Today, UK gothic metal legends PARADISE LOST are excited to welcome Guido Zima joining their ranks on the drums – completing the band’s line-up again.

Greg Mackintosh comments:
“We welcome Guido as PARADISE LOST’s new drummer. He cut his teeth with us on our European tour at the end of 2022. Guido did such a good job that we have decided to make him our new drummer and he will be playing on all upcoming PL shows and working on new material with us for our next album due out next year.”

The band will play several festival shows this summer before returning to the studio to work on their next studio album.

Find all dates here:
29.04. UK Uprising Festival
13.05. BE Durbuy Rock Festival
27.05. NL Graveland
18.06. FR Hellfest
24.06. CZ Basinfire
06.07. DE Rockharz
08.07. FR Plane’R Fest
21.07. DE Baden In Blut
22.07. DE Rock Unter den Eichen
29.07. GR Chania Rock Fest
02.08. SL Metal Days
26.08. DK Naestved Metalfest
03.09. MX Candelabrum Metal Fest

Formed in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 1988, PARADISE LOST were unlikely candidates for metal glory when they slithered from the shadows and infiltrated the UK underground. But not content with spawning an entire subgenre with early death/doom masterpiece Gothic nor with conquering the metal mainstream with the balls-out power of 1995’s Draconian Times, they have subsequently traversed multiple genre boundaries with skill and grace, evolving through the pitch-black alt-rock mastery of ‘90s classics One Second and Host to the muscular but ornate grandeur of 2009’s Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us and Tragic Idol (2012), with the nonchalant finesse of grand masters. The band’s last two albums – The Plague Within (2015) and Medusa (2017) – saw a much celebrated return to brutal, old school thinking, via two crushing monoliths to slow-motion death and spiritual defeat. Consistently hailed as one of metal’s most charismatic live bands, PARADISE LOST arrive in this new decade as veterans, legends and revered figureheads for several generations of gloomy metalheads. In keeping with their unerring refusal to deliver the expected, 2020 brings one of the band’s most diverse and devastating creations to date. Their last album Obsidian was released in spring 2020, hitting international charts with great success.

UK doom legends PARADISE LOST performing tracks from their classic debut album live in Bradford, 1989 due for release as a 2 disc cd/dvd  & black vinyl LP and featuring the original cover art.

Paradise Lost’s first two albums were released on Peaceville, in the shape of 1990’s influential deathly debut ‘Lost Paradise’, followed up by the more atmosphere-focussed genre classic, ‘Gothic’ in 1991. ‘Live Death’ features a band still in their formative years, with an early showcase of their raw potential from Bradford Queens Hall, 1989, in their home county of West Yorkshire, England. From an era of what was still an evolving and blossoming extreme metal scene, Paradise Lost already displayed an advanced maturity to their compositions and a developing style of their own, as the quintet perform a set containing tracks featured on their debut album, the masterpiece of death metal that is ‘Lost Paradise’, with tracks such as ‘Frozen Illusion, and ‘Rotting Misery’..

DISC 1

1. Deadly Inner Sense (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989)
2. Frozen Illusion (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989)
3. Breeding Fear (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989)
4. Paradise Lost (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989)
5. Our Saviour (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989)
6. Rotting Misery (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989)
7. Internal Torment (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989)

DISC 2 – DVD

1. Deadly Inner Sense (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989 – video)
2. Frozen Illusion (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989 – video)
3. Breeding Fear (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989 – video)
4. Paradise Lost (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989 – video)
5. Our Saviour (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989 – video)
6. Rotting Misery (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989 – video)
7. Internal Torment (`Live Death` in Bradford 1989 – video)

Pre-order here.

After showing how to successfully bring more than three decades of band history on stage in lockdown with their latest live album “At the Mill“, which was released last year, PARADISE LOST will return to Europe this fall for an extensive tour that is not to be missed.

PARADISE LOST‘s Nick Holmes comments:
“It’s nice to be able to finally tour the Obsidian album and play in all those fine countries we haven’t visited for far too long. Really looking forward to the tour and hope to see you there!”

The tour line-up will be completed soon.
Tickets can be bought here: https://paradiselost.co.uk/tour/

Find all tour dates here:
05.10. NL Tilburg – Tivoli
06.10. DE Hamburg – Knust
07.10. DE Berlin – Lido
08.10. DE Leipzig – Hellraiser
09.10. PL Katowice – P23
11.10. CZ Pilsen – Serikova
12.10. SK Bratislava – Randal
13.10. AT Dornbirn – Conrad Sohm
14.10. IT Parma – Campus Industry
15.10. CH Lausanne – Les Docks
17.10. ES Bilbao – Santana 27
18.10. ES Barcelona – Sala Apolo
19.10. ES Murcia – Garaje Beat Club
20.10. ES Madrid – Sala La Riviera
22.10. CH Solothurn – Kofmehl
23.10. DE Munich – Backstage Halle
24.10. FR Straßbourg – La Laiterie
25.10. FR Paris – Trabendo
26.10. BE Sint-Niklaas – De Casino
28.10. DK Aarhus – Voxhall
29.10. DK Copenhagen – Amager Bio
30.10. SE Malmö – KB
04.11. SE Gothenburg – Valand
05.11. SE Stockholm – Nalen
07.11. FI Jyväskylä – Lutakko
08.11. FI Tampere – Klubi
09.11. FI Helsinki – Tavastia
10.11. EE Tallinn – Helitehas
11.10. LV Riga – Palladium
12.11. LT Vilnius – Kablys Kultura

