With its title referencing a form of glassy, volcanic rock, its hue of deepest black, this not-so-sweet sixteenth LP from Yorkshire heavyweights Paradise Lost delivers a sonic experience that’s every bit as jagged, reflective and strangely alluring. 32 years into one of the strongest careers in British heavy metal, the Halifax quintet aren’t about to swerve into the unknown. Across a stirring nine-song sprawl, they showcase enough pulsating purpose, and fresh folds of their rich Gothic influence, to prove there’s still plenty to be drawn from that deep well. Holding the course set by 2015’s The Plague Within and 2017’s Medusa, an opening salvo of Darker Thoughts and Fall From Grace are rooted in the crunching death-doom the band once helped define: a fluttering acoustic guitar s...