Paradise Lost announce new compilation album ‘The Lost And The Painless’

September 7, 2021 James Weaver

PARADISE LOST have announced a new compilation album!

Titled The Lost And The Painless, the special compilation album (a seven disc hardback book featuring 6CDs and 1DVD) comes in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the band’s landmark album, Gothic, and is scheduled to be released in November this year, via Peaceville Records.

The deluxe set also incorporates the band’s legendary studio albums in the shape of the influential deathly doom debut, Lost Paradise, as well as the ground-breaking follow-up, Gothic. The included DVD features four shows, leading with the Live Death concert from 1989, followed by a trilogy of captured performances between 1990 & 1991.

The Lost Paradise and Gothic albums, plus the Gothic EP have been specially remastered for this set by Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone Studios. Also contained in the set is a 92-page book written by prolific music journalist, Nick Ruskell, delving into those essential early years of the band, as described by vocalist Nick Holmes & guitarist Gregor Mackintosh with their recollections of their early efforts to put PARADISE LOST firmly on the map, as well as additional thoughts from a selection of prominent members of the scene, including Peaceville founder Paul ‘Hammy’ Halmshaw, Barney Greenway of NAPALM DEATH, MY DYING BRIDE’s Aaron Stainthorpe, and also Chris Reifert who himself embarked upon a tour with the band with AUTOPSY back in 1990. Furthermore, the book contains an amount of previously unseen photos recovered from the band’s early promo shoots with photographer Porl Medlock. The foreword for The Lost And The Painless comes courtesy of Dani Filth, vocalist of UK extreme metallers, CRADLE OF FILTH.

Speaking about the special compilation album, vocalist Nick Holmes says, “looking at the artwork for The Lost And The Painless and remembering those early albums and live shows. It’s amazing to think that Gothic was released 30 years ago. It serves as a very important chapter in the life of the band and conjures a lot of nostalgia from the early 90s. We lived off crisps, slept in squats, on people’s floors and under vehicles. Cigarettes were £1.50 a packet, Stella Artois beer was still 5.2% proof, and travelling in a Ford Transit van with all the equipment and 10 people sitting on an old mattress was considered normal. Distant memories aside, it was also a great time for death metal music in general, and The Lost And The Painless serves as a timely reminder.”

Alongside the announcement of the new compilation album, you can view both the exhaustive track list and artwork for the upcoming compilation album below:

Track List:

CD1 – THE DEMOS
PARADISE LOST, 1988
1. Drown In Darkness
2. Internal Torment
3. Morbid Existence
FROZEN ILLUSION, 1989
4. Paradise Lost
5. Internal Torment
6. Frozen Illusion

CD2 – LOST PARADISE, 1990
1. Intro
2. Deadly Inner Sense
3. Paradise Lost
4. Our Saviour
5. Rotting Misery
6. Frozen Illusion
7. Breeding Fear
8. Lost Paradise
9. Internal Torment II

CD3 – GOTHIC, 1991
1. Gothic
2. Dead Emotion
3. Shattered
4. Rapture
5. Eternal
6. Falling Forever
7. Angel Tears
8. Silent
9. The Painless
10. Desolate

CD4 – GOTHIC EP
1. GOTHIC (mix)
2. ROTTING MISERY (Doom Dub)
3. BREEDING FEAR (Demolition Dub)
4. THE PAINLESS (mix)

CD5 ‘LIVE DEATH’, LIVE IN BRADFORD UK, 1989
1. Deadly Inner Sense
2. Frozen Illusion
3. Breeding Fear
4. Paradise Lost
5. Our Saviour
6. Rotting Misery
7. Internal Torment
LIVE IN LIVERPOOL, 1989
8. Internal Torment
9. Our Saviour
10. Plains Of Desolation
11. Drown In Darkness
12. Paradise Lost
13. Nuclear Abomination

CD6 – LIVE IN LUDWIGSBURG, GERMANY, 1991
1. Intro
2. Dead Emotion
3. Gothic
4. Paradise Lost
5. Breeding Fear
6. Eternal
7. Shattered
8. Frozen Illusion
9. Angel Tears
10. The Painless
11. Our Saviour
12. Deadly Inner Sense

DVD
‘LIVE DEATH’, LIVE IN BRADFORD UK, 1989
ON TOUR WITH AUTOPSY, 1990
‘THE LOST TAPES’ 1991
LIVE IN BERLIN, 1991

GOTHIC TAPE
A
1. Gothic
2. Dead Emotion
3. Shattered
4. Rapture
B
1. Eternal
2. Falling Forever
3. Angel Tears
4. Silent
5. The Painless
6. Desolate