From: d90-two@musta.nada.kth.se (Thomas Wolmer)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy
Subject: Candlemass (Re: What to expect from Iron Maiden)
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:56:18 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

In article <1992Apr12.200013.2925@vax.muskingum.edu> sh_strawn@vax.muskingum.edu writes:
[...]
>another thing:  i saw in someone's signature a quote from a Candlemass album,
>Ancient Dreams.  i think it was a Thomas Wolmer?  i heard the candlemass album
>that came one or two before that, and it had some decent stuff on it.  can
>anyone give me some sort of review on their progession and refinement
>(hopefully) of their tolling bell sound?  i think what i heard was nightfall,
>but am not sure.

Candlemass albums are:
Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Nightfall
Ancient Dreams
Tales Of Creation
Live

For anyone who wants an introduction to Candlemass I'd suggest the live
album. It has songs from all their albums (the US CD has only one from
Ancient Dreams though, "Mirror Mirror". The Euro version also has "Bells Of
Acheron"), where Nightfall may be a bit overrepresentated, and I think you
can hear how the songwriting has changed over the years. And it's a great
album anyway (I was at the concert when it was recorded and I'm still waiting
to see any band do a better performance). 
About the other albums ...now you wish that you knew English better...
EDM has long storytelling songs who changes a lot, no one-riff runthrough's
here. On Nightfall the songs are getting a more normal profile, but they are
still very varied. The lyrics are still tale-like, Messiah's wellknown
(infamous? :-) vocalstyle fits them well but he doesn't sing perfect here.
(On EDM there was a more.. umm... "poserlike" :-) singer which I know some
people like better than Messiah. I don't, but he is not bad at all)
AD has even more "standard-formula" songs, two or three riffs who build up
the song and the production is a bit rough. It was a long time since I
listened to this one (I have it on LP) so I'm beginning to forget how it
sounds... I have to hurry home and dig it up.
Tales Of Creation at last is IMO their absolutely worst album (which is far
from bad but anyway...). I think it is the lifeless rythm guitar sound which
"destroys" it. It's also a concept album and I suspect that some of the
song was "forced" out to get it story complete. Parts of the album are just
boring.

The order in which one should buy the albums is problably the chronological,
except for the live album. Also of interest is Nemisis' "Day Of Retribution"
which features Leif Edling on bass and vocals. The version of the album 
you probably will find also has two early Candlemass demo tracks on it.

Go ahead. Buy buy buy! :-) But first listen to someone else's opinions.
Especially someone who knows how to write them down.

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