Paraseed creates a sound between and beyond the boundaries of pop, rock and electronic music. Without losing the earworm character, the catchy tune, the musical spectrum is exhausted to make every song an individual experience. As a listener you will be sent on a musical journey rich in contrasts.
Almost anachronistically, each song on this journey corresponds to a musical story, which requires listening with curiosity and patience in order to fully engage and be rewarded with an “aha experience”.
The beginning
The music project “Paraseed” was founded in February 2011 in Vienna, Austria, when two enthusiastic and different musicians decided to combine their differences and release their music together. The essence was a unique style they called “Electronic Trip-Rock” – a sound between and beyond the boundaries of alternative electronic and rock music.
2012 the debut album “Earworms” was released. Paraseed continued as a band, having several live gigs with four human members (keys, gits, drums, bass) and a laptop on stage. “Earworms” and the 14 tracks contained on it exhausted parasitically the entire musical spectrum without losing the catchy tune, making each song an individual experience. The listener was sent on a journey of highly contrasting music.
The last gig as a band was in 2013 at Europe’s biggest free outdoor festival, the Donauinselfest, in Paraseed’s hometown of Vienna.
Shortly after that Paraseed split up due to of differing interests. Only one founder remained, who still had a lot of material waiting to be released. However, perfectionism and frustration prevented a faster release of the second album.
The rebirth
In 2021, Paraseed resurrected with a new EP. With “Trees Falling“, which also featured a video and two other mixes of that song, Paraseed bounced back to the public eye and ear. With it Paraseed continued with its own style, a blend of rock guitars, subtle beats, and electronic sounds. After the insight into the inner world and the inner conflicts, Paraseed now focused on the outer world and launched a musical wake-up call with the new song to point out the plights in the world.
In 2022 Paraseed finally released their new album called “Lost Tracks“, including 4 (!) video clips. The songs on this album have survived up to ten years after their creation, until they were finally completed. So they are the “best of the best”, listened to over a 1,000 times to ensure that they seamlessly follow the “earworms character”, the “catchy nature” of the debut album, which was released 10 years before. However, Paraseed refrained from perfectionism. And yet – Paraseed stands for good unknown music for good unknown people.
2023 new recordings began.
2024 Paraseed finally released “One Step Ahead (Part 1)” on Youtube.
2025 Part 2 including Part 1 of “One Step Ahead” is released as a two-track single on 24th of May. While the first part was exclusively electronic and consisted of only one line of lyrics, the second part is more rocking and melodic. Another song called “Deep At Night” is also almost finished and will also be released later this year.