Paradise Lost - Icon
| Release date: | September 1993 |
| Style: | Doom metal, Gothic metal |
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01. Embers Fire
02. Remembrance
03. Forging Sympathy
04. Joys Of The Emptiness
05. Dying Freedom
06. Widow
07. Colossal Rains
08. Weeping Words
09. Poison
10. True Belief
11. Shallow Seasons
12. Christendom
13. Deus Misereatur
Top 20 albums of 1993: 6
Top 200 albums of all time: 198
02. Remembrance
03. Forging Sympathy
04. Joys Of The Emptiness
05. Dying Freedom
06. Widow
07. Colossal Rains
08. Weeping Words
09. Poison
10. True Belief
11. Shallow Seasons
12. Christendom
13. Deus Misereatur
Top 20 albums of 1993: 6
Top 200 albums of all time: 198
Guest review
Lyrics Label: Music for Nations
Produced and engineered by Simon Efemey.
Mixed by Simon Efemey and Pete "Pee Wee" Coleman.
Mix engineer: Pete "Pee Wee" Coleman.
Assisted by: Andrew Holsworth.
Assistants: Paul Nixon, Sally Butler.
Recorded at Jacobs Studios, Surrey in June/July 1993.
Mastered by Geoff Pesche at Townhouse Studios.
Design and art direction by Stylorouge.
All photography by Matt Anker.
Rating:
9.8
9.8
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Rating: 9.8 |
Paradise Lost are called the "Fathers of Gothic" and they deserve this title if you look in retrospect at the influence they had on Gothic Metal. Today's Gothic metal scene owes a lot to this band. The fourth album of Paradise Lost, "Icon", may be the best Gothic album a band has ever created. With influences from Death and Doom metal, which increases the pessimism and vanity of the songs, "Icon" is an artistic diamond! Read more ›› |
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| sgtrobo Posts: 593  |
This and Paradise Lost - gothic versions of Metallica's Black album. Decent enough albums, but nothing special about them. Obvious move toward popularity, but can't hold that against them
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 5090  |
^ nothing special?! I disagree, quite unique when it came out, got quite a few imitators, but none as good and definitely more interesting than Metallica's black album. Also quite beloved when it came out. I loved it, too (still do).
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| BCI Posts: 434  |
The don't make them like this anymore... This album vividly reminds me of my childhood and I usually cannot bare listening to it. So many lost friends and relatives, so much wasted time, so many missed opportunities... Sigh...
---- Black Crown Initiate have ruined a lot of bands for me...
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| X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374  |
Man, the triology of Shades Of God, Icon and Draconian Times must be the most riff-tastic in all doom metal. And I think this album might have the best riffs out of the three albums. DT packs more energy I'd say and the bitter aggression of SoG is unparelled... But this one has just waves and waves of powerful riffs. When people think of "bridge" albums they more often than not think of them as "halfbaked" but this album truly takes the old with the new in a lovely combination that feels quite fresh even to this day.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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| renai Posts: 160  |
My favorite album of all time. kind of cult album to me. I listen this in 93s (I think) and never forget how fantastic they were. I put the whole PL's draconian times + icon in my Android phones now. It still as haunting as ever. listen to this with full blasting ear bud, and imagine how ahead of time they were be in the past.
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