“I said, ‘You won’t get anywhere with that name!’ Then they went on to be one of the biggest bands in the world”: The heavy metal veteran who talked smack to Snow Patrol

Nick Holmes singing with Paradise Lost in 2017.

Paradise Lost singer Nick Holmes admits that he once told chart-topping, multi-platinum-selling rockers Snow Patrol that they’d never be successful.

Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, the vocalist, who’s fronted his Yorkshire-based goth metal five-piece since 1988, says that he encountered members of the Northern Irish/Scottish band at an afterparty before they were famous.