Paragon comes charging back with their new
release Revenge. As many of you know, Paragon plays a solid brand of heavy/true German power metal. You've
got your heavy, double bass rumblers, the mid-paced chuggers, the long epic tracks (over 9 minutes for Masters of the
Seas) and the Manowar cover, The Gods Made Heavy Metal. To top it all off, you've got Piet Sielck producing
the album with his trademark power metal sound and boomy choruses.
The album kicks off with a couple of blistering,
double bass track...then they kick you over the head mith a mid-paced thumper followed by a track of epic proportions.
The rest of the album is of equal quality with a mix of faster and slower songs (no, I do not mean ballads).
It doesn't get redundant or monotonous and just, well, rocks.
The vocalist has improved so much over the
years. What used to sound unstable and odd has turned into a strong, throaty heavy metal belter. At times he even
treads into Chris Boltendahl's (Grave Digger) territory of rough vocals. If that turns you off, don't worry, it is not
throughout the album.
Overall, it is a great album for this style
and right now almost lives up to their masterpiece (at least to me) Law of the Blade. Time will tell.
Favorites: Impaler, Assasins, Traitor, Beyond
the Veil, Empire of the Lost ... none of the songs on this albums are bad.
89 / 100
