PARADISE LOST Guitarist Interviewed By Spain's GOETIA METAL

August 28, 2009

On August 26, Jorge Fretes of the Spanish web site Goetia Metal conducted an interview with guitarist Greg Mackintosh of British gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST. The chat is now available for streaming below.

A new PARADISE LOST song entitled "The Rise Of Denial" has been posted on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's new album, "Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us", which will be released on September 28 in Europe and October 6 in the U.S. via Century Media Records. The highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's "In Requiem" was recorded at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with producer Jens Bogren.

The track listing for the CD is as follows:

01. As Horizons End
02. I Remain
03. First Light
04. Frailty
05. Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
06. The Rise Of Denial
07. Living With Scars
08. Last Regret
09. Universal Dream
10. In Truth

Commented guitarist Greg Mackintosh: "['The Rise Of Denial' is] a classic PARADISE LOST song. This was the first song written for this album and the reason I decided to switch to seven-string guitars. It's almost like melodic, well-structured grindcore. Dropping to 'A' really took this song in a different direction. It gives the song a kind of crushing, seething anger."

Vocalist Nick Holmes added: "This song has a more 'old-school' PARADISE LOST feel, particularly in the arrangement, and is definitely one of the most aggressive and instant tracks on the album. I find that aggressive vocals only work if the music is equally as aggressive and this is a good example. It was nice to write a song that ventures off musically for a few minutes before tying in at the end. A style we haven't done for quite some time. Lyrically, this song deals with pushing problems away, burying one's head in the sand, something we all do at times I guess, but when people do it perpetually, it's a problem."

(Thanks: Morpheus Misfit)

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