Pointless video post – ‘Screenslaves’ by Paragon

Hamburg’s Paragon are in the same category, more or less, as Grave Digger or Accept in terms of musical style, but they certainly know how to put out simple, catchy, hard-hitting rock anthems.  For the most part, they stick to the dark fantasy and war themes typical of power metal, but they do at times diverge from their preferred path.  This one, the title track from their 2009 album Screenslaves, is a prime example.  Though they caught a lot of flak on this last album for aiming at a more commercial sound (and for doing a metallised cover of the Backstreet Boys’ ‘Larger than Life’ – a highly significant improvement over the original, but still…), on the whole this album is still quite solid.  And the track is pretty a propos; we are a people who have become, to a large degree, slaves to machines.  (That goes just as much for this blogger as for anyone else, it should be said.)  Anyway, enjoy!