candlemass is basically my favorite band but that kick sound and lack of bass in the mix is unforgivable lol

10. A Cup of Coffin

Where
the
fuck
is
the
bass?!?!

It's there but it might as well not be

How do bands manage to fuck up what should be a relatively straight forward mix? How you gonna completely bury the bass like that?!

As someone who mixes and masters his own music: it's likely a matter of just listening to it 6000 times, repeatedly, while also entirely losing perspective on what it ACTUALLY sounds like. You have your concepts of what the mix is, and, eventually, that's all you really hear.

Then you put it out and a year later you're like "wow this was truly terrible"