Obsidian… dark, reflective and black: it’s a pretty decent description of the music that Paradise Lost have been making over the last 32 years, even though this most resilient of British metal bands have stoically refused to be pinned down to one easily defined formula. Powered by a lust for creativity and a stout devotion … Continue reading Paradise Lost announce “Obsidian”
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It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon and I find myself driving down to the Presthaven Beach Resort, a quiet little holiday park in North Wales. Well, quiet until this weekend that is, as a bunch of head banging metalheads make their way down to the scenic Welsh coast for Hammerfest XI. Three days of metal, doom, … Continue reading Gig Review: HRH Hammerfest XI – Day 1 (21st March 2019)
on the UK and Irish dates came from Sweden’s Outshine. With rich vocals reminiscent of Type O Negative, frontman Tony Jelencovich held the audience captive throughout the band's set. Outshine treated the Belfast crowd to a fine performance of their old and new material, with their dark, melancholic gothic tunes paving the way for … Continue reading Gig Review: Paradise Lost / Outshine – Limelight, Belfast (20th Feb 2018)
On March 16th, cult metallers Paradise Lost will release a remastered version of their legendary seventh studio album, Host, and a first-ever pressing of the songs on vinyl. Today, the band presents the first Host album trailer, in which singer Nick Holmes and guitarist Greg Mackintosh muse on the being signed to a major label … Continue reading Paradise Lost discuss making of “Host”
A quick roundup of releases... Def Leppard Surprisingly, up until now you've not been able to get the entire Def Leppard back catalogue legally through the / stream route. After some lawyers argued back and forth for a bit, those who like Sheffield's biggest rock export with a misspelled reference to a cat … Continue reading Album (and a bit of Tour) News: Def Leppard, Paradise Lost, Testament, Old Sparky
Over the years, this one day event has seen some of the biggest names in extreme metal perform at this venue and over time, it has become one of the year's best events for death, black and doom metal as well as other individual music types that have helped to forge this event into one … Continue reading Damnation Festival 2017 Review