PARADISE LOST ‎- Lost Paradise LP (Black Vinyl)

It's Black Sabbath's first album meets the early demos of Hellhammer. While the death metal bands of the same era wanted to bury you with speed, Paradise Lost and the death/doom scene took a different tact. The riffs on this release tremble relentlessly at a maddeningly slow pace. It's hard to describe what they've done here. The bass melts into itself, the drums are slow- hardly displaying the raw talent that bands like Suffocation did with their rhythm section- yet they beat like a pulse behind the music. The riffs aren't stagnant, and couldn't be described as minimalistic, there's certainly the complex structure akin to death metal somewhere in here.