You come back to something and you hope you’re going to like it this time but you never do because… that song springs to mind, especially the chorus. We tend to… we’re such perfectionists, it’s kind of annoying really. There’s versions that are very close to the finished one, but not quite. She’s in the band Tapping The Vein she’s always good to have around.” At one point, Paradise Lost had 15 different versions of “An Eternity Of Lies”. She did the female vocal on that as well. “Yeah, we re-recorded one of our songs, ‘Gothic’, and put it out about a year ago (on Tragic Illusion 25). Greg’s girlfriend, Heather Thompson, sings on “An Eternity Of Lies”. Basically, it’s an incidental thing we didn’t want it to necessarily take over the song, which we have done a lot of in the past.” They just lined up the bits and pieces here and there. We had two separate musicians, but they came in at different times. It just sort of lends itself to the melancholy, which is very much part of the band and has been for most of our career. I can really hear the difference, between the real one and the sampled one even though the samples are good. We’ve used sampled strings before, but for this album we actually got real musicians in for it a real cello player, a real violin. “The thing is, you can get carried away with it, so it’s a case of not overdoing it. A lot of our songs lend themselves to that,” admits Holmes. “When we started doing the demos, sometimes things just… we’re big fans of classical music, scores, and movie soundtracks. Musically, The Plague Within sees Paradise Lost offer up a wonderful selection of morbidly seductive doom, enlightened by an elegant string section, most notably on: “An Eternity Of Lies”, “Sacrifice The Flame”, and “Victim Of The Past”. We were going to go with Beneath Broken Earth (the title of track five) for a while, but it was more to do with the mental state really The Plague being the state of the mind.” But Greg mentioned it a while back and I thought, maybe a song title. “Everything always sounds alien at first, no matter what you call it. Titles are weird, cause you kind of grow into them,” reflects Holmes. In fact, guitairst “Greg (Mackintosh) came up with the title. “People will think it has something to do with The Plague Of Londontown (in 1665), but it’s certainly not that,” says Paradise Lost vocalist Nick Holmes in regard to the title of his band’s 14th studio album, The Plague Within.
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