Tag Paradise Lost
Ah, that’s more like it: None of this intro stuff, just straight in to a solid, doom/death riff and off this Swedish lot go with ‘Lament Of The Mortals’. Immediately there’s that late eighties, early nineties feel to the riff… Continue Reading →
Three years after The Pete Flesh Deathtrip assaulted the world with its debut album ‘Mortui Vivos Docent’, the band led by former Maze of Torment shredder Pete Flesh has returned. That previous disc was a fine example of blackened Swedish… Continue Reading →
“Melancholic Gothic Doom Metal”. Never a description to warm the old cockles is it? In itself it’s a genre that can contain many variables…OK, it’s a fair guess it will be sparse on the optimistic/joyous/fun/hopeful side of things (sounds like… Continue Reading →
Let’s get it out of the way now – October Tide will be forever suffixed with the ‘that band with the old guitarist from Katatonia’ tag which always renders reviewing their material a challenge for a number of reasons. Firstly,… Continue Reading →
Not far off their 30th year of creation, there are few bands of such stature who are in their prime so far down the line but that is exactly where Greek legends Rotting Christ are, both on album and live…. Continue Reading →
‘Sanatana Dharma’ is the debut album from Greek band The Slayerking, a side-project fronted by Nighfall’s Efthimis Karadimas, and featuring Kostas Kyriakopoulos on guitar and Anna Eleftherou on drums. The first thing you may notice is the CD’s cover, bearing… Continue Reading →
While this may be my first experience of Italian doomsters Motus Tenebrae, they’ve been together since 2001, a miserabilist five piece that have released an impressive four full length albums prior to this slab of grief. Look, before we get… Continue Reading →
While I’ve yet to listen to their new album ‘The Plague Within’ and it’s been quite a while since I was passionate about Paradise Lost, I thought I’d give this album a shot as it contains some good songs from… Continue Reading →
2015 has been a particularly strong year for fans of the gothic doom sound, not least for the fact that two of the giants of the genre have released their strongest albums in some time. In doing so both Paradise… Continue Reading →
We are a bit late to the party here and when I say party it’s not a happy one in the slightest; no jelly, ice cream, balloons and clowns here. The reason why for the delay is that we were… Continue Reading →
After 27 years, it’s album number 14 for Halifax’s finest, Paradise Lost, and what a hell of a journey it’s been so far! Their humble and deathly beginnings gave rise to the pioneering style of “Gothic Metal”, before they went… Continue Reading →
Supuration’s last album ‘CU3E’ was a minor revelation for these ears; part Carcass, part Voivod circa ‘Nothingface’, it literally formed me a new earhole. Well perhaps that’s a slight exaggeration on my part but rarely have I been as taken… Continue Reading →