PARADISE LOST – announce 2nd leg of “Ascension Of Europe” tour for February and March 2026 

Icons of melancholic doom and gothic metal, PARADISE LOST have announced the second leg of their “Ascension Of Europe” tour, expanding the original run, which will start on October 10th, by 21 new dates.

Tickets go on sale today, Friday, Oct 3rd, from 10am UK / 11am CET via https://paradiselost.co.uk/tour-dates/. 

PARADISE LOST – Ascension Of Europe Part 2

STREAM / PURCHASE PARADISE LOST’S NEW ALBUMASCENSION:

https://paradiselost.bfan.link/ascension

Ascension Tracklist:

1. Serpent On The Cross

2. Tyrants Serenade

3. Salvation

4. Silence Like The Grave

5. Lay A Wreath Upon The World

6. Diluvium

7. Savage Days

8. Sirens

9. Deceivers

10. The Precipice

Produced by Gregor Mackintosh at Black Planet Studios in East Yorkshire, UK & NBS and Wasteland Studios in Sweden. Mixed/Mastered by Lawrence Mackrory.

PARADISE LOST will embark on the first leg of the “Ascension of Europe” tour next week. Tickets are available at https://paradiselost.co.uk/tour-dates/.

More than three decades into their career, and with over two million albums sold, PARADISE LOST remain the undisputed kings of metal’s dark side. Formed in Halifax in 1988, the band quickly became noted as the pioneers of gothic metal through their early groundbreaking albums like 1991’s aptly-titled Gothic, a mixture of heaviness intertwined with shadowy melody and atmosphere.  

Never a group to remain creatively static, across their career they’ve explored a myriad of avenues of dark music, from sludgy doom-death roots, to conquering the metal mainstream with the enormous, lush sounds of 1995’s Draconian Times, to more experimental, electronic leanings, leaving an influence on a trail of artists as varied as CRADLE OF FILTH, HIM, GATECREEPER and CHELSEA WOLFE.  

Now, in 2025, the Yorkshire quintet return with their staggering 17^th album, Ascension, a record that sees their crown continue to gleam as it underlines just how they attained their position. Produced by guitarist Gregor Mackintosh at Black Planet studios in East Yorkshire, with drums and vocals captured at NBS and Wasteland studios in Sweden, its 10 tracks traverse the multitude of sounds in the band’s arsenal, from full-bore heavy metal to sky-high melody, all the while keeping a minor-key melancholy that remains irresistible.

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