| Candlemass / King Of The Grey Islands |
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| Album: | King Of The Grey Islands | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Candlemass | Added: | Aug 2007 | |
| Label: | Nuclear Blast | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-08-19 | Pull Date: | 2007-10-21 | Charts: | Loud |
| Week Ending: | Oct 21 | Sep 23 | Sep 9 | Aug 26 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 17, 2012: | Catharsis - St. Paddy's night Clearsight | 4. | May 24, 2008: | Bloodstains Across Atherton Solitude | |
| 2. | Dec 08, 2011: | public noize racket Clearsight | 5. | Oct 20, 2007: | too heavy for titanium The Opal City | |
| 3. | Jan 10, 2009: | Bloodstains Across Atherton - More of the Best of '08 & even newer discoveries Emperor Of The Void | 6. | Sep 22, 2007: | Bloodstains Across Atherton - Lookin' out a dirty window Devil Seed |
| Album Review |
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| Ragnar of Ravensfjord Reviewed 2007-08-24 | ||
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Doomy, traditional heavy metal from the veteran Swedish band. This is very basic and at times epic but certainly classy and a good album. The vocalist this time out is Rob Lowe of Solitude Aeturnus. His vocals are somewhere between Ronnie James Dio and Bobby Liebling of Pentagram. No frills, heavy/doom metal focused on riffs and often histronic vocals. Good stuff. (((1))) Slow, short guitar intro typical but good. ((((2)))) Very, very METAL in the most classic form – low tuned riffs, soaring vocals and well-punctuated drumming (((((3))))) Doom! Slow and bleak. To the f’n point. ((((4)))) Clean sound and catchy chorus. Has that “this is the single & video” vibe. Very 80s doom/trad. metal. Classy. (((5))) Up tempo riffing & structures, way histronic vocals. Not awful but too much plodding. ((((6)))) (FCC “fuck” sung twice & 4:47) Epic, doom with a lot of great riffs and a really nice breakdown. ((((7)))) Heavy & dense with odd-metered vocal touches (think early Savatage), catchy basic riffs, an odd poppy breakdown & wailing solos. (((((8))))) KILLER! huge sound, gallop-y riffage, very 80’s “true metal” sound overall, aka: Dio, Savatage, Omen. ((((9)))) Really cool, instrumental “doom-version” er…diversion. ((((10)))) Very epic and very memorable, resonanting, total 80’s heavy/doom action. They mean the river Styx not the band Styx. (((((11))))) New version of an old classic with the current vocalist. Perfect sound. (((((12))))) Killer, doom metal. This is a new version of a song that appeared on “Nightfall” in 1987. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Prologue | 7. | Man Of Shadows | |||
| 2. | Emperor Of The Void | 8. | Clearsight | |||
| 3. | Devil Seed | 9. | The Opal City | |||
| 4. | Of Stars And Smoke | 10. | Embracing The Styx | |||
| 5. | Demonia 6 | 11. | Solitude | |||
| 6. | Destroyer | 12. | At The Gallows End |