Special occasions demanded more blood - when a new temple to Huitzilopochtli was dedicated in 1487, an estimated 80,400 people were sacrificed. Yep, that's 80k in a DAY!
Marx Bane as much as I adore Candlemass I would suggest such an entry should also mention My Dying Bride, Solstice, Funeral, Flowing Tears and Withered Flowers along with Paradise Lost.
I don't think they are underestimated at all. They are commonly see as one if not the best doom metal band. The two first albums are classical album by almost everyone who look into metal:)
I think you weren't far off in thinking this was about the magi giving baby Jesus a black stone of power and telling him to use it for good, because he (the magi) failed to in his lifetime. Interesting fact: did you know that the priests of Zoroastrianism were called Magi? Zoroastrianism predated both Christianity and Islam. Regardless, this is one of Candlemass' best. It rocks really, really hard. Other great ones from them include Well of Souls, Bewitched, Solitude, Demon's Gate, and A Sorcerer's Pledge, just to name a few. They are a very mystical band, with lyrics that take fantasy literature topics and give them serious consideration. Very intelligent and dark Dungeons & Dragons vibes, along with many spiritual and occult flavoured songs. Just a great band overall.
This song is from Candlemass 1st album which was an amazing entry and defined the music that afterwards was called doom metal. I think Candlemass was very much inspired by Black Sabbath ideas but came out as a thing on its own legs. And then each year they have continued to release albums (Nightfall (1987), Ancient Dreams (1988) и Tales of Creation (1989)) very important for the growth of other musicians who started to experiment with doom metal.
i Love the albums with Messiah Marcolin on vocals, more!!! this one is freakin good though, i forget, sometimes, cuz i've listened to so many things i can't possibly keep track of all 'em!!! a long time ago i bought the tape cassette of their album "Tales Of Creation" which to me is their apex!!! Candlemass are the Epic Doom Metal Masters, my humble statement!!!
This album is a masterpiece from start to finish. Would have loved how Johan would have done Nightfall. Messiah killed it but the pure rawness of this album is fire.
For the love of God, The Well of Souls by Candlemass if you decide to do another. As a huge metal fan and knowing many of the groups, it saddens me that some of the best and iconic get looked over or everyone else sees some other channel do a song and everyone piggy backs on it.
From what I’ve gathered from the lyrics, this song sounds like some kind of conspiracy theory about the Wisemen from the Gospel of Matthew. Johan Langquist (singer on this album and their most recent one) did an outstanding job on this album.
6.38-7.10 those are the tunes of a Swedish psalm/hymn "Gläns över sjö och strand, stjärna ur fjärran Du som i Österland tändes av Herran Stjärnan från Betlehem leder ej bort men hem /Shine over lake and shore (you) star from afar You, who was lighted in the Orient by the Lord The star of Bethlehem does lead you home, (and) not away. Swedish version of, Gläns över sjö och strand ruclips.net/video/oRAPUUE5yA8/видео.html
I just wanted to add this because I didn’t see it in the comments: The version of Christianity that Candlemas draws from for their songs, for lack of better words, is called Christian Mysticism. It’s not a very “mainstream” sect of Christianity for many complicated, and mostly historical/political, reasons that can’t really be explained properly in a RUclips comment. So most people, including other Christian’s, either don’t know it exists or mistake it as satanic when it’s not.
WOW I didn't expect the reaction on this song, great! 👍🏻 Candlemass are not a christian band, but in their lyrics they often speaked about biblical themes, but also about darkness, fantasy, life, death, demons, lovecraftian themes etc. This song is a really great song even if i think is their "weakest" song from their masterpiece Epicus imho. Do a Reaction of Candlemass - Demon's Gate or Candlemass - Well of Souls, next.
@@abbynormabrain6664 I didn't say it's a mediocre song let's be clear, I said it's the weakest one... but of a fantastic album, so still a great song to me.
Candlemass aren't just straight doom though. As they said, epic doom metal. That's really what they pioneered, bringing an almost Mercyful Fate quality to doom.
@@danielbeotich1664 Yeah I was gonna say, Sabbath were even called doom before the term heavy metal came along. And there's 1971's Budgie debut, not to mention Witchfinder General and quasi doom of Angel Witch and Witchfynde.
LOL, yes a song off the album "Epicus Doomicus Metalicus" by the band that essentially codified doom metal, is "kinda doomy"! But seriously, that was a fascinating discussion.
