“You’ve no idea how cold it was – totally freezing. I know we’re a doom band, but this was suffering way beyond the call of duty”: How Candlemass changed metal forever with doom landmark Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Candlemass posing for a photograph in 1986.

Swedish band Candlemass’ 1986 debut album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is a bona doom metal landmark, giving the template laid down by Black Sabbath in the early 70s and developed in the US by The Obsessed and Saint Viitus an epic Scandinavian feel. In 2007, bassist and chief songwriter Leif Edling looked back on the making of one of the most influential albums of the 1980s.