Fat.mo.mac - Fat.mo.mac

Published April 23 2015

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Genre	Hard Rock	-	Vocals
Tracks	9	-	Guitar
Running time	42 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Red Tomb Records	-	Bass
Release	April 27, 2015	-	Drums
Country	Sweden	-	Keyboard
Producer	-
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Who plays what on this release isn't clear, but the following musicians have in some way contributed to this record: Lars Johansson, Mats Levén, Klas Gunnerfeldt, Tobbe Moen, Stefan Gunnarsson and Roger E.

Lars Johansson of Candlemass has been part of that band since the early days, but still hasn't contributed to the songwriting in those on and off 3 decades, since bass player Leif Edling handles those hardships alone. With Leif now being on undefined recovery, Lars has, with a bunch of invited guests, instead created something that differs a lot from the old doom metal act and it comes out as kind of a result that I believe he more than anything care about personally.

This record actually feels a little dull with its significantly guitar dominated 70's blues influenced hard rock. It simply doesn't have a strong enough badass attitude in order to make me wanna move to the music. The songs are also rather slow all throughout the record and although it doesn't lack character and freedom of choice, this effort in the end comes out kind of colorless and ineffective, Sonically the end result is pretty authentic nevertheless, because I think that the boys have been able to reproduce and capture some of the magic that was present over 40 years ago.

These 9 songs essentially seems like a trip down memory lane for the Candlemass guitarist and this music isn't something that I can identify with. It's definitely not a complete failure, but I really don't fancy what's given. It has a few moments which I find attractive, but as an entirety it just can't attain any kind of monumental position or irresistible state at all and therefore I hand out only 3 chalices.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	5	7	6	4

Summary
3 chalices of 10 - Tobbe