Candlemass (album)

Candlemass
Studio album by Candlemass
Released 3 May 2005
Recorded November-December 2004
Genre Doom metal
Length 55:06 (original version)
58:29 (digipak and double vinyl version)
Label Nuclear Blast
Candlemass chronology

Doomed for Live – Reunion 2002
(2003)
Candlemass
(2005)
King of the Grey Islands
(2007)
Singles from Nightfall
  1. "Assassin of the Light"
    Released: 2005
  2. "Black Dwarf"
    Released: 2007
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic link
PopMatters link

Candlemass is the eighth studio album by Swedish doom metal band Candlemass released in 2005. This was the first (and only) album to feature Messiah Marcolin on vocals since 1989's Tales of Creation.

A video for the album's opener, "Black Dwarf", was made. The song "Witches" was also included in the soundtrack for the 2009 video game "Brütal Legend"

Track listing

All songs written by Leif Edling

  1. "Black Dwarf" – 5:43
  2. "Seven Silver Keys" – 4:59
  3. "Assassin of the Light" – 6:29
  4. "Copernicus" – 7:17
  5. "The Man Who Fell from the Sky" – 3:26
  6. "Witches" – 6:22
  7. "Born in a Tank" – 4:56
  8. "Spellbreaker" – 7:02
  9. "The Day and the Night" – 8:52
  10. "Mars and Volcanoes" – 3:23 (Bonus track on digipak and double vinyl)

Personnel