From: bruss@cs.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy
Subject: Re: Questions and Requests
Date: 3 Sep 92 01:12:45 GMT
Organization: =CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego

In article <1992Sep3.000223.13526@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:
>In article <92246.171033C09615MT@wuvmd.wustl.edu> Michael Teller <C09615MT@wuvmd.wustl.edu> writes:
>>Happy, happy  Joy, joy! I'm back from the summer and now I can start reading
>>the lists again. Yay. Any way  over the summer I bought an EP by a group
>>called Nemesis which was started by Leif Edling of Candlemass before he started
>>Candlemass. Nemesis has a few of the same members and the EP (titled, Day Of
>>Retribution) has two Candlmass demos on it. I really like the music on it and
>>I was wondering if anyone knows if there were ever any other Nemesis albums or
>>EP's. Has anyone else ever heard this EP and if so what did you think? Is it
>>anything like newer Candlemass stuff (I've never heard any of their music that
>>I know of)? 
>
>I was unaware that Edling had anything to do with Nemesis, since his name is
>not on the EP I have seen. They do feature Candlemass's original vocalist <the
>one before Messiah, that sang on Epicus Doomicus Metallicus>, and that explains
>the Candlemass demos. 

	Are you sure about this?  Edling was definitely the driving force
behind Nemesis, and a couple of other Nemesis members made it to
"Epicus ... ", but I don't believe the vocalist was one of them.  Leif
himself sang on the Nemesis tracks (I have no idea who sang on those
two Candlemass demo tunes -- the original version of "Day Of 
Retribution" didn't have the extra tracks.

	To answer the original question, no, Nemesis never released 
anything else.  Actually, the switch to Candlemass was more a legalistic
name change rather than one band dissolving and another forming.

>If you like Nemesis, try "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus", or especially "Nightfall"
>from Candlemass. After that, the originality factor begins to sag, but the
>albums aren't bad. I don't mind the Live one too much, except for some
>annoying crowd stroking by Messiah.

	Agreed wholeheartedly on the recommendation of "Epicus" -- far
and away their best effort.  You are right that they ran into serious
writing problems -- by the time the fourth album came out, they were
doing nothing new or exciting at all -- every song sounded the same.
By the way, they did re-record some Nemesis tracks on later albums
-- I know that "Black Messiah" was one of them (though with a different
name, and different lyrics -- the Nemesis version is much better).

>Anybody know if the rumors of Messiah Mercolin being out of  Candlemass
>are true? And if so, who is the new vocallist?

	The new album, "VI", is out, and it does feature a new vocalist
-- his name is always spelled differently every time someone mentions
him, but it's something like Michael Wikstrom.  I haven't heard this
album yet -- reviews are mixed so far.  I was never a Marcolin fan,
but I heard the new guy is similar.  There was talk of Marcolin going
back to his old band (Mercy) but I'm not sure that ever happened.

-- 
Brian Russ
CSE Department, UC San Diego
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