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3.0 out of 5 stars
A warning about the sound, band is in fine form + the best Candlemass album cover isn't a Thomas Cole painting, it's this one!, September 1, 2008
This review is from: Doomed for Life (Jewl) (Audio CD)
On the back page of the cd booklet it states: "This album is very f----- live!!" They are not kidding! This album sounds like it was matrixed from a soundboard and a field mic during a day set at an open air concert (if you've listened to a lot of bootlegs, you'll know what I'm talking about). A very good field mic and soundboard mix, granted, but it's not the slick and polished sound from, say, their "Live" (@Fryshuset) album in the 1990s. I understand their decision for producing the album this way, it just makes it hard to listen to it over and over again because it sounds like you're listening to a bootleg.
I feel that the best performances on these discs are "Dark Are The Veils of Death", "Samaritan", "Mourner's Lament", "The Well of Souls", "A Sorcerer's Pledge" and "Solitude", odd because most of those aren't my favorite Candlemass songs.
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