18:25 Not quite true. The Judahites were iconoclastic, but the northern Israelites would portray YHWH as a golden calf. The writers (perhaps the Jerusalemite priesthood) of Exodus and 1 Kings even wrote polemics against this practice. The personal name of the calves that we find in Israel, from the Samaria ostracon 41, is 'glyw which means "the calf of YHWH" or "YHWH is a calf". Even after Jehu's revolt and purge of Baal worship from Israel the golden calves remained at Bethel, which could be a good indicator that the Israelites associated these calves chiefly with YHWH rather than a foreign deity.
@@VinAndSori I'm responding specifically to your point that a difference in Israelite religion was the lack of having a "particular thing that symbolized God", but it seems like they, at least in the northern kingdom, actually did. Depending on the period, it's pretty hard to actually separate Israelite and Canaanite religion, and I think the example of the calves (which are traditionally associated with El, but sometimes Baal) are a very good example of that.
Good Christian doom, try out Paramaecium. The first album Exhumed of the Earth is early 90ies and very reminiscent of that era Anathema/My Dying Bride and just as good really. Among the first to use female vocals, violin and so forth. Well worth a listen if you like slow, heavy doom/death.
No Vin, people being the images of gods doesn't have a moral implications. Consider this - nobody respects the gods of other people. All religion is a tumor on human society that should be axed. The assumption that humans are bad by our nature is, quite frankly, silly. One of the most dangerous aspects of human nature, however, is our tendency to have really strong confirmation bias while also dismissing the literal opposite event. To a Christian if a baby falls out of a second story window and lands just right on some pillow grass so that it survives it is a miracle, but thousands dying of starvation and preventable disease before the age of 5 is either God working in mysterious ways or an example of God not being with the child depending on denomination. To a capitalist the few hundred billions are triumphs of the capitalist system while the millions going hungry despite a surplus of food just aren't trying hard enough. To the cult of sobriety Alcoholics Anonymous works amazingly well, just ask anyone, they've heard all the successes and have never heard of anyone failing despite the fact that AA themselves outright state it works for less than 1 in 10 people. To Vincent, the few atrocities of human history outweigh how much progress we've made. It's always the same. Vincent is a worshiper of death.
For Doom they were already 2nd wave, but they incorporated elements from trash and ofcourse added the Epic to Epic Doom Metal. This was the moment Doom broke and record deals were made, but some other bands were already performing the style inspired by Black Sabbath for a few years at the point, mainly bands like Trouble, Saint Vitus and especially bands like Pentagram, Witchfinder General and Pagan Altar.
It seems like every Swede is born with a guitar in his hand?! Not this one, I was born with a hockey stick in my hand! ¨1986!? My Swedish brothers are timeless!
Why the early 90’s Sega Music for the intro. There was nothing underground about that. Sega in the early 90’s were 100 percent mainstream and then icing on top.
More doom/gothic metal My dying Bride - the wreckage of my flesh Paradise Lost - No Hope in sight Anathema - Sleepless Trail of Tears - Fragile Emotional Disorder Empyrium - Ode to melancholy Katatonia - Rainroom Forest of Shadows - Silent Cry
I worship nothing really. I may like alot of things. I may do alot of good deeds. but I hold nothing sacred per say. if I saved one person it may have triggered me to save yet another one but it don´t garante me to save the third one. at some point it takes more to give than it takes to get. kind of makes people passive in a negative way. but one can´t simply care about everything. yet alone all people. not to say you should believe in absolutely nothing and get passive about everything. it´s only so much you need to believe really. and so much you need to act upon. what is certain is death. that day that sorrow. till then live a happy life:)
Special occasions demanded more blood - when a new temple to Huitzilopochtli was dedicated in 1487, an estimated 80,400 people were sacrificed. Yep, that's 80k in a DAY!
Candlemass isn't like doom metal. Candlemass is doom metal. Like if you look up doom in the metal dictionary it should just say see Candlemass.
@marxBan you are correct, I did find "see Candlemass" but there was an * with a footnote that said: "don't forget to see Solitude Aeturnus"
@@SyrianAtheist And a double ** below that saying see anything with Robert Lowe vocals
Yes. Candlemass is a definition of doom metal and i cant think of any other band who would be more perfect for the definition of the genre.
Their album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus in the middle of 80-s - is the birth of the genre.
Marx Bane as much as I adore Candlemass I would suggest such an entry should also mention My Dying Bride, Solstice, Funeral, Flowing Tears and Withered Flowers along with Paradise Lost.
So many good candlemass songs. Massively underrated band.
