because of them being a different kind of Black Sabbath with heavy riffs and sort of a dark epic feel. I may listen to them occasionally, but Candlemass remains as the only Doom Metal band I like.

I'm not too much into doom metal, but Candlemass is one of my favourite bands out there. Robert Lowe's albums with them are probably the most up my alley, really heavy and dark. His vocals are great on all three.
Great vid as usual!

I just added four more Candlemass albums to my collection. Got a new stereo in the car. Time to go for a drive.

Favourite song: Demons gate. Favourite singer Messiah. First time I heard them I was hooked 1987 Nightfall, I was 16.🤘🤘

my favorite doom metal band and my all time 5 favorite Candlemass Tracks:
1.) A Sorcerer's Pledge
2.) Black Stone Wielder
3.) At The Gallows End
4.) Black Eyes
5.) Black Dwarf
And no! Black is not my favorite color, just a coincidence with the song titles lol No Black Candles on my list unless we were speaking of the band OZ! I still have that Hard N Heavy VHS. Personally, I consider the 3 albums that followed S/T as Solitude Aeturnus albums. EDM has been my overall fave album of theirs for decades and still is.

Been a Fan of this Band Epicus, Doomicus, Metallicus Is Remarkably one of the most Best Swedish Metal Album ever released, If yet The best Swedish Metal Album of the 80's And that's a fact I wanted to have a copy of this to rise in the Sorcerers Pledge was a great epic theme of the band, All of there Albums were epic And Well Arranged That's Doom for sure.

Peaceville Records included an awesome interview on the 2007 remaster of Nightfall that talks about how Messiah was a huge fan of Candlemass and how he basically wouldn't stop bothering them about joining to include moving to their hometown just to prove how serious he was. So grateful that they made him a member because Candlemass is one of the best Doom bands of all time. Completely underrated. Messiah is also one of the best Metal vocalists of all time as well. \m/\m/

I love this band so much. People can have their own opinion on each era's sound, but you just can't deny they always had an amazing singer at any moment of their career. Candlemass has never had a single bad vocalist, ever

Damn it, I was about to go to sleep!! Now I gotta watch this.

YESSSS!! 🙌
You did it... I've been waiting.
Thank you for all the great videos!! Next...Solitude Aeturnus and Saint Vitus PLEASE 🖤

ASTOROLUS - THE GREAT OCTOPUS has a Guest solo by some guy named Tony Iommi. Not worth mentioning but i was just gonna let you know have a great day.

I was at that 91' Bayshore, LI show. What a blast!!!!! Same year I saw Metal Church there to. Headbanged til my neck hurt!!!

It's really quite tragic: they had something special initially, a winning formula, were essentially pioneers and they never even realised this. Nothing really ever came of it. Pissed it all away. Classic example here of the enormous damage inflated egos and bickering can do.

As a fan of more, shall we say, optimistic metal genres I still have to admire the guitar work. And particularly Messiah's vocal strength.

Phenomenal band, easily one of the greats. Metal School brings it in spades.

Had the Nemesis album on tape back in the day and couldn't stop playing it from how Heavy it is. Messiah was also in a band called Mercy before he joined Candlemass; he's on their Witchburner album.

Great band. "Darkness in paradise" is still the etalon of doom metal.

That ' Groovy Doom Riff' from Black Eyes used to be called Children of the Grave. Back in 1971

Candlemass Live At Fryshuset is EPIC, I can put it on repeat

08:27 those look like mugshots from 'bad hair prison', hehehe. Another great video, my friend. You crossed off a big one here! Too bad there's no mention of the Memento Mori albums Messiah made after his first stint in Candlemass, but that would've made it too long, I guess. Great job, hope you keep it up for years to come!

Dude I'm one of the many editors on Metal Archives. Also on Candlemass I love their song Crystal Ball on their debut album. Good video man.

Thank you for making me discover one more amazing band and discography.

Messiah>everyone else

Messiah the best vocals of Candlemass

Incarnation of Evil is by far my favourite Candlemass song. The atmosphere is just staggering, heavy, crawling, slithering, truly an Incarnation of Evil.

After watching your video on Candlemass, it makes me want to sit in my basement with all the lights off and crank the first 3 albums again haven’t listen to them in a bit, and I might throw in King Of The Grey Islands also

I always loved heavy metal with lots of speed, but Candlemass is the exception 😊

Oh boy what a treat!

