Icon (Paradise Lost album)

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.

Track listing

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" – 3:00
10. "True Belief" – 4:30
11. "Shallow Seasons" – 4:55
12. "Christendom" – 4:30
13. "Deus Misereatur" – 1:57
14. "Sweetness" – 4:50
15. "Your Hand in Mine (live)" – 6:40

Bonus tracks #14 and #15 (in the second cd edition) from "Seals the Sense" (e.p., 1994).

Album information

• Published by Zomba Music.
• Produced and Engineered by Simon Efemey.
• Mixed by Simon Efemey and Pete "Pee Wee" Coleman.
• Mix Engineer: Pete "Pee Wee" Coleman.
• Assisted by Andrew Holdsworth.
• Keyboards by Andrew Holdsworth.
• Assistants: Paul Nixon and Sally Butler.
• Recorded at Jacobs Studios, Surrey, June / July 1993.
• Mastered by Geoff Pesche at Townhouse Studios.
• Additional female vocals by Denise Bernard.
• Design and art direction by Stylorouge.
• All photography by Matt Anker.

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