I don't think they are underestimated at all. They are commonly see as one if not the best doom metal band. The two first albums are classical album by almost everyone who look into metal:)
@@Floyd690 thanks for your expert input
@@poncholarpez6233 you are welcome :)
Daaaamn didn’t expect some more Candlemass, I’m very glad though. Rock on 🤘
Same because i f*cking, f*cking, f*cking love Doom Metal.
Messiah is the king of Doom Metal vocalist.
@@bryanrobbins9263 This is Johan Längqvist, the vocalist from their first album (But Messiah is quite ok aswell)
Solitude, Bewitch, Under the Oak, Sorcerers Pledge, Astrolous, The Edge Of Heaven all by candlemass are amazing check em out
I think you weren't far off in thinking this was about the magi giving baby Jesus a black stone of power and telling him to use it for good, because he (the magi) failed to in his lifetime. Interesting fact: did you know that the priests of Zoroastrianism were called Magi? Zoroastrianism predated both Christianity and Islam.
Regardless, this is one of Candlemass' best. It rocks really, really hard. Other great ones from them include Well of Souls, Bewitched, Solitude, Demon's Gate, and A Sorcerer's Pledge, just to name a few. They are a very mystical band, with lyrics that take fantasy literature topics and give them serious consideration. Very intelligent and dark Dungeons & Dragons vibes, along with many spiritual and occult flavoured songs. Just a great band overall.
This song is from Candlemass 1st album which was an amazing entry and defined the music that afterwards was called doom metal. I think Candlemass was very much inspired by Black Sabbath ideas but came out as a thing on its own legs. And then each year they have continued to release albums (Nightfall (1987), Ancient Dreams (1988) и Tales of Creation (1989)) very important for the growth of other musicians who started to experiment with doom metal.
Yes, Doom metal very much came out of the slower and heavier stuff of Black sabbath.
whole album kicks ass.." epicus, Doomicus, Metallicus", another " ancient Dreams"their a good group..
Fun fact you can hear the christmas song (Gläns över sjö och strand) in the song at 6:38
Because Candlemass are swedish.
the original lyrics sheets on both vinyl and CD versions have the word: "Commanded"!!!
i Love the albums with Messiah Marcolin on vocals, more!!! this one is freakin good though, i forget, sometimes, cuz i've listened to so many things i can't possibly keep track of all 'em!!! a long time ago i bought the tape cassette of their album "Tales Of Creation" which to me is their apex!!! Candlemass are the Epic Doom Metal Masters, my humble statement!!!
This album is a masterpiece from start to finish. Would have loved how Johan would have done Nightfall. Messiah killed it but the pure rawness of this album is fire.
For the love of God, The Well of Souls by Candlemass if you decide to do another. As a huge metal fan and knowing many of the groups, it saddens me that some of the best and iconic get looked over or everyone else sees some other channel do a song and everyone piggy backs on it.
From what I’ve gathered from the lyrics, this song sounds like some kind of conspiracy theory about the Wisemen from the Gospel of Matthew.
Johan Langquist (singer on this album and their most recent one) did an outstanding job on this album.
His acctual name is Längquist. The name was wrong spelled at the sleeve.
I can’t wait to see there reaction. To the candlemass video Astorolus the great octopus.
Moonspell - Full Moon Madness
Domina!!!!
Best doom lp ever imho
For those years they had messiah marcolin i used to listen to them everyday, a tales of creation and nightfall are wonderful
6.38-7.10 those are the tunes of a Swedish psalm/hymn
"Gläns över sjö och strand, stjärna ur fjärran
Du som i Österland tändes av Herran
Stjärnan från Betlehem leder ej bort men hem
/Shine over lake and shore (you) star from afar
You, who was lighted in the Orient by the Lord
The star of Bethlehem does lead you home, (and) not away.
Swedish version of, Gläns över sjö och strand
ruclips.net/video/oRAPUUE5yA8/видео.html
Candlemass?? God has truly smiled upon me this day :)
The correct lyrics are "damned to praised God forever".
Buddy listen to Oceans of Slumbers cover of Solitude by Candlemass
I just wanted to add this because I didn’t see it in the comments:
The version of Christianity that Candlemas draws from for their songs, for lack of better words, is called Christian Mysticism.
It’s not a very “mainstream” sect of Christianity for many complicated, and mostly historical/political, reasons that can’t really be explained properly in a RUclips comment. So most people, including other Christian’s, either don’t know it exists or mistake it as satanic when it’s not.
This whole album is a classic along with Nightfall and Tales of Creation.
You have reacted them before, the song was: Samarithan, biblical as well.
