Insidious is the fifth album by the

melodic death metal Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heavine ...

band

Nightrage Nightrage is a Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band originally from Thessaloniki. They later re-located to Gothenburg, Sweden. History Formation and ''Sweet Vengeance'' (2000–2003) Nightrage was founded by Marios Iliopoulos and his c ...

. The album was released on 26 September in Europe and a day later in North America (27 September) through German label,

Lifeforce Records Lifeforce Records is a German heavy metal independent record label that specializes in metalcore and death metal. Their roster contains bands such as Confession, This or the Apocalypse, Omnium Gatherum and Last Leaf Down, and they have helped t ...

. The Japanese version of the album includes a cover of

Def Leppard Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1976 in Sheffield. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (guitar, backing vocals), ...

's " Photograph". 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 Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objec ...

(Marios Iliopoulos' former band) album by the same name. ''Insidious'' is the first Nightrage album in the band's history to feature the same line up as the previous album.

Track listing

Musical appearances

* On 22 March 2012 the title track ''Insidious'' was made available as

downloadable content Downloadable content (DLC) is additional content created for an already released video game, distributed through the Internet by the game's publisher. It can either be added for no extra cost or it can be a form of video game monetization, enabli ...

for ''

Rock Band 3 ''Rock Band 3'' is a 2010 music video game developed by Harmonix. The game was initially published and distributed by MTV Games and Electronic Arts, respectively, in late October 2010. Mad Catz took over both roles and re-released the title on N ...

'' on

Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. As the successor to the original Xbox, it is the second console in the Xbox series. It competed with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generati ...

through Rock Band Network. * On 26 April 2012, ''Wrapped In Deceitful Dreams'' was made available as

for ''

'' on

through Rock Band Network. * On 21 June 2012, ''So Far Away / Delirium Of The Fallen'' was made available as

for ''

'' on

through Rock Band Network.

Personnel

;Nightrage *

Antony Hämäläinen Antony Hämäläinen (born August 28, 1980) is a Finnish metal vocalist living in the United States. Biography In the early 1990s, he started playing bass, drums, and singing for multiple bands based both in the US and Finland. September 2007, ...

–

Vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

Lyrics Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a " libretto" and their writer, ...

* Marios Iliopoulos –

Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

Music composition Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called c ...

Olof Mörck Olof Mörck (born 12 December 1981) is a Swedish musician who is the guitarist and one of the songwriters of the metal band Amaranthe, as well as guitarist of the power metal band Dragonland. He was also a member of Nightrage between 2006 and 2 ...

– Guitar,

Anders Hammer Anders Hammer (born 3 April 1980) is best known as the former bass player for the melodic death metal band Nightrage. Anders also plays bass for the Swedish power metal band Dragonland. Gear/Endorsements ESP Viper Standard series, Warwick ...

–

Bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

Johan Nunez Johan * Johan (given name) * ''Johan'' (film), a 1921 Swedish film directed by Mauritz Stiller * Johan (band), a Dutch pop-group ** ''Johan'' (album), a 1996 album by the group * Johan Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada * Jo-Han Jo-H ...

– Drums ;Guest musicians *

Tomas Lindberg Tomas Lindberg (born 16 October 1972), also known as "Tompa" and "Goatspell", is a Swedish vocalist who has fronted many death metal bands, most notably At the Gates. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He also t ...

- guest vocals on "Insidious", "Sham Piety", and "This World Is Coming To An End" * Gus G. – guitar solos on "Wrapped In Deceitful Dreams" and "Solar Corona" * Tom S. Englund - clean vocals on "Wrapped In Deceitful Dreams" and "Solar Corona" * Apollo Papathanasio - clean vocals on "Delirium Of The Fallen", "This World Is Coming To An End", and "Photograph" * Elias Holmlid - Strings and piano on "Delirium Of The Fallen" * John K -

Orchestrations Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orch ...

and keyboards on "Solar Eclipse" and "Emblem Of Light" * George Baharidis -

on "So Far Away" and "Solar Corona" ;Production * Fredrik Nordström – Mixing, Mastering at Studio Fredman * Henrik Udd – Mixing,

Editing Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, o ...

at Studio Fredman * Ryan Butler - Vocal recordings at Arcane Digital Recordings * Terry Nikas - Drums, Guitar, Bass recordings at Zero Gravity Studios

References

{{Authority control Nightrage albums 2011 albums Lifeforce Records albums