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NUCLEAR BLAST
Paradise Lost’s creative kernel reawaken their goth-pop passion
photography and Times New Roman lowercase betokening a full flight into millennial alt rock, Paradise Lost’s 1999 album proved a bridge too far for a significant tranche of the band’s fanbase. Doubling down on the electronic goth-pop influence that dominated 1997’s transformative the even poppier follow-up left a trail of heartbroken headbangers in its wake. Many felt disenfranchised and disconsolate that UK metal’s brightest hope had cut their hair, dimmed the guitars and drunk the Depeche Mode Kool-Aid. And not least because it was so soon after 1995’s had brought classic UK HM back into the Top 20, apparently securing a glorious future for a band often hyped as the ‘Yorkshire Metallica’. For another section of their fanbase, however, was an awestruck awakening,
