Candlemass announce new album ‘Sweet Evil Sun’

August 21, 2022 James Weaver

CANDLEMASS have announced a new album!

Titled Sweet Evil Sun, the upcoming album from the Swedish veteran doom metal band is the follow-up to 2019’s The Door To Doom, and is scheduled to be released in November this year, via Napalm Records.

Recorded at NOX Studio in Stockholm, Sweden, the upcoming album intends to impressively showcase that, after almost forty years in the game, the creativity of these Swedish doom band sees no bounds. Speaking about the upcoming album, bassist Leif Edling says, “Sweet Evil Sun is about hope, striving, adoration and failure. It’s about all the personal battles that you have, but also the never-ending decay of humanity. The record took over a year to make and there’s not a bad track on it! We had a fantastic time recording it and are really looking forward to the release. It’s doom, it’s metal! It is the essence of CANDLEMASS put into one album!”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Scandinavian Gods.

Speaking about the new song, Edling says, “Scandinavian Gods is SLAYER meets QUEEN and JUDAS PRIEST! It’s about heritage and future and the fact that it is sometimes absolutely necessary to leave or at least doubt your old gods. It’s about the hardship in this, and the irony in the fact that you see yourself being drawn back to them over and over again, into these black circles and the forgetfulness of the past. Where do we wanna be? What shall we believe in? Do we need them to build a better future?”

Watch the official music video for Scandinavian Gods here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List:

1. Wizard Of The Vortex
2. Sweet Evil Sun
3. Angel Battle
4. Black Butterfly
5. When Death Sighs
6. Scandinavian Gods
7. Devil Voodoo
8. Crucified
9. Goddess
10. A Cup Of Coffin (Outro)