Albums
- Diablo Swing Orchestra – Pandora’s Piñata – Symphonic Avant-garde Metal
- Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage – Progressive Death Metal
- Meshuggah – Koloss – Extreme Metal
- Sybreed – God is an Automation – Progressive Industrial Metal
- High On Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis – Sludge Metal
- Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence – Progressive Metal
- The Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud – Pop Metal
- Nile – At The Gates Of Sethu – Death Metal
- Cannibal Corpse – Torture – Death Metal
- Storm Corrosion – Storm corrosion – Ambient / Avant-Garde
- Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol – Doom Metal
- The Algorithm – Polymorphic Code – Glitch/Electronic Metal
- Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity -Deathgrind
- Breaking Orbit – The Time Traveller – Progressive Rock
- Cancer Bats – Dead Set On Living – Hardcore Punk
- Klone – The Dreamer’s Hideaway – Progressive Metal
- Murder Contructs – Results – Deathgrind
- Blut Aus Nord – 777 – Cosmosophy – Avant-garde Black Metal
- Deftones – Koi No Yokan – Alternative Metal
- Infected Mushroom – Army of Mushrooms – Psytrance/DnB
- Anathema – Weather Systems – Progressive rock
- Igorrr – Hallelujah – Experimental/Breakcore
- Kayla Scintilla – Dance The Spiral Never Ending – Psytrance
- Pig Destroyer – Book Burner – Grindcore
- In The Silence – A Fair Dream Gone Mad – Progressive Metal
- The Mars Volta – Noctourniquet – Alternative rock
- Katatonia – Dead End Kings – Progessive Metal
- Twelve Foot Ninja – Silent Machine – Progressive Rock
- Enslaved – RIITIIR – Progressive Black Metal
- Ihsahn – Eremita – Progressive Metal
- OM – Advaitic Songs – Doom Metal
- Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas – Industrial Blackgrind
- Jeff Loomis – Plains Of Oblivion – Progressive Metal
- Sigur Ros – Valtari – Ambient
- Napalm Death – Utilitarian – Deathgrind
- Dying Fetus – Reign Supreme – Brutal Death Metal
- The Faceless – Autotheism – Progressive Death Metal
- Monuments – Gnosis – Djent
- Jack White – Blunderbuss – Rock / Blues
- Fear Factory – The Industrialist – Industrial Metal
- The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza – Mathcore
- The Contortionist – Intrinsic – Progressive Metal
- Panzerballett – Tank Goodness – Jazz Metal
- Trepalium – H.N.P. – Progressive Death Metal
- Cryptopsy – Cryptopsy – Technical Death Metal
- Angelus Apartrida – The Call – Thrash Metal
- Orange Goblin – Eulogy For The Damned – Stoner Metal
- Air – Le Voyage Dans La Lune – Ambient Electronica
- Gorod – A Perfect Absolution – Technical Death Metal
- Dethkolk – Dethalbum III – Death Metal
- Incoming Cerebral Overdrive – Le Stelle: A Voyage Adrift – Post-Hardcore
- A Forest Of Stars – A Shadowplay for Yesterdays – Progressive Black Metal
- Aeon – Aeons Black – Death Metal
- Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind – Progressive Hardcore
- Periphery – Periphery II: This time it’s personal – Progressive Metal
- Neurosis – Honor Found In Decay – Post-Metal
- Job for a cowboy – Democracy – Death Metal
- Psycroptic – The Inherited Repression – Technical Death Metal
- Illdisposed – Sense The Darkness – Death Metal
- Silversun Pickups – Neck Of The Woods – Indie Rock
- Skyharbor – Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos – Progressive Metal
- Mnemic – Mnemesis – Industrial Metal
- Wintersun – Time I
- Aborted – Global Flatline – Technical Death metal
- Norse – All Is Mist And Fog – Black Metal
- Sabaton – Carolus Rex – Power Metal
- Ex Deo – Caligvla – Death Metal
- Hour of Penance – Sedition – Technical Death Metal
- The Machine – Calmer Than You Are – psychedelic stoner rock
- Swallow The Sun – Emerald Forest And The Blackbird – Doom Metal
- Rush – Clockwork Angels – Progressive Rock
- Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Octopus Kool Aid – Experimental
