![]() This album moved away from metal and organic sound, and as the band later admitted, they were not quite sure in which direction they wanted to go. In spite of all this drastic changes Paradise Lost have managed to lift music writing to a new, higher level and make this experiment successful. Keyboards took a central place and there are more clean vocals, which perfectly displays “Say Just Words” as one of the most recognizable songs on this release. “Say Just Words” – “One Second” (1997)Ħth studio album brings a lots of of experiments. “Forever Failure” thematically deviates from the rest, a slightly faster than we are used to, “The Last Time” brings more rock elements, but “Hollowed Land” somehow became a symbol of the band and defined my vision of them and their sound.Ġ6. It’s incredibly hard to single out just one song. They matured both lyric and musical, so this album was marked as band’s classic. “Draconian Times” made an intersection, found itself right in the middle, the perfect blend of sound from their beginnings and melodic moments that spilled over the horizon, and it is not without reason one of the fan favorites. “Hollowed Land” – “Draconian Times” (1995) “Embers Fire” and “True Belief” are in the competition for the best song, but I give little advantage to first one.Ġ5. Clean singing is more and more present and the band settled on that ground. They were not satisfied with just one style, from the doom/death roots this time they went one more step further. The true masterpiece of inspiration and emotion is certainly the track “As I Die”.Īlthough goth elements existed in the earlier work of the band, with the album “Icon” they were labeled as gothic band. This record gets much more credit when you look at it from another perspective and compare it with the entire discography of the band. A combination of dark melodies, haunting clean and phenomenal growl vocals that are somewhat different from the usual death growls that became Holmes‘s mark. ![]() “Shades Of God” continued to build on the foundations of “Gothic” album. The first real step of the band towards the bright future. Both bring almost the same amount of beautiful and melodic in contrast to the dark and heavy. Two songs have strong potential, “The Painless” and title track. The enhanced atmosphere and melodic parts made this record much more accessible. Music is still a slow death metal but packed in a much more intelligent way. After the hint they gave on the first, the second album gives a lot more insight how talented these guys actually are.
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