{"id":2280,"date":"2012-12-29T16:17:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-12-29T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T16:17:58","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Paradox &#8211; Tales of the weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox are a German thrash metal band that was formed in W\u00fcrzburg in 1986.  They signed to Roadrunner records who released their first two albums (Product of imagination &#038; Heresy) before the band split or went inactive for ten years.  After a comeback show at the Wacken Open Air festival in 1999, they signed with AFM records and have released three albums with them (Collision course, Electrify &#038; Riot squad).  Now the band are back with their fourth album for AFM (their 6th album overall), &#8221;Paradox&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Germany has a record of producing world class thrash bands, with Sodom and Kreator being two of the biggest and best known, but I must admit that Paradox are a band I hadn&#8217;t come across before.  Having listened to this album far too many times I&#8217;m amazed I hadn&#8217;t heard them before &#8211; this is some really excellent thrash metal.<\/p>\n<p>The album is fast and heavy with pounding high speed drumming, great heavy guitar riffs coupled with some excellent solos, the bass is more audible than on many band&#8217;s albums and works very well, and the vocals are great &#8211; perfectly matched to the music.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of German thrash metal then &#8221;Tales of the weird&#8221; is an album you should definitely check out.<\/p>\n<p>Paradox are:<\/p>\n<p>Charly Steinhauer &#8211; vocals\/guitars<br \/>\nChristian M\u00fcnzner &#8211; guitars<br \/>\nOlly Keller &#8211; bass<br \/>\nDaniel \u201cEvil Ewald\u201d Buld &#8211; drums<\/p>\n<p>Track Listing:<\/p>\n<p>1. Tales Of The Weird<br \/>\n2. Day Of Judgement<br \/>\n3. Brutalized<br \/>\n4. Fragile Alliance<br \/>\n5. Escalation<br \/>\n6. Brainwashed<br \/>\n7. Slashdead<br \/>\n8. Zeitgeist<br \/>\n9. The Downward Spiral<br \/>\n10. A Light In The Black<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox are a German thrash metal band that was formed in W\u00fcrzburg in 1986. They signed to Roadrunner records who released their first two albums (Product of imagination &#038; Heresy) before the band split or went inactive for ten years. After a comeback show at the Wacken Open Air festival in 1999, they signed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}