From April to May 2026 Blind Illusion entered the studio to record their fourth studio album, titled Crushing The Universe with Tom Gears (Nefarious, Ex-Blind Illusion) as producer.
In early 2026 Blind Illusion signed with Hectic Records/Bleeding Priest records and announced a Live album titled STAGE FLIGHT: Live At The UC Theatre due for release on October 16, 2026. The limited edition vinyl features a special set of songs from 1978 to 1986 featuring original Blind Illusion vocalist…
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On April 25, 2025, Blind Illusion got together with original vocalist David White to play a historical show supporting Death Angel and Exodus (celebrating 40 years of Bonded by Blood) at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, California. Songs that have not been played live in over 40 years were: Destroyer,…
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On October 25, 2025, Blind Illusion played Frost and Fire V Fest in Ventura, CA. They performed The Sane Asylum in its entirely for the first time in the band’s history.
On June 16, 2024, Blind Illusion announced a new lineup consisting of Mark Biedermann on lead guitar and vocals, Phil Cosentini on drums, Avery Thurman on bass and Martin Lacour on lead guitar.
Blind Illusion went on a European Tour in 2023, in support of the Wrath Of The Gods album, from September 1 to September 16.
In August 2020, Blind Illusion announced that they were in the studio recording their third album, entitled Wrath Of The Gods which included former Death Angel drummer Andy Galeon. The album was released on October 7, 2022.
In December 2013, Biedermann met D.R.I. bassist Harald Oimoen in Berkeley, and Oimoen convinced Biedermann to return to the Sane Asylum sound that Blind Illusion were most associated with, and join with him and drummer Erik “Cire” Cruze from early East Bay Thrashers “Terminal Shock”. These sessions were the catalyst…
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After a roughly 20-year hiatus, Biedermann reformed Blind Illusion in 2009 with a new lineup of Danny Harcourt on guitar and Robert Nystrom on drums, releasing their second studio album Demon Master on July 7, 2010. The album marked a very different style and sound from The Sane Asylum ,…
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Biedermann left the music business behind and taught Shaolin Kung-Fu at the Buddhist Monastery City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Talmage, CA. It was at this time in 1999 that he discovered the name The Ghost Kings in a Buddhist sutra “The Past Lives of Earth Store Boddhissattva” which he…
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