{"id":15343,"date":"2025-07-22T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15343\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:56:08","slug":"this-heavy-metal-veteran-told-indie-chart-toppers-snow-patrol-that-theyd-never-be-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15343\/","title":{"rendered":"This heavy metal veteran told indie chart-toppers Snow Patrol that they\u2019d never be successful"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paradise Lost<\/a> singer Nick Holmes admits that he once told chart-topping, multi-platinum-selling rockers Snow Patrol that they\u2019d never be successful.<\/p>\n

Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, the vocalist, who\u2019s fronted his Yorkshire-based goth metal<\/a> five-piece since 1988, says that he encountered members of the Northern Irish\/Scottish band at an afterparty before they were famous.<\/p>\n

After finding out what they were called, he cast the wildly inaccurate prediction that they\u2019d never \u201cget anywhere\u201d.<\/p>\n

Holmes tells us: \u201cWe were at an afterparty in the lobby of a famous London hotel and, because I\u2019d had a few drinks, I got a bit chatty. I asked one of them, \u2018What\u2019s the name of your band?\u2019 He said, \u2018Snow Patrol.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember saying, \u2018Fucking Jesus! You won\u2019t get anywhere with that fucking name!\u2019 Then they went on to be one of the biggest bands in the world and the guy [guitarist\/keyboardist Johnny McDaid] married Courteney Cox.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the record, Snow Patrol have sold upwards of 10 million albums worldwide and topped the UK charts twice. Their third album, 2003\u2019s Final Straw, has been certified platinum five times over in the UK. McDaid joined the band in 2011 and has been dating Cox since 2013, but the pair are actually unmarried.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the first time Paradise Lost\u2019s crystal ball was well off the mark. Holmes admits to Hammer that his band\u2019s lead guitarist Greg Mackintosh was unimpressed by nu metal<\/a> pioneers Korn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The singer laughs: \u201cWhen Korn were just starting to pick up a bit of steam, Greg said, if they get big, he\u2019ll eat his hat. He\u2019s still trying to get through it!\u201d<\/p>\n

Paradise Lost will release their long-awaited 17th studio album, Ascension, on September 19 via Nuclear Blast. During a Hammer interview last month<\/a>, Holmes spoke about the new album\u2019s anti-religious themes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole thing that Ascension\u2019s about is, basically, you live a bad life, then all of a sudden you can believe in God and say a prayer, and you\u2019ll be forgiven for being a twat when you were alive,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of like the fact that people need to do that, and they\u2019re so desperate and terrified of dying. Religion is all about dying anyway, or the fear of dying. Someone made something up once and said, \u2018If you believe in this, you\u2019ll be better off when you die.\u2019 That\u2019s where it comes from.\u201d<\/p>\n

A European tour to promote Ascension<\/a> will kick off at Manchester\u2019s New Century Hall on October 9.<\/p>\n

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