“Musically, the band’s rampage borrows heavily from Japanese d-beat ragers like Disclose and Kriegshög. The raw vocals bring to mind 1980s extreme metal groups like Venom and fellow Swedes, Celtic Frost. While the marriage of these styles isn’t anything new, Paranoid does an excellent job of carrying on this tradition while also sculpting their own
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“A blend of d-beat (the main ingredient), rawpunk, black metal, hardcore, speed metal and rock ‘n roll, but executed in a very energetic manner.” – VM-Underground, Fredde
New interview (and review) for BATTLE HELM. “With equal doses Discharge, Anti Cimex and punk this blast through my speakers like the end of the world is near” – Battle Helm, Anders Ekdahl (4/5)
New interview (and review) in Swedish for SKRUTT MAGAZINE. “Man hör att de verkligen har påverkats av både Discharge och Slayer på samma gång av Black Sabbath och den typen av hårdrock. Lägg till detta deras japanska titlar så blir det riktigt coolt. De har ett riktigt bra driv i sin musik och ni som
“Exasperated, frustrated and tanked, they perfectly suit the confrontational cacophony that makes up the musical side found here. A rip-roaring good time of a record.” – The Mighty Decibel, Chris Tighe (7.5)
“PARANOID låter fortfarande som om åttiotalet aldrig hade tagit slut. Det är skitigt, smutsigt och kraftigt inspirerat av VENOM (och då menar jag självklart de stilbildande första åren med Cronos).” – Close-Up Magazine, Dante Thomsen (6)
“偏執症者 (Paranoid) shifts from track to track quickly never to provide you with ample time to take any kind of breath. Heavy Mental Fuck-Up! suffocates you under its torrid pace as it rolls from track to track like a bulldozer over the dead.” – Cadaver Garden
“Là-bas, il n’y a que deux solutions pour survivre à l’hiver : chasser le renne à mains nues ou pratiquer un punk hardcore particulièrement énervé et consommateur de kilowatts.” – Music in Belgium, François Becquart (3.5)
“Now the group has returned with their second full length Heavy Mental Fuck-Up!, which changes up the production values slightly but still offers up more of the punchy riffing and precision that made their previous material so appealing.” – Metal Trenches
“It all sounds like the best squat party you could ever go to or the sound track to those old skate vids Thrasher put out in the late 80’s.” – Ave Noctum, Matt Mason (8.5/10) “Pour les inconditionnels du Metal progressif, euh, comment dire… ? Va falloir aller écouter autre chose…” – Soil Chronicles, Willhelm