Candlemass - Solitude (Pianist continues his exploration of heavy metal)

[@Moonchilddbk]

Candelmass - a band that have got their own chapter in the National encyclopedia of Doom EPIC

[@My_Legs_Are_OK]

> Epicus Doomicus Metalicus The thing that always comes to mind after hearing that is “he has a wife, you know? Do you want to know what she’s called?”

[@majk2006]

Incontinentia Buttocks

[@markwillingham5343]

Biggus Dickus Metallicus

[@progperljungman8218]

​@@majk2006@markwillingham5343 😂

[@Derpadeedooda]

Candlemass is so good

[@jimshelatz4814]

Old Candlemass is so good with M.M. The new singer not so much.

[@darkmarv8045]

@@jimshelatz4814 The "new" singer is the singer wo sung on Epicus, their first album.

[@nick_4972]

Their first two albums are 10/10's

[@darkmarv8045]

@@nick_4972 For me also Ancient Dreams and Tales of Creation are fantastic albums, maybe not 10/10 but 9/10 yes.

[@Vegan_Kebab_In_My_Hand]

@@jimshelatz4814 The newest yet the oldest, ain't that something. Candlemass had like 6 vocalists, I think all of them were great.

[@rhotomago6916]

Entombed - "Left hand path" would be a cool reaction to see!

[@progperljungman8218]

Are we going all Swedish here? 😉

[@derweissebus4594]

I'd love to see Judson reacting to A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh by Celtic Frost

Yes, Candlemass still exist, and deliver perfect live. Was just a couple of months since I saw them in Malmö (Sweden)

[@morgothbauglir5096]

This episode was truly epicus doomicus metallicus! 'Samarithan' and 'At The Gallows End' are great songs too. Marcolin brought a theatrical element to the band.

[@darrenmetal3338]

I've seen them live back in the late eighties at a festival. The whole atmosphere changed when they hit the stage. As soon as the intro begun there were about 150 diehards entering the venue and made their way up to the front . After the set they walked straight out of the venue. They only came o see Candlemass...this whole album is a classic

[@chrishendriks392]

In the 80's I was a programer for a club here in the Netherlands, and the moment I heard that Candlemass got to tour, I booked them. And no regrets. That concert, that night was magic. The way they were, and are still now, I still love that. All the people who were there, got a treat !!! Since that moment I'm a fan off them, Candlemass is doom , one of the corner stones. And yes they still put out new albums and still tour. Thanks for this superb reaction. Greets, Chris. P.s. Hope you do more doom reactions :)

[@nikosalmpanis-ty3jt]

Candlemass forever🤘.After Black Sabbath the Candlemass🤘

[@andersoncubillos]

When you said: Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, and you started to laugh (I began to laugh too 😆😆). It reminds me of a "Life of Brian" scene (it's a movie from "Monty Python"). When the Roman guy says: biggus dickus. And everyone laughs.

[@Olivia_Neumann]

“Get excited then!” 😂 I think that’s asking a lot of this song considering the rarity of Judson’s displays of pure excitement here. Takes more than that to crack his cool exterior.

[@Hyriudragon]

Anxious to see this reaction. When im come home from work, first thing im gonna do.. Another one is Under the Oak

[@Nebuloid1]

Woah it's Candlemass time now !? Hell yeah.

[@windwarattack2300]

Killer Man...just Killer !!

[@bar2ti4]

paradise lost next icon and draconian times is a masterpiece

[@nocturnal_doomer]

MDB or Anathema too

[@gorftollisorn7117]

@@nocturnal_doomer The whole Peaceville 3 lmao

[@RicardoPestana]

Paradise Lost best is Gothic by a large mile, in my humble opinion

[@damianw.3962]

@@nocturnal_doomer Absolutely MDB, especially some track with violin/piano, like Your River, Turn Loose the Swans or go nuts with Symphonaire Infernus et spera Empyrium

[@naturalianoss]

Deep and hard hitting song . Beautiful T shirt .

[@tiffy3260]

It must be so much pressure for judson to show appreciation when richard is staring at him. Lol 😂

[@tiffy3260]

And also..yes to THOOM 😂😂

[@foggypaipa]

I can’t wait for Swallow the Sun reactions 🖤

[@alexgrey3964]

I suggest sorcerer's pledge one of my favorite candlemass songs

[@JoseEchoes378]

I support this, and Under the Oak too

[@kahwigulum]

One of the best bands of the world

[@thomassjogren5773]

"Mirror Mirror" from -88 is probably their best song...

