Album Rating: 4.5
m/ m/ m/ heck ye hawky
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Album Rating: 4.0
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Album Rating: 3.5
On the slow grind to Paradise Lost completion, only like 9 albums to go
So far it's prolly like Draconian Times>Obsidian>The Plague Within>This>Medusa
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Album Rating: 4.0
my man! you got the top 2 right at least. I'm sure your top 5 will change after you hear In Requiem, Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us, the S/T and Icon, but so far so good!
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Album Rating: 3.5
The Plague Within is their best imo (Draconian Times is nr. 2). Symbol of Life is somewhere in the middle
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Album Rating: 4.0
utter sacrilege, but I'll allow it because Plague rules
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Album Rating: 3.5
Plague is like
More mellow Obsidian which is like
The chunkiest riffiest thing I've heard by them yet
And boy do I like my chunky riffage
I can't help but mentally equate these bands as being like the big four of goth rock/metal with leanings that equate to the their thrash metal counterparts i.e Katatonia for placatedness but consistency i.e Metallica Paradise Lost for consistency but a modest drop in ownage i.e Anthrax Anathema for the ability to creative a few albums of bona fide beauty then drop off abot hard i.e Megadeth and then My Dying Bride for leaning the hardest into Gothic melodramatic tendencies no matter the cost of repetition i.e Slayer
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Album Rating: 4.5
idk why everyone slathers obsidians cocks so much honestly, the appeal of that album still kinda evades me.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I like this album a lot and I'm glad people seem to appreciate it more now than when it came out.
I do find it funny that Paradise Lost went from being hailed as the British Metallica in 1994 to doing Bronski Beat covers in a matter of like 5 years. The industrial/electro-metal movement really inspired them apparently. I like to think they were listening to Candyass by Orgy on repeat lol
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Album Rating: 4.0
Album slays indeed.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Objectively my favorite Paradise Lost album, but in rankings I'd put it behind the original Icon release.
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Album Rating: 4.0
From what I recall its reception wasn't that bad, at least compared to Host and BiN. The distortion was back, Nick's voice was more raspy on some songs and on top of that, they got fu***ing Devin Townsend and Lee Dorian doing backing vocals.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Thats true, I also didn’t care for those albums much at the time, so maybe that tints my perspective a bit.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Definitely the odd one out but once again this is coming across as average. The music is once again good but the voice could be better and the choruses just aren't hitting hard for me.
Personal Standout Tracks after 1st Listen:
Perfect Mask
Mystify
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Album Rating: 4.5
This, In Requiem, and Icon are my top 3 Paradise Lost albums. I haven't been a big fan of their return-to-doom era that starts after In Requiem. I'm curious to see how you feel. A lot of people love their return to doom.
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Album Rating: 4.0
-- choruses just aren't hitting hard for me
This band has written some of the best choruses in metal.
@NaturalLaw
try - within your purview, that is - to listen to this and every Paradise Lost as much as you can so that it/they grows/grow in you, band has been and still is one of the best.
On another note, this album could use a remaster treatment.
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Album Rating: 2.5
@voivod
I have been going through Chronologically. There has not been a bad song that i would skip. I am actually almost done with album 14- The Plague Within. I have been zooming through them which is unlike me. I usually get burnout and work on a different band's discography. This has been a good experience, even though I have rated so many albums of Paradise Lost a 2.5-3.0 after a first listen.
I was the odd one for not really enjoying Icon or Draconian Times. His Voice in the return-to-doom era is fucking EPIC though.
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