PARADISE LOST
Thirty years of doomy majesty
The English goth-doom veterans will tour the UK in support of last year’s awe-inspiring Medusa, which permeated our critics’ poll at Number Five to cap off an excellent 2017 for the extreme music innovators. “We’ve played a London show, but we’re going to now go to places we haven’t played,” says frontman Nick Holmes, rather matter-of-factly, of Paradise Lost’s plans for the year ahead. “We’re going to try and cover just about every era of the band.”
2018 also marks the 30th anniversary of Paradise Lost – something that Nick has admittedly mixed feelings on. “I feel it’s a sense of achievement as it’s a long time, but the fact it’s 30 years reminds me how old we are, and I don’t like that!” he laughs. Nonetheless, the band plan to do something special to mark the occasion.
“I’d be happy to go for a curry, but I’ll probably have to do more than that!” jokes the singer. “We’re going to do a special concert for it, but I’m not sure what yet. We’d like to make a mini-festival.” A fully fledged Paradise Lost-fest for 2018? Count us in, chaps.