Heavy metal’s ambassadors to the rain-soaked north of England, Paradise Lost have been Yorkshire’s masters of melancholy for more than 30 years. Their misery has manifested in so many forms over that time, too. From death-doom to goth metal to dance rock and then fascinating fusions of the three, there’s only one thing that’s ever guaranteed about an album by this lot: it’ll be sad as fuck.
With their discography being so diverse – not to mention vast, consisting of 16 records – we can’t blame the people that don’t know where to start. So here are our picks. Below is Hammer’s ranking of everything the band have done from worst to best.
