Nightfall

by Candlemass

Nightfall cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 November 1987
  • Label: Axis
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 1:44:50
  • Community rating: 4.15/5 from 9 ratings

Artists on this release: Jan Lindh, Messiah Marcolin, Mats Bj枚rkman, Leif Edling, Fr茅d茅ric Chopin, MIke Wead, Lars Johansson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Candlemass perfected the epic doom metal formula on 'Nightfall', pairing colossal, mournful riffs with Messiah Marcolin鈥檚 soaring, operatic vocal delivery. The album's sombre, classical-inspired arrangements provide a grandiose backdrop for dark, fantastical lyrics centered around death, mythology, and religious dread. It is universally regarded as a masterclass in slow, heavy, and majestic metal.

Genres

Descriptors: death, occult, fantasy, monolithic, funereal

Tracklist

  1. Gothic Stone (0:47)
  2. The Well Of Souls (7:26)
  3. Codex Gigas (2:19)
  4. At The Gallows End (5:46)
  5. Samarithan (5:29)
  6. Marche Funebre (2:21)
  7. Dark Are The Veils Of Death (7:06)
  8. Mourner's Lament (6:08)
  9. Bewitched (6:36)
  10. Black Candles (2:15)
  11. Bewitched (Demo) (7:10)
  12. Battlecry (Demo) (6:08)
  13. The Well Of Souls (Live Elm St Club) (5:16)
  14. Dark Are The Veils Of Death (Live Elm St Club) (4:07)
  15. At The Gallows End (Studio Outtake) (5:50)
  16. Mourner's Lament (Studio Outtake) (5:36)
  17. Interview (24:21)

Credits

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