![]() ![]() Clean vocals, piano melodies and heartbreaking lyrics was the key to happiness, after all. ![]() Many were frustrated, while most were still amazed by how they manage to keep everyone anticipating their next step. Paradise Lost has been riding a rollercoaster of highs and lows that began with Icon and keep on up to the day. It was the band’s most brave attempt to depart from the commonly known until then “Death/Doom” and move forward to this new trend, called Gothic Metal which now had already marked its spot in the metal scene as a new genre. “One Second” came in 1997 and it was the first Paradise Lost record that was recorded in a digital form. Despite having only slight differences with Icon, this album grew bigger in the metal world. In the mid-90’s, the gothic metal scene was at it’s peak (The Gathering, Tiamat, Moonspell, Theatre Of Tragedy), so according to the band, they had no problem in using this term for their music from then and on. Nothing that followed up could ever compare to “Draconian Times”. The most commercially successful Paradise Lost album came out in 1995, under the title “Draconian Times”, or maybe, the time of their peak. The vocals remind of James Hetfield, which makes sense considering that the band had been experimenting during their first years (and that’s why they pulled out such iconic records at the early days). A plain example of a godly, melancholic masterpiece. The clean vocals took over mostly and the machine had already started rolling the other way. It surely started pointing out sparks of fire to music critics back in the day, since the musical change was already starting to grow. ![]() In July 14th 1992 “Shades Of God” was released, via Music For Nations. The thick guitars and Holmes’ immaculate vocals, all under a veil of a spooky, atmospheric melody, make this album historic up to date and of course, surpassed “Lost Paradise” in pretty much everything. Weirdly though, it has nothing to do with their gothic nature and sound as known up to then, and surely didn’t spoil what would come up for Paradise Lost in the following years. Fairly, it’s described as the first death/ doom metal album ever.įollowing up this iconic debut, in 1991 came “Gothic”. Its melodic, slow and gloomy tunes led Paradise Lost to mark their spot in the British metal scene at first, and then in the worldwide audiences. Thus, in 1990, came “Lost Paradise”, their iconic debut which opened a new path for the death metal genre. Having already recorded three demos in the late 80’s, “Morbid Existence”, “Frozen Illusion” and “Plains Of Desolation”, they had signed in Peaceville Records before they had released their first studio album. As of today, Paradise Lost are Nick Holmes in the vocal duties, Aaron Aedy and Gregor Mackintosh in guitars, Stephen Edmondson in the bass, while their most recent addition is Waltteri Vayrynen (also Wolfheart, Moonsorrow and Abhorrence). Meanwhile, Paradise Lost can take pride of keeping an almost steady lineup (with slight changes behind the drumkit) since the early days. Paradise Lost have been pioneering the death/doom metal genre from 1988, completing the gothic metal triptych along with My Dying Bride and Anathema since the early 90’s. One perfect example of England’s dominance in metal, is definitely Paradise Lost. ![]()
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