Japan pressing with OBI-strip, Japaneselyric sheet and two bonus tracks

With Law Of The Blade things reallystarted to look bright for Paragon. This was without doubt the bestParagon album up to this point. First of all, the production hasgreatly improved. A very meaty and full sound is displayed, withthe guitars being very much in the ‘Painkiller’ vein, just withthat extra typical German, “crunchy” touch to them. The balancebetween the instruments works perfectly here, especially with theguitars having been pushed much more forward – the mixing job thatreally plagued the previous release has indeed gone through animprovement as well. A top-notch production job done by Piet Sielckhere – again; in a way similar-sounding to the last, but justbetter and also a lot heavier. The quality of the songs is anotherimprovement, as everything appears to be “pushed up” a level. It’slike you take ‘Steelbound’, and make the good songs on that albumeven better and make the weaker ones drag a lot less. There areabout as many “better” tracks on this release as there was on theprevious; actually, this album is structurally very similar to theprevious one (like when you compare ‘Master of Puppets’ with ‘Ridethe Lightning’, where track one is the fast and heavy opener, tracktwo the more epic title track, track three the mid-paced number,and so on). There’s the same strong “opening trilogy” that standsout a bit more than the rest of the album, track five is a slowernumber, track seven is midpaced and the ballad is placed as thesecond last track; however, the ballad on ‘Steelbound’ is placed atthe very end, so if you’d switch the two last track on thisrelease, it would have the exact same structure. The rest are allfast numbers. The opening trilogy once deserves a special mention;we could be talking high 80s in overall score had this level ofquality been kept throughout the whole album. “Abducted” is justfucking vicious; a true beast of a speed metal number. Terrificexecution here, just check out those really cool noisy leadsbetween 0.13 and 0.25; how they just work so incredibly wellwithout being anything particularly special on their own. So any ofyou German-metal diggers out there should check this album up, itcontains some killing songs absolutely.

Track list:
1. Abducted
2. Palace Of Sin
3. Armies Of The Tyrant
4. Law Of The Blade
5. Across The Wastelands
6. Shadow World
7. Allied Forces
8. Empires Fall
9. The Journeys End
10. Back To Globy
11. To Hell And Back Again-Saxon cover
12. Reign Of Fear-live

Condition cover: nm

Condition cd: nm

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