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  <review>Faces, Forms &amp; Illusions is an album by the Canadian ambient/electronic music group Delerium that was released on January 6, 1989 on the Dossier label. The album was re-issued in 1997 on Cleopatra Records with the bonus track "Dark Star" added and "Hidden Mask" removed. All songs written by Bill Leeb, except "Monuments of Deceit" and "Mecca", which were co-written by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch.

"Hidden Mask" features samples from the song "Im Nin'alu" by Ofra Haza.

The front cover of the album shows a photo of Thich Quang Duc, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk setting himself alight and burning to death in Saigon, 1963.</review>
  <outline>Faces, Forms &amp; Illusions is an album by the Canadian ambient/electronic music group Delerium that was released on January 6, 1989 on the Dossier label. The album was re-issued in 1997 on Cleopatra Records with the bonus track "Dark Star" added and "Hidden Mask" removed. All songs written by Bill Leeb, except "Monuments of Deceit" and "Mecca", which were co-written by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch.

"Hidden Mask" features samples from the song "Im Nin'alu" by Ofra Haza.

The front cover of the album shows a photo of Thich Quang Duc, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk setting himself alight and burning to death in Saigon, 1963.</outline>
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  <dateadded>2023-12-28 13:51:53</dateadded>
  <title>Faces, Forms and Illusions</title>
  <rating>6</rating>
  <year>2022</year>
  <premiered>2022-04-01</premiered>
  <releasedate>2022-04-01</releasedate>
  <runtime>73</runtime>
  <genre>Ambient</genre>
  <genre>Electronic</genre>
  <genre>Industrial</genre>
  <genre>Rock</genre>
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  <artist>Delerium</artist>
  <albumartist>Delerium</albumartist>
  <track>
    <position>1</position>
    <title>Moments of Deceit</title>
    <duration>04:18</duration>
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    <position>2</position>
    <title>Mecca</title>
    <duration>04:23</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>3</position>
    <title>Inside the Chamber</title>
    <duration>06:21</duration>
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  <track>
    <position>4</position>
    <title>Sword of Islam</title>
    <duration>04:14</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>5</position>
    <title>New Dawn</title>
    <duration>04:54</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>6</position>
    <title>Certain Trust</title>
    <duration>05:11</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>7</position>
    <title>Hidden Mask</title>
    <duration>05:16</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>8</position>
    <title>Strangeways</title>
    <duration>05:18</duration>
  </track>
  <track>
    <position>9</position>
    <title>Subvert</title>
    <duration>03:48</duration>
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  <track>
    <position>10</position>
    <title>Wired Archives</title>
    <duration>06:57</duration>
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  <track>
    <position>11</position>
    <title>Seige of Atrocity</title>
    <duration>07:45</duration>
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  <track>
    <position>12</position>
    <title>Black Ice</title>
    <duration>03:37</duration>
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  <track>
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    <title>Desert</title>
    <duration>10:39</duration>
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  <artistdesc>Delerium is a Canadian new-age ambient electronic musical duo that formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act Front Line Assembly. Throughout the band’s history, their musical style has encompassed a broad range, including dark ethereal ambient trance, voiceless industrial soundscapes, and electronic pop music. They are best known for their worldwide hit "Silence". The band is known to feature female guest vocalists on their albums since their 1994 album Semantic Spaces.

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  <label>Metropolis Records</label>
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