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Paradise Lost

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This album is one of PL's best along with Icon and Draconian Times.
It is even more diverse and better sounding than Draconian Times, in my opinion.

This is definately to be destined a classic. One of the best rock albums ever.

I was very pleasantly surprised as you dont see bands like this to go better than their best stuff in 10 years, but unlike The Cure they have managed to prove the opposite. Great work! A rock masterpeice!

The problem is that the big a** recording compoanies will not promote it and the world will never hear about it until years to come. It's OK since I dont care about stupid people's opinions.

P.S. You can still buy it cheaper from overstock, where amazon in order to compete have dropped the price. Anyway, the price is totally deserved bc u get what you pay for.

I remember years ago when Draconian Times was released. My friends and I were primarily into very heavy music such as Carcass. I also remember sitting in a room with a few of them listening to Draconian Times for the first time and there was nothing but silence and awed looks on everyone's face. That album was, and still is, truly something special.

I've gone on and purchased every other Paradise Lost CD over the years and have been consistently disappointed. I felt the band had peaked and then suddenly veered off course. Each of the CDs after Draconian Times have been collecting dust on my racks for years now. I heard about the self-titled CD and of course assumed it was more of the same. I saw some very positive reviews and once again decided to bite... why not, after all Paradise Lost had previously delivered what remains to be one of the best albums I've ever heard.

This self-titled CD is amazing. I won't bother naming highlights because the whole album is a highlight. It is truly another masterpiece, and I'm stunned that after years of mediocrity they suddenly produced this. I hope they continue on this path and leave behind the pop/electronic direction. This album gets 5 stars for being extraordinary.

My introduction to Paradise came back with the release of Draconian Times. In a time when I was deeply into the gut-rot sounds of death metal bands such as Cannibal Corpse this band pointed out to me that you can be just as dark without the growls or incantations over the headphones. In time they expanded their sound, incorporating some electronics into the mix until they arrived at their latest album.
The self titled album simply blew me away... The last album I had picked up from them was "One Second" which started to show the new face of the band. It seems they have gotten just that much better. Every track leads well into one another starting with Don't Belong, a somber track that points out the seeming effortlessness that this band seems to have when writing great music. Grey stands out as one of my personal favorites... a good beat and wonderful melody accompanied by dark yet engaging vocals. However my absolute favorite track is "Red Shift" which has a perfect mix of heavy guitar, perfect beat, and picture perfect singing. The album was so good I ended up picking up "Symbol of Life" immediately after and was equally pleased.
Simply put... anyone looking to pick up an album that evokes a somber mood while keeping a great beat should pick this one up!

Just Like the singer Nick Holmes said a few moths ago, this's the finest Gothic Metal
album that you will find out there. PL self tiltle album is not just the best Paradise Lost album ever, yes it's definitely the best Gothic Metal album ever made, imagine the Clasic Draconian Times with a moder edge, Produced once again by the great Rhys Fulber of Delerium, and Front Line Assembly fame. After many years of big musical experimentation, they decided to go back to their roots "Metal'' and what a way to do it. Now that Erope is full of a big amount of popular good Goth Metal bands like Lacuna Coil, Nightwish and Moonspell, Paradise Lost have returned to leed the pack once again with this Dark masterpice, Great music compositions and their most brilliant production yet , this album is destined to become a Clasic, Nick's voice has never sound better and Greg's music has never been so intense and hunting, sometimes i wonder how can these guys come out with such an amazing dark music with so much Catchines?, for example the track called "Causes Of Laws" has to be one of the best Goth metal songs ever recorded. i can't understand why these guys are not one of the biggest bands in the world yet, let's say when you see for example bands like Korn or Disturbed trying to sound goth, it's terrible. Paradise Lost is definitely way better than any of this popular numetal stuff out there, it's almost a shame, but anyway, what can we do? that's how mediocre our world is becoming no?
buy this album and expect to listen to the best Hard Goth music out there by one the best Goth Rock bands ever, the fathers of Gothic Metal..... Paradise Lost.

I recall a time when Paradise Lost were at the forefront of the doom/death scene. Their 1991 album "Gothic" was the finest example of the genre at that time and a huge influence on hundreds of bands worldwide. Over the last 15 years, Paradise Lost have changed dramatically, leaving the majority of their original fan-base behind and venturing into a more gothic metal / rock / pop style. Personally, I lost interest in the band after "Draconian Times" and with the band constantly receiving poor reviews within the metal community I thought I might never appreciate a Paradise Lost album again.

Then this new self-titled album comes along and the reviews for it looked very positive. I thought I'd give it a go and see what it was all about and I'm so glad I did! Before anyone gets too excited, the guys haven't reverted back to their roots. This is still modern Paradise Lost, but it seems they've finally found a sound that suits their melancholic rock extremely well. I guess there is a similar atmosphere to "Draconian Times" being a dark depressive mood, which can only be a good thing for their older fans. There's nothing exceptionally experimental here, but "Paradise Lost" is one of the most consistently excellent albums I've heard this year.

Highlights are aplenty, with "Don't Belong", "Redshift" and "All You Leave Behind" being personal favourites, but there really isn't anything bad on here. Occasionally, there's something resembling pop anthems which aren't my preference such as the chorus to "Grey" and the single "Forever After", but these moments are used for variety rather than atmosphere breakers. I should also point out that although I like the sound of the album, the production could have been better. There are a lot of things going on in some of these tracks, and a big clear, crunchy sound would have been awesome, but I'm nitpicking now.

This is the band's 10th full length studio album and I'm as surprised and excited as anyone to find them in such good form. I truly hope this is not a one-off "for the fans" album and that they will continue down this path in future.

As-I live in the United States I was unfimiliar with PL. I came across them from a recommendation on this site. After visiting their website I enjoyed what I have heard. (forever after video)
So I ordered this cd quickly from the net. I am very pleased with this cd. This is a cd you can play from beginning to end without skipping one song. Which is very rare as of late. Nice-heavy tunes that gets your blood pumping.

I look forward to their other stuff except their death metal cd's. (gothic,shades of god and lost paradise) My quest for more PL begins. As-I have become a Fan.

I've listened to most of their cds, and I must say with tracks like "Grey", "Close your eyes", "Shine" you can't do better. It's just amazing, you get a sense of peace and yet sometimes it's creepy. I will be playing this @ a block party soon. No matter what no one says they are the best Gothic Metal band.

After "Symbol of Life" I never expected even Paradise Lost to exceed on their next album.
"Paradise Lost" is their tenth album, and while listening to it you get a feeling of celebration, and a band that are more comfortable with their own sound than any other band you've heard.
It's dark, cold, gothic, dreamy and very heavy. Opener "Don't Belong" is slow, epic and downbeat. Songs like "Accept the Pain" and "Forever After" are sophisticated and among my favourites on the album. "Sun Fading" has a nice regimented verse riff with majestic overlying leads which adds to the atmosphere greatly. "Redshift" is an excellent example of how I think gothic metal should sound. "Laws of Cause" contains transfixing acoustic verses and a brilliant short guitar solo. Closer "Over the Madness" is incredible, and shows how far PL can go to create a song of epic proportions, extremely heavy with great vocals during the chorus and a solo to end it all.
I believe this is PL's best album yet, and long may they continue with their unparalleled output!

This is the best release that P.L. have done yet. The songwriting and flow of the album are perfect. I cant keep this out of my cd player. Amazing work!