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CANDLEMASS Release Six-Track EP ‘Pendulum’ Track
March 27th, 2020

Stockholm, Sweden-based doom metal band Candlemass issued six-song EP The Pendulum on March 27th, 2020 through Napalm Records. The EP will be made available in various formats and can be pre-ordered here

The Pendulum is comprised of unused tracks cut from the recording sessions for the band’s 2019 album The Door To Doom.

Edling commented: “‘The Pendulum’ is about hard riffing, epic choruses and total delusion the fanatical way. It is, in fact, the last thing I wrote for The Door To Doom album but didn’t have the time to finish it. Here it is in its grand/mad luster with a great mix by Niklas Flyckt, and produced by Marcus Jidell. It is followed by five unreleased demos from ‘The Door To Doom’ sessions because the whole sha-bang was at first supposed to be a double effort but got trimmed down to a single album eventually.

“I love ‘The Pendulum’ track – album quality if you ask me, and songs like ‘Porcelain Skull’ and ‘Snakes Of Goliath’ are not bad either. They just didn’t make it to the final thing. So I hope you like this EP that features the ‘missing’ songs. The last pieces of the puzzle of the one-year recording that became the album The Door To Doom. Enjoy.”

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘The Pendulum’
02. ‘Snakes Of Goliath’
03. ‘Sub Zero’
04. ‘Aftershock’
05. ‘Porcelain Skull’
06. ‘The Cold Room’

Candlemass’ line-up is as follows:

Johan Längqvist (vocals)
Mats “Mappe” Björkman (guitar)
Lars “Lasse” Johansson (guitar)
Leif Edling (bass)
Jan Lindh (drums)

An official lyric video was created for the track ‘Porcelain Skull’, which can be viewed below.

Bassist Leif Edling stated: “I think the video really captures the schizophrenic lyrics to the ‘Porcelain Skull’ song. It is about the eternal battle with our dark selves, Avatarium did a fine version of it on their latest album but this one is rawer and harder, hits you right in the face!”

An official lyric video was created for the title track, which can also be viewed below.

Twelfth studio record The Door To Doom was released in February 2019 via Napalm.