Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany23rd October 2025
Paradise Lost - “Ascension of Europe” Tour 2025 - Support: Messa, Lacrimas Profundere
UK gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST have announced the dates for the first leg of their Ascension of Europe” Tour 2025. Italian band MESSA will be direct support on all dates with HIGH PARASITE opening on the UK dates and LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE on selected mainland Europe shows.
Formed in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 1988, PARADISE LOST were unlikely candidates for Metal glory when they slithered from the shadows and infiltrated the UK underground. But not content with spawning an entire subgenre with early Death / Doom masterpiece ‘Gothic’ nor with conquering the Metal mainstream with the balls-out power of 1995’s ‘Draconian Times’, they have subsequently traversed multiple genre boundaries with skill and grace, evolving through the pitch-black Alt-Rock mastery of 90s classics ‘One Second’ and ‘Host’ to the muscular but ornate grandeur of 2009’s ‘Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us’ and ‘Tragic Idol’ (2012), with the nonchalant finesse of grand masters.
The band’s last two albums - ‘The Plague Within’ (2015) and ‘Medusa’ (2017) - saw a much-celebrated return to brutal, old-school thinking, via two crushing monoliths to slow-motion death and spiritual defeat. Consistently hailed as one of Metal’s most charismatic live bands, PARADISE LOST arrive in this new decade as veterans, legends and revered figureheads for several generations of gloomy metalheads. In keeping with their unerring refusal to deliver the expected, 2020 brings one of the band’s most diverse and devastating creations to date. Their last album ‘Obsidian’ was released in spring 2020, hitting international charts with great success.
Now, in 2025, the Yorkshire quintet return with their staggering 17th album, ‘Ascension’, a record that sees their crown continue to gleam as it underlines just how they attained their position. Produced by guitarist Gregor Mackintosh at Black Planet studios in East Yorkshire, with drums and vocals captured at NBS and Wasteland studios in Sweden, its 10 tracks traverse the multitude of sounds in the band’s arsenal, from full-bore Heavy Metal to sky-high melody, all the while keeping a minor-key melancholy that remains irresistible.
Additional Concert Info
Doors: 19:00
Start: 20:00
Tickets: are available for 49.75€ (plus charges pre-sale) via Eventim
Info: https://www.livemusichall.de/event-details/paradise-lost
