Gothic (Paradise Lost album)

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Gothic
Studio album by Paradise Lost
Released	19 March 1991
Recorded	November 1990 – January 1991
Studio	Academy Music Studios, West Yorkshire, England
Genre	Death-doom, gothic metal
Length	39:24
Label	Peaceville
Paradise Lost chronology
Lost Paradise (1990) Gothic (1991) Shades of God (1992)

Gothic is the second studio album by British heavy metal band Paradise Lost, released on 19 March 1991 through Peaceville Records. The album (which was mostly described as death-doom when it was released)^[1][2] is retrospectively considered style-defining and name-giving for the genre of gothic metal.^[3][4][5]

The album has been re-released and remastered twice. The 2003 re-release contains two remixes of songs from Lost Paradise (1990), bringing the total running time to 49 minutes and 30 seconds. Remixed/live versions of the songs "Eternal", "Gothic" and "The Painless" appear on the 2003 digipak re-release of Lost Paradise. In 2008, Gothic was re-released with a bonus DVD with a rare performance by the band. The album was performed in full at the 2016 Roadburn Festival and released by the band on Bandcamp.

The album cover was vocalist Nick Holmes' idea, and is a close-up photograph of drummer Matt Archer's chest pocket with a segment of guitarist Gregor Mackintosh's arm showing. The close-up photograph originated from a band photo that was turned upside down. The band thought the section between Mackintosh and Archer "looked really weird", so the band decided to use it after cropping it out of the original and zooming in further.^[6]