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ILLUSION. New Prog Thrash Metal Album was released
May 23rd, 2025

Illusion, the metal band from Barcelona (Spain), released their second album ‘Stages Of Self-Destruction’.
The new LP becomes a leap forward exploring new territories in terms of song-writing and lyrical composition establishing Illusion as a modern Prog Thrash band mixing technical passages with the punch and power of the thrash and punk worlds.

‘SOS’ has been recorded in AXtudio (Barcelona) and mastered by Tony Lindgren in the renowned Fascination Street Studios (Sweden) where bands like Amon Amarth, Testament, Arch Enemy and Kreator recorded some of their best albums.

The artwork comes from the hand of Berlin legendary artist Andreas Marschall who also did the artwork for metal classic albums like Sodom’s ‘Agent Orange’, Kreator’s ‘Coma Of Souls’ and Blind Guardian’s ‘Nightfall In Middle-Earth’ to name a very few. Marschall stated the making of the artwork for this album as “a very creative process. Haven’t seen something like this since the punk era”.

This new record shows a more mature band with an improved sound mixing thrash influences with classical music and prog references like King Crimson and Frank Zappa.

‘Stages Of Self-Destruction’ includes nine tracks full of energy, lyrics about pacifism and anti-war thoughts, inner torments and social injustice, the abuse of humans against nature and a few surprises here and there that will make you come back for more once you hear it!!!

The band also released an official video of the song ‘The Pulse Of The Machine’ directed by Juli Bazooka (Crisix, Midnight Brujo) and produced by the band with AV producers Cultural Dogs (Crisix, Lèpoka, Löanshark…). The song is a cry for peace in a world at war talking about the disasters of warfare, bomb raids to civilian population and the consequences of conflicts seen from a critical point of view in a time when misery and destruction increases day by day. This new video shows the band playing in a space used as a bunker during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in the current Museu de Girona (Catalonia) and includes pictures of population attacked with bombs and militiaman fighting in the north area of Spain between 1936 and 1937.

‘Stages Of Self-Destruction’ is an album written as an exorcism, like a spiritual release: the powerful music you are about to experience is the result of casting our darkest spirits and inner demons and turning them into a piece of art

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