PARADISE LOST Launches 'Draconian Times' Mini-Site

February 21, 2011

British gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST have launched a new interactive mini-site featuring exclusive information about their upcoming 2011 "Draconian Times" tour. In addition to previously unannounced special details about the strictly limited VIP packages that can be purchased for the upcoming shows, the site also features information about the re-release of the "Draconian Times" album in an all-new 5.1 Dolby Surround mix. There is also a competition with a huge collection of some big prizes for one lucky winner. This competition is open to all.

Video footage of PARADISE LOST's performance at the first installment of this year's Close-Up Båten cruise, which left the Stockholm, Sweden port on February 10 for Åbo, Finland, and returned the following day, can be viewed below (courtesy of Mary Raven's blog).

Sony Music will reissue PARADISE LOST's seminal 1995 album "Draconian Times" through the "Legacy" series; which will feature the entire digitally re-mastered album including a 5.1 Dolby Surround mix in a brand-new collector's edition digipak box set, so fans can hear the album like never before!

Along with this release, the band will perform "Draconian Times" live at a series of seven exclusive gigs in the following select cities around Europe: Utrecht, Bochum, London, Paris, Athens, and Thessaloniki.

Commented PARADISE LOST frontman Nick Holmes: "It's going to be amazing to play the 'Draconian Times' shows again.

"'Draconian Times' was a huge success for the band; it seemed to be exactly the right album to do at the right time, and to a certain degree was definitely the end of a chapter for the band. We always considered the album to be a 'better' version of its predecessor, 'Icon', and using [producer] Simon Effemy again for the third time, I think we were all on the same hymn sheet and knew exactly what we wanted and what the album should sound like.

"We had done a pretty extensive touring schedule for the 'Icon' album before it, and there was already a decent buzz around about the band.

"In the 1990s without the Internet you could only really gauge how things were going once you walked onto the stage and saw how the crowd responded to songs! But after the 'Draconian Times' album was released, the response was phenomenal.

"Knowing that 'Draconian Times' is still considered by many as being among their favorite albums of all time fills me with great pride, and I'm very grateful to have been part of it all and now having the chance to be here again playing it in its entirety is phenomenal. We are all very excited and can't wait to do the shows live, I really hope we see you all there and you have as much fun as us!"

The tour dates for "Draconian Times" are as follows:

Mar. 18 - Fuzz - Athens, Greece
Mar. 19 - Fuzz - Athens, Greece
Mar. 20 - Principal - Thessaloniki, Greece *
Mar. 29 - Tivoli - Utrecht, Holland
Mar. 30 - Bataclan - Paris, France
Mar. 31 - Zeche - Bochum, Germany
Apr. 01 - The Forum - London, UK

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