Candlemass - Psalms For The Dead
| Release date: | 6 June 2012 |
| Style: | Epic doom metal |
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01. Prophet
02. The Sound Of Dying Demons
03. Dancing In The Temple Of The Mad Queen Bee
04. Waterwitch
05. The Lights Of Thebe
06. Psalms For The Dead
07. The Killing Of The Sun
08. Siren Song
09. Black As Time
02. The Sound Of Dying Demons
03. Dancing In The Temple Of The Mad Queen Bee
04. Waterwitch
05. The Lights Of Thebe
06. Psalms For The Dead
07. The Killing Of The Sun
08. Siren Song
09. Black As Time
Guest review
Lyrics Robert Lowe - vocals
Lars "Lasse" Johansson - lead guitar
Mats "Mappe" Björkman - guitars
Leif Edling - bass
Jan "Janne" Lindh - drums
Guest musicians
Carl Westholm - keyboards on all tracks except "Siren Song"
Per Wiberg - hammond organ on "Siren Song"
Mats Levén - backing vocals
Mark Roberton - narration on "Black As Time"
Additional info
Recorded at B.A.M. Studios, Stockholm by Andreas Bauman during December 2011.
Mixed by Chris Laney at LaneyLand, Stockholm (also additional recordings and editing).
Special CD edition bonus DVD editing by Chris Laney and Mats "Mappe" Björkman.
Produced by Leif Edling and mastered by Sören von Malmborg at Cosmos.
Drumfix assistance by Rickard Gustavsson,
Cover artwork and graphics by Erik Rovanperä.
Rating:
7.5
7.5
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Rating: 7.5 |
It's always terrifying when a widely respected band that's seemingly been around forever announces it's final studio album. But if this is, in fact, the 12th and final record from the Swedish doom metal legends, fans can comfortably know that the band went out with the Candlemass spirit very much alive and well. Read more ›› |
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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3408  |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.07.2012 at 11:30 No, i ment lyricaly. The Butterfly Ball's a lot better than this. It's got Dio and Glen Hughes on it.
---- "I'm here to nunchuck and not wear helmets. And I'm all out of helmets." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by M C Vice on 03.07.2012 at 11:35 It does feature Dio (just on two songs) Glen Hughes and David Coverdale amongst others, but is a pretty damn weak album, actually even weaker than this Candlemass album
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3408 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.07.2012 at 11:41 3 songs, actually (11, 19, 20).
---- "I'm here to nunchuck and not wear helmets. And I'm all out of helmets." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by M C Vice on 03.07.2012 at 11:49 haven''t got the album with me to work so can''t check, but will take your word for it for now. 
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Alex F Posts: 3519  |
I finally listened to it, and i was hoping i wouldn't agree with Joe, Marcel, and Troy... but sadly this album has the word mediocre written all over it.
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| Daniell _爱情_ Elite Posts: 6101  |
Only one song, "Waterwitch" is really good. The rest is a laugh in the face of all Candlemass fans that know and appreciate the band's work. What a terrible way to say goodbye...
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Yaniv on 16.11.2012 at 08:10 I totally disagree with you. This is their worst album imo and therefore a totally unworthy album to finish their career with
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Wraith000 Posts: 128  |
My first candle mass album !!! pretty awesome album all around love the riffs
---- \m/ - - \m/
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| Abattoir Staff Posts: 3695  |
So I guess this is more like epic fail and not epic doom anymore...quite poor farewell to be honest.
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094  |
 I laughed my ass off at the narration in Black as Time hahahah "Time doesn't give a shit!"  but I gotta agree, it's a bad and incredibly drawn out song. And what a nasty fucking surprise at the middle of the song hahah, that was one voice I was hoping I would not hear again too soon.I'm actually surprised "Time doesn't give a shit" hasn't become a meme in the vein of Lulu - "I am the Table" or something like that.
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675  |
Written by Valentin B on 09.01.2013 at 19:18 If Candlemass were as huge as Metallica, it would have become one, I feel confident of that!
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374  |
Written by Valentin B on 09.01.2013 at 19:18 What surprise? Besides one of the worst fucking intros I've heard in my entire life... and the song being extremely boring, I didn't catch anything in the middle.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by X-Ray Rod on 09.01.2013 at 20:19 the voice of the intro is there again with a spoke line. Actually it's at about 2/3 of the song at 4.33 "Time is the sword of destruction, a faceless conqueror, the master of doom"
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 09.01.2013 at 20:42 Ah, got it... I guess I was too literal with the "middle" thing. I thought the beginning was so awful nothing afterwards could top it.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by X-Ray Rod on 09.01.2013 at 20:44 that part doesn't come close to the intro in hooridness. But the worst spoken intro ever is of course Kvarfoth's rant at the start of one of the albums (which got cut from the retail version and rightly so)
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094 |
Written by X-Ray Rod on 09.01.2013 at 20:19 I'm talking about the voice in the intro, just when you think he finally shuts up, he's at it again
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 09.01.2013 at 20:52 Oh definitely... I'm SOOO glad that my very first contact with the band was when I bought that album without the spoken intro. That was pure luck since I would have been pissed off otherwise!
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| AtrumHiberna Posts: 165  |
Crushing doom! it just blew me away. they still got it, even after all these years
---- This is my worship, this is my path...
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62020  |
Nice album, in some way mystic doomy feeling into it, I love it excellent work from band, a bit slower, more slower version of doom, I think Leif Edling must leave band and new basist mjust come in, let they write full album whit Mats Laven
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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