Despite breakups and health issues, Candlemass' 30-plus-year career continues with ThePendulum
, which was almost the record that wasn’t, explains bassist, songwriter and founding member Edling. That’s because 2012’s“We had been going for so many years, and we didn’t always put 200 percent into it anymore. And with problems with my blood pressure and health, I hit the wall quite severely. I thought we should give it a rest. And the plan was the rest of the band should carry on [with] playing live without me, and whenever I could, I would join in.
Vocalizing Edling’s experiences on the album is Langqvist, the band's voice of doom. Yet the record marks the singer’s return to Candlemass after 32 years: The band has disbanded twice in its history, with Edling pursuing other projects in those interims, and there have been five singers between Langqvist’s tenures. The lineup says of Langqvist’s welcome 2018 return: “The circle is closed.”
“I mean, you can do a great album, and nobody will notice. You work hard on it and think it’s great. You get good reviews, but it doesn’t sell and nothing happens,” he says. “But you do the same album, like, five years later, and all of a sudden, all things click. I mean, what’s the difference from what you did 10 years ago? … Maybe it’s the secret magic ingredient of Mr. Iommi. I have absolutely no idea about [how Grammy nominations] work.
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