CANDLEMASS Guitarist Interviewed At France's HELLFEST
July 7, 2010Guitar amp company Hughes & Kettner conducted an interview with guitarist Lars Johansson of Swedish doom metallers CANDLEMASS at this year's Hellfest, which took place June 18-20 in Clisson, France. Watch the chat below.
CANDLEMASS performed at the 2010 edition of Hellfest without longtime guitarist Mats "Mappe" Björkman, who was unable to make the gig due to "scheduling conflicts." Temporarily replacing him at the event was Jörgen Sandström (VICIOUS ART, KRUX, ENTOMBED, GRAVE).
CANDLEMASS will celebrate its 25-year anniversary as a band with an extra-long performance at Debaser Medis in Stockholm on December 18. The band's classic 1986 album, "Epicus Doomicus Metalicus", will be played in its entirety for the first time with CANDLEMASS' original singer Johan Längqvist.
"Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" was re-released on fat 180-gram blood-red vinyl in numbered gatefold sleeve on June 28 via Peaceville Records. The gatefold sleeve features the original artwork (red text and skull not white as on the CD) on a matt-laminated sleeve with logo and text on front in spot varnish. It also includes new sleeve notes written by the band.
CANDLEMASS released a new DVD, "Ashes To Ashes - Live", in North America on June 29 via Nuclear Blast Records (April 23 in Europe). The set contains footage of the band's performance at last year's Sweden Rock Festival in front of 30,000 people as well as CANDLEMASS' entire October 2009 concert in Athens, Greece. It also includes a 30-minute interview and two photo galleries. The DVD was released as a CD+DVD, with the Sweden Rock show as the audio CD.
"Death Magic Doom", the latest album from CANDLEMASS, debuted at No. 79 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
"Death Magic Doom" entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 52. The group's previous CD, "King of the Grey Islands", debuted at No. 83 back in June 2007.
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