Yet Yorkshire's Paradise Lost have done just that, confounding expectations along the way whilst always remaining true to themselves, laying waste to media preconceptions and fan expectations as ruthlessly as their many imitators. Fewer still can legitimately claim to be ahead of their countless successors decades later. Late in the day, but I'm going to keep this on rotation and I have high hopes it will evolve into a late-to-the-party gem.įew bands can claim to be genuine game changers who spawned an entire sub-genre. Not "trying" to achieve something but ploughing their own furrow with complete honesty (you try telling a bunch of Yorkshire lads how you think they should sound!). I think there is a sort of unselfconscious earnestness in the work. as 'twere! There is also, and I really can't quite put my finger on it, something quintessentially British about this release, which sets it and them apart from US metal of even similar ilk. I think this may have been ahead of its time, elements of "Nu" before Nu knew it was Nu. Yes, Holmes has a Hetfieldian growl in his arsenal, but he's a much better voice artist (I use the term advisedly) than JH. I get how it might be described as the UK's Black Album but, that's sound-bite journalism in my humble. Couldn't yet do a detailed track-by-track, but overall I like! I love the dexterity and innate sincerity in Nick Holmes' delivery. Having said that, a very enjoyable listen this week. This album has always "been around somewhere", on a shelf or an iPod or whatever but somehow even after years of dipping in, it never really opened up. Paradise Lost are one of those bands who have "always been around", I've seen them live and they have an album which I love ( One Second) but somehow they have never quite grabbed me by the scruff. It wasn't to be, though, and the lads took their infamous sharp left turn from here into the realm of Depeche Mode-influenced 'electro depresso pop.'" ( Exclaim!) "On Draconian Times, Paradise Lost injected a huge dose of the big sound that Metallica brought into the world with their "black" album, creating a goth metal disc that had anthemic songs that should have been huge hits in the era of Enter Sandman and Wherever I May Roam. As long as you don't play this album too much, you'll realise that this is pretty much the best the style has to give." ( Sputnik Music) "A blueprint for many bands in the style to follow, this is a commendable effort from one of the innovators of this particular style of metal, and although the band will inevitably sound bland at some point, remember that this is mood music and not meant to be whored 24/7. It’s an album that stands alone in both sound and inspiration, a once-in-a-career masterwork that bleeds nostalgia and yet still sounds fresh 20 years later." ( Angry Metal Guy) "Listening to this makes me feel bad for people holed up in their compact SUVs and cookie-cutter houses, people who’ve never bothered to explore music beyond The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin.
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