Gothic Metal Pioneers Paradise Lost To Rock Bucharest On Jan. 19

British gothic rock band Paradise Lost returns to Romania on January 19 for the third time, with a concert promoting the band’s new album ‘In Requiem’, event organizers, One Event, said Tuesday.

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Gothic metal pioneers and one of the most influential rock bands Britain has ever produced, 2007 marks Yorkshire's kings of gloom Paradise Lost’s nineteenth year, and their eleventh album, 'In Requiem'.

Opening for the British band in Bucharest at Romexpo is Romanian black metal band Negura Bunget.

Tickets cost RON55 from Dec. 5 to Dec. 31, and RON70 after that date.

From the crawling, harrowing doom of their 1990 debut 'Lost Paradise',to the electronic flourishes prevalent in 1997's 'One Second', 1999's 'Host' and 2005's stunning self-titled album, their sound has continued to evolve vastly, but haunting melody and dark rock power has remained at the very core of their identity.

In 1991 the band released 'Gothic', not so much an album title as the definition for an entire genre, while the influence 1995's huge-selling masterpiece 'Draconian Times' – the missing link between Metallica and the Sisters of Mercy - echoes loudly in today's scene, with the likes of Cradle of Filth,Nightwish and HIM owing a huge debt to their knack for injecting heavy rock with their trademark dark sheen.

Recorded In England and Canada, 'In Requiem' sees the band taking a slight step away from the moodier leanings of their last few records into more stripped down territory, and continuing to push the envelope of what can be done with the dark side of heavy metal, while remaining as anthemic and recognizable as ever in their shadowy art.

Paradise Lost had concerts in Romania in 2005 and 1994.

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