Artist: CANDLEMASS
Album: FROM THE 13TH SUN REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1999/ 2008
EAN/UPS: 0801056721822
Media type: CD

From the 13th Sun sounds incredibly much like a mixture of Black Sabbath's four first albums (Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, vol 4), but this music is even more stoned and flipped out. Excellent efforts with the synthesiszer creates that effect. The lyrics are stoned fairy tale like, and shouldn't be taken too seriously, just listen to them and allow yourself to trip out with them (they don't really have any other purpose). The singer sounds amazingly much like Ozzy (save for that he's got a slight Swedish accent), but instrumentally the album sounds a lot more gothic than Black Sabbath. The song Tot manifests this spirit, which is completed with pouring rain and churchbells ringing. And just like all the Black Sabbath albums mentioned above this CD has got two instrumental numbers,that are wonderfully monotonuos and hypnotic.

TRACKLIST:

1. Droid
2. Tot
3. Elephant Star
4. Blumma Apt
5. Arx/Ng 891
6. Zog
7. Galatea
8. Cyclo-F
9. Mythos

Bonus tracks:

10. Oil
11. Nimis
12. Rock N Roll

LINE-UP:

Bjorn Flodkvist: Vocals
Leif Edling: Bass Guitar
Mats Stеhl: Guitar, FX
Jejo Perkovic: Drums
Carl Westholm: Synthesizers on ARX/NG 891