UK Gothic metal pioneers Paradise Lost have announced the dates for the first leg of their Ascension Of Europe Tour 2025.
Italian band Messa will be direct support on all dates, with High Parasite opening the UK dates and Lacrimas Profundere on selected mainland Europe shows.
ASCENSION OF EUROPE TOUR 2025 – PART 1
PARADISE LOST
w/ guests MESSA, HIGH PARASITE, LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE
TICKETS: https://paradiselost.co.uk/tour-dates/
Formed in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 1988, Paradise Lost were unlikely candidates for metal glory when they slithered from the shadows and infiltrated the UK underground.
But not content with spawning an entire subgenre with early death/doom masterpiece Gothic nor with conquering the metal mainstream with the balls-out power of 1995’s Draconian Times, they have subsequently traversed multiple genre boundaries with skill and grace, evolving through the pitch-black alt-rock mastery of ’90s classics One Second and Host to the muscular but ornate grandeur of 2009’s Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us and Tragic Idol (2012), with the nonchalant finesse of grand masters.
Two of the band’s more recent albums – The Plague Within (2015) and Medusa (2017) – saw a much celebrated return to brutal, old school thinking, via two crushing monoliths to slow-motion death and spiritual defeat. Consistently hailed as one of metal’s most charismatic live bands, Paradise Lost arrived in this new decade as veterans, legends and revered figureheads for several generations of gloomy metalheads.
In keeping with their unerring refusal to deliver the expected, 2020 brought one of the band’s most diverse and devastating creations to date. Their latest album Obsidian was released in spring 2020, hitting international charts with great success.
