THIS ALBUM CONTAIN(10-TRACKS)
1-SAIL AROUND THE WORLD
2-WHEN THE STARS ARE FALLING
3-CURSE OF A GENERATION
4-SCARED
5-KINGS WILL COME
6-RAIN
7-ARMAGEDDON
8-ONE WAY TO FREEDOM
9-MILES AWAY
10-BEHIND THE CURTAIN
NARNIA - DECADE OF CONFESSION / 2007
THIS ALBUM CONTAIN(27-TRACKS)
1-IN HIS MASJESTY'S SERVICE
2-INTO THIS GAME
3-SHALL ALL THE WORLD
4-JUDGEMENT DAY
5-INNOCENT BLOOD
6-THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN(Live)
7-BACK FROM HELL(Live)
8-NO TIME TO LOSE(Live)
9-INNER SANCTUM
10-THE WITCH & THE LION
11-REVOLUTION OF MOTHER EARTH
12-THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
13-TRAPPED AT THIS AGE
14-SUNRISE
15-GATES OF CAIR PARAVEL
16-LIVING WATER
17-THE MISSION
18-SHELTER THROUGH PAIN
19-CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOU
20-DANGEROUS GAME
21-LONG LIVE TO THE KING
22-NO MORE SHADOWS FROM THE PAST
23-HEAVENLY LOVE
24-BREAK THE CHAINS
25-AWAKENING(Live)
26-HYMN TO THE NORTH
27-SHOW ALL THE WOLRD(Remix)
CREDITS:Musicians
Christian Rivel – Lead Vocals
Carl Johan Grimmark – Guitars & Keyboards
Martin Claesson & Linus Kase – Keyboards
Andreas Olsson & Jakob Persson – Bass
reas Johannson - Drums
NARNIA-ENTER THE GATE-2006
THIS ALBUM CONTAIN(10-TRACKS)
1-INTO THIS GAME
2-PEOPLE OF THE BLOODRED CROSS
3-ANOTHER WOLRD
4-SHOW ALL THE WOLRD
5-ENTER THE GATE
6-TAKE ME HOME
7-THIS IS MY LIFE
8-AIMIMNG HIGHER
9-THE MAN FROM NAZARETH
10-HYMN TO THE NORTH
CREDITS:Musicians
Christian Rivel – Lead Vocals
Carl Johan Grimmark – Guitars, Lap Steel & Keyboards
Andreas Olsson – Bass
Andreas Johansson – Drums & Triangle
NARNIA-AT SHORT NOTICE...LIVE IN GERMANY...2006
THIS ALBUM CONTAIN(13-TRACKS)
1-INTRODUCTION
2-INNER SANCTUM
3-THE MISSION
4-THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN
5-BACK FROM BACK
6-NO TIME TO LOSE
7-LONG LIVE THE KING
8-LIVING WATER
9-SHELTER THROUGH THE PAIN
10-DANGEROUS GAME
11-AWAKENING
12-BREAK THE CHAINS
13-THE WITCH & THE LION
CREDITS:Musicians
Christian Rivel – Lead Vocals
Carl Johan Grimmark – Guitars
Andreas Olsson – Bass
Andreas Johansson – Drums
Linus Kase – Keyboards
NARINIA-THE GREAT FALL-2003
THIS ALBUM CONTAIN(9-TRACKS)
1-WAR PRELUDIUM
2-THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN
3-BACK FROM HELL
4-NO TIME TO LOSE
5-INNOCENT BLOOD
6-GROUND ZERO
7-JUDGEMENT
8-DESERT RAIN
9-THE GREAT FALL OF MAN
CREDITS:Musicians
Christian Rivel – Lead Vocals
Carl Johan Grimmark – Guitars
Martin Claesson – Keyboards
Andreas Olsson – Bass
Andreas Johansson - Drums
Guest Musicians
Eric Clayton – Lead Vocals
Anders Johansson - Drums
NARNIA-DESERT LAND-2001
THIS ALBUM CONTAIN(9-TRACKS)
1-INNER SUNCTUM
2-THE WITCH & THE LION
3-FALLING FROM THE THRONE
4-REVOLUTION OF MOTHER EARTH
5-THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
6-ANGELS OF CRYING
7-WALKING THE WIRE
8-MISTY MORNING
9-TRAPPED IN THIS AGE
CREDITS:Line-up
Christian Liljegren - Lead And Backing Vocals
Carljohan Grimmark - All Electric Guitars
Jakob Persson - Bass
Andreas Johansson - Drums
Martin Claesson - Keyboards
Guest Musicians
Per Hagström - Backing Vocals & Whispers
NARNIA-LONG LIVE TO THE KING-1999
THIS ALBUM CONTAIN(11-TRACKS)
1-GATES OF CAIR PARAVEL(Introduction)
2-LIVING WATER
3-SHELTER THOUGHT THE PAIN
4-THE MISSION
5-WHAT YOU GIVE IS WHAT YOU GET
6-THE LOST SON
7-LONG LIVE TO THE KING
8-DANGEROUS GAME
9-STAR OVER THE BETHLEHEM
10-SHADOWSLAND(OUTRO)
11-CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOU(Bonus Tracks)
CREDITS:Line-up:
Christian Liljegren - Lead And Backing Vocals
Carljohan Grimmark - All Electric Guitars
Jakob Persson - Bass
Andreas Johansson - Drums
Martin Claesson - Keyboards
Guest Musicians:
Sonny Larsson - Backing Vocals
Mart Hallek - Violin on "The Mission.
NARNIA-A-W-A-K-E-N-I-N-G-1988
THIS ALBUM CONTAIN(8-TRACKS)
1-BREAK THE CHAINS
2-NO MORE SHADOWS FROM THE PAST
3-THE RETURN OF ASLAN
4-HEAVENLY LOVE
5-TIME OF CHAGES
