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Ten years
ago most bands on the metal scene played almost the same type of music. Today
there are lots of different styles within metal and Therion is clearly one of
the most original bands on the scene today, mixing opera choirs with very
melodic metal. Therion has developed in an extraordinary way since their first
years of growling death metal. The brain behind the band is the vocalist
(although he doesn´t sing on many tracks nowadays) Christofer Johnsson who
writes all the classical arrangements as well as playing lead and rhytm
guitars and keyboard. He must be considered to be a musical genious but he's
not the only one in the band. He is accompanied (on this recording) by five
other members as well as 8 other vocalists (among them Sarah Jezebel Deva from
Cradle of Filth), 5 choir members and an orchestra consisting of 4 people,
playing violin, viola and cello. This is a great mix of classical music and
melodic metal that I think would be loved by a lot of people who doesn´t like
metal in general. It might not be Therion´s best release ("Theli" probably
is) so far but it´s really great
music.
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1. The Crowning of |
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Atlantis 2. Mark of Cain 3. Clavicula Nox 4. Crazy |
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Nights 5. From the Dionysian Days 6. Thor 7. Seawinds |
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8. To Mega Therion (live) 9. The Wings of the Hydra (live) |
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10. Black Sun (live) |
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