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studio album
First released:
Sep 28 1993

Overview Edit

Icon is the fourth studio album recorded by British doom metal/gothic band Paradise Lost in 1993. This marked the end of their early death/doom sound.

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This particular version Edit

Record label:
Catalog number:
MASS CD 0061
Release dates:
  • 1993 in United Kingdom

Genres

Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, Metal. Vote on Genres

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4 stars This Is Doom Metal
If you were to look up "doom metal" in the Headbangers' Illustrated Dictionary, you might just see a picture of Icon. Slower and heavier than the masterpiece that followed it (Draconian Times), Icon is a powerful album that takes several listens before you really begin to appreciate it. But once you've digested its subtleties, you'll find yourself returning to it again and again for years to come.

Listening to Paradise Lost is all about letting the euphoric melancholia that only they can create …
Written by James F. Colobus
3 stars alright
This is a great album. However in order to appreciate it as a whole I have to listen to each son individually.

This album just doesn't do it for me when I listen to it as a whole.

Embers Fire, True Belief,
Written by cewilli

Track listing Edit

  • CD

    format:
    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Embers Fire
    4:44
    2
    Remembrance
    3:26
    3
    Forging Sympathy
    4:43
    4
    Joys of the Emptiness
    3:29
    5
    Dying Freedom
    3:43
    6
    Widow
    3:04
    7
    Colossal Rains
    4:35
    8
    Weeping Words
    3:50
    9
    Poison
    2:59
    10
    True Belief
    4:30
    11
    Shallow Seasons
    4:55
    12
    Christendom
    4:30
    13
    Deus Misereatur
    1:57

Credits Edit

  1. design

    1. Matt Anker [photography]
  2. engineer

    1. Geoff Pesche [mastering]
    2. Pete Coleman [mix]
    3. Simon Efemey [mix]
  1. performer

    1. Andrew Holdsworth [instrument]
  2. producer

Other versions Edit

Icon 13 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Music for Nations
catalog number: CDMFN 152
release dates: 1993 in United Kingdom
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15 tracks format: 1 x CD
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Icon 13 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Sep 28 1993
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