Paradox (Balzac album)

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Paradox
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Studio album by Balzac
Released August 21, 2009
Genre Horror punk, digital hardcore
Length21:00
Label Diwphalanx Records
Producer Takeshi Ueda
Balzac chronology
The Birth of Evil
(2008) The Birth of Evil2008
Paradox
(2009)

Paradox is a mini-album released by the Japanese horror punk band Balzac.

Japan Constitutional monarchy in East Asia

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian continent and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea in the south.

Horror punk

Horror punk is a music genre that mixes proto-gothic and punk rock sounds with morbid and violent imagery and lyrics, which are often influenced by horror films or science fiction B-movies. The genre is similar to and sometimes overlaps with deathrock, although deathrock leans more towards an atmospheric gothic rock sound while horror punk leans towards a 1950s-influenced doo-wop and rockabilly sound. Horror punk music is typically more aggressive and melodic than deathrock.

Balzac (band) Japanese punk band

Balzac is a Japanese punk band formed in 1992 in Kyoto. The band was founded by singer and songwriter Hirosuke Nishiyama, who has remained the only constant member of the band since its creation. Since the beginning, Balzac was highly influenced by the sound and image of the famous horror punk band The Misfits and, especially during the very early years, Glenn Danzig's Samhain, adopting and combining the musical and visual style of both bands to create their own. The band often stays away from the "campy" horror lyrics and image found in most horror punk bands, as the lyrics by Hirosuke tend to be more like dark poetry and, though not always serious, deal with themes of darkness, loneliness and fear.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Schiz-Ism I"
  2. "Hazard"
  3. "Paradox"
  4. "Spiral"
  5. "Space Vampire in Silence Noise"
  6. "The Eyes (That See What Isn't There)"
  7. "Schiz-Ism II"

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