Their new drummer, 22-year-old Waltteri Väyrynen, wasn't even born when Paradise Lost released their debut album back in 1990. But the youngster, who is also in Gregor Mackintosh's band Vallenfyre, is ...

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 ...

Paradise Lost are bloody miserable. Since forming in the rain-soaked North of England in 1988, the Bradford bunch have tried their hand at everything from death/doom to synthpop. However, they’ve ...

There can be a sense of diminishing returns with artists who have been around for a long time. It’s not always easy to get truly excited about a band’s 17th album but, on the flipside, if that band ...

The unifying factor in Armando Iannucci’s work is, in his own blunt phrase, “a fascination with evil bastards”. He found his calling for political satire in surprising circumstances: reading “Paradise ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Mr. Jacobs, a literary critic and professor at Baylor, has written a “biography” of “Paradise Lost”: a concise, lively and ...

In the world of music, it is fascinating when we can discover a work that we find enjoyable, as well as intellectually interesting. Paradise Lost has done just that, providing philosophical musings ...