PARADISE LOST RETURN WITH A DEATH METAL EDGE

Paradise LostLegendary metal band Paradise Lost have finished work on their fourteenth album. Their new opus is called The Plague Within and will be available via Century Media on 2 June 2015.

 

Starting as explorers of doom-death templates, Paradise Lost from Halifax quickly dropped the death (and later the doom) from their sound in favour of a straight-metal approach, then going pop-rock before returning to doomier sounds. And they did everything with magnificent results!

According to band’s singer Nick Holmes, their new album harks back to their death metal days: “We wanted to approach the new album differently this time, by embracing the band’s VERY early days with the last few years. We have written a very dark-yet-melodic album, but this time many songs definitely have a death metal edge, which is something we haven’t done for a long, long time in Paradise Lost.”

The Plague Within was recorded at Orgone Studios in London with producer Jaimie Gomez Arellano.

The cover is a creation of Polish artist Zbigniew M. Bielak, best known for his works with Watain, Ghost and Entombed A.D.

 

Paradise Lost guitarist Greg Mackintosh composes and sings in death-crust band Vallenfyre, whereas singer Nick Holmes screams on the latest Bloodbath album, Grand Morbid Funeral.

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