UK gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST have announced the dates for the first leg of their Ascension Of Europe Tour 2025.
Italian band MESSA will be direct support on all dates with HIGH PARASITE opening on the UK dates and LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE on selected mainland Europe shows.
Tour dates are as follows:
October 09, 2025 – Manchester, UK – New Century Hall
October 10, 2025 – Wolverhampton, UK – KK’s Steel Mill
October 11, 2025 – Newcastle, UK – Newcastle University
October 12, 2025 – Glasgow, UK – Garage
October 14, 2025 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
October 15, 2025 – Bristol, UK – SWX
October 16, 2025 – Southampton, UK – The 1865
October 17, 2025 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall
October 19, 2025 – Lille, France – Tyrant Fest
October 20, 2025 – Paris, France – Elysée Montmartre
October 21, 2025 – Lyon, France – La Rayonne
October 23, 2025 – Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall
October 24, 2025 – Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Rockhal
October 25, 2025 – Dornbirn, Austria – Conrad Sohm
October 26, 2025 – Padova, Italy – Hall
October 28, 2025 – Munich, Germany – Backstage Werk
October 29, 2025 – Prague, Czech Republic – Palac Acropolis
October 30, 2025 – Zagreb, Croatia – Boogaloo
October 31, 2025 – Vienna, Austria – SiMM City
November 01, 2025 – Budapest, Hungary – Durer Kert
November 03, 2025 – Geneva, Switzerland – PTR / L’Usine
November 04, 2025 – Nuremberg, Germany – Z-Bau
November 05, 2025 – Utrecht, Netherlands – Pandora
November 06, 2025 – Antwerp, Belgium – Trix
Formed in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 1988, PARADISE LOST were unlikely candidates for metal glory when they slithered from the shadows and infiltrated the UK underground. But not content with spawning an entire subgenre with early death/doom masterpiece Gothic nor with conquering the metal mainstream with the balls-out power of 1995’s Draconian Times, they have subsequently traversed multiple genre boundaries with skill and grace, evolving through the pitch-black alt-rock mastery of ’90s classics One Second and Host to the muscular but ornate grandeur of 2009’s Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us and Tragic Idol (2012), with the nonchalant finesse of grand masters.
The band’s last two albums – The Plague Within (2015) and Medusa (2017) – saw a much celebrated return to brutal, old school thinking, via two crushing monoliths to slow-motion death and spiritual defeat. Consistently hailed as one of metal’s most charismatic live bands, PARADISE LOST arrives in this new decade as veterans, legends and revered figureheads for several generations of gloomy metalheads. In keeping with their unbearable refusal to deliver the expected, 2020 brings one of the band’s most diverse and devastating creations to date. Their last album Obsidian was released in spring 2020, hitting international charts with great success.
Source: metaladdicts.com
