Seek Hetfield land?

One of my Mastodon friends (hi Tom) mentioned he was listening to Paradise Lost’s 1995 album Draconian Times, and that inspired me to do the same. I’m not a megafan of this band, but I do have quite a few albums by them and I used to give them a spin on my old long-gone radio show (yes, 2SER, I am still kind of bitter about that)… and it’s been so long since I’ve played this one that it was really nice to get reacquainted (maybe sags a bit in the second half, but on the whole super solid). And one thing Tom said about them doing Metallica better than Metallica themselves were in ’95; I’d hesitate to go that far (I don’t think Gregor Mackintosh’s guitar work sounds that much like them) but damn me if Nick Holmes doesn’t sound like he’s channelling 80s-vintage James Hetfield voice over much of the record. Never really noticed that before, though now I think of it that sort of tone definitely also appears on much later recordings too…