Formed in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire in the north of England in 1988
when they were barely out of school, Paradise Lost have proved to be one of the
most durable and influential heavy metal bands, exploring many different hard
rock styles while almost defining the gothic and doom metal sub-genres. Singer
Nick Holmes initially formed Paradise Lost as a hardline death metal band,
notable for Holmes' raw, grunting vocal style and, while they have had a
succession of different drummers, the rest of the band has been almost uniquely
stable for three decades with Greg Mackinto...