With Paradise Lost we can welcome a prominent member of the British doom scene. In the 90s the band was part of the so-called ‘big three’ of death/doom metal, together with My Dying Bride and Anathema. Their second album ‘Gothic’ (1991) single-handedly defined the genre and ‘Draconian Times’ (1995) can safely be called a doom masterpiece. But the guys also look beyond the doom borders. For example, singer Nick Holmes and his team proved with the input of keyboards, drum computers and sequencers on ‘One Second’ from 1997 that they are not averse to experimenting.

The band from Halifax has been around for a long time (founded in 1988!), but the guys are far from worn out. This fall, their eighteenth (!) album 'Ascension' will be released, the successor to the very well-received 'Icon 30' from 2023, on which they gave their album, released in 1993, a new look.