[@juliopoveda]

Omg finally a candlemass song, I feel like this is going to be an epic reaction

[@luciferdzhugashvili]

It’s an epic…us doomicus metallicus reaction

[@fabiolignelli7372]

Doom Metal is addictive, mesmerizing, sacred, immortal, really badass...There are "countless" sacred Doom Metal bands and the subgenres of Doom Metal: Doom Metal (Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Witchfinder General, Count Raven, Trouble, Pagan Altar, Reverend Bizarre, Dawn of Winter, etc), Heavy/Doom (Black Sabbath, Cirith Ungol, etc), Doom/Stoner (Cathedral, Electric Wizard, Acid King, etc), Epic Doom Metal (Candlemass, Solitude Aeturnus, etc), Stoner/Doom (Sleep, Goatsnake, etc), Death/Doom (Asphyx, Cianide, Disembowelment, Winter, Spectral Voice, etc), Black/Doom (Samael, Bethlehem, etc), Doom/Death (Rippikoulu, Cavurn, etc), Funeral Doom/Death (Esoteric, Evoken, etc), Sludge/Drone/Doom (Burning Witch, Cough, Indian, etc), etc, etc, etc...Greetings from Brazil!!!

[@Tanikaze2]

judson really nailed Polly

[@pavlodidro]

A Sorcerer's Pledge is masterpiece

[@h3rrpie373]

I love Richard's face when the first distorted riff kicks in. :D

[@alexandroarezo6791]

Doooooooommm!! Regards from Uruguay!!

[@PK--ITA]

I recommend anything from the repertoire of the band from Arlington, TX - Solitude Aeturnus (yes, that's their name, not Aeternal...), any song. The band has existed since 1987, their heyday was the '90s. The vocalist, Robert Lowe, later replaced Messiah on vocals in Candlemass ('07-'12). Great band, great musical atmosphere. And something extra, I recommend introducing Judson to the music of Paradise Lost... 🤘🤘 not necessarily with the old songs. I know them from the very beginning and I think I appreciate the latest albums a little more, although I started with "Gothic" and "Icon". Stay heavy, Judson too, even if he doesn't like Doom 🤣

[@Signofevil_Smile4theCam]

Solitude Aeturnus are absolutely on par with Candlemass

[@donniebarbados]

some doom recs: reverend bizarre - teutonic witch sleep - sonic titan pagan altar - nightrider cathedral - oro the manslayer electric wizard - barbarian bongzilla - gateway trouble - the tempter

[@donniebarbados]

the above list is more trad doom/stoner doom. here's some "outside the box" doom recs that blend some other genres: spaceslug - supermassive (doom + heavy psych) om - at giza (doom + being an ascetic monk) high on fire - fury whip (doom + motorhead) rezn - iceberg (doom + synths and sax) hooded menace - crumbling insanity (doom + death)

[@stefanjr]

Ohhh YES! Great pick - looking forward to this.

[@bumblefluff79]

Really enjoyed that one and cant believe it was from '86! I missed that too. The heavy dragging riff and that solo erupting from nowhere was very cool. Looking forward to you and Judson recording a doom track...

[@jimshelatz4814]

Love old Candlemass with M.M.!! Yes they are still around but do not sound even close as the glory days. Should check out Saint Vitus with WINO! Or early Cathedral as well.

[@JoseEchoes378]

Messiah Marcolin is not on the first album

[@sebastianahrens2385]

Every time one of your videos shows up in my suggestions it's a favorite album or band of mine, like you've secretly tapped into my playlists :D EDM is is another great choice. Solitude was my introduction to the band (and album), but my favorite song is Black Stone Wielder. I can only imagine how it must've been for some folks back in the day, seeing this in a music store. The cover looks like it's next doors garage band (or even worse), but those that actually bought and listened to it were in for one hell of a surprise!

[@rolfantonsson8297]

great reaction! :-) Please do Trouble - The tempter, for more doom reactions! Cheers from Sweden! Oh, when i did see Candlemass years ago, the singer Messiah Marcolin, did wear a cloak on stage!

[@vex3r732]

God, I have been waiting for something like this. Thank you!

[@Infyra]

The most prominent way Doom branched out a bit was ofcourse Death Doom, and while there are tons and tons of good songs in that genre to check out, I would suggest My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans.