6-THE AWAKENING
7-TOUCH FROM YOU
8-SIGN OF THE TIME
9-LET ME REST IN YOUR ARMS
CREDITS:Line-up:
Christian Liljegren - Lead And Backing Vocals
Carljohan Grimmark - All Electric And Acoustic Guitars,
Guest Musicians:
Jakob Persson - Bass
Mart Hallek - Violin
Janne Samefors - Backing Vocals
Janne Stark - Guitar Duelist
BIOGRAPHY:
1993 In the end of the year 1993 Christian Liljegren and I met for the very first time. The location was a no longer existing recordstore in our hometown Jönköping. Jönköping is a small town in the south of sweden, with a lot of musical activity going on. At that time Christian and his band Modest Attraction was just about to release their debut album "The truth in Your face". I was in a band called Sentinel. We had a short conversation, swapped phonenumbers and kept in touch after that first meeting. 1996 The Years went by and we kept struggling with our bands. Modest Attraction released their second CD, "Divine Luxury", at the same time as I decided to leave Sentinel. At that time Christian gave me a phone-call. He asked me if I was interested in being a part of his future solo-project. He had a passion for melodic hardrock, a kind of music that he wasn't able or even allowed to perform in his band Modest Attraction. I said: "Yes, I'm in..." A few months later Christian called me again and said that Modest Attraction was going on tour to Germany and their Guitar-player Stephan Mohlin wasn't able to go with them for different reasons. I was asked to fill the guitar spot for him, which I did. Then Stephan Mohlin quit the band and I was asked to be their permanent Guitarist. At the same time as Christian and I was in Modest Attraction we kept planning the "project" that Christian had a vision of. We had some old songs from previous bands that we tried to shape up as well as possible. We entered the "Topz Recording" studio in september that year. "Topz Recording" was a small, analog studio, deep down under ground. (We eventually "named" it "Hell studio" because of the many stairs down under the street.) So, it was just me and Christian then. I played the instruments, Christian did the vocals. The recordings went on and on for months because of the very short recording sessions. 4-5 hours a day was the standard that was set by our two engineers. There were A Few Guest on this album. One of them was Jakob Persson who later on turned out to be Narnia's permanent Bass-player. Janne Stark also did A Guest-Solo on guitar and Mart Hallek played Violin. 1997 In January we were finally able to see the light and the end of this quiet tedious recording. As we were going to mix the album I caught a flue, nastier than ever before. I was only there for two songs so Christian had to be responible for this by himself. After a week of hard work by Christian and our engineers, the "Awakening" album was mixed. After the mastering at Starec Studio we handed over a CDR to our agent at that time, Magnus Söderkvist. He went to the MIDEM festival in France and introduced Our Record To 10 Japanese labels. 9 of them were eager to sign a deal with Narnia. A bidding between the companies started and we eventually decided to stick with Pony Canyon. Other artist on Pony Canyon are: Marillion, Jens & Anders Johansson, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Paul Jones, (Ex Led Zeppelin) Joe Lynn Turner (Ex Rainbow) and many more. In May Christian and I went on our last, short tour with Modest Attraction. We headed for Germany and Switzerland and during that trip We Met Matthias Mittelstädt. Matthias had a managment company Called MCM Music together with his brother Rainer. Matthias loved our album and offered himself to become our manager. We felt that the chemistry was right and ended up on MCM. Other bands on MCM are Saviour Machine, Rob Rock etc. Now We Wanted to play live of course. We