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Halifax, United Kingdom (1988 – present)

Paradise Lost (formed in 1988 in Halifax, UK) began as one of the premier bands of the genre (along with their former Peaceville labelmates Anathema and My Dying Bride) and pioneered the sound of early . In the late 1990s they evolved to a more mainstream style, only to come full-circle back to their doom metal roots on recent releases.

Ironically, the band is almost unknown in their home country, whereas in mainland Europe they have been extremely popular for many years, especially in Greece, Germany and Bulgaria, where they are regarded as mainstream rock stars. Although they are best known for pioneering gothic metal, throughout their career the band have also confounded fans and critics alike with their perpetual taste for reinvention and experimentation, a desire to work with producers from other musical genres, and an oft-stated refusal to repeat themselves for fear of stagnation.

For instance, vocalist Nick Holmes used a muddy sounding grunt-style of singing in the band’s early duration - “Lost Paradise” (1990) and “Gothic” (1991); upon the release of “Shades Of God” (1992), “Icon” (1993) and “Draconian Times” (1995), he refined his voice to a cleaner tone almost akin to James Hetfield of Metallica; and on “One Second” (1997), which was distributed by hip hop label Jive Records, the band experimented with Depeche Mode-styled synthpop and electronica, a style they would develop even further on “Host” (1999).
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  • kilstrit wrote:
    Tuesday evening
    Sure it doesn't. It's a pity you didn't like it.

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  • NapalmEater wrote:
    Tuesday evening
    I have listened to the album before, my library obviously doesn't have every album I have listened to during my life.

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  • kilstrit wrote:
    Tuesday afternoon
    You've got in your library Paradise Lost and In Requiem so you obiously didn't like it but you didn't check Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us out, did you? If you like first five albums you might like FDU-DUU too.

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  • NapalmEater wrote:
    Tuesday afternoon
    Of course it is possible that I will like, or even love it, but I don't have very high expectations from it, because I only like the five first albums by Paradise Lost.

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  • kilstrit wrote:
    Tuesday afternoon
    Ok, pax, pax romana :D Or rather pax paradisum. It's still possible you'll love "Tragic Idol" anyway. I will for sure, I'm uncritical for guys from Halifax ;)

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  • NapalmEater wrote:
    Tuesday morning
    Besides it was not me claiming any band to have single handedly creating death/doom. It was the other guy saying that Paradise Lost almost single handedly created it.

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  • NapalmEater wrote:
    Tuesday morning
    Dream Death had a full length out in 1987. Also, that's just my opinion about the album cover, I don't mind it if others like it, but it just looks like an attempt to make Icon look "cooler" or "better"

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  • kilstrit wrote:
    Tuesday morning
    I checked out Winter and Dream Death, both released first demos in late 80s as Paradise Lost did. I bet doom/death was created by a few different bands independently. Back to the album artwork discussion - cover is NOT wannabe Icon. It is an awesome piece of art refering to the style of the beginning of XX century. I fucking adore it, howgh! :D

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  • NapalmEater wrote:
    Tuesday morning
    It is not awesome. It's just a wannabe Icon.

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  • Taki90 wrote:
    Tuesday morning
    Tragic Idol's art work is awesome !

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  • NapalmEater wrote:
    Monday evening
    Creating =/= Pioneering. Metallica pioneered thrash, but did not create it. A big difference.

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  • kilstrit wrote:
    Monday evening
    I don't give a single fuck about death metal, it's not my genre. And yes, I've never heard of Dream Death or Winter but who said there must be only one founder of each genre? Creating death/doom and every other type of music was not a single moment but a process, wasn't it?

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  • NapalmEater wrote:
    Monday afternoon
    We are talking about death/doom. Not death metal. Besides, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chuck-Schuldiner-is-not-the-Metal-Christ-He-was-a-huge-prick/136916489699467

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  • cavaleramax wrote:
    Monday afternoon
    And PL played little if any part in the death scene that was all down to Death, Deicide, Napalm, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid angel etc

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  • cavaleramax wrote:
    Monday afternoon
    I Didn't mean that PL rip them off in general I meant that yearn for change by PL and nine while nine by SOM have identical intros

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  • NapalmEater wrote:
    Monday afternoon
    I bet you've never heard about Dream Death or Winter for example.

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  • kilstrit wrote:
    Monday morning
    Well, PL are one of the creators of death/doom :P And they are one of the very few bands playing gothic metal without being pussies.

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  • NapalmEater wrote:
    Monday morning
    What are the two subgenres? Death/doom and Gothic metal? Paradise Lost sure as Hell did not create Death/doom.

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  • reignmaster wrote:
    Monday morning
    @cavaleramax Well no shit they're going to sound similar to Sisters of Mercy. SoM is one of Paradise Lost's biggest inspirations. PL even did a cover of "Walk Away" on one of their EP's. PL have never ripped anybody off, it's only natural that a band will, at times, sound similar to an older band that helped shape their sound. Besides, they almost single-handedly created two entire subgenres of metal, so accusing them of ripping another band off is pretty baseless.

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  • cavaleramax wrote:
    Monday morning
    As much as as I love this band they rip Sisters Of Mercy off so badly listen to the intro to yearn for change and then listen to nine while nine by the sisters of mercy. Complete rip off and the rest of Draconian all sound heavily inspired by Sisters of Mercy's debut album First And Last And Always. Paradise Lost of still brilliant but when I realised this I lost some respect for them

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