Customer Reviews

Lucifer Rising

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This is the first cd where the music is written for Rob and not Messiah. The firs track is an all new single "Lucifer Rising" and it totally shreds. Fast paced and gallops like the old school stuff. Rob has a very powerful voice in this song and he mixes it all from lows to even, yes, highs! I never knew he could do that because he's always been doom and gloom and this seems more like a power metal song. It'll get ya pumped. "White God" is just a typical Candlemass doom song which is still good but not much to tell about it. Also, a re-recording of "Demon's Gate" minus the effects and doom voice. Good tune and Rob sounds solid on it. He's definitely the best replacement you can get for this band and quite frankly, a new rebirth of this band that really needed it. Messiah was a killer vocalist and the original sound of C-mass but Rob brings much more to the table and a new twist on the C-mass journey into oblivion. Rob is one of the most talented vocalists around and is going to catapult this band into a higher plane of greatness. This is an "ep" but has 9 tracks of live stuff from Athens so you can hear the new stuff live and the old classics done by Rob which are all done to the "T." Hells yeah. Pick it up. Cheap. Collector's item.

Crap. Bought this album thinking it was a new one - lots of Live tracks, reissued...disappointed when I found out...but guess what, it's AMAZING!!

There's a sneak peak of two songs off the new album coming up in May 2009 ("Lucifer Rising" and "White God") which are two songs worth having. This new guy (Rob?) is amazing. No, he's nothing like Messiah Marcolin, but definitely has his own epic style. (Messiah Marcolin was just a freak of nature, and no one can top him.)

Lucifer Rising is a thrash-fest worthy of someone heavier/faster than Candlemass, and it's killer, to say the least. White God sounds more death metal/gloom like Candlemass of old, and it is epic-ly doom metal at its best. These guys stick to the old formula in a surprising way.

The other songs on the CD are live version re-releases. And boy do they really stand out here. Truly outstanding versions with the new guy (Rob?) at the helm and definitely different enough to warrant separate places in my heart as "really good Candlemas".

Now, the negative points. I said (Rob?) because there's nothing inside about the band members. This is one of those "barest-of-the-bare" CD releases. The CD insert has nothing really of interest in it. No lyrics, no liner notes, no artwork whatsoever. Nothing. Just a listing of where it's made, release date, etc. But no band lineup, no teasers for stuff to come, no 'thanks for the memories', no NOTHING. Very sad for having spent $10 on it. Would have been nice to have something substantial, you know, to show for it. -1 STAR OFF FOR THAT!

Definitely worth owning though. GET IT! or suffer the pain of loss...

I'd recommend buying this album only if you are a Candlemass fanatic and absolutely need to get everything they ever released.

The only original tracks just suck (Lucifer Rising, White God).

The live of well-know track are recorder with a very crappy audio quality. Better stick with the original in-studio release of these songs.

This albums was a downer and a vaste of money.