Paradise Lost - Gothic Bass Tabs on Just The Riffs

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) is retrospectively considered style-defining and name-giving for the genre of gothic metal.

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.

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Genre(s): Dark Metal, Death Doom, Doom Metal, Epic Metal, Folk Metal, Funereal Metal, Gothic Metal, Heavy Metal, Metal, Symphonic Metal

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The tempos can vary quite dramatically on this record. Some changes feel very deliberate while others feel like they're just a product of the process and equipment used in the recording of the album.

Where possible I've tried to "smooth" out some of the more "tempo slip" type of changes. This does result in what look like some rather substantial jumps up and down. They're quite jarring in isolation but in the context of the mix, they're not overly perceptible.

Plenty of key changes and modal shifts in here too!

Tracklist

001 - Gothic bass tab
002 - dead emotion bass tab
003 - shattered bass tab
004 - rapture bass tab
005 - eternal bass tab
006 - falling forever bass tab
007 - angel tears bass tab
008 - silent bass tab
009 - the painless bass tab
010 - desolate bass tab

001 - gothic bass tab

The tuning of this track is C# Standard (C#-F#-B-E). To make the tab easier to read it has been written out "as if" the bass were tuned to E Standard.