Watch: CANDLEMASS performs with singer MESSIAH MARCOLIN for first time in nearly 20 years
12-05-2025
A one-off world-exclusive CANDLEMASS concert featuring the band’s former vocalist Messiah Marcolin took place Saturday night (September 13) at this year’s edition of the Rock Hard Festival Greece in Athens, Greece. It marked Marcolin‘s first performance with CANDLEMASS in nearly 20 years.
Fan-filmed video of the gig can be seen below.
The band’s setlist for the show was as follows:
01. The Well Of Souls
02. Dark Are The Veils Of Death
03. Mirror Mirror
04. Darkness In Paradise
05. Bewitched
06. Samarithan
07. Black Dwarf
08. Crystal Ball
09. A Sorcerer’s Pledge
Encore:
10. At The Gallows End
11. Solitude
In May, to celebrate 40 years of doom metal mastery and the release of their brand new four-track EP “Black Star”, CANDLEMASS unveiled a cover of BLACK SABBATH‘s legendary hymn “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”. The title track of the classic 1973 SABBATH album was reworked by CANDLEMASS and comes with an official music video.
Watch “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” below.
CANDLEMASS mastermind Leif Edling comments: “‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ needs no introduction — one of the best songs ever recorded, if you ask me. Maybe not the obvious choice, but it’s been a dream for me to do it one day and here it is. Our rendition of ‘S.B.S.’ (Mass Bloody Mass?).”
Watch the previously released title track “Black Star” and the official trailer below.
Marcolin exited CANDLEMASS for the presumably final time in 2006, one year after the release of the band’s self-titled album. He was later replaced by Robert Lowe (SOLITUDE AETURNUS),who sang on the band’s “King Of The Grey Islands” (2007),“Death Magic Doom” (2009) and “Psalms For The Dead” (2012) LPs. CANDLEMASS‘s frontman between 2012 and 2018 was Mats Levén, who previously recorded and toured with YNGWIE MALMSTEEN and THERION. Seven years ago, CANDLEMASS fired Levén and rehired Johan Längqvist. Längqvist sang on CANDLEMASS‘s debut album, 1986’s “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus”, before exiting the group and being replaced by Marcolin.
“Black Star” track listing:
01. Black Star (new song)
02. Corridors Of Chaos (new song)
03. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (BLACK SABBATH cover)
04. Forever My Queen (PENTAGRAM cover)
Watch the trailer below.
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