If you believe some of the twaddle peddled these days, you might think that we all spent the 90s listening to boring grunge bands. In fact many of us spent countless hours banging our heads very slowly to this monumental classic – the album with which Paradise Lost made the unlikely leap from underground heroes status to something approaching mainstream rock acceptance. In truth, Draconian Times was a dark and intense record, but one leavened by big rock melodies, a dash of Metallicalike bombast and a whole heap of gothic menace.