- Waning – The Human Condition – Black Metal
- Torche – Harmonicraft – Progressive Sludge Metal
- Les Discrets – Ariettes Oubliees – Shoegaze / Post-Rock
- Diabulus in musica – The Wanderer – Symphonic Metal
- Kontrust – Second Hand Wonderland – Crossover
- Bilocate – Summoning The Bygones – Doom/Death Metal
- Sear Bliss – Eternal Recurrence – Progressive Black Metal
- Atoma – Skylight – Progressive Metal
- The HAARP Machine – Disclosure – Progressive Death Metal
- Be’lakor – Of Breath and Bone – Melodic Death Metal
- Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Saber, Querer, Osar y Callar – Experimental
- Delain – We are the Others – Symphonic Metal
- Arkaik – Metamorphigntion – Technical Death Metal
- Miseration – Tragedy has spoken – Death Metal
- Der Weg Einer Friheit – Unstille – Black Metal
- Buckethead – Balloon Cement – Experimental
- Wood of Ypes – Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light – Doom Metal
- Ahab – The Giant – Funeral Doom Metal
- Candlemass – Psalms for the Dead – Doom Metal
- Crippled Black Phoenix – (Mankind) The Crafty Ape – Progressive Rock
- Kreator – Phantom Antichrist – Thrash Metal
- Ne Obliviscaris – Portal Of I – Black Metal
- In Mourning – Weight Of Oceans – Progressive Death Metal
- The Levitation Hex – The Levitation Hex – Progressive Death Metal
- Circa Survive – Violent Waves – Alternative Rock
- Die Antwoord – Ten$ion – Alternative Rap
- The Melvins – Freak Puke – Alternative Metal
- Allegaeon – Formshifter – Progressive Death Metal
- Suspyre – Suspyre – Progressive Power Metal
- Killing Joke – MMXII – Alternative Rock
- Jesus Ain’t In Poland – Freiheit Macht Frei – Grindcore
- Cloudkicker – Fade – Progressive Metal
- Dir en grey – Uboboros [Remastered & Expanded] – Progressive Metal
- Epica – Requiem For The Indifferent – Symphonic Metal
- Borknagar – Urd – Progressive Black Metal
- Ahent – Inheritance – Progressive Metal
- Galahad – Battle Scars – Progressive Rock
- Outcast – Awaken the Reason – Technical Death Metal
- Astra – The Black Chord – Psychedelic Progressive Rock
- Amon – Liar In Wait – Brutal Death Metal
- Testament – Dark Roots Of Earth – Thrash Metal
- Eprom – Metahuman – Electronic
- Necrovation – Necrovation – Death Metal
- Unipolar Manic-Depressive Psychosis – Psychodelicus Decibeli – Progressive Metal
- Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody – Ascending To Infinity – Power Metal
- Vergeltung – Exploration Of Space – Cyber Metal
- Eluveitie – Helvetios – Folk Metal
- Process Of Guilt – Fæmin – Doom Metal
- Crystal Castles – (III ) – Experimental Electronic
- Asphyx – Deathhammer – Old School Death Metal
- Moonspell – Alpha Noir – Progressive Death
- Rings of Saturn – Dingir – Technical Dethcore
- Gazpacho – March of Ghosts – Progressive Rock
- Prong – Carved Into Stone – Groove Metal
- Jodis – Black Curtain – Shoegaze/Post-Rock
- Stam1na – Nocebo – Progressive Metal
- Old Man Gloom – NO – Sludge/Doom Metal
- Mgla – With Hearts Towards None – Progressive Black Metal
- Children Collide – Monuments – Indie Rock
- Beneath the Massacre – Incongruous – Technical Death Metal
- Taproot – The Episodes – Nu-Metal
- Alcest – Les Voyages De L’Âme – Ambient Black Metal
- Enochain Theory – Life…And All It Entails – Progressive Rock
- DrDoom – Everyone Is Guilty – Deathgrind
- The Shins – Port Of Morrow – Indie Rock
- The Foreshadowing -Second World – Doom Metal
- Hooded Menace – Effigies Of Evil – Death Doom
- Heidevolk – Batavi – Folk Metal
- Moonspell – Omega White – Progressive Death
- Deadmau5 – > album title goes here < – Progressive House
- Zonaria – Arrival of the Red Sun – Melodic Death Metal
- Spawn of Possession – Incursion – Technical Death Metal
- Bend the Sky – Origins – Progressive Metal
- Bloc Party – Four – Indie Rock
- Odium – Burning The Bridges To Nowhere – Melodic Death Metal
- Secrets of the Moon – Seven Bells – Black Metal
- Azaghal – Nemesis – Black Metal