gathered some talented friends and Narnia Mark I Was Born. The line up of Narnia mark I: Jakob Persson - Bass Martin Claésson - Keyboards Fredrik Junhammar - Drums Christian Liljegren - Vocals Carl Johan Grimmark - Guitars This lineup did it's first and last concert in Huskvarna, Sweden at the "Ung Kraft" festival on March 24 -97. Right after that Fredrik quit the band because of lack of time. On July 18 "Awakening" was released in Japan. The release was a small success for us and we gained a lot of fans over there. We needed a new drummer and we found Andreas Johansson who auditioned and joined us in August. Since then Mark II is still together. European record labels got more and more interested in Narnia. We signed with the German metal-label Nuclear Blast. Together with swedish Hammerfall we were one of the first melodic bands on Nuclear Blast. 1998 Nuclear Blast released the "Awakening" in February. We did shows in Sweden and Germany and in April we got the opportunity to open up for Stratovarius in Turku and Helsinki, Finland. We also appeared on Finnish TV. More and more people heard of Narnia all over Europe. A big dream came true when we were asked to do a concert at the legendary "Monsters of Rock" festival in Milano, Italy. Of course we were overwhelmed. We were going to play with bands like Deep Purple, Van Halen, Dream Theater and many more. Two weeks before the festival we got the sad news that the festival was moved to a smaller arena, and a lot of bands were refused to play. That dream crashed and burned as dreams do sometimes but that same day we were asked to go on tour to Germany/Switzerland with Ronnie James Dio. That helped us to lick our wounds. During the summer of 98 we spent a few hot months in the studio, recording our second album "Long Live the King". The location this time was "Berghem Studio" outside Jönköping, sweden. A very nice studio on the countryside. The "Awakening" album had a stiff project atmosphere because of the limitation of just two persons performing. This time we worked hard to make a band-record. The whole band was in the studio. As You might hear Christian tried a slightly different vocal style. He brought the vocal lines down a bit, to a lower register. As the producer of this album I tried to make it big, inspired by the sound of Black Sabbath's "Tyr". The guests on this album was once again Mart Hallek but also Sonny Larsson who did some background vocals. On the 22nd of september,the very day after the album was finished, we were on a plane to Germany where were going to spend the following three weeks in busses, hotels, clubs and halls. The tour was called "To Hull and back" and it was a three band package. The running order each night was: Black Symphony (fr USA with Jeff Martin - Badlands, Racer X) Narnia Dio We did 15 shows in Germany/Switzerland and it was GREAT. There were between 500-2000 people showing up each night. Many of the clubs and halls were sold out and packed. As soon as we got home Christian and I was invited to Japan to promote the upcoming "LLTK" album. It was four hectic days of interviews with TV, Radio and magazines. (Luckily we also had one day off to see Van Halen at the famous Budokan arena.) During our Tokyo stay I met Caparison guitars that I'm now endorsed by. When we got home from Japan we did a few more shows on our own continent that year. We headed back to Germany where we played the "Christmas Rock Night", Ennepetal with Saviour Machine and Ken Tamplin etc. 1999 1999 started out good with the release of the new Narnia album "Long Live The King". We had a releaseparty in our hometown Jönköping that were totally sold out and there were hundreds of people outside. Christian worked hard, doing interviews with radio, magazines and e-zines all over the world. We had good reviews everywhere, better than the "Awakening" but saleswise "LLTK" never really reached to the same level as "Awakening". We did concerts in Sweden, Finland and Germany. Overall, this year wasn't as hectic as the previous year. There was time for us to do some different things. Sometimes I was even afraid that Narnia was dying. Christian put his own band Wisdom Call together. "LLTK" was kind of a "slow" record and Christian's fascinatio n for fast music, and the need to rehearse more often to keep his voice trained, made him put this band together. Together with a friend of mine, the singer Pär Hagström, I recorded a cover-version of Yngwie Malmsteen's "Dark ages". It was released as a tribute to Yngwie Malmsteen on the record "A guitar odyssey". I started to write new music for Narnia as well. 2000 In the beginning of this year we had enough songs to start recording a new album. In March we started. Once again we were in "Berghem Studio". We recorded the drums and rhythm guitars there and then we moved in to my own "Dream Factory" studio to record the rest. I had just started to build this studio and we ran into some serious computer problems for a while. There were some drives that were striking. It's almost embaressing to admit now but for different reasons it was really hard to find the actual problem. I bought some new drives and we were ready to move on. We were looking back at the "LLTK" album and what we saw was something that were proud of but this time we wanted to do something different. We wanted to make our new CD more alive, basic and raw than any of the previous ones. Once again I was producing it myself. I tried to build up an aggressive type of sound, influenced by records from the '70s. More guitars, less keyboards, distorted bass and "basement drums". Christian's lyrics on this album are more personal than ever and Andreas, Jakob and Martin did their best and most relaxed performances to date. The only guest on this album was Pär Hagström who did backgound vocals and on additional lead-part. We recorded a cover of Uriah Heep's "Sunrise". This was made for a Uriah Heep tribute record. The release was set to the year 2001. We did a lot of nice touring this year. We played in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Holland, England and Germany. In Holland Andreas was temporarily replaced by former Modest Attraction drummer Mick Norström. We were totally blown away by the crowds in our "first time countries" Holland and England. We just stood there with stupid looks on our faces, receiving a wonderful welcoming from the audiences in Rotterdam, Holland and Sheltenham, UK. The show in Sheltenham was at the old, famous Greenbelt festival. We celebrated christmas-time with the Japenese release of our new CD "Desert Land" on December 20 and New Years eve with a big concert in Seinäjoki, Finland. 2001 We started this year with promotion activities for the "Desert Land" release in Europe, North & South America and Australia. Christian went to Germany and the headquarter of Nuclear Blast to meet the press and to do phone-interviews all over the world. The reviews of "Desert Land" was better than any of the previous records. The album was released on February 14 and once again we had a releaseparty in Jönköping. We did two concerts this night, to get everybody in. In the fall of 2001 Jakob Persson was replaced by the talented bassplayer Andreas Olsson who had played together with Christian in his project Wisdom call. He was and still is a member of the band Stormwind. Right after that we started composing music for a new album. For this album we decided to realize a long-time idea of making a concept album. In this year I also became a part of the American band/project Saviour Machine. The record "Legend III:I" was recorded this year 2002 This year we made a small bunch of concerts, composed music and worked on the