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Se editará una versión limitada en digipack con otra portada y con dos temas extra (25.000 copias): - Missing (Everything But The Girl cover version) - Silent In Heart Y en vinilo con tres temas extra, un CD de bonus y un poster (limitado a 2.000 copias). Descripción de los temas: 1 - Never For the Damned (5:02) Nick: This song is about sticking to your principles even in the face of death, martyrdom so to speak, but driven more from stubbornness than actual belief. Someone basically unable to do the right thing and ultimately making it worse. Greg: Musically this song is not a million miles away from our early demos. We wanted to capture the raw brutality of some of our earliest material, but with the dynamics and atmosphere that we have been working at mastering over the years. Jeff: Revisits the intensity of Icon. Lots of musical changes keeping the listener on their toes. 2 - Ash & Debris (4:16) Greg: Like the title suggests, it is like a song of two halves. The first half is obnoxious, angry and in your face and the second half is very anthemic with some killer melodies. Nick: The line \"nothing that you\'ve learned from ash and debris\" is basically a metaphor for never learning from mistakes! Not many words in this song, but it doesn\'t need them. Jeff: I just can\'t wait to get this one out live. Aggressive powerful guitars to get the heart racing ending with a crescendo of beautiful keyboards. 3 - The Enemy (3:39) Greg: The first single from the album is haunting gothic melded with classic metal, which I guess is our trademark sound. Nick: Nothing to do with young guys in different uniforms killing each other. In this song I was thinking about different levels of hatred, and if a dislike for someone can actually be classed as hatred. Also how people can forgive people after unspeakable acts, yet other people become estranged over very small arguments. This song, like most, has been simplified a lot to fit the melody lines. I usually write way more, then compact the \"key\" phrases leaving the songs incredibly cryptic at times, but I actually prefer that! I like phrases that make you think. Jeff: Great aggressive vocals, pounding drums, angry guitars and a touch of female voice in there for good measure. A hook that will really become deeply embedded. 4 - Praise Lamented Shade (4:02) Greg: Quite a sad and brooding song but with a strangely bittersweet, uplifting chorus. Nick: I found this song title whilst scouring Wikipedia for album titles. This title was taken from an essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope (1688-1744). I love the use of words in Old English Literature. Incredibly deep, dramatic and open to interpretation, like most of PL lyrics , this song is about reason and reasoning. Jeff: So heavy. A wall of sound leading into another melancholic journey and an anthemic chorus. 5 – Requiem (4:25) Greg: The title track is somewhat of a contradiction. It is heaven meets hell. Its triumphant yet desolate. Glorious yet grotesque. Nick: The first minute and a half steps into an area we haven\'t ventured for some years. But I feel it works perfectly with the \"more contemporary\" PL 2nd half... This song is about fear, I write about fear constantly. As an adult fear is manifested completely different than in Childhood, but the feeling is exactly the same when it hits. As for the title \"Requiem\", heavy music isn\'t suitable for funerals on the whole, but hopefully some of these songs could be close ;-) Jeff: This will be played at my funeral! Probably my favourite track on the album and a new dawn for Paradise Lost. Touches on all the best bits of Paradise Lost past and future. Absolutely haunting and aggressive with beautiful lead lines. In my top songs ever performed on. It has everything! 6 – Unreachable (3:38) Greg: Simply a song of beautiful, intertwining melodies. Nick: Very typical PL, from a melody point of view. Songs that don\'t move much musically are the most challenging , yet can also turn out the best. Not for \"riff lovers\" of the world, but I love writing songs like this, where the melody builds the song. Lyrically its about being completely incompatible with another person, not from a romantic perspective, - ANY perspective. Jeff: Gives a nod to the most recent Paradise Lost material with a more aggressive edge. I love the solo in this. Gets the heart racing again! 7 - Prelude to Descent (4:11) Greg: A doom metal dirge. Packed with slow heavy riffs. This is a great slab of organic sludge. Nick: We tried to get a real different \"church\" hymn feel on the verses, then into the heavier chorus. The mid section is totally different for us, and takes the song way off tangent, and technically it shouldn\'t work, but after the initial shock , it does! :-) Lyrically its about the beginning of the end, a time when prayer becomes involved, but basically its like clutching at straws... Jeff: Definitely takes a nostalgic journey back to where we all musically came from but with a huge edge of classic Paradise Lost. It has so many moods....doom, metal, old school metal...but some may feel it is an unusual formula for the band. 8 - Fallen Children (3:38) Nick: I think other people will interpret as an environmental song, maybe loosely. I was thinking more about if there was a god, how disappointed he would be with his creation! There is far more bad in this world than good, and most of it is direct result of religion. But then again maybe the bad is sent to test us, to make us good! ...that\'s what Christians would say I guess... 9 - Beneath Black Skies (4:12) Nick: This song is about life choice, the paths we chose to take, and how I find the concept of \"born again Christianity\" utterly ridiculous... We only have one life. If you can’t handle what you have done in the the past - too bad! Get over it. Jeff: Great uplifting chorus on a bed of quality angry gothic metal. 10 - Sedative God (3:59) Nick: Again another cynical look at religion. God being the sedative in this instance! This is the oldest song on the album, and I think therefore quite different to the other material. It was originally written as a single for the last album, but was never recorded at that time. 11 - Your Own Reality (4:02) Nick: Its always nice to do at least one big anthemic song on each album, and this is the one for \"In Requiem\". Lyrically pretty self explanatory. We are all individuals with our own beliefs, who\'s to say one is more worthy than another. Greg: A great way to conclude the album. Some very dramatic orchestral pieces married with huge doom segments and soaring leads. Jeff: A natural album closer which weaves a web of sorrow, full of beautiful melodies and strings.

Paradise Lost - The Enemy

Paradise Lost - Praise Lamented Shade