| Paradise Lost Metal Hammer June 2007 < -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> |
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| �but the closer you look at the synopsis of Milton�s vision of the fall of man, the closer you realise that the band have followed the same arc with their career. Forming in 1988 and releasing a pair of seminal demos, they helped lay the foundations for what would become the doom metal / gothic cross-over which has in turn inspired many bands from HIM and Lacuna Coil to Nightwish and 69 eyes. Their second and third albums �Gothic� and �Shades of God� helped (along with other UK bands Anathema and My Dying Bride) to define a sound that contained elements of death metal such as mid period Metallica, goth rock such as The Sisters of Mercy and good, no nonsense doom metal like Black Sabbath. But if Paradise Lost had it all at their feet, their insistence on playing by their own rules and never second guessing what fans wanted from them, meant they really suffered in not becoming one of the biggest European acts of the 90s.
Most bands after the success of albums such as �Draconian Times� would have stuck like glue to the formula, but PL�s attention to detail meant that they had to keep on changing and by the time they released �One Second� a sizable proportion of their fans couldn�t keep up with their constant, chameleonic progress (this time into gloomy-techno-metal-industrialists). And by the time they released �Host,� a great but bewildering mix of synth pop and art metal, they had been banished from the Garden of Eden of metal�s upper reaches and condemned to wander through the wastelands of slackening interest. But now they are back with a new album on Century Media which sees them deploying the age-old trick of imitating their imitators and claiming back their stake to the sound they helped forge. [NEXT] [PREV] [MUSIC] [HOME] |
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