Messiah Marcolin

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Messiah Marcolin

Background information
Birth name	Bror Jan Alfredo Marcolin
Also known as	Messiah Marcolin Eddie Marcolin
Born	December 10, 1967 (1967-12-10) (age 40)
Origin	Helsingborg, Sweden
Genre(s)	Doom Metal Heavy Metal
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Years active	1984–present
Associated acts	Candlemass Mercy Memento Mori Satariel

Messiah Marcolin (born Bror Jan Alfredo Marcolin on December 10th, 1967), also known as 'Eddie Marcolin', is a vocalist best known for his work in the doom metal band Candlemass.

1 1984-1985
2 1987-1991, Early Career With Candlemass
3 1991-2003
4 2002-2006
5 2007 onwards
6 References
7 External links

[edit] 1984-1985

Messiah Marcolin's first releases were with the Heavy metal band Mercy. After recording an EP, Mercy were looking for a singer to record with and Messiah was asked to just two weeks before recording. He sang on two Mercy albums, the first in 1984 and the second one year later. Looking for a heavier direction, Messiah decided to leave the band.

[edit] 1987-1991, Early Career With Candlemass

Marcolin initially joined Candlemass to replace session vocalist Johan Längqvist who could not be convinced to remain as singer for the band after Epicus Doomicus Metallicus. His debut with Candlemass is the band's second album Nightfall.

Leif Edling, main songwriter for Candlemass, was initially reluctant to give Marcolin a chance in the band as Messiah continued to call him late at night stating that he would be Candlemass' next singer. This made Edling believe Messiah was "crazy". After many calls, Edling finally agreed to give Marcolin an audition if he moved south to Stockholm from the town in northern Sweden in which he lived. Messiah proceeded to do this and was soon a member of Candlemass.

Due to personal differences with some of the other members during the Tales of Creation tour in 1991, Marcolin left Candlemass. At this point, he had three full length studio albums and a live album with Candlemass.

[edit] 1991-2003

In the interim, Messiah worked on several projects. In 1993 he co-founded Memento Mori with Mike Wead and sang on two of their albums in 1993 and 1994 before leaving as he was not being credited for writing melodies.

Messiah then worked with members of Stillborn on a project named "Colossus" and released a demo and contributed a cover of "Sad But True" to a Metallica tribute album named "Metal Militia: A Tribute to Metallica" in 1996. The band did not progress further after this.

Following the departure from Collossus, Messiah returned to Memento Mori to record and release an additional album named Songs for the Apocalypse, Vol. 4 in 1997.

He also did guest vocals in the song "Coffin Gateways" for the Melodic Death Metal/Blackened Death Metal band Satariel

[edit] 2002-2006

The "Nightfall era" line up of Candlemass reformed in 2002 and did various festivals and gigs. From this reunion tour, Candlemass released Doomed For Live, in addition to another compilation, Essential Doom, which saw the inclusion of a demo track of 'Witches', a song to be included on their eponymous 2005 release. After the Candlemass album, Messiah appeared on 2 DVD releases (Documents of Doom and The Curse of Candlemass) highlighting the two eras which he fronted the band, before a statement by Candlemass was released in October 2006, noting yet another Messiah departure.^[1]

Additionally, in 2003, Messiah co-founded and released a single three track demo with "Requiem", though the band did not progress further citing the Candlemass reunion and musical differences within the band as reasons for not continuing.^[2]