Chapter Six - Candlemass

'Chapter VI' was always destined to be an overlooked album in the Candlemass discography, not merely for having a rubbish title (a misleading one too, unless you're counting the live album as 'Chapter V'), but for entering the nineties without one of the band's most beloved assets in the form of soprano singer Messiah Marcolin. Tomas Vikström is a fine metal vocalist as demonstrated throughout this album, but his style is noticeably different, leading to a slight change of direction away from the epic doom of previous albums towards something resembling traditional heavy metal played in slow motion. It's not bad, it's actually pretty great at times, but it's certainly a ...  Read the complete review