PARADISE LOST will play several festival shows this summer before returning to the studio to work on their next studio album.

Last September, Finnish drummer Waltteri Väyrynen left PARADISE LOST to join OPETH. At the time, he issued a statement saying that his decision involved “absolutely no bad blood or drama whatsoever.”

PARADISE LOST‘s latest album, “Obsidian”, was released in May 2020 via Nuclear Blast.

In a 2017 interview with The Rockpit, Mackintosh stated about PARADISE LOST‘s drummer changes: “Yeah, it’s like a classic SPINAL TAP. The four of us are together the whole time, and if we haven’t lost the first drummer, he would probably still be in the band, and then we just keep changing drummers. But it’s all for natural reasons. It’s all over a long period of time; it’s not overnight.”

He explained: “The first drummer left because the gigs were getting bigger and he wasn’t handling the pressure too well. And the second drummer left because he went insane and turned to God. And then the next drummer left because he didn’t have a family when he joined the band then he had loads of kids all close together and needed to go and be a family man.”

Greg added: “It’s all very natural reasons; none of it is contemptuous or anything like that or anything clandestine. It’s just life gets in the way. You get to a certain age and you’re a touring band, it’s hard for people to just switch off life while on tour.”