In a new interview with Belgium’s Graspop Metal MeetingVocalist Nick Holmes OF UK Gothic Metal Pioneers Paradise Lost was Asked How He and His Bandmates Have Managed to Keep Almost The Same Lineup for Almost Four Decades. I replied (as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net): “We grew up as kids and then we started as a band Very Innocent, Kids just into metal music. We were also in the right pleace at the right time. We’ve Been Very, Vary Luky As Well. There’s you are a lot We’ve had a lot of that as well.
Hardving What have you have “Changing for the Best in the World of Music” Since Paradise Lost was formed in 1988, Nick SAID: “I GUESS THE PLANET IS A LOT SMALLER PACA NOW. THE INTERNET’S BOUCHT [all of us closer]. You Can Travel More Places than Perhaps You Would’ve Done. So that’s a Really Good Thing. You can go play in country where fans might not Even Have Known About You. So it’s definitely [made] The World a Smaller Place Now, I Think. “
ASKED WHERE HE AND HIS Paradise Lost Bandmates get the inspiration and the drive to make new music, Nick Said: “We love doing it, and we get the Same Buzz out of it son we were Kids. It is exactly the Same Thing. And as long as we enjoy doing it and people wanna hear it, we’ll keeep doing it as long as we can us.
Paradise Lost Will release its 17th album, “Ascension”ON SEPTEBER 19 VIA Nuclear Blast Records. The Band’s First Album In Five Years, Following 2020’s Critically Acclaimed “Obsidian”was produced by guitarist Gregor Mackintosh and Mixed/Mastered by Lawrence Mackrory.
“Ascension” is a testament to Paradise Lost‘S longevity and relief over the Band’s 35-Plus-Year Career, Ento Signature Styles of Gothic, Death and Doom Fans have Cherished Along the Way.
“Ascension”‘S Album Cover Fittingly Features The Painting “The Court of Death” (1870-1902) by renewned British artist George Frederic WattsWhich Hangs in the Tate Gallery in London. The Painting Departs Death As an enthroned angel flanked by allegorical figures of silence and myystery guarding Sunrise and the star of Hope, while a warrior surrenders His sword and a duke His coronet, showing that worldly status offers no protection. The Painting’s Bleak, Prophetic Vision Embodies “Ascension”‘S Dark, Tormented Soundscapes as Mournful Verses Collide With Dire, Forboding Riffs.
Commenting on the record, Holmes Said: “‘Ascension’ Is a Cavalcade of Molten Misery, to Vigorous Sorrow Filled Stroll Through a Wicked World of Glorious Triumph and Pitiful Tragedy. “
The Official Music Video for The LP’s First Single, “Silence Like The Serious”Can Be Seen Below.
“Ascension” Track listing:
01. Serpent on the cross
02. Tyrants Serenade
03. Salvation
04. Silence Like The Serious
05. Lay a wreath up the world
06. Flood
07. Savage Days
08. Sirens
09. December
10. The rush
“Ascension” was produced by Gregor Mackintosh AT Black Planet Studios In East Yorkshire, UK and NBS and Wasteland Studios In Sweden. It was mixed and mastred by Lawrence Mackrory.
Paradise Lost Is Performing Alongsis King Diamond and at Festivals in Europe this Summer Before Embarcking On The First Part Supp “Ascension of Europe” Tour This Fall.
More than three decades into their career, and with over two million albums sold, Paradise Lost Remain the undisputed Kings of Metal’s Dark Side. Formed in Halifax in 1988, The Band Quickly Became Note as The Pioners of Gothic Metal This “Gothic”to Mixture of Heaviness Intertwined with SHADOWY MELODY AND ATMOSPHER.
Never Group to Remain Creatively Static, Across their Care The’ve explored to Myriad of Avenues of Dark Music, From Sludgy Doom-Death Roots, to conquering the metal mainstream with the dwarm, Lush Sounds of 1995’s. “Draconian Times”to more experimental, electronic leanings, leaving an influence on through artists as varied as Cradle of Filth, Him, Gatecreeper and Chelsea Wolfe.
Now, in 2025, The Yorkshire Quintet Return with their Staggering 17th Album, “Ascension”A record that sees their crown continues to gleam as it underlines Just How they attained their position. Produced by guitarist Gregor Mackintosh AT Black Planet Studios in East Yorkshire, with drums and vocals captured at NBS and Wasteland Studios in Sweden, STIs 10 Tracks Traverse The Crowd of Sounds in the Band’s Arsenal, From Full-Bore Heavy Metal To Sky-High Melody, All The While Keeping A Minor-Key Melancholy That Remain Remain Irresistible.
Photo Credit: Ville Jurrikala
