Dactylis Glomerata
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Dactylis Glomerata is an album by doom metal
Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 band Candlemass
Candlemass
Candlemass are an influential Swedish doom metal band established in 1984 by Leif Edling , their leader and songwriter. The band is originally from Stockholm. After releasing five full-length albums and touring extensively throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Candlemass disbanded in 1994, but...

, released in 1998. This was the first album they released since their split in 1994 and reunion in 1997. It is the only Candlemass album that features guitarist Michael Amott
Michael Amott
Michael Amott is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, founding member of the bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, and Carnage, as well as a member of the death metal band Carcass. He is the older brother of Christopher Amott...

 of Arch Enemy and Carcass
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 notability on lead guitar.

In 2006 it was reissued by GMR Music as a 2 CD editon. The second disc contains a previously unreleased album Abstrakt Algebra II recorded by Leif Edling
Leif Edling
Leif Edling is best known as the main songwriter and bass player of the Swedish doom metal band Candlemass.Edling started his musical career in the band Trilogy, then under the name of Toxic, as a singer together with Ian Haugland in 1979. He then played in a band named Witchcraft but left in...

's side-project Abstrakt Algebra
Abstrakt Algebra
Abstrakt Algebra was a Swedish experimental metal band with influences from power metal and doom metal. It was founded by bassist Leif Edling in 1994, shortly after his main project Candlemass split up....

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Track listing

  1. "Wiz" – 4:06
  2. "I Still See the Black" – 6:19
  3. "Dustflow" – 9:24
  4. "Cylinder" – 1:23
  5. "Karthago" – 6:38
  6. "Abstrakt Sun" – 6:41
  7. "Apathy" – 4:07
  8. "Lidocain God" – 3:32
  9. "Molotov" – 1:31

Line-up

  • Björn Flodkvist – vocals
  • Carl Westholm – keyboards
  • Jejo Perkovic – drums
  • Leif Edling
    Leif Edling
    Leif Edling is best known as the main songwriter and bass player of the Swedish doom metal band Candlemass.Edling started his musical career in the band Trilogy, then under the name of Toxic, as a singer together with Ian Haugland in 1979. He then played in a band named Witchcraft but left in...

     – bass
  • Michael Amott
    Michael Amott
    Michael Amott is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, founding member of the bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, and Carnage, as well as a member of the death metal band Carcass. He is the older brother of Christopher Amott...

     – guitar

Guest musicians

  • Ulf Edelönn: guitars on "I Still See The Black"
  • Ian Haugland
    Ian Haugland
    Håkan Jan "Ian" Haugland is the drummer in the Swedish rock band Europe. When he was eight months old, he and his family moved to the Swedish suburb Märsta. He joined Europe in the summer of 1984, replacing Tony Reno. Previously Haugland had played in a number of bands, including Trilogy, where...

    : drums on "I Still See The Black" and "Wiz"
  • Patrik Instedt: guitar On "Dustflow", "Abstrakt Sun" and "Lidocain God"
  • Måns P. Månsson: Korg Synthesizer and Theremin
    Theremin
    The theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...

    on "Dustflow"
  • Adam Axelsson: Claypot and Hare Krishna Stuff on "Apathy"
  • Jan Hellman: distorted electric upright bass on "Karthago"
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