 By the time of 1995's "Draconian Times" album, Paradise Lost's music firmly stood "between stark, oppressive goth rock and crunching heavy metal".With these five albums, the band had created "a bold collection of songs that sounded like "Black"-era Metallica played by a group who loved the Sisters of Mercy".They have since been recognized as the band that "originally laid the gothic seed that other bands have been nicking and reaping in recent years".