Online Radio for the Doomed - Doom Metal Radio & Metal Webzine
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.
It’s 1971, and Black Sabbath already had two very successful albums behind them, especially considering how little support they got from the press and the industry. Paranoid gave Ozzy the freedom to wail and scream with unchecked confidence, let Tony Iommi unleash distortion straight from hell, let Geezer Butler keep delivering wild and dominant bass lines, and gave Bill Ward space to drum more and more aggressively.
There are albums that stay with you long after the music fades. Albums that do not simply fill a room but settle into the corners of your life. Draconian Times by Paradise Lost, released on June 12, 1995, is one of those albums. It carved out a space in the heavy music landscape with its melancholic grandeur, and over the years it became something more personal. A companion in solitude. A voice that knew how to speak when words were too heavy to carry.
Join us as we dig through the murk to bring you three recent releases that are worth the weight. This time, it’s a trio that hits across the doom spectrum, from melodic sorrow to sludge chaos and haunted gloom. Yes, please.
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