Ancient Dreams

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Released November 22, 1988 Studio Nacka Recording House Artist Candlemass Producer Candlemass Genre Doom metal		Recorded August 1988 Length 58:31 Release date 23 November 1988 Label Active Records

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Ancient Dreams is the third album of Swedish doom metal band Candlemass and was released in 1988, and reissued in 2001 by Powerline Records with bonus CD. The cover art of the album is a painting made by Thomas Cole, second in his series, "The Voyage of Life", entitled "Youth". Ancient Dreams was the first Candlemass album to chart in the US, debuting at No. 174 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

"Epistle 81" (Märk hur vår skugga), was written by Swedish poet/musician Carl Michael Bellman (1740 - 1795). "Incarnation of Evil" is actually a reworked version of the old Nemesis track "Black Messiah."

The band is not happy with the album mix, and they place the blame on their (then) record label rush-producing the LP to coincide with a US tour.

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Track listing

All tracks written by Leif Edling except were noted.

The track "Black Sabbath Medley" is a CD bonus track and is composed of parts of songs from Black Sabbath, namely: "Symptom of the Universe", "Sweet Leaf", "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", "Into the Void", "Electric Funeral", "Supernaut", "Black Sabbath".

Personnel

Candlemass

Messiah Marcolin - vocals

Lars Johansson - lead guitar

Mats Björkman - rhythm guitar

Leif Edling - bass

Jan Lindh - drums

Production

Rex Gisslén - mixing at Montezuma Studios, Stockholm

Peter Dahl - mastering at Polar Studios, Stockholm

Wendy Kramer - artwork, graphics

Micke Lind - remastering

Micke Mårtensson - artwork, layout

Ulf Magnusson - photography

Songs

1Mirror Mirror6:16
2A Cry From the Crypt7:25
3Darkness in Paradise6:47

References

Ancient Dreams Wikipedia

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