Candlemass. Doom at its finest
Nice. Now I hope you'll do "Solitude" from their "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" Album, which is literally the epic doom perfection.
My dying bride - A Kiss to remember PLEASE!
Slaughter to prevail - Demolisher
oh man, wait 'til you hear Samarithan
WOW I didn't expect the reaction on this song, great! 👍🏻
Candlemass are not a christian band, but in their lyrics they often speaked about biblical themes, but also about darkness, fantasy, life, death, demons, lovecraftian themes etc.
This song is a really great song even if i think is their "weakest" song from their masterpiece Epicus imho.
Do a Reaction of Candlemass - Demon's Gate or Candlemass - Well of Souls, next.
Wait, what did they do that was Lovecraftian?
@@hmpz36911 Songs like Demon of the Deep and Astorolus.
I don’t know how you could think this is the weakest song on this album…
@@abbynormabrain6664 I didn't say it's a mediocre song let's be clear, I said it's the weakest one... but of a fantastic album, so still a great song to me.
My favorite christmas song.
Candlemass aren't just straight doom though. As they said, epic doom metal. That's really what they pioneered, bringing an almost Mercyful Fate quality to doom.
The first two Candlemass records are stone-cold metal classics. It actually invented doom metal.
Guess you've never heard of black Sabbath then🙄
@@danielbeotich1664 Yeah I was gonna say, Sabbath were even called doom before the term heavy metal came along. And there's 1971's Budgie debut, not to mention Witchfinder General and quasi doom of Angel Witch and Witchfynde.
look up "King of the Dead" by Cirith Ungol from 1983.
This song is Leif's version of the 3 wise men.
Anathema- Untouchable live in Universal Concert Bulgaria or studio version
LOL, yes a song off the album "Epicus Doomicus Metalicus" by the band that essentially codified doom metal, is "kinda doomy"!
But seriously, that was a fascinating discussion.
Opeth - Godhead's Lament
Masterpiece of an album.
Dystopia - hands that mold
Best Doom ever... I saw them live for the first time 1987 just between the Albums Nightfall and Ancient Dreams.. Cheers from Sweden \m/
18:25 Not quite true. The Judahites were iconoclastic, but the northern Israelites would portray YHWH as a golden calf. The writers (perhaps the Jerusalemite priesthood) of Exodus and 1 Kings even wrote polemics against this practice. The personal name of the calves that we find in Israel, from the Samaria ostracon 41, is 'glyw which means "the calf of YHWH" or "YHWH is a calf". Even after Jehu's revolt and purge of Baal worship from Israel the golden calves remained at Bethel, which could be a good indicator that the Israelites associated these calves chiefly with YHWH rather than a foreign deity.
Not disputing that they did it. That proves they had a hard time with the invisible god stuff
@@VinAndSori I'm responding specifically to your point that a difference in Israelite religion was the lack of having a "particular thing that symbolized God", but it seems like they, at least in the northern kingdom, actually did. Depending on the period, it's pretty hard to actually separate Israelite and Canaanite religion, and I think the example of the calves (which are traditionally associated with El, but sometimes Baal) are a very good example of that.
Anathema- Flying live in Universal Concert Bulgaria
One of the few channels playing this band among first of others
Good Christian doom, try out Paramaecium. The first album Exhumed of the Earth is early 90ies and very reminiscent of that era Anathema/My Dying Bride and just as good really. Among the first to use female vocals, violin and so forth. Well worth a listen if you like slow, heavy doom/death.
Have you listened to Ashen Mortality too? They are a great band sadly they did not last long.
\m/ love Candlemass! react to it with the singer Messiah. ''under the oak'' '' the edge of heaven'' doom metal
Amon Amarth - Into the Dark
Fuckin love this band!
Candlemass are the daddys of doom. absolute unit of a band
No Vin, people being the images of gods doesn't have a moral implications. Consider this - nobody respects the gods of other people. All religion is a tumor on human society that should be axed. The assumption that humans are bad by our nature is, quite frankly, silly. One of the most dangerous aspects of human nature, however, is our tendency to have really strong confirmation bias while also dismissing the literal opposite event. To a Christian if a baby falls out of a second story window and lands just right on some pillow grass so that it survives it is a miracle, but thousands dying of starvation and preventable disease before the age of 5 is either God working in mysterious ways or an example of God not being with the child depending on denomination. To a capitalist the few hundred billions are triumphs of the capitalist system while the millions going hungry despite a surplus of food just aren't trying hard enough. To the cult of sobriety Alcoholics Anonymous works amazingly well, just ask anyone, they've heard all the successes and have never heard of anyone failing despite the fact that AA themselves outright state it works for less than 1 in 10 people. To Vincent, the few atrocities of human history outweigh how much progress we've made. It's always the same. Vincent is a worshiper of death.
