HOST, Feat. PARADISE LOST Members, Stream Lustmord Ambient Remix Of ‘Hiding From Tomorrow’
March 24th, 2023
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West Yorkshire, England-based gothic rock band Host, featuring members of Paradise Lost, have made the Lustmord ambient remix of their track ‘Hiding From Tomorrow’ available for streaming via YouTube, which can be accessed below.
Speaking about the collaboration with Welsh industrial musician Lustmord (aka Brian Williams), guitarist Greg Mackintosh said: “Lustmord has taken this track from electro goth into a whole new territory. I love it when a remix drifts far and wide from its source material and he has certainly done that. He has created a sprawling, emotive, cinematic soundscape.”
Host issued debut full-length studio album IX on February 24th, 2023 through Nuclear Blast Records.
In relation to the project itself, guitarist Greg Mackintosh commented: “Host is something that I had in mind for a few years but never had the time to do it justice until now. It’s taking the concept of what we attempted to do on the Paradise Lost album Host (May 1999) but approaching it in a modern context. It’s part 80s goth, part electro, part rock but none of them specifically. The emphasis is on hooks and atmosphere. It’s quite a challenge to make miserable music catchy and hopefully we’ve achieved that to some degree.”
“We always stood by Host as an album,” Mackintosh further explained. “This project is not totally connected to that album, but some of the ideas are extrapolated. We’re taking the basic premise and trying it out now. And, really, it was something fun and interesting for us to do. We’ve been doing Paradise Lost for a long time and got an itch to try something different from where Paradise Lost is now. I could take Paradise Lost down this route again. Who knows? It may happen if we live long enough, but I thought, ‘Why not now?’ I had the time to do it.”
Included as a bonus track on the digipak CD version of IX is a cover interpretation of the track ‘I Ran’. Written by A Flock Of Seagulls, its original rendition was featured on the band’s April 1982 debut.
The track listing is as follows:
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01. ‘Wretched Soul’
02. ‘Tomorrow’s Sky’
03. ‘Divine Emotion’
04. ‘Hiding From Tomorrow’
05. ‘A Troubled Mind’
06. ‘My Only Escape’
07. ‘Years of Suspicion’
08. ‘Inquisition’
09. ‘Instinct’
10. ‘I Ran’ (A Flock Of Seagulls cover) *
11. ‘Hiding From Tomorrow (Lustmord Remix)’ *
12. ‘Tomorrow’s Sky (Gost Remix)’ *
* digipak CD bonus track
Host’s line-up is as follows:
Nick Holmes (vocals, Paradise Lost / Bloodbath)
Greg Mackintosh (guitars, synths and programming, Paradise Lost)
Music videos were released for the tracks ‘Tomorrow’s Sky’, ‘Hiding From Tomorrow’ and ‘Divine Emotion’. In addition, an official lyric video was created for the song ‘My Only Escape’. All four clips, as well as a stream of the Gost remix of ‘Tomorrow’s Sky’, can be accessed below.
Promotional photograph by Balázs Szabó.
