Host - IX

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IX is the debut studio album by English goth rock / synth pop project Host, released in February 2022 via Nuclear Blast.

The origins of Host, the new project featuring Paradise Lost vocalist Nick Holmes and guitarist Greg Mackintosh, do not trace back to their 1999 album bearing the same name but instead to the West Yorkshire music clubs of the mid-to-late 1980s. While Holmes and Mackintosh were already certified heavy metal fanatics (“metal thrashing mad” as Holmes equates), they were equally drawn to the New Wave and Goth music scenes.

The pounding rhythms, sublime melodies and undercurrent of darkness drew them in, creating immediate earworms and a desire to delve further. Holmes and Mackintosh’s soon-to-be burgeoning career as pioneering Gothic doom metallers in Paradise Lost may have cast this fix to the side, but the sounds and aura never left them. In fact, it only grew stronger with each passing decade.

Their debut foray, “IX“, is an eclectic, stirring collection of songs that forges a unified front of darkness that is interwoven with orchestration and textures.

Complemented by carefully placed guitar lines, the album is yet another realization of Mackintosh’s songwriting intuitiveness and restless creative spirit.

To create the songs on “IX“, Mackintosh relied on the approach of starting with a piano line. His self-described “simple” chord sequences or piano lines were then volleyed to Holmes for vocal ideas.

Once the pair found a direction, Mackintosh embellished each song with lavish but haunting soundscapes —often blurring the distinction between guitar and keyboards.

This double album 2LP record set is a limited edition on white coloured vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with printed booklet, pressed in Germany via Nuclear Blast.

(16245)

Tracklisting:

 

No.

Track

Time

A1

Wretched Soul

4:22

A2

Tomorrows Sky

4:30

A3

Divine Emotion

4:17

A4

Hiding From Tomorrow

3:45

A5

A Troubled Mind

3:59

B1

My Only Escape

4:21

B2

Years Of Suspicion

4:20

B3

Inquisition

4:59

B4

Instinct

4:00

SKU 16245
Record Label Nuclear Blast Records
Label / Model # Independent
Catalogue Number 65711
Country DE - Germany
Release Date (Year) 24 February 2023
Original Release Date (Year) 24 February 2023
Barcode # 4065629657116
Shipping Weight 0.3900kg
Shipping Width 0.010m
Shipping Height 0.314m
Shipping Length 0.314m
Shipping Cubic 0.000986000m3
Type New
Format Limited Edition LP Record, White Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve
Vinyl Colour White
Genre Hard Rock & Metal
Format VINYL LP

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