Ancient Dreams is the third studio album by Swedish doom metal band Candlemass, released in 1988 and reissued in 2001 by Powerline Records with a 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 were not happy with the album's sound mix for which they blamed their then record label. The band felt that the album production had been rushed in order to have the LP released in time for their US tour.
Track listing
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
Charts YearChartPosition1989Swedish Albums Chart45Billboard 200 (US)174
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