[@shryggur]

I wonder whether they ever venture into the funeral doom territory, could be *FUN*

[@Infyra]

@@shryggur yea i love some bands like Shape of Despair, Esoteric or Evoken

[@robertpetre9378]

Definitely some king Diamond and Black Sabbath influence here

[@dannyreyes8690]

Yeeeeeeees!!!! Candlemass is great

[@DM-pv4rw]

i am oh so impatiently awaiting the sleep video

[@nikosalmpanis-ty3jt]

Candlemass with Messiah are amazing band."Please let me die in solitude".

[@darkmarv8045]

Messiah is not singing in the album, the singer of Solitude and other songs of Epicus is Johan Langqvist (their current singer).

[@nikosalmpanis-ty3jt]

@darkmarv8045 I know,i'm fan of Candlemass.I mean the era who sing the Messiah are amazing.I have saw 3-4 times alive on stage and have autograph from Messiah.

[@doomreleasator]

Thanks for that ! :D

[@johnsmith970]

Candlemass rules, so many great songs in their catalogue. Hope this wasnt their last on this channel ;)

[@Ronnie.Ericsson]

Yes! I can sit through a whole Dopesmoker or even a Jerusalem reaction. :)

[@AriesWarlock]

Man, a piano cover of Solitude would be great now that I hear it. The whole Epicus Doomicus Metallicus album is just awesome. The second vocalist did wear a monk robes on shows.

[@SlshrX]

A band i recall recommending many many months ago. No idea if you did this coz of that (doubt it) but Candlemass are a huge influence on my life, all the way back to the 80s. Anyway, you guys need hit the Tales of Creation album. Hope to see something from that in the not-to-distant future. Cheers.

[@JeanAlainXavier-ze9jc]

Masterpiece

[@azdarkforce]

Love me some good doom and love me some Candlemass! Love great measures!

[@gheetarrplayerr9782]

E P I C U S R E A C T I C U S

[@sentenced03]

They still release albums and theyre still great.

[@RicardoPestana]

polly? I would never guess that! Sounds so amazing!

[@edwinavila1076]

You should show him Mirror of Sorrow by Solitude Aeturnus, any Trouble and Cathedral song.

[@nick_4972]

NEED to do Well of Souls next

[@erde7403]

@Greatmeasures may i suggest My Dying Bride - Sear Me My Dying Bride - Your River My Dying Bride - Turn loose the swans My Dying Bride - I am the bloody earth choose one/all ;-)

[@RuthlessMetalYT]

They still do play and vocalist Messiah wore a robe but he isn't in the band now.

[@ChristopheDeBoeck]

When Candlemass is played in the abbatoir, the cattle beg to be killed

[@mikaellyckinger9578]

Candlemass still plays

[@xnoiidb]

Gotta hit him with the Black Stone Wielder next 🤘

[@aldersmoke1]

I love that Richard stuck up for this song so hard. Judson's right though; speaking as a guy in a doom metal band, it's a narrow genre. But a very satisfying one if it clicks with you. Also: if he doesn't like the high falsetto vocal approach, Judson should listen to the re-recording with Robert Lowe. I daresay that version's even nastier.

[@FountainMetaal3]

There is no band that sound like Candlemass, such a unique sound, production. When i first hear Epicus Doomicus Metallicus they changed mine looking view on the music at all. That is my case.

[@Chubbz969]

I think Judson is ready for some YOB.

[@Underournorthernstar]

Yob - Adrift in the Ocean is just an incredible doom masterpiece. He's right that it's kind of a small box but there is some really great variation between doom sub genres. Some funeral doom has the space and atmosphere he seems to like in spades but it's not a great genre for somebody that feels music. You can get caught up in it.

[@Ghostdeth13242]

12:56 richards reaction is great lol hes like hell yeah man

[@Ghostdeth13242]

also 21:08, lmao the cloak budget for the videos were higher than the equipment budget

[@Gregbaltzer]

Candlemass and Cathedral were always my 2 favorite Doom bands.

[@BucPucker]

I was just thinking, Judson needs to hear some Ethereal Mirror. I feel like that type of doom metal is more his pace.

