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Jonathan Horsley

“We were side of stage every night, salivating and looking at their pedalboards”: Paradise Lost's Greg Mackintosh on channelling Radiohead, covering the Smiths, Trouble’s elusive tone tricks – plus the '80s Ibanez pickup behind his epic sound

Greg Mackintosh of Paradise Lost plays his custom 7-string V live onstage with red and white stagelights behind him.

The UK has a long and proud history of producing bands with the uncanny gift of articulating misery in sound. Few do it better than Paradise Lost.

They might be performing in London on the hottest day of the year but their heart of darkness beats only for the rot of autumn and the sub-zero bleakness of winter.

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