| Paragon | |
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| Origin | Hamburg, Germany |
| Genres | Heavy metal Speed metal Power metal |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Labels | Massacre Records (current) Remedy Records |
| Website | paragon-metal.com |
| Members | |
| Andreas Babuschkin Martin Christian Jan Bünning Christian Gripp |
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| Past members | |
| see below | |
Paragon is a speed metal/power metal band from Hamburg, Germany.
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Paragon was founded by guitarist Martin Christian (who in many of the band's album booklets is written as Martin Wöbcke when it comes to songwriting-credits). After releasing some demo tapes and a mini-CD, they were able to release an album in 1994, the debut World of Sin. Shortly after this, their record company Blue Merle went bankrupt, and Martin decided to put the band on hiatus.
About two years later, Martin found four new members (Andreas, Jan, Markus, & Claudius) and recorded the album The Final Command. In 1999, it was time for the release of Chalice of Steel. In 2001, Paragon released Steelbound, engineered and produced by Piet Sielck of Iron Savior. Piet has worked with the band on every album since then.
After the recording of Forgotten Prophecies in early 2007, the band's longtime bass player Jan Bünning quit the band because of "musical differences." Shortly after the band had found a replacement in Dirk Seifert.
In late 2007 the band changed label and now lies on Massacre Records, a new album is planned to be released in 2008.
In the mid to ending months of 2009, Paragon took a break. During this time they lost two members. Guitarist Günny Kruse who had played on their three studio albums between 2005–2008, and also bassist Dirk Seifert who only played on "Screenslaves". In November 2009, the band stated on their homepage that they are active again and that former bassist Jan Bünning had rejoined the band. Since then they are also searching for a second guitarist who is yet to be announced.
Vocals:
Chris Barena (1990–1994)
Kay Carstens (1994–1996)
Guitar:
Frank Hellweg (1990–1991)
Marcus Cremer (and Bass) (1991–1993)
Wolfgang "Woko" Köhler (1993–1994)
Tommy Eichstädt (1995–1996)
Daniel Görner (1995–1996)
Claudius Cremer (1996–2003)
Günny Kruse (2003–2009)
Bass:
Dirk Sturzbecher (1990–1995)
Uwe Wessel (1995–1996)
Dirk Seifert (2007–2009)
Drums:
Kay Neuse (1990–1996)
Markus Corby (1996–2005)
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