CANDLEMASS — Ancient Dreams (review)

CANDLEMASS — Ancient Dreams album cover Album · 1988 · Traditional Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
Warthur
The followup to Nightfall is sustained by Messiah Marcolin's always exceptional vocal performance, but honestly doesn't match the standards of the preceding disc. It's the songwriting that's the issue; the riffs just feel a bit more tired-out and unoriginal this time around, as opposed to the operatic updating of the doom metal sound so brilliantly highlighted on the two preceding albums. The closing Black Sabbath medley, in particular, feels positively lightweight even as it tackles Sabbath's heaviest tracks. Then again, it's my understanding that the medley was an extra track tacked onto CD versions of the album to pad out the running time, but that doesn't excuse what came before it for failing to sustain my interest to the extent Nightfall did.
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