Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
To say that England’s Paradise Lost has been around the block a few times would be a vast understatement. This is their thirteenth album. They’ve come along way, starting out as a Doom/Death Metal band and morphing into countless different forms over the years. They dabbled in Electronica and Goth Metal, but gradually made their way back to the realms of extreme Metal. Tragic Idol is the first Paradise Lost album that I’ve heard in totality since 1995’s Draconian Times. I’ve listened to bits and pieces of their other albums after that one, but they never compared to their early material. I used to worship at the altar of Gothic and Shades of God. Somewhere along the line, I stopped caring about Paradise Lost because they’d gone a musical direction that I had no interest in. Now, listening to Tragic Idol blasting Gothic-tinged British Doom Metal at me like I haven’t heard from Paradise Lost in almost two decades, I believe in redemption. This is the Paradise Lost that I wanted to hear. It’s full of dark atmosphere. It’s heavy. It’s Metal. More than anything else, it fucking kicks my ass like I owed the band money and they want it all with interest. Tragic Idol is one monster of an album. I hold this band to a very high standard, mostly because they were one of my favorite bands back in the day. Even by my (probably unreasonably) high standards, I was impressed. It isn’t absolute perfection, but it’s damn close.
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