Hamburg, Germany-based heavy metal titans, Paragon, are celebrating the release of their highly anticipated new studio album, Metalation, out now on Massacre Records. To order your copy of this must-have heavy metal gem, go to this location.

A music video for the album title track is now premiering below. The song "is about the 'sickness' of being a metalhead. How we become fanatics of this music and how it rules our lives through the decades until now. It's driving us onward - now and forever," says the band.

"Killer riffing by Martin Christian, loads of lead guitars, a majestic acoustic middle part with an emotional lead by Jan Bertram. This is how heavy metal should be played, and our tribute to our true believe in this music and the eternal gods of heavy metal!"

According to Paragon's Jan Bünning, Metalation was one of the most difficult albums to make, as the band almost broke up in the time between the release of the band's previous album Controlled Demolition and the present day.
 
Bünning and Martin Christian started working on new song ideas in the winter of 2019 and then the pandemic rocked the world and brought the majority of band activities - ranging from live gigs to rehearsals - to a halt. But still, both continued writing new songs and in the end of a long process, nine songs were ready to be recorded for Metalation and the first vocal demos were recorded last year. For this album, Paragon decided to record the guitars, bass and drums on their own.

Whereas Controlled Demolition was a very hard and fast offering, Paragon weren't keen to repeat this pattern once again and instead decided for the new album to make it sound a little more melodic and versatile, just like in their old days. Metalation was produced with Piet Sielck, who also mixed and mastered the album.

Due to the tensions connected with the pandemic and ockdowns, guitarist Günny left the band in the late summer of 2022 and so did his replacement as well as drummer Sören, who left the band for personal reasons. The remaining band members toyed with the idea to release one final album and to play some farewell shows with Martin on guitar and his son Jason Wöbcke on drums, and then to disband Paragon. Sometime after Easter 2023, though, Jason joined Paragon permanently on drums and Martin decided to stay as well.

Order Metalation now at this location.

Tracklist:

"Fighting The Fire"
"Slenderman"
"Battalions"
"Beyond The Horizon"
"MarioNET"
"The Haunted House"
"Burn The Whore"
"Metalation"
"My Asylum"
"Hellgore" (Bonus Track)

"Metalation"

Photo: Suzanne Spieldenner