CANDLEMASS — Ancient Dreams (review)

CANDLEMASS — Ancient Dreams album cover Album · 1988 · Traditional Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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Darkness in paradise...

Genre: doom metal

Perhaps neither as outstanding nor as good as "Tales of Creation", "Ancient Dreams" or as hauntingly produced as "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" is still a heavy and dark epic doom metal album which contains enough melody for there to be a general catchiness to it as in the case of the the chorus of "Mirror, Mirror". The combination of heavy power chord riffs, doom-laden one-string riffs and guitar harmonies and more upbeat parts constitutes variation. Even the upbeat tracks, like "The Bells of Acheron" (whose chorus is nothing less than amazing) are still heavy as hell.

Messiah Marcolin's operatic vocals are as enthralling as ever, and many of his vibrato-filled verse lines are as catchy as the chorusses are. While the music in itself with its harmonies and track lengths is quite epic, it cannot be denied that Marcilin's vocals certainly are a main contributor to the epicness of this album.

It should appeal to fans of epic doom metal and power metal alike. And fans of other types of doom metal might also find interest in this album, if nothing else then for its position in the history of doom metal.
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