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Candlemass Rising...

Lord Morbid | Cowlumbus, OH | 11/23/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the first cd where the music is written for Rob and not Messiah. The firs track is an all new single "Lucifer Rising" and it totally shreds. Fast paced and gallops like the old school stuff. Rob has a very powerful voice in this song and he mixes it all from lows to even, yes, highs! I never knew he could do that because he's always been doom and gloom and this seems more like a power metal song. It'll get ya pumped. "White God" is just a typical Candlemass doom song which is still good but not much to tell about it. Also, a re-recording of "Demon's Gate" minus the effects and doom voice. Good tune and Rob sounds solid on it. He's definitely the best replacement you can get for this band and quite frankly, a new rebirth of this band that really needed it. Messiah was a killer vocalist and the original sound of C-mass but Rob brings much more to the table and a new twist on the C-mass journey into oblivion. Rob is one of the most talented vocalists around and is going to catapult this band into a higher plane of greatness. This is an "ep" but has 9 tracks of live stuff from Athens so you can hear the new stuff live and the old classics done by Rob which are all done to the "T." Hells yeah. Pick it up. Cheap. Collector's item."