Icon

Artist: Paradise Lost
Label: Metal Blade
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 039841402148
EAN: 0039841402148
ASIN: B000001C6E

Release Date: 1993-09-28

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Tracks:

Embers Fire
Remembrance
Forging Sympathy
Joys of the Emptiness
Dying Freedom
Widow
Colossal Rains
Weeping Words
Poison
True Belief
Shallow Seasons
Christendom
Deus Misereatur

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Customer Reviews:

Asher Christian Dark.......2006-01-12

This album is terrible. A true horror to my ears, but perhaps I am simply jaded by good metal, from Black to Death to Doom to Gothic, and even some metalcore hybrids and certain grindcore releases. I think it's the fact that I adored their earlier release "Gothic", which might be one of the best and most brutal pieces of dark music in metal. It is completely exeptable to cover new ground in music, but at least allow those new grounds to be in the same universe, or just change the band name all together, because this is false advertizing at it's most disgusting. It angers me how artists can lose their nerve this severely, comparable only to Katatonia, Anathema, and Theatre of Tragedy in their genius at first listen and overall abandonment to commercialist foregrounds later. I suppose Samael isn't much better either. Even if you don't enjoy extreme music like I do, and I am tame compared to some, explore other avenues of listening, or don't say you like metal at all.

If, God forbid, you do enjoy this piece of s@3!, check out the later works of the above listed bands as well. They are sure to amuse! If not, give "Gothic", "Ceremony of Opposites", and "Brave Murder Day", a chance. These releases are superior, and will be more palatable to a true metal enthusiast.

Icon.......2006-01-12

One of the best metal albums ever. This album is much better than Draconian Times, but I like them both. A true classic.

Back When Paradise Lost Were Great.......2005-10-06

Although their past few albums have been too lightweight for my tastes, the first 5 albums by the band are classic GOTHIC METAL, NOT doom metal like one reviewer put it. Doom is Candlemass, early Sabbath, Solitude Aeturnus, Wretched, Pentagram, Obsessed, etc. Gothic metal is Paradise Lost up until the late 90s, mid period My Dying Bride etc. Paradise Lost is just a great gothic metal band who has become over the last few albums.... LOST, but this album from the mid 90s is classic.

Memorable, but no "Draconian Times".......2004-01-14

The mood throughout the CD is held intact by shifts in lead guitar and occasional swashes of keyboards. But by track 12 a monotony has completely unfolded and I was left with a gothic experience with very little variation. The final track(#13)is easily the most interesting, sounding more like classical music than the doom-laden instrumentation of the earlier tracks. But I can't say I didn't like the album. It was good, with enough interesting lead guitar changes to keep things relatively on course. But get "Draconian Times" first...because I said so. "Respect my aw-thor-a-tay!"

This Is Doom Metal.......2002-09-22

If you were to look up "doom metal" in the Headbangers' Illustrated Dictionary, you might just see a picture of Icon. Slower and heavier than the masterpiece that followed it (Draconian Times), Icon is a powerful album that takes several listens before you really begin to appreciate it. But once you've digested its subtleties, you'll find yourself returning to it again and again for years to come.

Listening to Paradise Lost is all about letting the euphoric melancholia that only they can create take over your senses. And nowhere is this melancholia more in effect than on Icon. Just seconds into the gorgeous orchestral synth introduction to the first track, "Embers Fire", you'll sense that feeling creeping over you - you're pleasantly depressed. Don't worry, you'll snap out of it in, oh, about 50 minutes. Your only job is to enjoy it while it lasts.

The songs flow seamlessly one into the next with the highlights being "Embers Fire", "Dying Freedom", "Widow", "Poison", and "True Belief". "Christendom" incorporates female vocals to fine effect. As in most middle-era Paradise Lost, there are some great melodic guitar solos on Icon. By album's end, you're drained but ready to resume normal life again.

If you are into Paradise Lost at all, you need to have this album. If you are new to Paradise Lost and curious to try them out, I recommend you start out with the more accessible classics, Draconian Times and One Second, then work your way back to Icon. Icon is an album for true Paradise Lost aficionados.

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