GMD Poll: Candlemass's Discography Ranked

[crimsonfloyd]

Directions: Rank Candlemass's 11 studio albums. Order and number each album 1-11. Ties are OK. Your first place album earns 11 points, your second place album earns 10 points, etc.

Rules:

• You may rank as few as 6 albums. Lists with less than 6 albums will not be counted.
• If you list less than 11 albums, the first placed album will still get 11 points, the last placed album will still get 1 point, and the albums in between will have points distributed proportionately. The average points earned for albums that are not listed will not be impacted positively or negatively, so if you don't rank an album, you neither help it or hurt it.

At the end, the albums will be ranked based on their average number of points per vote.

You have until Sunday, November 18th to finalize your list, re-familiarize yourself albums you haven’t heard in awhile, familiarize yourself with albums you haven’t heard at all, lobby for any albums you think are underrated, and lobby against any albums you think are overrated.

And please, no pseudo-Machiavelli shit. Just rank them as you see them.

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986)
Nightfall (1987)
Ancient Dreams (1988)
Tales of Creation (1989)
Chapter VI (1992)
Dactylis Glomerata (1998)
From the 13th Sun (1999)
Candlemass (2005)
King of the Grey Islands (2007)
Death Magic Doom (2009)
Psalms for the Dead (2012)

 

[Slammed]

Only know a few of these albums, guess Youtube will have to come through if I'm to get a full disco.

 

[Sirjack]

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus / Nightfall tied for first place
no questions asked

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. Nightfall
2. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
3. Ancient Dreams
4. Tales of Creation
5. King of the Grey Islands
6. Death Magic Doom
7. Candlemass
8. From the 13th Sun
9. Psalms for the Dead
10. Chapter VI
11. Dactylis Glomerata

 

[Master_Yoda77]

1) Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986)
2) Nightfall (1987)
3) Ancient Dreams (1988)
4) Tales of Creation (1989)
5) Candlemass (2005)
6) Death Magic Doom (2009)
7) King of the Grey Islands (2007)
8) Psalms for the Dead (2012)

Gonna have to actually listen to the other albums but I think this list is pretty much final. All of those albums up there are 3.5 stars and above. Quality stuff.

 

[CiG]

Tales of Creation > Ancient Dreams

 

[CiG]

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986)
Nightfall (1987)
Tales of Creation (1989)
Chapter VI (1992)
Ancient Dreams (1988)
Dactylis Glomerata (1998)
Candlemass (2005)
From the 13th Sun (1999)
Death Magic Doom (2009)
King of the Grey Islands (2007)
Psalms for the Dead (2012)

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus - as close to a perfect album as there is in metal, 10/10
2. Nightfall - a step down or three in every respect from its predecessor but still great, especially thanks to the stronger first half, 8/10
3. Tales of Creation - basically a leftovers album (EP when you cut the filler) but still a decent one, 6/10
4. From the 13th Sun - average Sabbath-y doom, 5/10
5. Death Magic Doom - haven't listened to it since release but I remember it being tolerable, 4/10
6. Chapter VI - garbage production and wimpy performance, if Headless Cross or Tyr were actually bad albums like Cross Purposes it would sound like this, 3/10
7. Ancient Dreams - even worse production and completely uninspired, the songs drone on and on with their barely-riffs, 2/10

Haven't heard/don't remember hearing the rest. Candlemass' fall from grace was prodigious.

 

[CiG]

Like most classic doom bands they have one or two masterpieces and then the rest is for die-hards.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The first five Trouble albums are great, and the stuff after is never worse than mediocre. With Saint Vitus I dislike a lot of their less-acclaimed stuff but at least they never really lost what they were to begin with. I haven't heard any Pentagram or The Obsessed as bad as Candlemass at their worst either.

 

[The Ozzman]

Pentagram is nothing more than 70s rock parading as doom metal based on what I've heard which is roughly two albums worth.

 

[Krow]

1. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
2. Nightfall
3. Ancient Dreams
4. Death Magic Doom
5. Tales of Creation
6. From the 13th Sun
7. King of the Grey Islands
8. Chapter IV
9. Candlemass
10. Psalms for the Dead
11. Dactylis Glomerata


Nightfall might be number one for me if it wasnt for the cringefest Samarithan. All good albums, even 6-10 but they didnt really grab me with DG. That one is just weird.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

the cringefest Samarithan

Is their second or third best song and if their drummer didn't have the same shit taste that you do, it would have made EDM all that much more amazing.

 

[CiG]

Nightfall might be number one for me if it wasnt for the cringefest Samarithan.

Pentagram is nothing more than 70s rock parading as doom metal based on what I've heard which is roughly two albums worth.

They're one of the main post-Sabbath progenitors of doom metal so that's a weird way to look at their post-70's material.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

How in the fuck is Samarithan a cringefest? One of my favorite tracks from Candlemass.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Everyone I've seen that hates it cites the pro/positive Christian message as to why.

 

[CiG]

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Pentagram is nothing more than 70s rock parading as doom metal based on what I've heard which is roughly two albums worth.

And?

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Everyone I've seen that hates it cites the pro/positive Christian message as to why.

That’s what I’m assuming as well. I really don’t care, as I just take them as fantasy lyrics. If you read it that way, then it’s no worse than people singing about riding a chariot up to Valhalla.

 

[CiG]

Being butthurt about holy lyrics in doom metal is like being butthurt about unholy lyrics in black metal. Very low IQ stuff.