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AN AROUND-THE-WORLD GUIDE TO PARADISE LOST VINYL RECORD, CDs & MEMORABLIA WE WANT TO BUY...
We will buy or trade most CDs, vinyl LP, 7”, 12” records and memorabilia from most countries, especially the following...
UK
CD single, 2-LP vinyl set, CD album, vinyl LP, 12" vinyl, picture disc LP, 7" vinyl, 2-disc CD/DVD set, press kit, 2-CD album set, red vinyl, blue vinyl, clear vinyl...
GERMANY
CD-ROM, vinyl LP, CD album, picture disc LP, magazine, red vinyl, white vinyl, blue vinyl, promo CD single, promo vinyl LP, promo 7" vinyl...
USA
t-shirt, cassette single, CD album, artwork, red vinyl, blue vinyl, clear vinyl, promo vinyl LP, promo 12" vinyl, promo CD album...
JAPAN
CD album, red vinyl, blue vinyl, orange vinyl, promo vinyl LP, promo CD album, promo 5-CD set...
ITALY
CD single, red vinyl, orange vinyl, clear vinyl...
EUROPE
CD single, red vinyl, yellow vinyl, blue vinyl, promo 12" vinyl, promo CD single...
Top release decades
1990s, 2000s, 2020s, 2010s, 1980s...
Top music labels
Music For Nations, Century Media, Music For Natio, Emi Electrola, Nuclear Blast, Music On Vinyl, Peaceville, Vile, Liberty, M.F.N....
Top barcodes
5016583716929, 8719262013322, 194398146317, 5016583118457, 5016583122201, 5016583115210, 5016583715762, 5016583717407, 727361550288, 5016557501704...
Top catalogue numbers
CDP000011, CDKUT169, 19439814631, MOVLP2636, 727361550288, CDMFNX222, CDXKUT174, MFNP184, 5307072, 12KUT157...
Top titles
One Second, Draconian Times, Interactive Press Kit, Say Just Words, In Requiem, Believe In Nothing, Forever Failure, The Last Time, Lost Paradise, Seals The Sense...
Top wanted titles
The Last Time, So Much Is Lost - Autographed, Draconian Times Sampler, Poker Dice, Draconian Times, Say Just Words, True Belief, Draconian Times, Paradise Lost Promo Video, Host...
Other artist names
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Related artists
Paradise Lost, The Secret [Italy]...
A FEW OF THE ITEMS WE WANT...
 | PARADISE LOST Obsidian - Blue Vinyl (2020 UK/EU 9-track
LP, pressed on transparent BLUE vinyl, limited to just 300
copies worldwide and exclusive to independent record
stores. Factory sealed from new in its hype stickered gatefold
picture sleeve. The goth-metal gods return with their 16th
studio album which Nick Holmes describes as "one of the most
eclectic albums we have done in some time, we have
miserable songs, sad songs, slow songs and faster songs..."
Fair enough!)
Tracklisting: Obsidian… dark, reflective and black: it’s a pretty decent description of the music that Paradise Lost have been making over the last 32 years, even though this most resilient of British metal bands have stoically refused to be pinned down to one easily defined formula. Powered by a lust for creativity and a stout devotion to haunting heaviness, Paradise Lost have defied the odds by coming back stronger than ever over the past decade.
Formed in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 1988, Paradise Lost were unlikely candidates for metal glory when they slithered from the shadows and infiltrated the UK underground. But not content with spawning an entire subgenre with early death/doom masterpiece Gothic nor with conquering the metal mainstream with the balls-out power of 1995’s Draconian Times, they have subsequently traversed multiple genre boundaries with skill and grace, evolving through the pitch-black alt-rock mastery of ‘90s classics One Second and Host to the muscular but ornate grandeur of 2009’s Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us and Tragic Idol (2012), with the nonchalant finesse of grand masters. The band’s last two albums - The Plague Within (2015) and Medusa (2017) – saw a much celebrated return to brutal, old school thinking, via two crushing monoliths to slow-motion death and spiritual defeat. Consistently hailed as one of metal’s most charismatic live bands, Paradise Lost arrive in this new decade as veterans, legends and revered figureheads for several generations of gloomy metalheads. In keeping with their unerring refusal to deliver the expected, 2020 brings one of the band’s most diverse and devastating creations to date.
The sixteenth Paradise Lost studio album, Obsidian eschews its immediate predecessors’ gruesome, myopic approach in favour of a richer and more dynamic deluge of black shades. From the deceptive elegance and dual atmospheres of opener Darker Thoughts through to the crushing, baroque doom of war-torn closer Ravenghast, Obsidian reveals a band in masterful control of a broad array of vital ideas. Most noticeably, the record boasts several songs that draw heavily from the much-loved, Kohl-encrusted days of ‘80s gothic rock: in particular, newly-minted PL anthems Ghosts is a guaranteed dancefloor-filler at any discerning goth nightclub.
