Candlemass announce U.S. West Coast tour dates

The four-song “jubilee EP” titled “Black Star” is being worked on in the studio by Swedish doom metal legends Candlemass. When the band celebrates “40 years of heavy doom deliverance” in the spring of 2025, the EP—which will include two new tracks and two covers—will be published. Lars Johansson is now working on the guitar...

Clocking in almost four decades, it’s no stretch to say that Grammy-nominated Swedish epic doom legends Candlemass are still one of the heaviest metal bands on earth. As the godfathers of epic doom metal, the band defined the genre with releases such as “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus” (1986) and “Nightfall” (1987). Through their evil riffs, crushing...