CANDLEMASS shares video for cover of 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'
12-05-2025
To celebrate 40 years of doom metal mastery and the release of their brand new four-track EP “Black Star”, Swedish epic doom metal pioneers CANDLEMASS have 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.
A one-off world-exclusive performance of CANDLEMASS featuring the band’s former vocalist Messiah Marcolin will take place at this year’s edition of the Rock Hard Festival Greece, slated for September 12-13, 2025 in Athens, Greece.
Back in October 2022, Messiah and longtime CANDLEMASS guitarist Mats “Mappe” Björkman joined Canadian metallers ANVIL on stage at the Slaktkyrkan venue in Stockholm, Sweden to perform the classic ANVIL song “Metal On Metal”. The event marked the first time in 16 years that the two musicians performed together.
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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