As the bassist and driving force behind Swedish doom heavyweights Candlemass, Leif Edling doesn’t hide the debt he owes to Black Sabbath, and their landmark 1970 debut album in particular.
“Black Sabbath’s first album was so important,” says Edling, whose own band helped shape the modern doom scene via such classics as 1986’s Epicus Doomicus Metallicus and 1987’s Nightfall. “It had an impact on everybody at that time. If you were interested in hard and heavy rock music, you couldn’t ignore it. I grew up with it, and it had a huge impact on me. Nothing sounded like it at the time. Nothing sounds like it now. It’s a beast!”
