Deep down in the catacombs of Paris, between piled-up bones, damp air and our own mortality, CANDLEMASS mastermind Leif Edling unexpectedly found new and sinister inspiration. THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM was born!
For several years, the Swede fought with health problems and was plagued by stress-related fatigue syndrome after decades in the music business in which he sustainably shaped the genre of Doom metal with CANDLEMASS and walked modern paths with AVATARIUM.
But while he was barely able to get up from his couch anymore, stress-ridden and tired, he used this paralyzing emptiness to pick up his old acoustic guitar and compose the very first melodies of his new brainchild THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM.
Soon, the Doomfather's kingdom started to see the light of day and he found new comrades-in-arms with WOLF-singer Niklas Stalvind,
Andreas "Habo" Johansson and his AVATARIUM-colleague Marcus Jidell. Their journey led them through fields of classical doom
metal, but what made their sound so special was the pinch of New Way Of British Heavy Metal that they added to their leaden style.
In combination with Stĺlvind's haunting vocals, THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM created an all-absorbing vortex.
"THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM was supposed to be a solo record at first, but everything turned out to be so much more, bigger and better than "just a solo album". The songs took their own form and shape during the process and in the individual performances totally blew me away!" explains Leif Edling. Fans could already catch a first impression of this mixture on the band's EP "Never Machine", that was released in November 2016 into the darkness of autumn - however the songs 'The Sceptre' and 'Never Machine' which had already been available as demos, differ quite a lot from their album version and all tracks on this debut album deliver a more polished, but heavier and more detailed sound than the previous release. The world-famous Jens Bogren (KREATOR, SOILWORK, OPETH) took care of the album's mastering, while the band's own Marcus Jidell did the production wizardry and turned out to be Leif's perfect helping hand while he was still recovering:
To illustrate their musical vision, they chose the 'Capitolium Death Monument' that was designed by Erik Rovanperń, who had already set up the covers of the latest CANDLEMASS releases and AVATARIUM's "All I Want".
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