[@metalswifty23]

As you mentioned getting an organ in your future band prep, I'd highly recommend the bands Arð, Pantheist, and Bell Witch for some organ doom metal. The first two bands the organ is a key instrument in their music, whereas with Bell Witch it was introduced on their third album (Mirror Reaper), I believe, though that album (and their most recent one, where the organ features far more) is a single song at nearly an hour and a half long, so it wouldn't be for the channel haha

[@madkorova]

I'm rly excited about your take on some Stoner Doom tracks. Electric Wizard, Sleep, Goatsnake, something like that.

[@satanihelvetet]

Very nice to see a reaction to Candlemass. Wouldn't it be very cool if you let Judson xperience pioneers of the symphonic metal scene... (?)... Therion - Rise of Sodom and Gomorra (Live - Miskolc experience).

[@billpeters9999]

Awesome song

[@dauls]

Excited for the Sleep song, Hope its Dopesmoker :D

[@foodforthegods]

Doom fans feasting! Looking forward to the Sleep video. I like the chronological approach, makes a lot of sense for Doom Metal. The evolution is very clear. If you get around to it, Electric Wizard might blow Judson's head clean off 😬

[@MWigforss]

Yeah! KRUX next. With Leif Edling and people from Entombed and Opeth.

[@Murzinio]

Great song. Maybe you can do Electric Wizard at some point. Sleep is great too, looking forward to it.

[@Shamou04]

If anyone is interested, french band Anorexia Nervosa made a cover of this track. If you wonder how it might sound with more black metal voice in it, feel free to try it out :)

[@Waltari81]

Greatus Doomicus Measurus 💀

[@Signofevil_Smile4theCam]

Bring on "The seeds of Desolate" or "It came upon one night" by Solitude Aeturnus!

[@Eirath]

You would pronounce Leif Edlings name something like Laeyf Edhleeng Great to see you guys enjoying some awesome doom metal at last :D Looking forward to see you play more of that. More Candlemass and maybe Edlings sideproject Avatarium? Stuff like Cathedral, Electric Wizard, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Novembers Doom.... oh there's so much good amazing stuff in this rabbit hole. And you should definitely start a Doom band together!

[@OrangeSunnSet]

Sleep soon? So this will be the first and only 1,5 hours video by Great Measures.

[@sugarymushroom]

Have you ever heard swallow the suns cover of solitude. If not it will blow you away.

[@AXIDNT66]

Would be fun to play him different versions of this songs with the different vocalists, and see which one he likes best. They have had some great vocalists over the years. The Lucifer Rising EP has a fun live set with Rob Lowe that I like the sound of. It's heavy but not perfect, and for whatever reason to me has that "nostalgia" kinda feeling of seeing a band in a bar or something. As an aside, tangentially related as their session vocalist was once a Candlemass vocalist, I'd recommend finding something from Opera Diabolicus - Death on a Pale Horse, I think Judson would like it. It's kind of epic doom, traditional heavy metal, and a bit of melodic death metal, with some occasional symphonic elements, and has a dramatic, theatrical sound. Varied and interesting, and Mats Leven (who was in Candlemass for a bit) puts in a great vocal performance.

[@sekcaJ]

Now you got me excited, i want to know what Thoom sounds like 🧐

[@nocturnal_doomer]

Wow! I suggest Saint Vitus - Born Too Late or Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

[@Moonchilddbk]

Helloween aswelll bruder

[@jimshelatz4814]

I also was thinking of Saint Vitus...WINO era RULES!

[@JoseEchoes378]

Oh yes

[@mike2590rrr]

Should have Judson react to the audio and music video of Bewitched.

[@SkepticShay]

I like this song. For more good ol' doom, Besides Black Sabbath, you can visit My Dying Bride, Pentagram, Anathema, Type O -- ...

[@Michael-xb4ws]

Yes, Pentagram!

[@mikaellyckinger9578]

You guys should listen to Candlemass - Aftermath. The singers range is sick!

[@oregonwoodelf]

This song is a classic, but I get it that it's not much of a "banger" to get excited about... At The Gallows End or The Well Of Souls....now there's some shit to bang your head to🤘☠🕯

[@mikaelakerfeldt27]

new Leprous album is out! maybe try Atonement next?

[@diegofranciscoalmanzaperez]

Imperial triumphant chernobyl blues react

[@lawrencefine5020]

Good first album, but I'm a Nightfall/Messiah Marcolin Guy just a bit more. Well Of Souls, Richard. WELL OF SOULS.