- Thee Orakle – Smooth Comforts False – Progressive Death
- Becoming the Archetype – I Am – Progressive Dethcore
- Pathology – The Time of Great Purification – Brutal Death Metal
- Hypno5e – Acid Mist Tomorrow – Mathcore
- Hail Spirit Noir – Pneuma – Black Metal
- Beyond Terror Beyond Grace – Nadir – Grindcore
- Circus Maximums – Nine – Progressive Metal
- Lacuna Coil – Dark Adrenaline – Alternative Metal
- Celldweller – Wish Upon A Blackstar – DnB / Dubstep
- Pseudogod – Deathwomb Catechesis – Blackened Death Metal
- Beyond The Bridge – The Old Man And The Spirit – Progressive Rock
- Kobra and The Lotus – Kobra and The Lotus – Power Metal
- Ørkenkjøtt – Ønskediktet – Progressive Extreme Metal
- Ensiferum – Unsung Heroes – Viking Metal
- Pandemonium – Misanthropy – Black Metal
- Engel – Blood of Saints – Industrial / Metalcore
- Dawnbringer – Into The Lair Of The Sun God – Heavy Metal
- Onirophagus – Defiler Of Hope – Death Doom Metal
- Boys Noize – Out Of The Black – EDM
- God Forbid – Equilibrium – Groove Metal
- Dissona – Dissona – Progressive Metal
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania – Alternative Rock
- Black Sheep Wall – No Matter Where it Ends – Doom Metal
- Lamb of God – Resolution – Groove Metal
- Baroness – Yellow & Green – Progressive Rock
- Catamenia – The Rewritten Chapters – Black Metal
- Savage Messiah – Plague Of Conscience – Thrash Metal
- Rise To Fall – Defying the Gods – Melodic Death Metal
- Drudkh – Eternal Turn Of Wheel – Black Metal
- Exilia – Decode – Nu-Metal
- Goatwhore – Blood For The Master – Groove Metal
- Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension – Alternative Rock
- Lonewolf – Army Of The Damned – Heavy Metal
- Masachist – Scorned – Death Metal
- Casketgarden – The Enstrangement Process – Melodic Death Thrash
- Shadows Fall – Fire From The Sky – Groove Metal
- Muse – The 2nd Law – Alternative Rock
- Barren Earth – The Devil’s Resolve – Progressive metal
- Accept – Stalingrad – Power Metal
- Enthroned – Obsidium – Black metal
- Avatar – Black Waltz – Progressive Death Metal
- 3 Inches Of Blood – Long Live Heavy Metal – Traditional Metal
- Dirge Within – There Will Be Blood – Groove Metal
- Unleashed – Odalheim – Death / Trash Metal
- Glass Cloud – The Royal Thousand – Metalcore
- Dawn Of Demise – Rejoice In Vengeance – Brutal Death Metal
- Aura Noir – Out to Die – Thrash Metal
- Threshold – March Of Progress – Progressive Power Metal
- Sylosis – Monolith – Metalcore
- Gallows – Gallows – Punk
- Ministry – Relapse – Industrial
- Korpiklaani – Manala – Folk Metal
- Xandria – Neverworld’s End – Symphonic Metal
- Rob Zombie – Mondo Sex Head – Electronic
- Putrid Pile – Blood Fetish – Brutal Death Metal
- Municipal Waste – The Fatal Feast – Crossover Thrash
- The Presets – Pacifica – Electronica
- Unisonic – Unisonic – Power Metal
- Sigh – In Somniphobia – Black Metal
- Suicidal Angels – Bloodbath – Thrash Metal
- Impiety – Ravage & Conquer – Black Metal
- The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Egor – Ambient Doom Jazz
- Hellyeah – Band of Brothers – Southern Groove Metal
- Brendan Small – Galaktikon – Power Metal
- Dario Mollo & Tony Martin – The Third Cage – Rock
- Sonata Arctica – Stones Grow Her Name – Power Metal
- Cailba – I am Nemesis – Metalcore
- Soulfly – Enslaved – Nu-metal
- The Agonist – Prisoners – Metalcore
- The Word Alive – Life Cycles – Post-Hardcore
- Dragonforce – The Power Within – Power Metal
- Whitechapel – Whitechapel – Dethcore
- Lay down rotton – Mask of Malice – Death Metal
- Pallbeaer – Sorrow And Extinction – Doom Metal
- Serj Tankian – Harakiri – Alternative Rock
- John 5 – God Told Me To – Instrumental Rock
- Glass Cloud – The Royal Thousand – Metalcore
- Architects – Daybreaker – Metalcore
- Lethian Dreams – Season of Raven Words
- Running Wild – Shadowmaker – Pirate Metal
- Soulfallen – The Promise of Hell – Melodic Death Metal
- Lunar Aurora – Hoagascht – Black Metal