Produced by the band themselves, with the assistance of noted studio guru Jamie ‘Gomez’ Arellano, Obsidian is another compelling showcase for Paradise Lost’s ever-blazing passion for forging ahead. Fans of the last two albums’ back-to-basics ferocity will be well served by the menacing, scabrous likes of The Devil Embraced and Serenity, while those of a more gothic persuasion will be instantly mesmerised by Ghosts, icy anti-ballad Forsaken and the gloriously morose Ending Days. In between those extremes, Paradise Lost continue to warp the edges of their long established musical identity, resulting in some of the boldest and most adventurous songs of their career to date. Nobly upholding his band’s mystique, Holmes remains reluctant to unpick the details of his lyrics, but Obsidian is clearly an album with a lot on its troubled mind.
Fans of Paradise Lost’s crushing doom phase have no reason to fear Obsidian’s diverse approach. Providing thrilling contrast with the snappy, pulsing grooves of Ghosts and its gothic counterparts, album closer Ravenghast plainly ranks as one of the darkest and heaviest things the band have ever recorded.
Blessed with some of his band’s strongest material yet, Nick Holmes has conjured an absorbing array of lyrical conceits and mysterious proclamations for Obsidian. As far as Greg Mackintosh is concerned, retaining that air of mystery is a fundamental part of Paradise Lost’s identity.
As they march through their fourth decade as a band, Paradise Lost have never sounded more potent or unified in their determination to bring the darkness to life. Obsidian is yet another glowering career peak, not just matching the imperious form of The Plague Within and Medusa, but artfully outstripping it with greater depth, colour and emotional power. While many bands of their vintage have embraced the nostalgia business, Paradise Lost remain a vibrant, vital and endlessly classy force for creative metallic good. 2020 will see the band hit the festival circuit with a vengeance, before touring Obsidian in earnest next year. Like the man said, this is a good time to be in Paradise Lost.
Track Listing
Side A
1.Darker Thoughts (5:46)
2.Fall From Grace (5:42)
3.Ghosts (4:35)
4.The Devil Embraced (6:08)
Side B
1.Forsaken (4:30)
2.Serenity (4:46)
3.Ending Days (4:36)
4.Hope Dies Young (4:02)
5.Ravenghast (5:30) |  | PARADISE LOST Seals The Sense (1994 UK Music For Nations
4-track 12" vinyl single, includes Embers Fire, Sweetness, True
Belief and Your Hand In Mine [Live], lightly textured picture
sleeve & picture inner. The sleeve shows minimal wear whilst the
vinyl has only light evidence of play 12KUT157)
Tracklisting: 1. Embers Fire
2. Sweetness
3. True Belief
4. Your Hand In Mine - Live |  | PARADISE LOST Draconian Times (1995 UK Music For Nations
limited edition 12-track vinyl PICTURE DISC
LP - the fifth studio album from the British metal act, featuring
the singles The Last Time and Forever Failure; presented in
anindividually numbered stickered PVC sleeve MFNP184)
Tracklisting: 1. Enchantment
2. Hallowed Land
3. The Last Time
4. Forever Failure
5. Once Solemn
6. Shadowkings
7. Elusive Cure
8. Year For Change
9. Shades Of God
10. Hands Of Reason
11. I See Your Face
12. Jaded | | PARADISE LOST Draconian Times (1995 UK Music For Nations
limited edition 12-track vinyl PICTURE DISC
LP - the fifth studio album from the British metal act, featuring
the singles The Last Time and Forever Failure; presented in
anindividually numbered stickered PVC sleeve MFNP184)
Tracklisting: 1. Enchantment
2. Hallowed Land
3. The Last Time
4. Forever Failure
5. Once Solemn
6. Shadowkings
7. Elusive Cure
8. Year For Change
9. Shades Of God
10. Hands Of Reason
11. I See Your Face
12. Jaded |  | PARADISE LOST Forever Failure (1995 UK 3-track CD single,
also including Another Desire and Fear, digipak picture sleeve
CDKUT169)
Tracklisting: 1. Forever Failure 4:13
2. Another Desire 3:13
3. Fear 9:38 |
AWARDS WE WANT TO BUY
We always require Gold, Silver, Platinum and Multi-Platinum awards
on most artists - official B.P.I., R.I.A.A., I.F.P.I., C.R.I.A., S.N.E.P. etc. certified
or genuine in-house variants from around the world. We also need Ivor Novello, B.M.I.,
ASCAP etc. publishing awards, plaques, trophies, certificates and citations.
MEMORABILIA ALWAYS REQUIRED:
Programmes; concert tickets; original concert posters; invites; handbills &
flyers; promotional posters, standees, mobiles, displays & other P.O.S. material;
press kits, boxes & sales presenters; award discs; tour crew jackets & other
clothing; tour itineraries; promotional jackets, t-shirts & other clothing;
original artwork, proofs, colour separations, cromalins, bromides, etc; interesting
paper items, promotional gimmicks & most other memorabilia needed. Also buying:
original film posters; movie press books & press kits; cinema programmes; premiere
invites & programmes; promotional clothing & other items.
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