[@progperljungman8218]

Also, Leif (not "Lief") Edling's band Avatarium is really great, as well as the former band of his: Krux

[@jimlarsson1696]

give the man some funeral doom to go with that

[@ajgsxr]

Yes, sleep! Also some electric wizard, electric wizard from come my fanatics! Some Bongzilla would also be amazing, from gateway. Dive into the doom!

[@karolwojcik5265]

What a great classic was reacting. I think that is good time to try react beautifull song of Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis.

[@c4rnagEc4]

uuuuuu CANDELMASS lml

[@_Helm_]

As a person with the epicus skull tattooed on his body every time Judson was like 'Epicus. Doomicus. Metallicus :D' I shouted at the screen 'DAMN RIGHT BRO!' lol. Guess what sort of genre this album inspires? That's right! Epic Doom Metal! The best kind of doom!

[@_Helm_]

as to a quicker tempo when it comes to doom. This style of epic doom shores up to power metal often so there is galloping rhythms and power metal sections, we go from molasses slow to a little above mid-tempo on this record. On other albums Candlemass straight up rips at times, but mostly this style is slow, yes. There is a lot of variation to wrestle out of the form, but it mostly happened in the trajectory from this album to the romantic styles of doom/death in the UK later (Paradise Lost, Anathema, My Dying Bride) like 5 years later and that's kind of it for this style of doom, it no longer progresses or changes, though people still write epic doom once in a a while, it's on the whole seen as 'sub-candlemass'. As in, if not worse than the originators, at least heavily indebted to them. This album that you listened to the first song of is an absurdly influential album in the underground.

[@_Helm_]

Judson because it seems you love musicology and the history of stuff to some extent to ask stuff like this: Doom was not a genre of metal before this album! Sabbath and other 70s originators were doomy (of course) but the term did not exist. Candlemass come post-thrash, with thrash technique like everyone else and they say while everyone's trying to be faster and more ripping, we'll go back to the source, to Black Sabbath. So this album (though Trouble existed before it) kind of is a return of metal to SLOW after more than a decade of exploring FAST. That has an immense aesthetic and philosophical effect for extreme metal on the whole because now metalheads (of the 90s especially) realize that there are many walls of extremity to push against, not just faster/harder all the time. Doom metal was necessary for heavy metal to reconnect with whatever avant-garde spirit it was gestating at the time. Lots of brilliant weirdness comes out of an - ostensibly - thrashy-power metal kind of outfit deciding to play at 60 bpm.

[@Greatmeasures]

Nice

[@Dmitriy-Dimitriy]

You should definitely check something from "Nightfall" album - Candlemass did this album with another vocalist, Messiah Marcolin, who has a unique "opera kind" voice. Would be great if you reacted to "Gothic Stone"+"The Well of Souls" (the first track is a short intro that led to the second track) or "At the gallow's end"

[@cokleu51]

Enslaved , Veilburner frrom Riitiir album

[@Frogmonkey095]

Yeah, you'd think that with such a limitation in tempo doom metal would be a narrow genre, but in reality it's in the top three most diverse metal sugenres along with black and death. Tempo isn't as big of a limitation as one might expect, especially when the limitation only sets a top speed. Doom can always be played slower which creates more creative space. That was essentially the idea behind "funeral doom metal"-- how slow can we play and still make something cohesive. It also blends with other genres exceedingly well. Doom metal is one of the oldest forms of metal so it's had a lot of time to evolve and adapt. Thrash metal, however, does have the problem you think a limitation in tempo would give; essentially, the faster you have to play the more limited you are in song structure. Doom metal is my second favorite form of metal behind black metal. My favorite styles of doom metal are, epic doom, folk/doom, death/doom and something I affectionately call "Witch Doom" which is any doom with a female vocalist--big influences from the occult rock band, Coven, from the 60s/70s.

[@GeomorgusNihili]

Messiah Marcolin's voice is top tier.

[@RicardoPestana]

thats Johan Längqvist singing on this one

[@jimminyjillickers6391]

Reverend Bizarre would be a good one for Judson. Dare I say it, their 3rd album could be progressive. The song Doom Over the World has a hook that would grab him. Plenty of their songs have riffs worthy of Iomi, in particular From the Void iI has 3 monumental riffs. Some other songs; Apocalyptic Riders, Slave of Satan, Doomsover, Cirith Ungol

[@jima6545]

Always love Candlemass, but man, i wish Messiah was still with them.

[@alexandroarezo6791]

Cathedral the next?