Forever Failure?

No, Nick Holmes is not the most gifted singers of the planet ...
No, Paradise Lost are not the best live performers in the world ...
YES, this live CD has become after all a hammer!

It has bad expected after the chaotic last years. For the ancients with the latest host the oven was made final. For those who have additional use persevered, the pain threshold was reached with Believe In Nothing. The final output In Requiem also did not really reconcile.
You could heralded the swan song practically hear and now the ...

You have done everything right. The Enemy, which was not yet published first single from In Requiem, Grey, Erased ... Start careful with some recent songs and B-sites. In order to forestall the Herumgemaule announces Nick Holmes So Much Is Lost as Song 'from the' controversial '' host 'Album' to. Lo and behold, the song fits perfectly into the structure. (I never found the plate anyway so bad, contains some of the most brilliant lyrics of the band). After that we continue rather mannered. This is followed by, among others, the magnificent songs Sweetness, Pity The Sadness and Once solemn.

The second part is introduced by Embers Fire, then they come gradually out of the woodwork: Eternal, True Belief, One Second, The Last Time ... Gothic! But hello, since the ancients but awake. In the last third, the band shows a heart and captures their old fans with the evergreens a finally to still really mitzugeben them at the very end as a bonus with a krachenen Say Just Words a.

Without irony, as one of the main reference bands in terms of Gothic / Metal Paradise Lost presenting a more than successful live cross-section of their twenty years of creative, thus laying a playful mood on the day, which makes an almost speechless. Holmes sings way better than expected, the entire troupe is so ardent in the cause that one gets big ears in disbelief. It felt right, here's a really good band at work, which in addition has audible fun of it. Is this the famous second spring? If so, I hope in the future a third and fourth and ...