Paradise Lost has been a huge favorite of mine. I remember
in 1996 when I first heard the band and I thought they were dreadful. I didn’t
understand what the band was creating. When I heard One Second in the late 90’s
I fell in love immediately. After a love affair which lasted many years I am so
excited to hear about the upcoming Nuclear Blast Release. It’s expected to come
out 1st of September 2017. The band teases us with a new song The Longest
Winter. I have listened to it a lot and now I feel secure enough to write a few
lines about it.
The Longest Winter is the first vitals since 2015 when the
band delivered The Plague Within, an album many people including me thought was
one of the best releases since their debut in 1990. I was excited about that
record and I was eager and also a little bit nervous to take a first listen to
the new song.
I listened, listened and listened. Sometimes with
headphones, sometimes through speakers day and night. The song was on instant
repeat. And I was feeling relieved, hypnotized and fascinated with how one of
my favorite band always delivers.
With the Longest Winter, Nick Holmes gives us a mournful
voice in the beginning of the song but also a precious death growl which sets
the standard of the song even higher. The bands mission to sound even better
than before and also to bring us back to their old death metal roots. It’s a
powerful song and it also says a lot of the band. They are not afraid to look
back but they always want to progress. The trend from Plague Within continues
but now they add some melancholy a la ”Believe In Nothing ”. They also insert
the doom-influence from In Requiem. They know how to play catchy yet heavy
melancholy riffs and to bring attention to the fans ear canals.
The lyrics in Longest Winter are about the 30 mile exclusion
zone in Chernobyl
and how the wildlife was beginning to flourish after the disaster.
The song is definitely a great return for the band and it
generates enormously high expectations within me for their upcoming album.
September cannot come soon enough!
-DoomsdaysJesus
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