Draconian Times is the fifth studio album released by British metal act Paradise Lost. Two tracks from the album, "The Last Time" and "Forever Failure", were released as singles with music videos, and both charted.
This album was played in its entirety on the band's live album Draconian Times MMXI. This album was released with Shades of God & Icon in a boxed set called Original Album Classics.[1] A song called "Another Desire", was written during this album's recording, but it was not released on this album nor the reissues. Instead, it was included in the "Forever Failure" single.
Those reviewers who do not see the album as problematic, assign points at the top. On www.metal-inside.de, the album was referred to as "gloomy, but sublime" and "perfect". This was the "fulfillment" of the promise of Icon. Eike Schmitz of www.powermetal.de looks like this and speaks of a " masterpiece". "If you think of the Sisters as polished bronze, as are dirty plutonium Paradise Lost". Daevid Jehnzen of allmusic, however, praises less songwriting, but rather the atmosphere that was created on Draconian Times . Here were awarded four and a half stars out of five . The reviews at the time of publication were positive : In the intro magazine Christian Suggest notes that Paradise Lost have made it, " to skip with , Icon' album very highly specified yardstick " . "Neither have given the typical PL ingredients still one goes on the thin ice of total mass compatibility. " Holger Stratmann, editor of Rock Hard magazine, Paradise Lost looks at this album " more sensitive than ever," only The Last Time was " a little too banal ." However, only criticism for his part in some passages, the similarity to the previous panel. He gave it a nine out of ten.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Gregor Mackintosh & Nick Holmes except as noted
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Enchantment"
6:04
2.
"Hallowed Land"
5:02
3.
"The Last Time"
3:27
4.
"Forever Failure"
4:18
5.
"Once Solemn"
3:03
6.
"Shadowkings"
4:41
7.
"Elusive Cure"
3:21
8.
"Yearn for Change" (Mackintosh, Lee Morris, Holmes, Steve Edmondson)
4:19
9.
"Shades of God"
3:54
10.
"Hands of Reason"
3:58
11.
"I See Your Face" (Aaron Aedy, Mackintosh, Holmes)
3:17
12.
"Jaded"
3:26
Total length:
48:59
Limited Edition Commemorative Tour Pack (Bonus CD)
Spoken Dialogue on Forever Failure taken from "Charles Manson - The Man who killed the Sixties" produced by Box Productions for Channel Four Television Corporation.
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