PARADISE LOST RELEASES MONOLITHIC NEW ALBUM ASCENSION - NEW LYRIC VIDEO FOR 'LAY A WREATH UPON THE WORLD' STREAMING NOW!

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Sep 22
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“The U.K. goth metal pioneers fully perfected the sweeping, theatrical sadness they’ve long peddled” Decibel

“Through thunderous skies, Paradise Lost continue to soar on scintillating 17th album Ascension” Kerrang

“Ascension is a blisteringly heavy beast…a gloriously all-encompassing work of gothic splendour.” Fireworks Magazine

“Their best album in 30 years”

Classic Rock

“These legends have inspired awe yet again”

Outburn

Icons of melancholic doom and gothic metal, PARADISE LOST have released their long awaited 17th album, Ascension, today with Nuclear Blast Records.

PARADISE LOST’s first album in 5 years, following 2020’s acclaimed Obsidian, was produced by the band’s revered guitarist Gregor Mackintosh and mixed/mastered by Lawrence Mackrory and is adorned with artwork by renowned British artist George Frederic Watts’ classic painting The Court of Death (1870-1902). Their latest, critically lauded masterpiece is evidence of a band still at the height of their prime 35+ years into a groundbreaking career. Soaked in misery and grief, Ascension soars with song’s like ‘Tyrants Serenade,’ ‘Serpent on the Cross’ and ‘Silence Like The Grave,’ that take listeners on an unforgettable journey through morose despair forged in soundscape of massive riffs and searing solos.

Commenting on the record’s release, vocalist Nick Holmes states:

"It took us nearly 40 years to get here but we're still tuning our instruments to the key of despair! Please enjoy!"

Today, PARADISE LOST has revealed a lyric video for their next highlighted track, ‘Lay A Wreath Upon The World.’

Adding about the song, Holmes says:

"Lay a wreath upon the world serves as a harbinger of the impending tempest, where humanity will eventually obliterate all that it has created."

Purchase/Stream Ascension: https://paradiselost.bfan.link/ascension

‘LAY A WREATH UPON THE WORLD’ LYRIC VIDEO:

Ascension Tracklist:

1. Serpent On The Cross

2. Tyrants Serenade

3. Salvation

4. Silence Like The Grave

5. Lay A Wreath Upon The World

6. Diluvium

7. Savage Days

8. Sirens

9. Deceivers

10. The Precipice

Produced by Gregor Mackintosh at Black Planet Studios in East Yorkshire, UK & NBS and Wasteland Studios in Sweden

Mixed/Mastered by Lawrence Mackrory

PARADISE LOST will embark on the first leg of the “Ascension of Europe” tour this fall. Tickets are available at https://paradiselost.co.uk/tour-dates/.

The band has also recently announced a handful of intimate signing sessions and a record release show in Leeds, UK.

Tickets are available now at https://tix.to/Ascension.

Sep 20 - Sheffield, UK @ Bear Tree (4PM BST) - Signing Session

Sep 21 - Birmingham, UK @ HMV (2PM BST) - Signing Session

Sep 22 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club (7PM BST) - Record Release Show

Sep 24 - London, UK @ Rough Trade East (12PM BST) - Signing Session

PARADISE LOST Tour Dates:

Oct 9 - Manchester, UK - New Century Hall

Oct 10 - Wolverhampton, UK - KK’s Steel Mill

Oct 11 - Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK - Newcastle University

Oct 12 - Glasgow, UK - Glasgow Garage

Oct 14 - Nottingham, UK - Rescue Rooms

Oct 15 - Bristol, UK - Electric

Oct 16 - Southampton, UK - The 1865

Oct 17 - London, UK - Islington Assembly Hall

Oct 19 - Oignies, FR - Tyrant Fest 2025

Oct 20 - Paris, FR - Élysée Montmartre

Oct 21 - Lyon, FR - La Rayonne

Oct 23 - Köln, DE - Live Music Hall

Oct 24 - Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU - Rockhal

Oct 25 - Dornbirn, AT - Conrad Sohm

Oct 26 - Padova, IT - Hall

Oct 28 - Munich, DE - Backstage Werk

Oct 29 - Prague, CZ - Palc Akropolis

Oct 30 - Zagreb, HR - Boogaloo Zagreb

Oct 31 - Vienna, AT - Simm City

Nov 1 - Budapest, HU - Dürer Kert

Nov 3 - Geneva, CH - PTR/L’Usine

Nov 4 - Nürnberg, DE - Z-Bau Biergarten

Nov 5 - Utrecht, NL - Pandora

Nov 6 - Antwerpen, BE - Trix Hall

Dec 13 - Bradford, UK - Bradford Live

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