DOOM AND GOTH METAL LEGENDS, BRITISH PARADISE LOST AS PART OF THE “ASCENSION OF EUROPE TOUR 2025 – PART 1” TOUR, WHERE THEY PROMOTE THEIR NEW ALBUM “ASCENSION” AFTER EIGHT YEARS, ARE COMING TO ZAGREB AGAIN, ON THURSDAY, 30.10.2025. TO CLUB BOOGALOO! AS GUESTS WITH PARADISE LOST, THE GROUPS MESSA AND LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE WILL BE COMING.
On Thursday, 30.10.2025. to the Zagreb club Boogaloo after eight years as part of the European tour “Ascension Of Europe Tour 2025 – Part 1”, British doom and goth metal legends, Paradise Lost, are coming back! This time they present their new, seventeenth studio album “Ascension” (Nuclear Blast), which will be officially released on September 19th, and so far two or three highly praised singles have been released from it: “Silence Like the Grave”, “Serpent on the Cross” and “Tyrants Serenade”.
Paradise Lost first performed in Croatia exactly 20 years ago, on May 25, 2005, at Zagreb’s Boogaloo, then again in 2010, in 2012 they performed at Zagreb’s Pogon Jedinstvo, in 2015 at Zagreb’s Vintage Industrial Bar and in 2017 again at the Boogaloo club, so this will be their sixth visit to Zagreb and fourth visit to the Boogaloo club!
Paradise Lost, whose name is inspired by the poem of the same name by J. Milton from 1667, began their journey back in 1988. The albums “Lost Paradise” (1990), “Gothic” (1991) and “Shades of God” (1992) are considered classics of death/doom metal. With the albums “Icon” (1993) and “Draconian Times” (1995), Paradise Lost entered the then popular gothic metal waters and thus became world famous. This was followed by the even more successful album “One Second” (1997), which brought them closer to dark/goth rock and on which they began to use electronics, and their single “Say Just Words” became and remains their most successful single to this day. Then they signed a contract with one of the world’s largest record companies, EMI, and released the album “Host” (1999), with which they ventured into dark synth waters, and the single “So Much Is Lost” is often compared to Depeche Mode. However, with the next albums “Believe In Nothing” (2002) and “Symbol Of Life” (2002), they returned to a stronger sound, this time with an undertone of electro industrial rock. A return to the heavy-gothic sound follows with the albums “Paradise Lost” (2005). The albums “In Requiem” (2007) and “Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us” (2009) followed. In 2015, they released the album, “The Plague Within”, and in 2017, “Medusa”, with which they returned to their darkest doom metal phase from the beginning of their career. In 2020, the album “Obsidian” and the single “Ghosts” will follow, with which they return to more commercial dark/goth metal waters. In 2023, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the release of the album “Icon”, they are releasing a re-recorded album called “Icon 30”.
With more than a few great releases and a bunch of timeless hits, Paradise Lost’s big asset is that almost the entire line-up, consisting of Nick Holmes (vocals), Greg Mackintosh (guitar), Aaron Aedy (guitar) and Steve Edmonson (bass) has been together since the beginning, while Jeff Singer (he played in Paradise Lost from 2004 to 2008) is back on drums, coming from Kill II This, playing in My Dying Bride, to 2025 returned to Paradise Lost.
Paradise Lost, even though they are presenting a new album, always play a cross-section of their career from the very beginning to the new album on their tours, so we will be able to hear most of their hits such as “As I Die”, “True Belief”, “Forever Failure”, “Hallowed Land”, “Say Just Words”, “One Second”, “So Much Is Lost”, “Rotting Misery”, “Ghosts”, “The Last Time”, “Gothic”, “Embers Fire”, “Pity the Sadness”, “Blood of Another”,…..
Paradise Lost is supported by the increasingly popular Italian doom metal alchemists Messa, who are promoting their new, fourth album “The Spin” (Metal Blade Records) on this tour. Based on an eclectic, self-defined “crimson doom” sound, Messa’s music rises, falls, floats, bites, comforts and destroys, all the while echoing with instinctive magic and an obsessive atmosphere with recognizable twists of musical styles.
German gothic metallers Lacrimas Profundere are the first to open the concerts on this tour. Their name means “to shed tears” in Latin, and their stylistic aesthetic has changed over time; originally gothic death-doom, the band eventually turned to a more commercial dark/goth rock sound following the example of groups like Tiamat, HIM, The 69 Eyes,… but with their twelfth studio album “Bleeding the Stars” from 2019, they are returning to their doom/goth metal roots, while their latest album “How To Shroud Yourself With Night” from 2022 has a more commercial dark metal sound.
Doors open at 19:00 and the concert will start at 19:30. Tickets are priced at €45.00 in advance and €50.00 on the day of the concert and can be purchased via the Entrio.hr system, Entrio points of sale, Dirty Old shop – Tratinska 34, Zagreb, Rockamark – Hrvatske Bratske zajednice 4, Zagreb and Dallas Music Shop – Splitska 2a, Rijeka. They can also be purchased at the entrance to the club, if the concert is not sold out, as some Paradise Lost concerts on this tour have already been.