concept for "The Great Fall". It was recorded in spread-out sessions from the spring of 2002 to early 2003. We had two special-guest appearances on the album by Mr Eric Clayton (Saviour Machine) and Mr Anders Johansson (HammerFall) Christian also worked a lot with his label Rivel Records and with other musical projects. I played on the "Live in Deutchland 2002" DVD/CD with Saviour Machine that came out in the fall of this year. 2003 Right after "The Great Fall" was mixed I recieved a phone-call from our keyboard-player Martin. He wanted to leave the band. After 6 years with the band he felt that it was time to move on for different reasons. We licked our wounds and asked our friend Linus Kеse to join immediately, which he did! A month later we were asked to do a concert in Owen, Germany and we thought "Hey, let's record it and put a LIVE-DVD out". So, we made all arrangements, got a new deal for it with German label Massacre real quick and pulled it off to our own surprise. In the summer we joined with Dio for one concert in Vдsterеs, Sweden. The autumn was spent mixing, editing, cutting and mastering the DVD which turned out GREAT! A big THANK YOU to everyone who attended this memorable and luckily well-documented concert. Christian was working hard this year together with Lars Chriss from Lions Share on a project called "Audiovision". Christian and Linus was also working together on a project called "Windy City". The debut CD of the band "System Breakdown", that I'm in together with Andreas J, was released this year. Andreas J was on tour with one of Sweden's most famous domestic artists "Carola" on her "Twentieth anniversary" tour. 2004 2004 may have been the most interesting year in Narnia's history. We had our first DVD out, named "At short notice", on Massacre records. Itґs a great documentation over one of the best shows we ever did. We are very proud of it. During our "At short notice" tour we had the opportunity to visit some new places were we had never played before. We were very happy to be a part of Sweden Rock Festival this year. We had great fun playing there and we also got the chance to see some awesome bands perform like Europe, UFO and Judas Priest. The Faroe Islands wasnґt just a great gig - it was fantastic to visit their beautiful country and our reception was far better than we all expected. The people that made the arrangement did a great job and we made some great friends there. Thank you all for making that happen. We hope that weґll be back at the Faroe Islands in the future. Revolution Metal Fest in Mexico city became the highlight of the year. Since Stryper canceled, which is a story on its own, we played together with Saviour Machine, Mortification and Excosia. We gave the 4000 people that showed up a concert to remember. Even here we were suprised by the overwhelming response we got. Huge thanks to everybody involved in making Revolution Metal Fest happen. You have a special place in our hearts forever! We canґt wait to go back to Central America! All Narnia members have been working with different projects during the year: Read more about Christianґs projects at www.rivelrecords.com Carl Johan has been recording and performing with Saviour Machine. Andreas Johansson has been touring with swedish artist E-type. Andreas Olsson's been recording with Divinefire and performing with Harmony. Linus is working with Brighteye Brison. Andreas Olsson, Andreas Johansson and Carl Johan played a gig with Rob Rock in Oslo. Carl Johan has also recorded some lead-guitars for the new Rob Rock album "Holy Hell". During autumn Carl Johan and Christian have been working on new songs for a NEW NARNIA-ALBUM! At the moment we have 11 songs and the plan is to start recording in februari. The working title for the album is "Enter the gate". We promise that it will be nothing but great! .
