Paradise Lost

Obsidian… dark, reflective and black: it’s a pretty decent description of the music that the Halifax death-doom pioneers have been making over the last 37 years, even though this most resilient of British metal bands have stoically refused to be pinned down to one easily defined formula.

As veterans, legends and revered figureheads for several generations of metalheads. they have come a long way since they were unlikely candidates for metal glory when they slithered from the shadows and infiltrated the UK underground in 1988.

Not content with spawning an entire subgenre with early death/doom masterpiece „Gothic“ nor with conquering the metal mainstream with the balls-out power of 1995’s „Draconian Times“, they have subsequently traversed multiple genre boundaries with skill and grace, evolving through the pitch-black alt-rock mastery of ‘90s classics „One Second“ and „Host“ to the muscular but ornate grandeur of 2009’s „Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us“ and „Tragic Idol“ (2012), with the nonchalant finesse of grand masters.