Watch the band’s music video to ‘Darker Thoughts‘ of the latest studio album “Obsidian” here: https://youtu.be/URJH3ZJzxB0

Formed in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 1988, PARADISE LOST were unlikely candidates for metal glory when they slithered from the shadows and infiltrated the UK underground. But not content with spawning an entire subgenre with early death/doom masterpiece „Gothic“ nor with conquering the metal mainstream with the balls-out power of 1995’s „Draconian Times“, they have subsequently traversed multiple genre boundaries with skill and grace, evolving through the pitch-black alt-rock mastery of ‘90s classics „One Second“ and „Host“ to the muscular but ornate grandeur of 2009’s „Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us“ and „Tragic Idol“ (2012), with the nonchalant finesse of grand masters. The band’s last two albums – „The Plague Within“ (2015) and „Medusa“ (2017) – saw a much celebrated return to brutal, old school thinking, via two crushing monoliths to slow-motion death and spiritual defeat. Consistently hailed as one of metal’s most charismatic live bands, PARADISE LOST arrive in this new decade as veterans, legends and revered figureheads for several generations of gloomy metalheads. In keeping with their unerring refusal to deliver the expected, 2020 brings one of the band’s most diverse and devastating creations to date.

Creators, pioneers & purveyors of the Gothic Doom Metal scene which came to prominence in the early 90s, Britain’s PARADISE LOST rose from humble Northern roots to become one of the UK’s leading artists in the metal genre throughout the decade and beyond, remaining as relevant and revered as ever to this day after a career spanning over three decades. 

To mark the 30 years since the release of the band’s iconic sophomore album, Gothic, Peaceville will release The Lost And The Painless – a stunning limited edition expansive 7 disc hardback book featuring 6CDs and 1DVD, containing the full works of both the formative and Peaceville years of the UK Gods. From the early incarnation of the band finding their feet in a death metal landscape which was still in its relative infancy, to their early live appearances showcasing the clear talent of the Yorkshire quintet, this deluxe set also incorporates the band’s legendary studio albums in the shape of the influential deathly doom debut, Lost Paradise, as well as the ground-breaking & genre-defining follow-up, Gothic. 

The included DVD features four shows, leading with the ‘Live Death’ concert from 1989, followed by a trilogy of captured performances between 1990 & 1991, as Paradise Lost were beginning to mark their gradual ascension with a host of now classic tracks from their early repertoire.

The Lost Paradise and Gothic albums, plus the Gothic EP have been specially remastered for this set by Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone Studios.

Also contained in the set is a 92-page book written by prolific music journalist, Nick Ruskell, delving into those essential early years of the band, as described by vocalist Nick Holmes & guitarist Gregor Mackintosh with their recollections of their early efforts to put Paradise Lost firmly on the map, as well as additional thoughts from a selection of prominent members of the scene, including Peaceville founder Paul “Hammy” Halmshaw, Barney Greenway of Napalm Death, My Dying Bride’s Aaron Stainthorpe, & also Chris Reifert who himself embarked upon a tour with the Englishmen with Autopsy back in 1990. Furthermore, the book contains an amount of previously unseen photos recovered from the band’s early promo shoots with photographer Porl Medlock.

Nick Holmes comments “Looking at the artwork for ‘The Lost And The Painless’ and remembering those early albums and live shows, It’s amazing to think that ‘Gothic’ was released 30 years ago.

It serves as a very important chapter in the life of the band and conjures a lot of nostalgia from the early 90’s. We lived off crisps, slept in squats, on people’s floors and under vehicles. Cigarettes were £1.50 a packet, Stella Artois beer was still 5.2% proof, and travelling in a Ford Transit van with all the equipment and 10 people sitting on an old mattress was considered normal.

Distant memories aside, it was also a great time for Death Metal music in general, and ‘The Lost And The Painless’ serves as a timely reminder.”

The foreword for ‘The Lost and the Painless’ comes courtesy of long-time appreciator of all things dark & gothic, Dani Filth, vocalist of UK extreme metal masters, Cradle of Filth.

On 26th November, alongside The Lost And The Painless Peaceville will release a limited gold coloured vinyl LP and cassette of the original recording of Gothic to celebrate the 30th anniversary.

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