It ought to go with out saying (however we’re gonna) that the U.Okay.’s loss of life doom establishment Paradise Misplaced is a longtime favourite at dBHQ. Hell, we even wrote the ebook on them. Over almost 4 a long time, the band has amassed a discography that shows each a dedication to their craft in addition to a braveness to discover areas others would shun. Their upcoming album, Ascension—their seventeenth total beneath the Paradise Misplaced banner—reveals no indicators of slowing down within the high quality management division and demonstrates album of the 12 months potential. So, of all locations, why did vocalist Nick Holmes find yourself within the neon lights of the Kill Display arcade?
For these of you who haven’t but deleted your Twitter account, Holmes nonetheless recurrently posts about his pursuits: music, horror motion pictures and, you guessed it, video video games. Although on our radar on the very starting of gaming’s most extraordinarily excessive column in 2022, it’s been 5 lengthy years because the somber songsmiths’ earlier providing, Obsidian. Patiently the co-nerds sat in wait, uncertain of how the vocalist would take to a dialog about video video games. To our sheer delight, the face of “essentially the most depressing band on the earth” was all smiles when it got here time to reply our questions, sharing a historical past with the medium that’s surprisingly intertwined with a number of members of the band. With their newest masterpiece simply two days away from blasting by means of your audio system, we fortunately tune out our present draconian occasions to enjoy some much-needed digital escapism.
Ascension is out September 19 by way of Nuclear Blast and might be pre-ordered right here.
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