The year was 1993, and extreme metal, for all intents and purposes, was still a baby. Over in the U.K., they were taking a stab at death metal strongly enough to compete with American counterparts in ...

From debut album Lost Paradise to the brand-new Ascension, we revisit and re-order the back-catalogue of one of metal’s most despondent bands ...

Ascension is another work of magisterial gothic doom from the English metal stalwarts, who are still chasing new ways to ...

Paradise Lost aren’t gloomy all the time. When the death/doom icons’ frontman Nick Holmes video-calls Metal Hammer from his tour bus in Belgium, his Zoom profile picture is a disheveled Phil Mitchell ...

We’ve only got a few weeks left of 2023. As the year slows to a crawl, here are some new releases to keep shit interesting. Originally released 30 years ago, Paradise Lost’s Icon is considered by many ...