Grand Illusion (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Grand Illusion
Type = Studio album
Artist = Nocturnal Rites


Released = September 19 2005
Recorded = Toontrack Music, Umeå, Sweden
Genre = Power metal
Length = 46:38
Label = Century Media
Producer = Shep
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Last album = "Lost in Time - The Early Years of Nocturnal Rites" (2005)
This album = "Grand Illusion " (2005)
Next album = "The 8th Sin" (2007)

"Grand Illusion" is the seventh album from the power metal band Nocturnal Rites released in 2005

Track listing

# "Fools Never Die" – 3:54
# "Never Trust" – 4:43
# "Still Alive" – 4:02
# "Something Undefined" – 4:08
# "Our Wasted Days" – 5:17
# "Cuts Like A Knife" – 5:10
# "End Of Our Rope" – 5:26
# "Never Ending" – 4:29
# "One By One" – 4:23
# "Deliverence" – 5:00

Band line-up

* Jonny Lindkvist - Vocals
* Fredrik Mannberg - Rhythm Guitar, backing vocals
* Nils Norberg - Lead Guitar
* Nils Eriksson - Bass
* Owe Lingvall - Drums

Guest musicians

* Henrik Kjellberg - Keyboards and backing vocals
* Leif Grabbe, Ronny Hemlin (Steel Attack), L-G Persson (The Storyteller), Jens Carlsson (Persuader) - Backing Vocals
* Jens Johansson - Keyboard solo on "Cuts like a Knife"
* Henrik Dahnage (Evergrey) - First guitar solo on "Cuts like a Knife"
* Kristoffer Olivius (Naglfar) - Harsh vocals on "Cuts like a Knife"
* Stefan Elmgren - Second guitar solo on "Never Trust"
* Per Elofsson - "pre-chorus whammy bar chaos" on "Never Trust"
* Olec Balta - First guitar solo on "Something Undefined", left channel intro for "Our Wasted Days"
* Emil Norberg (Persuader) - "pre-chorus whammy bar madness and end of song lead frenzy" on "Our Wasted Days"