- Make Them Suffer – Neverbloom – Dethcore
- Before the Dawn – Rise of the Phoenix – Melodic Death metal
- Adrenaline Mob – Omerta – Heavy Metal
- Dark Princess – The World I’ve Lost – Gothic Metal
- Dreamscape – Everlight – Power Metal
- Zedd – Clarity – EDM
- Huntress – Spell Eater – Power Metal
- Cradle Of Filth – Midnight In The Labyrinth – Symphonic
- Six Feet Under – Undead – Death Metal
- Terrorizer – Horde of Zombies – Death Metal
- Nothnegal – Decadence – Melodic Death Metal
- Marilyn Manson – Born Villian – Alternative Metal
- Linkin Park – Living Things – Alternative Rock
- Silent Descent – Mind Games – Electro Metal
- The Word Alive – Life Cycles – Metalcore
- Disfiguring the Godless – Sleeper – Brutal Death Metal
- Lana Lane – El Dorado Hotel – Symphonic Metal
- Parkway Drive – Atlas – Metalcore
- Abigail Williams – Becoming – Black Metal
- Exxila – Decode – Nu-Metal
- Morbid Angel – Illud Divinum Insanus – The Remixes – Industrial
- Abominable Putridity – The Anomalies of Artificial Origin – Brutal Death Metal
- The Amity Affliction – Chasing Ghosts – Post-Hardcore
- The Devastated – Devil’s Messenger – Dethcore
- Impending Doom – Baptised in Filth -Dethcore
- Dreamcatcher – Emerging from the shadows
- Zero Hour – Dementia – Trance ‘metal’
- Kraanium – Post Mortal Coital – Brutal Death metal
EP’s
- Trioscapes – Separate Realities – Experimental Jazz
- Hacktivist – Hacktivist – Rap Djent
- David Maxim Micic – Bilo 2.0 – Experimental Djent
- T.R.A.M – Lingua Franca – Experimental Jazz
- Deathspell Omega – Drought – Math Black Metal
- Blut Aus Nord – – Avant-garde Black Metal
- TesseracT – Perspective – Progressive rock
- Dawn Of Demntia – Residuum – Brutal Death Metal
- Sydonia – Waiting For Words That Don’t Exist
- Dark Tranquillity – Zero Distance – Progressive Metal
- Deadmau5 – The Veldt – Progressive House
- Overwerk – After Hours – EDM
- Chimp Spanner – All Roads Lead Here – Progressive Metal
- Far Too Loud – Firestorm – Fidget/Dubstep
- Revocation – Teratogenesis – Thrash Metal
- D.I.M – Living In Advance – EDM
- Kill The Noise – Black Magic – EDM
- Knife Party – Rage Valley – Drum and Step/ Dubstep
- Zomboy – The Dead Symphonic – EDM/Dubstep
- Shining – Lots Of Girls Gonna Get Hurt – Black Metal
- Neurotech – Decipher Vol. 1 – Cyber Metal
- Jack Beats – Careless – EDM
- Nick Thayer – Like Boom – Electro House
- Tortured Sould – End Of Dreams – Death Metal
- Birdy Nam Nam – Jaded Future – Electro House
- Dream – This Isn’t House – Electronic
- Exotype – Emerge – Dubstep Metal
- Chelsea Grin – Evolve – Dethcore
‘Tragic Idol‘ is Paradise Lost’s 13th full-length release…yes you read right 13! This prolific band just keeps on getting better with ever release. I had the pleasure of witnessing their live performance at this years Soundwave Festival, they were fantastic with ever song they had the power of an extremely young band but the musicianship of an extremely grown and mature band, they are one of the most under-rated bands in the metal scene, they deserve to be as big as Metallica. The reason why I believe they have stayed so consistently great, is due to the fact their line-up has basically never changed, apart from the drummer who has changed several times, this allows them to have such a musical connection that can progress in such a way that a band with many line-up changes just can not. However this is not to say that a band without line-up changes will stay consistently good, there are a lot of examples that I could mention however I will not in this review.
This album is such a pleasure to listen to, the main thing that I love about Paradise Lost is their doomy riffs, ‘Tragic Idol’ is in a lot of sense an album that goes back to their roots but in a matured fashion. Paradise Lost has become more and more melodic, this is shown through many of the songs but most in ‘Worth fighting for‘.
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