Paradise Lost, their most recent album 'Medusa'...
Hey Master Ray, I used to love this band. I really liked their early albums, but kind of lost track of them after the Host album, which of course was very different from their earlier stuff. Host was very different from what I expected when I bought it. Bit of a shock, but actually not too bad at all. I believe they have gone back to a much heavier sound since then, but I know nothing about any of their albums post-Host ! Any recommendations ?
Hey, Tony, we're friends seeing as you're on this board, you can call me Ray!

I am a fan of PL since 'Gothic' and I love most of their albums, regardless of what they sounded like. I don't care whether they were 'metal' or not, I just care about the songs and how good they were. And even during their most experimental years, I think there were some excellent songs. I have to admire a band who were breaking big into the worldwide metal scene and thought 'nah... we're not doing that, we'll do an album or two that sounds like Depeche Mode'...

After Host flopped, the guitars came back, by degrees. Believe In Nothing, Symbol Of Life, Paradise Lost and In Reqiuem are a progression of albums that got heavier (but with some very catchy tunes along the way that hark back to the more tuneful keyboard-y stuff before.).
If I could recommend one album to you, it would be the brilliant 'Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us' from 2009. Heavy, melodic, it's a proper successor to Draconian Times or Icon. Just a great album. After that, go through Tragic Idol, The Plague Within and Medusa, it gets heavier from album to album.
So, to finish this, let me post you a few videos you might enjoy...
Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BONcpuDcrc&list=PLVWT5waYZYnlgoF0bi3Y2Q8U2lWelE7y_Honesty In Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU18F6yTuHo&list=PLVWT5waYZYnlgoF0bi3Y2Q8U2lWelE7y_&index=5The Enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HwMrrJ4M4&index=8&list=PLVWT5waYZYnlgoF0bi3Y2Q8U2lWelE7y_Isolate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df6Y-CF8ZcUBeneath Broken Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55XlIPzY5q0&list=PLVWT5waYZYnlgoF0bi3Y2Q8U2lWelE7y_&index=1Enjoy!
