The Door to Doom

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The Door to Doom
Candlemass - The Door to Doom.jpg
Studio album by
Released22 February 2019 (2019-02-22)
Recorded2018
StudioDeep Well Studios (Stockholm, Sweden)
The Brick HitHouse (Stockholm, Sweden)
Genre Epic doom metal [1]
Length48:43
Label Napalm
Producer Marcus Jidell
Candlemass chronology
Psalms for the Dead
(2012)
The Door to Doom
(2019)
Sweet Evil Sun
(2022)

The Door to Doom is the twelfth studio album by Swedish doom metal band Candlemass, released on 22 February 2019 via Napalm. [2] It is the band's first full-length studio album since 2012's Psalms for the Dead , marking their longest gap between studio albums, and the first one to feature vocalist Johan Längqvist since 1986's Epicus Doomicus Metallicus . Loudwire named it one of the 50 best metal albums of 2019. [3]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Leif Edling

No.TitleLength
1."Splendor Demon Majesty"5:29
2."Under the Ocean"6:12
3."Astorolus - The Great Octopus" (featuring Tony Iommi)6:42
4."Bridge of the Blind"3:43
5."Death's Wheel"6:50
6."Black Trinity"6:05
7."House of Doom"6:26
8."The Omega Circle"7:16
Total length:48:43
Japanese edition bonus tracks (House of Doom EP)
No.TitleLength
9."House of Doom" (original version)6:21
10."Flowers of Deception"6:10
11."Fortune Teller"3:12
12."Dolls on the Wall"3:55
Total length:19:38

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [4] 54
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [5] 87
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [6] 182
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [7] 18
Scottish Albums (OCC) [8] 69
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [9] 13
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [10] 29

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