It’s gloomy. Of course, it’s bloody gloomy. Paradise Lost are playing the Islington Assembly Hall in October. That might be one of the most gothic sentences ever composed. They’re also hot off the heels of their new album, Ascension , which has had quite the good time critically as of late. This has to be the umpteenth time the Paradise Lost boys have played in the capital, and for good reason. No British metal band has shown themselves to be musical chameleons quite like the

The world seems an almost happy place in the years between PARADISE LOST releasing albums. Every time this group puts an album out, the...