The reunion album from 2005 is so damn good! It isn’t talked about enough

Chapter VI is criminally overlooked. It lacks certain darkness and epicness, but it's still powerful af.

I always jam bewitched music with few amigos of mine that are into doom/black especially since the fact per ohlin from mayhem is feature in this after being part of “Morbid” this never gets old & mostly important as one my first actual doom metal bands I was exposed around 2020 when I was getting into metal genres I wasn’t aware of.

LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! I went all the way through several bands you covered. you led me to discover soooooo many new bands that then have connections to others!! I’m also very excited to go through Krokus

Never listened to these guys til now. Thank you for helping me discover another titan in the metal genre.
Maybe we'll see Trouble and Pentagram videos next.

I really like the two first Lowe albums and see them live on that Jalometalli gig. After that i found the self titled album and the old classics. But still first two Lowe albums are my favorite albums. The darker tone and Lowe vocals 🤘

A Very Important DOOM GOTH band from the 80's.. They are Kick Ass! They define modern DOOM for Sure!
The OLD stuff I Really do not ecuate to Black Sabbath, but to "Christian Death" band, which is "Death Rock"!
"Nightfall" ISa tempus of a Mighty Album! DOOM Unleashed! Without this we do not So many bands!

Wow, I forgot how good this band is.. I going to have to revisit them and jam out

THANK YOU for doing a video on Candlemass! I requested from you about a year ago and you followed thru! Much appreciated and a fan for life!

I’m a lover of Dio, he is beyond words. I did not know about this band till about 3 years ago. No clue how I missed them or Messiah back in the 80’s. I watched Headbangers Ball MTV etc all the time. Messiah is the best opera style / opera singer EVER. No one is like him. UNTOUCHABLE. Would love to see him in the band and also with a lead role in a top opera house. 💝

I am 31. I went through a "metal phase" in my teens and I eventually stuck with ska and punk in my adult days. But make no mistake, I never lost touch with my love for metal. Candlemass is like one of those bands I show metalheads to check out even as a former metalhead. (Maybe the reality is "once a metalhead, always a metalhead"). Candlemass was one of those bands I would often revisit and just melt my bad days away when things got grim. I'm more into thrash metal, but Candlemass is a great Doom Metal band that deserves to be celebrated for generations to come. Cheers! Solidarity! Long live metal! 🤘😈

Thank you for making this, it was very entertaining to watch and it gave me an insight in the late 90's era (of which I didn't know much) of one of my top favorite bands. I laughed a lot with your description of the Dying illusion video! And I can't believe you didn't mention The edge of heaven!
Great work and very nicely done!

Loved Tales Of Creation I listened to it over and over again

My alltime favorite bands!

And for good reason too; being rightfully praised as the KINGS of Epic Doom Metal, Candlemass has had no shortage of exceptional lead singers like for example Johan Langquist(who’s back in the band after almost 30 years) & American Robert Lowe(who previously sang with Solitude Aeternus), but Messiah (who actually sang for another Swedish Metal band called Mercy before joining them) is by far the best known of the bunch 🤘 🇺🇸 😌 👍 😊

One of the best bands ever... 4 me

Robert Lowe is a killer vocalist

Thank you for this amazing document. I love Candlemass since their beginning.

I love 'From The 13th Sun'!

Amazing job! Been listening to Candlemass since late 90s and it's always in my player from time to time!
Also, maybe you could mention affiliation with the amazing Mike Wead and Memento Mori, especially because of Messiah. Good job mentioning Krux and Abstrakt Algebra! 🖤

I'm amazed by the fact that Leif Edling seems to dislike so much of what I love with Candlemass, as some songs, Messiah's vocal e.t.c. I can agree that ''Incarnation of evil' and 'Epistle nro 81' didn't fit in the album. But I do think that 'Under the oak', 'Incarnation of evil', 'Epistle no 81' and 'The sorcerers pledge' should have been recorded with Messiah and released in some way.

I really liked A Sorceror's Pledge.

Not to cover Solitude Aeturnus now would be criminal... 😉 Great episode..!

Your channel is a blessing from the Metal Gods! Candlemass is a fave of mine! Great vid!

Drama, emotion, mixed with crushingly heavy riffs, the band is so underated

Epicus, Ancient Dreams and Nightfall were the sound tracks to my youth! One of the greatest bands of ALL time!

Ancient dreams, Epicus, Nightfall and tales are the best of all

Another great video 🤘 Would love to see a Trouble retrospective in the future. Keep up the good work 👏