Paradise Lost are back with Ascension, their seventeenth album and the follow-up to 2020’s Obsidian. It suggests loneliness, or perhaps something else, depending on how you interpret it, but the riffs make it clear you’re in the Paradise Lost atmosphere. “Diluvium” ends magnificently, a reminder of the band’s 35 years of mastery stretching back to 1990’s Lost Paradise. Ascension is a bold return for Paradise Lost, where their style doesn’t diminish, as the creative elements and displays of doom and gloom are executed in more inventive ways. The new Paradise Lost album, Ascension, was released on September 19th, 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records.