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REVIEWS FOR THE ALBUMS:
AWEKENING
Awakening .Narnia is purely christian in every respect. When Lewis wrote narnia, he was thinking: what if Jesus went into another fallen world?' This is what makes Narnia christian. Aslan is Jesus, the god-man; the witch is Satan, the great rebel.This is an amazing album from start to finish. OK so the lyrics are a bit cheesy but the music makes up for that, CarlJohan Grimmark is an amazing musician, he plays Guitar, Keyboards and Bass on this album and also programs the drums which I'm not shure are real or not but they still sound great all the same. I just wonder if he is influenced by Yngwie at all??? .... There is possibly a small chance he might be . All the same he is a great guitarist and does a good job even thought he does sound a bit too much like his idol.The vocals are one of the best in the world And they still do a good job. I can't get enough of 'No More Shadows from the Past', what a song that is!!!! 'The Awakening' is also a favorite of mine on this album. All of the other songs sound good too there isn't really a weak song on here.This is a great album overall and I ant wait to check out more of their stuff. Rock on NARNIA!! is devoted to CS Lewis' literary Narnia than to this band.Lewis was not an Anglican apologist who wrote many explicitly Christian books. Darwin was a Creationist. Jesus was a woman. Bach played hard rock. Arsenic is a tonic. And anniepotter's brilliant review is worth the cyberspace it clutters.Anyone get the sarcasm? In his collection of essays "God in the Dock" Lewis explicitly encourages the writing of books of every sort with their Christianity "latent". However, the Biblical themes of substitutionary redemption, immediate creation, gender distinction, monarchical traditionalism, feudal loyalty ad infinitum are BLATANT in the Narnia Chronicles, which begin with creation and a fall and end with apocalypse and heaven. Only a modern totalitarian humanist could claim that these are generic stories. If Aslan is not Christ, then allegory simply must not exist. Where do these infidels get the idea that all great literature, even Christian allegory, belongs to them?One wonders what anniepotter thinks about "The Pilgrim's Progress" and "Paradise lost". No, actually one doesn't care to know.THE GREAT FALL ALBUM REVIEWS:.I bought this cd because I suspected it was power metal and because of they're name. It took about two times of listening to the whole cd before it started to grow on me. The sound on the cd is quite good. The Guitars, Bass, Drums and Vocals are all good. This cd isn't really based on the Narnia books so if you buy this cd expecting it to be about Narina you'll be disappointed. They're other cds might be about Narina but I don't know I can't find any of they're cds. The best song on this cd is "The Great Fall of Man" it is quite a good song and it also talks about what a fallen world we live in.Mix together the neoclassical Guitar stylings of Yngwie Malmsteen, the classic 80's metal of Dio, the melodic hard rock of Joe Lynn Turner era Rainbow and the progressive metal of Dream Theater and one would get 'The Great Fall' by Narnia. Some might call this CD neoclassical metal, others power metal, I call it great music. Everything from the production to the songwriting to the Vocals to the Keyboards and the Blazing Guitar Solos is excellent. The band has an incredible guitar player, however he does not let his amazing technical abilities over shadow the songs. From start to finish 'The Great Fall' is a great release. So far one of my favorite CD's to come out in 2003 along with Tourniquet's 'Where Moth And Rust Destroy'. Highly recommended.
DECADE OF CONFESSION ALBUM REVIEW:
This is an essential collection of Europe's leading Christian epic/melodic metal outfit topped with a lot of special tracks - the limited double Digipak with 2 CD's. "Decade of Confession" offers 2 CD's packed with new songs, rare Japanese and US bonus tracks and the best album tracks from 10 years of NARNIA history.
http://angelicwarlord.com/reviews/n/narnia06b.html.
DESERT RAIN ALBUM REVIEW:
The greatest strength of Narnia rests in the amazing talents of their guitarist, Carl Grimmark. At times I felt as though I was listening to Yngvie Malmsteen. Grimmark's playing style is fast and very similar to Yngvie's. The vocals on this album are also decent and the production quality is above average.
This album is at its best when they rock hard and fast. This is Narnia's best album and has the highest production quality. If you liked either of their first two albums, then I guarantee you will like this one. The only weak spot on this album is that a few of the songs Have A Slower Tempo and didn't impress me much (other than the Fantastic Guitar Solos). If you like Impellitteri, Yngvie Malmsteen, or just plain guitar shreddin', then you should check out "Desert Land" by Narnia.If you like 80's style metal you will love this album. This CD is so awesome both in sound and production you will not want to take it out of your CD player. It starts out real heavy and just keeps getting heavier all the way through. If you like Metallic Heavy Riffin' Rock And Roll you will have your mind blown by this brand new release from this GREAT Swedish band. They say metal is coming back and Narnia is for sure one of the best "Leaders of the Pack" Check em out you will not be disapointed that is forsure(http://www.holymetalrob.com/)
