Heresy (Paradox album)

Heresy
Studio album by Paradox
Released	November 20, 1989
Recorded	January-July 1989 at Music Lab Studio, West Berlin, Germany[1]
Genre	Thrash metal, Power metal, Speed metal
Length	42:11
Label	Roadracer Records
Producer	Harris Johns
Paradox chronology
Product of Imagination (1987) Heresy (1989) Collision Course (2000)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Metal Crypt	(4.7/5)[3]
Sea Of Tranquility	[4]

Heresy is the second album by Paradox, released in 1989. The album preaches a conceptual story about the Roman Catholic Crusades of the 13th century. It is Paradox's best selling album to date,^[5] and was the band's last studio album for 11 years, until Collision Course (2000).

Heresy was reissued by the German label High Vaultage Records in 1999, which contains 2 bonus tracks. The album was reissued again on August 13, 2007 by Metal Mind Productions from Poland as a digipack on golden disc, featuring bonus tracks, digitally remastered using 24-Bit process and limited to 2000 copies.

Track listing

1. "Heresy" – 6:55
2. "Search for Perfection" – 4:54
3. "Killtime" – 4:51
4. "Crusaders Revenge" – 4:56
5. "The Burning" – 5:26
6. "Massacre of the Cathars" – 4:19
7. "Serenity" – 4:53
8. "700 Years On" – 5:14
9. "Castle in the Wind" – 1:33

2007 reissue bonus tracks

11. The Burning (Demo) – 05:57
12. Massacre of the Cathars (Demo) – 03:48
13. Heresy (live video)

Personnel

• Charly Steinhauer - vocals, guitar
• Markus Spyth - guitar
• Matthias "K.ter" Fries (Schmitt) - bass guitar
• Axel Blaha - drums

References