German metallers PARADOX have revealed that singer/guitarist Charly Steinhauer is currently in the hospital, suffering from serious heart problems.

A personal message from Charly states: "Hello my friends, I'm very sorry that I have to tell you, that I'm in the hospital right now, and I will have a difficult heart surgery on Monday (December) 24th. Please keep your fingers crossed for me. I will survive and carry on making some good music for you. Paradox will never die! I don't know if I will be able to go on stage again.... right now i don't think so. I wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year."

Paradox have issued the following message to their band-mate: "We wish you all the best brother. Get well soon! We're always with you and we still believe that you will come back and rock the stage with us!"

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!"