Leif Edling (born August 6th, 1963) 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 (later the drummer of Europe) in 1979. He then played in a band named Witchcraft but left in 1981 and formed Nemesis in 1982. Before the
Candlemass official releases, Edling also handled vocal duties in addition to playing bass.
After the departure of
Messiah Marcolin,
Candlemass more and more became his solo project, until the band reformed in 2002. In the meantime, Leif had started the band
Abstrakt Algebra with Mats Levén on vocals and Mike Wead on guitar. The band met with limited success and split up after one album.
In 2002 he founded another doom metal band, named
Krux with much more success.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Edling
