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- Summary: The latest full-length release from British metal band Paradise Lost was produced band guitarist Gregor Mackintosh.
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- Record Label: Nuclear Blast
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Goth Metal
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Dec 22, 2025The trailblazing Gothic doom group's 17th long-player, Ascension, builds on the gloomy architecture of 2020’s Obsidian, delivering muscular, melancholic melodeath-doom infused with subtle electronic flourishes and lyrics rooted in the cold certainty of mortality.
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Dec 22, 2025Ascension is a truly substantial body of work, but it’s executed with an almost ghostly lightness of touch. Evidence of artists who have mastered their dark craft and another late-career triumph from one of metal’s most enduringly brilliant bands.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 22, 2025Ascension hits the sweet spot between the gnarliness they've re-embraced over the last decade and the goth-tinged grandeur and sense of melody that has always been a part of their music. [Oct 2025, p.75]
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Dec 22, 2025Ultimately, Ascension is guaranteed to rub fans the right way, and it’s adventurous enough to open up new avenues for the future, and at the end of the day, what more can you ask for?