Embers Fire glows in the first seconds the style change of a Paradise Lost, which uncompromisingly continues throughout the album. The Paradise Lost zunehemnd were melodic and Holmes wanted to be secluded guttural singing a la Lost Paradise / Gothic was there already visible on Shades of God. On ICON elements of doom metal and gothic rock can be successfully combined and leave a mixture which arise even today has no equal. Songs like True Beliefe, Embers Fire or Joys of Emptiness have long to become hymns were still bring on PL concerts mass to overflow. ICON ICON and the complete tour was by far the best Paradise Lost era - the Home Video: Harmony Breaks illustrates this impressively.
