Paradise Lost - Gothic (1991)

Slow-motion UK doom from some rusted dungeon, although the band would cast aside their shackles eventually become a more polished, and highly successful dark rock act, although I always preferred this kind of torturous rumblings.
‘Gothic’, alongside the early work of Cathedral, remains as a heavy slab of suffocating metal, Nick Holmes vocals are merely sludgy yawns, the music an almost dreary, tuneless drone, painting bleak pictures of black forests and wet soil before slipping into the darkness like some cumbersome serpent.
Smell the damp and forever dwell in the misery that is prime British doom metal.
7/10