Metal Shrine recently caught up with PARADISE LOST guitarist Aaron Aedy to discuss the band's new album, In Requiem. The following is a brief excerpt from the interview:

Metal Shrine: I´m wondering, did you all decide to write heavier stuff or was that just the way it developed?

Aedy: "The thing is that we´ve never ever planned an album, really. There´s not like a board meeting and we go 'Ok, this is the masterplan for the next record!' We don´t really do that, we just see what happens. We´ve been enjoying how much energy and more powerful the songs, that we´ve been recording lately, have been sounding live. I think we´ve been trying for a few years really. With Symbol Of Life we were trying to get what Believe In Nothing sounded like and it sounded so much better live than it did on the record. Every album we seem to have been trying to recapturing it. Using Rhys this time again has been great and Jeff is a fulltime..., well, he´s actually been in the band for two years now. Whereas when we did the last record, he had only been in the band for a couple of weeks before we started going into production. He´s managed to get his own sort of stamp on it. Getting Mike Frazer to mix it was a big step. I was really excited when I heard we got him. He´s done AC/DC, METALLICA, SLAYER, THE CULT! Loads of people and I was really excited when I found out we had him to mix it. I think it´s just we´ve been really enjoying playing live and the feeling of the energy on stage. I think the new record, and I am seriously bias, but I think it´s really good. We´re all very pleased with it. It´s cool. We´re just looking forward to playing it live."

Go to this location to check out the complete story.