Tag: Swedish metal

If you love modern doom, you owe a debt of gratitude to Candlemass. Formed in Stockholm in 1984, the group were among a handful of early purveyors of the slow, down-tuned, and monumentally forlorn heavy form of metal inspired by Black Sabbath. In fact, their 1986 debut album, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, helped establish the genre’s […]