Lost Paradise
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| Label (s) | Peaceville Records | |||
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LP, CD, Picture Disc |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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40:49 |
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Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw |
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Lost Paradise is the debut album by the British band Paradise Lost . It was released in 1990 by Peaceville Records .
Music genre
On their debut, the group combined the slowness of Doom Metal with the growling and lower-pitched guitar playing of Death Metal . However, the songs are kept relatively simple and less technical than many other death metal bands, as the musicians did not yet have the appropriate skills.
On the song Breeding Fear , female vocals sung by Kay Field can be heard, but they are not yet as prominent as in later works by the band.
Texts
The lyrics deal with death, damnation and hopelessness. Our Savior criticizes belief in salvation through a god. The pastor's sermons are described as lies and he himself as a madman, whom only the stupid listen to and obey; in the face of death no god help one.
Reception and effect
While Peaceville described the band as the “British counterpart to Morbid Angel ”, Götz Kühnemund from Rock Hard was not of this opinion: “Paradise Lost is not that good”, but “die-hard Death Metal fans should definitely be interested”. He drew comparisons to Bolt Thrower's album "Realm of Chaos", which offered "equally dark, appropriately produced Death Metal". He praised the fact that Paradise Lost did not get entangled in “endless chaos passages”, but wrote “mostly sluggish, all the more threatening-sounding songs”. The term Death Metal fits "like a fist in the eye, because it couldn't be more brutal." In any case, bands like Obituary have left Paradise Lost "clearly behind in terms of hardness with this pitch-black disc."
Eduardo Rivadavia from allmusic describes the album as amateurish, but at the same time points to its importance as a defining album of Death Doom. According to the biography on the website The Gauntlet , however, the band only shows on the successor Gothic that they are called to higher things.
Track list
All songs were written by Nick Holmes and Gregor Mackintosh .
- Intro - 2:42
- Deadly Inner Sense - 4:36
- Paradise Lost - 5:29
- Our Savior - 5:07
- Rotting Misery - 5:16
- Frozen Illusion - 5:21
- Breeding Fear - 4:14
- Lost Paradise - 2:08
- Internal Torment II - 5:53
layout
The album was released in 1990 on LP, CD and Picture Disc . The cover was designed by Duncan Fegredo and shows a robot with an outstretched arm; the hand of the robot can also be seen on the label of the CD version. The back of the album shows a photograph of the band, taken by Porl A. Medlock, showing the unhappy looking musicians in front of a cemetery; Another photograph of the band can be seen in the inlay. The Picture Disc version shows the front cover on one side and a photograph of the band members crouching in front of a church on the back.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Götz Kühnemund : Rock Hard Online rocks the web. In: Rock Hard . Retrieved January 25, 2010 .
- ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: allmusic (((Lost Paradise> Overview))). Retrieved February 22, 2010 .
- ↑ a b The Gauntlet - Paradise Lost. Retrieved February 22, 2010 .