Candlemass / King Of The Grey Islands
Album: King Of The Grey Islands   Collection:General
Artist:Candlemass   Added:Aug 2007
Label:Nuclear Blast  

A-File Activity
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
Ragnar of Ravensfjord
Reviewed 2007-08-24
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
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