German metallers PARADOX recently revealed that singer/guitarist Charly Steinhauer has been in the hospital, suffering from serious heart problems.

Charly was originally scheduled to undergo a "difficult heart surgery" on Monday, December 24th. An update from Charly's Paradox bandmates states: "The heart surgery of Charly has been moved to today.... so right now he just is over it. We wish him all the best and we will let you know as soon as we hear from him if everything went fine... please keep your fingers crossed for him!"

Stay tuned for updates on Charly's condition.

Paradox released their new album, Tales Of The Weird, on December 14th via AFM Records. A lyric video for the album track, 'Brutalized', can be seen below:

Tales Of The Weird was produced by Charly Steinhauer, mixed and mastered by V. Santura at Woodshed-Studio, Landshut, Germany. The album also includes guest appearances by Bob Katsionis (FIREWIND) and Gus Drax (SUNBURST).

Check out the cover art by Claudio Bergamin below:

Tales Of The Weird tracklisting:

'Tales Of The Weird'

'Day Of Judgement'

'Brutalized'

'Fragile Alliance'

'Slashdead'

'Drowning In Lies'

'Zeitgeist'

'Escalation'

'Brainwashed'

'The Downward Spiral'

'A Light In The Black (RAINBOW cover) (Japan Bonus)

The album track 'Escalation' is streaming in full below:

Paradox' current lineup is as follows:

Charly Steinhauer (vocals, guitar)

Christian Muenzner (guitar)

Olly Keller (bass guitar)

Daniel "Evil Ewald" Buld (drums)

New guitarist Christian Muenzner (OBSCURA) recently commented: "I already applied for Paradox ten years ago, even before I was in the band NECROPHAGIST. Logisitically this is even the closest band to where I live, we're not even 45 minutes apart, so this makes a lot of sense ;) Been a fan of that band for years and always wanted to play thrash, so here we go ;) The new songs sound fucking amazing, I'm stoked to be a part of this!"