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Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS have posted a new message
on their official web site regarding singer Messiah
Marcolin's announcement that he was leaving the band.
As previously reported, Marcolin contacted
BLABBERMOUTH.NET on Friday (April 28) to reveal that
he has parted ways with the group and that it's 100
percent definite that he will not return. "We could
not agree on how to do the new album," he said, but
would not further elaborate on his sudden exit.
The latest message on CANDLEMASS' web site (dated
April 30) reads as follows:
"Messiah's got a severe pre-recording psychosis at the
moment, so folks, please calm down. The band is
confident that he will sing on the album as planned.
CANDLEMASS will enter the new Polar Studios [in
Stockholm] in May to record the follow up to last
year's successful 'Candlemass'. The new album will
feature nine tracks but is yet untitled. The band
produces themselves."
CANDLEMASS recorded four new songs with producer Andy
Sneap (NEVERMORE, ARCH ENEMY, MACHINE HEAD) in late
February at the new Polar studios in Stockholm,
Sweden. At the time, the group's bassist/songwriter
Leif Edling said of the material, "The songs are
pretty much in the same vein as the stuff on the
[self-titled 2005] reunion album, maybe a bit darker."
CANDLEMASS won a Swedish "Grammy" award in February in
the "Best Hard Rock" category, beating out the likes
of HAMMERFALL, HARDCORE SUPERSTAR, MESHUGGAH and
OPETH. The Swedish doom legends were honored for the
"Candlemass" opus, which is available on Nuclear Blast
Records. Five back-catalog items from the band -
"Epicus Doomicus Metallicus", "Ancient Dreams",
"Doomed for Live", "Nightfall", and "Essential Doom" -
were issued in the U.S. via Candlelight in February.