The reddit is strong with this one.
Reddit is down the hall to the right.
3:14 for the start 😉
For Doom they were already 2nd wave, but they incorporated elements from trash and ofcourse added the Epic to Epic Doom Metal. This was the moment Doom broke and record deals were made, but some other bands were already performing the style inspired by Black Sabbath for a few years at the point, mainly bands like Trouble, Saint Vitus and especially bands like Pentagram, Witchfinder General and Pagan Altar.
You guys did candlemass before and questioned if they were christian then too lol
Love that intro!
More Doom Metal please.
Oh I like this intro you guys did
Doooom. Katatonia - Nephilim
You should do at the gallows end by Candlemass. It would be interesting to hear your take on the lyrics.
gläns över sjö och strand!
Anathema- Internal Landscapes live in Universal Concert Bulgaria
This album is the best Doom Metal abum ever made period!!!!!!!
Candlemass defines doom metal. Peace and blessings!
Cleaning the house is like being stuck in hell...
Helloween How Many Tears
Bolt Thrower Suspect Hostile
A classic doom song by the best doomband ever.
Solitude Aeternus is doom as well
Death-Pull the Plug
If you do another Candlemass tune i highly reccomend Samarithan off of Nightfall. It has positive Christian theme.
They did Samarithan some time ago.
ruclips.net/video/dO-enmcgxOw/видео.html
@@liminal_entity1331 thank you!
It seems like every Swede is born with a guitar in his hand?! Not this one, I was born with a hockey stick in my hand! ¨1986!? My Swedish brothers are timeless!
play Under The Oak
react to Ulver Hymn I: Wolf and Fear
Check out Edge of Heaven by Candlemass. Their best track ever.
WATCHTOWER(the group) INSTRUMENTS OF RANDOM MURDER(the song) 1989 JAZZ METAL ? PROG ? I don't know...CIAO...
Why the early 90’s Sega Music for the intro. There was nothing underground about that. Sega in the early 90’s were 100 percent mainstream and then icing on top.
Hey 8 bit versions of songs can be pretty epic. Do you at least recognize the song? :D Its Epic by Faith No More!
You want some thrash? Grip inc. - heretic war chant
React to Angra - Carolina IV
do Redgum - 'I was only 19' Its an Aussie classic dealing with Vietnam Vets
ruclips.net/video/mGDhzVi1bqU/видео.html
U need to react to mephorash- shem ha mephorash
22:54 Sori, thats idolatry! Hell yeah \m/
react: Candlemass - A Sorcerer's Pledge
Candlemass is not a religious Band, or a satanic Band also, they Just tells story about good and evil that is all!
React to Bewitched or The Well of Souls, it's a different singer than this song, but it's still authentic Candlemass
Lars Johansson , the lead guitar player become a left- handed guitarist out of respect to our Riff-Father Tony Iommi
Yeah, but in this album the lead guitarist is Klas Bergwall.
More doom/gothic metal
My dying Bride - the wreckage of my flesh
Paradise Lost - No Hope in sight
Anathema - Sleepless
Trail of Tears - Fragile Emotional Disorder
Empyrium - Ode to melancholy
Katatonia - Rainroom
Forest of Shadows - Silent Cry
Gorgoroth Open the Gates please
Scars of life:purity
CANDLEMASS😁😁😁😁
Demolition hammer
Go reaction to Megadeath song - burnt ice. Very interesting, hard and cool song.
Kreator - Enemy of god
Do solitude aeturnus!
Sweden metal mayhem
Metallica Eye of the Beholder
3.15 - en, två, tre, fyr(a) (one, two, three, four in Swedish
The lyrics are wrong. I have rechecked this
lorna shore immortal, thank me later.
I worship nothing really. I may like alot of things. I may do alot of good deeds. but I hold nothing sacred per say. if I saved one person it may have triggered me to save yet another one but it don´t garante me to save the third one. at some point it takes more to give than it takes to get. kind of makes people passive in a negative way. but one can´t simply care about everything. yet alone all people. not to say you should believe in absolutely nothing and get passive about everything. it´s only so much you need to believe really. and so much you need to act upon. what is certain is death. that day that sorrow. till then live a happy life:)
also candlemass rules!
You will know them by their fruits. Misrepresentation
React to red fog by orbit culture