Paragon is ridiculously heavy metal: you get the feeling these guys get up hung over because the night before they were drunk and listening to Manowar, Accept and Judas Priest. What’s more, when they get up–after they get finished hugging the toilet–they put on “Rest and Wild” again and as soon as Udo screams, they grab another beer and begin drinking again. They are incorrigible, period. Paragon takes on the speed and near-thrash elements of Judas Priest, Accept and Manowar. The vocals on this thing are rough, like Iron Savior, Motorhead and Grave Digger. The lyrics are about how they are metal, have that metal-against-the-world attitude. No love songs, no keyboards, no lyrics about anything other than metal, death, etc. Is “macho, chest-beating heavy metal” a type of heavy metal? Don’t expect singing. These vocals are actually not far removed from death metal. Expect basic, meat-and-potatoes songs in line with bands like Cage, as opposed to power metal. The one real slow song, “Empire of the Lost” doesn’t work too well because it seems to go against what Paragon is. The cover Manowar’s “The Gods Made Heavy Metal”. Iron Savior’s Piet Sielck produced this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paragon is ridiculously heavy metal: you get the feeling these guys get up hung over because the night before they were drunk and listening to Manowar, Accept and Judas Priest. What’s more, when they get up–after they get finished hugging…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-476","reviews","type-reviews","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n