Insidious (Nightrage album)

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Insidious
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Studio album by
Released26 September 2011
RecordedApril–June, 2011 at Zero Gravity Studios in Athens, Greece and Arcane Digital Recordings in Chandler, Arizona
Genre Melodic death metal
Length57:47
Label Lifeforce
Producer Nightrage
Nightrage chronology
Vengeance Descending
(2010)
Insidious
(2011)
The Puritan
(2015)

Insidious [1] is the fifth album by the melodic death metal band Nightrage. The album was released on 26 September in Europe and a day later in North America (27 September) through German label, Lifeforce Records. The Japanese version of the album includes a cover of Def Leppard's "Photograph".

Contents

The song Wrapped In Deceitful Dreams references in the lyrics "Seas Of Eternal Silence" which may refer to the Sweet Vengeance song At The Ends Of The Earth or the 1997 Exhumation (Marios Iliopoulos' former band) album by the same name.

Insidious is the first and only Nightrage album in the band's history to feature the same line up as the previous album.

Track listing [1]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."So Far Away (intro)"Iliopoulos/Baharidis1:18
2."Delirium Of The Fallen"Iliopoulos/Mörck/Hämäläinen4:14
3."Insidious"Iliopoulos/Hämäläinen3:45
4."Wrapped In Deceitful Dreams"Iliopoulos/Hämäläinen3:52
5."Hate Turns Black"Iliopoulos/Mörck/Hämäläinen4:32
6."Sham Piety"Iliopoulos/Mörck/Hämäläinen5:30
7."Cloaked In Wolf Skin"Iliopoulos/Mörck/Hämäläinen3:22
8."This World Is Coming To An End"Iliopoulos/Hämäläinen3:26
9."Utmost End Of Pain"Iliopoulos/Mörck/Hämäläinen4:22
10."Poignant Memories"Iliopoulos/Mörck/Hämäläinen3:55
11."Hush Of Night"Iliopoulos/Mörck/Hämäläinen3:37
12."Poisoned Pawn"Iliopoulos/Mörck/Hämäläinen3:57
13."Solar Eclipse (Prelude)"John K.0:35
14."Solar Corona"Iliopoulos/Baharidis5:43
15."Emblem Of Light (outro)"John K.1:05
16."Photograph" (Japanese and Digital edition bonus track; Def Leppard cover)Clark/Willis/Savage/Lange/Elliott4:34
Total length:57:47

Musical appearances

Personnel

Nightrage
Guest musicians
Production

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References

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