PARADISE LOST – The Plague Within Album Sampler Streaming

May 29, 2015, 8 years ago

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PARADISE LOST – The Plague Within Album Sampler Streaming

Paradise Lost's 14th studio album, The Plague Within, will be released via Century Media Records on June 1 in Europe and June 2 in North America. An album sampler is streaming below:

Due to other commitments, Adrian Erlandsson (pictured above) will not be able to participate in Paradise Lost’s European tour or upcoming festival dates.

Says the band: “We are pleased to announce drumming duties have been left in the young capable hands of Waltteri Väyrynen who is kindly stepping in to cover.”

Waltteri states: “No words can explain how excited, grateful and honoured I am to do all these shows with Paradise Lost this year. The band has been one of my first and biggest influences ever since I was a little kid. Really looking forward to see all of you on the road! It's gonna be one hell of a year!”

A message from Adrian Erlandsson follows: “Due to my commitments with At The Gates and The Haunted, me and the guys in Paradise Lost decided it is best for them to have a fill-in drummer for the dates this year. Waltteri Väyrynen will handle the drumming duties and I know that he will do a excellent job! See you soon!”

Paradise Lost will embark on a European headlining tour, kicking off in Dublin, Ireland on September 27th.

As previously announced, the band have teamed up with EMP for a very special show on August 17th at the Forum in Bielefeld where they will play the new album, The Plague Within, live in its entirety for the very first time. Cheap tickets bundled with the new album on CD Mediabook or vinyl are available via the following links:

Special ticket + Mediabook

Special ticket + Gatefold 2 LP

 

 

Paradise Lost live:

May

29 - Munich, Germany - Rockavaris
30 - Nurburg, Germany - Der Ring - Grune Holle Rock

July

18 - Bolkow, Poland - Castle Party 2015

August

15 - Dinkelsbühl, Germany - Summer Breeze Open Air
17 - Bielefeld, Germany - Forum (Special Show)

September

27 - Dublin, Ireland - The Academy
28 - Belfast, Ireland - The Limelight
30 - Manchester, UK - Academy 2

October

1 - Glasgow, UK - Garage
3 - Wolverhampton, UK - Wulfrun Hall
4 - London UK -  Koko
5 - Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
6 - Antwerp, Belglium - Trix Muziekcentrum
7 - Utrecht, Netherlands - TivoliVredenburg
9 - Berlin, Germany - Huxley’s Neue Welt
10 - Malmö, Sweden - KB
11 - Göteborg, Sweden - Sticky Fingers
13 - Helsinki, Finland - The Circus
15 - Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Strand
16 - Oslo, Norway - John Dee
17 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Pumpehuset
18 - Hamburg, Germany - Gruenspan
20 - Prague, Czech Republic - MeetFactory
21 - Wroclaw, Poland - Alibi
22 - Gdansk, Poland - B90
24 - Ostrava, Czech Republic - Barrak
25 - Bratislava, Slovakia - Randal Club
26 - Budapest, Hungary - Barba Negra
27 - Zagreb, Croatia - Vintage Industrial Bar
29 - Nova Gorica, Slovenia - Mostovna
30 - Munich, Germany - Theaterfabrik
31 - Vienna, Austria - Arena

November

2 - Milan, Italy - Live Club
3 - Solothurn, Switzerland - Kofmehl
5 - Barcelona, Spain - Salamandra
6 - Madrid, Spain - Sala Arena
7 - Bilbao, Spain - Sala Stage Live
8 - Bordeaux, France - Rocher de Palmer
9 - Paris, France - Le Trabendo
10 - Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie

 In anticipation of the album release, the band recently premiered the new video for the track “Beneath Broken Earth”, which can be seen below.

Guitarist Greg Mackintosh comments: “I fucking hate metal band performance videos, so when I got told that we needed to do one I was obviously annoyed but then came the idea to do a performance video of utter misery. The slowest song we have ever recorded. "Beneath Broken Earth" is utter, old school Paradise Lost doom/death song and doing a performance video with our miserable, old faces barely moving in a crappy, old basement was too much to resist. The director Ash has done a great job of capturing the sombre mood and has managed to make a performance video we can actually be proud of.”

Paradise Lost are once again refining the chemical equation to their sonic alchemy with the kind of creative invincibility few can afford. It’s a collection of songs that will surprise even the most seasoned of fans in its ambition: a monochrome miasma of morbidly uplifting anthems and heart-aching melancholia. Theirs is a pain born of the human condition itself as our fragile minds struggle to cope in a world overrun by demons.

Produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Ulver, Cathedral) at London's Orgone Studios, the frostbitten riffs thunder beneath the bittersweet euphoria of Nick’s vocals, drifting between rich melodic soars and icy snarls. It’s an organic body of work that confronts the trials and tribulations of struggling alone in darkness, but also one that treads incredibly exciting and genuinely ‘new’ sonic ground in the process.

The cover artwork was created by the polish artist, illustrator and architect Zbigniew M. Bielak, best known in the musical realm for his record cover illustrations, which among others include meticulously handcrafted artworks of Watain, Ghost or Entombed A.D. albums.

 

 

Zbigniew comments: “Since their late 80’s inception, through somber abrasiveness of their debut and harrowing tristesse of groundbreaking Gothic, the unparalleled icons of gloom, Paradise Lost grew deep into all things murky and dreadful in modern music. Let alone Duncan Fergado’s artwork for their Lost Paradise debut remains one of my fave covers, so having heard that with Plague Within the band harks back to days of old, was - to say the least - a thrilling incentive to pick up the commission.

It was also a rare joy to see how prelimnarily calm and reflective Arcimboldian artwork, kept becoming ever darker and more sinister past each of  Nick’s and Greg’s scrutinies, to finally become what one can see on the actual cover. A portrait of hopless decrepitude of mental illness  - which is what Plague Within deals with thematically - where the tormented Sisyphus struggles to push his burden back up the slippery walls of  a long frozen illusion.”

A lyric video for the track “No Hope In Sight” can be found below. The band comments: ““No Hope In Sight” was one of the first tracks we wrote and it reflects a blend of styles. From death metal to gothic to classic rock. It's like all eras of PL wrapped up into one track. We hope you all like it!”

(Photo: Ester Segarra)

 

 

 

 



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