Narnia is a Swedish metal band founded by guitarist Carl Johan Grimmark and singer Christian Liljegren.

Modest Attraction produced its second album Divine Luxury in 1996, at the same time as Grimmark decided to leave Sentinel.

Liljegren had a passion for melodic hard rock, which he was not able to explore in the band Modest Attraction.

[citation needed] A few months later Liljegren called Grimmark again and told him that Modest Attraction would go on tour to Germany and the guitar player Stephan Mohlin could not accompany them.

Janne Stark (Overdrive, Locomotive Breath, Baltimoore) was responsible for the guitar solos and Mart Hallek played the violin.

[citation needed] With a demo in hand and new management, they began to search for talented new members and finally Narnia was born.

[citation needed] Subsequently, the group signed with Nuclear Blast Records, and would release the albums Long Live the King (1999), Desert Land (2001), and The Great Fall (2003) on that label.

[6] Since their farewell shows in Mexico City, (at Revolution Metal), and Germany, (at Christmas Rocknight), there has not been a great deal of information about the members of Narnia.

That changed on 22 January 2012, as former frontman Carl Johan Grimmark took to the band's official MySpace and revealed that he had been quite busy in the past year.

He also stated that he was also involved with the band Full Force, composed of Mike Andersson, vocals (of Cloudscape), Anders Johansson (of HammerFall, formerly of Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force), Stefan Elmgren (formerly of HammerFall) and Tommy Larsson (formerly of Heed).