Paradise Lost To Celebrate 25th Anniversary With UK Shows - Lacuna Coil Announced As Special Guests
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Written by Jon Stickler
Paradise Lost have announced a handful of UK gigs to mark their 25th anniversary as a band. Joining Paradise Lost for the short tour will be Lacuna Coil with another very special guest to be announced shortly.
With a career dating back to 1988 and their official recording debut in 1990 ('Lost Paradise'), the band has been riding and rollercoaster of highs and lows. Guitarist Aaron Aedy remembers the early days:
'I remember our first rehearsal at Studio X in the Dean Clough complex of Halifax, it was Saturday March 26th between the hours of one and four pm. We had a few ideas flying around and managed to write our first opus 'Blood-filled-eyes' and start our 2nd 'Plains of Desolation', I can only describe these songs as unique.
Afterwards we all went to the pub to celebrate. Three and a half months later we were playing live, supporting Acid Reign and Re-Animator at the legendary Frog and Toad Night Club in Bradford. We had a 30 minute slot and only 15 minutes of music so we played one song twice, attempted a Sodom cover we hadn't even learned and Nick [Holmes, vocals] did his stand up for the rest of it.'
Throughout their career, Paradise Lost have not only created and defined genres and styles, but almost immediately transcended them. From the crawling, harrowing doom of their 1990 debut 'Lost Paradise', to the electronic flourishes prevalent in 1997's 'One Second', 1999's 'Host' and 2007's comeback to the heavier side of metal 'In Requiem' and the latest opus 'Tragic Idol' in 2012, their sound has continued to evolve vastly, but haunting melody and dark rock power has remained at the very core of their identity.
In 1991 the band released 'Gothic', not so much an album title as the definition for an entire genre, while the influence 1995's huge-selling masterpiece 'Draconian Times' - the missing link between Metallica and the Sisters of Mercy - echoes loudly in today's scene, with the likes of Cradle of Filth, Nightwish and HIM owing a huge debt to their knack for injecting heavy rock with their trademark dark sheen.
Now it's time to celebrate 25 years of glamour and gloom with 4 anniversary shows in October.
Wed October 30th 2013 - WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall
Thu October 31st 2013 - GLASGOW ABC
Fri November 1st 2013 - MANCHESTER Ritz
Sun November 3rd 2013 - LONDON Roundhouse
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With a career dating back to 1988 and their official recording debut in 1990 ('Lost Paradise'), the band has been riding and rollercoaster of highs and lows. Guitarist Aaron Aedy remembers the early days:
