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Special Features / Through the Glass

The Yorkshire Gothic: Paradise Lost’s Gothic at Thirty-Five

Paradise Lost’s Gothic turned thirty-five in March 2026. The album dragged the English Gothic literary tradition, two centuries of ruined houses and English moors running from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights in 1847, into 1991 death metal. Five Halifax kids recorded it fifteen miles from where Brontë walked, building through accident the vocabulary that symphonic gothic metal would later exhaust through repetition. The new Peaceville reissue is the occasion to hear Gothic for what it always was: an English literary tradition arriving in 1991 by way of a Halifax death metal band who had the Brontës in their water and Milton in their name.

Reviews / Special Features

Review: Paradise Lost – Ascension (2025)

Paradise Lost’s seventeenth album arrives as their most commanding release since Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us. It does not attempt reinvention, but it draws together every strand of the band’s history into a single, coherent vision: the suffocating density of doom, the dramatic sweep of gothic textures, the grit of harsh vocals, and the melancholy of melody. What emerges is a definitive statement that feels alive, sharpened, and relevant.

Special Features

After the Sabbath: Introduction

What was it about Black Sabbath that made them one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century? What caused a strange blues-rock band from the late ’60s to shake an entire generation awake and draw them in? What makes a band, without even trying, become a cornerstone – if not the cornerstone – of an entire genre?

Special Features

After the Sabbath: The Door Opens (1970) | Self-titled and Paranoid

A twist of fate and a newspaper ad brought together four young men from a nowhere suburb near Birmingham in the late ’60s. Four unemployed outsiders, broke and strung out, trying to pull out of themselves the kind of sound that could knock people to the floor. They wanted to make noise, as much as possible. To shake and rattle anyone who needed a real shakeup. In other words, everyone.