{"id":25896,"count":1,"description":"Paragon is a speed metal\/power metal band from Hamburg, Germany.\nParagon was founded by guitarist Martin Christian (who in many of the band's album booklets is written as Martin W\u00f6bcke 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.\nAbout 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.\nAfter the recording of Forgotten Prophecies in early 2007, the band's longtime bass player Jan B\u00fcnning quit the band because of \"musical differences.\" Shortly after the band had found a replacement in Dirk...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/paragon\/","name":"Paragon","slug":"paragon","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/25896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=25896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}