It’s an organic body of work that confronts the trials and tribulations of struggling alone in darkness, but also one that treads incredibly exciting and genuinely sonic ground in the process. Produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano at London's Orgone Studios, the frostbitten riffs thunder beneath the bittersweet euphoria of Nick’s vocals, drifting between rich melodic soars and icy snarls. There's a sense of irony in that their first album to be entirely recorded on home soil in a number of years is arguably the quintet’s offering yet. And on certain off days filled with bad news, misunderstanding, lying and all the horrendous pointless death in the world, I could almost welcome it." It’s a potentially grim prospect, but ironically, as I grow older I am less worried about death than ever before. As each generation comes along, we in turn shuffle nearer to the edge. It just depends on how comfortable you are in yourself. “It’s easy to consider songs like ‘No Hope in Sight’ as totally negative from the offset," offers singer Nick Holmes. Theirs is a pain born of the human condition itself as our fragile minds struggle to cope in a world overrun by demons. It’s a collection of songs that will surprise even the most seasoned of fans in its ambition: a monochrome miasma of morbidly uplifting anthems and heart-aching melancholia. Now returning with opus number fourteen ‘The Plague Within’, Paradise Lost are once again refining the chemical equation to their sonic alchemy with the kind of creative invincibility few can afford. Celebrating their 25th anniversary with a special performance at UK magazine Metal Hammer’s Golden Gods ceremony, the band were given the Inspiration award for their contributions to heavy music. With their 5th album Draconian Times international breakthrough beckoned as the band continued to forge their own path and explore more electronic and symphonic-led musings, building one of the most loyal fanbases the world has to offer in the process and spawning chart positions across Europe. It would be fair to say without Paradise Lost, many of today’s doom-gloom bands would never have existed – 2nd album Gothic still being considered ground zero for gothic metal. While the course of their sonic evolution has spawned countless others sworn to the dark, pale in comparison to the original gothic metal pioneers. Since their formation in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Paradise Lost have thrived in perpetual darkness: a place where rays of light seldom threaten to break the black clouds, where nightmares last an eternity. Rare is it for a band to have had such a long lasting effect on the musical landscape they exist within. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." ARISTOTLE
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