Gothic (Paradise Lost album)
Gothic is the second studio album by British heavy metal band Paradise Lost. The album, which was mostly received as death-doom when it was released in March 1991 on Peaceville Records, is in retrospect considered style-defining and name-giving for the genre of gothic metal.
| Gothic | ||||
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| Studio album by Paradise Lost | ||||
| Released | 19 March 1991 | |||
| Recorded | November 1990 – January 1991 | |||
| Studio | Academy Music Studios, West Yorkshire, England | |||
| Genre | Death-doom, gothic metal | |||
| Length | 39:24 | |||
| Label | Peaceville | |||
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The album has been re-released and remastered twice. The 2003 re-release contains two remixes of songs from Lost Paradise (1990), bringing the total running time to 49 minutes and 30 seconds. Remixed/live versions of the songs "Eternal", "Gothic" and "The Painless" appear on the 2003 digipak re-release of Lost Paradise. In 2008, Gothic was re-released with a bonus DVD with a rare performance by the band. The album was performed in full at the 2016 Roadburn Festival and released by the band on Bandcamp.