| However, band's name is also taken as homage to the Celtic Frost album To Mega Therion.Beginning as a death metal band, they later turned to combining orchestral elements with their metal music, employing heavy use of choirs and classical musicians, not only as additions to but also as integral parts of the composition.Therion's music takes its themes from different mythologies and is based on concepts ranging from occultism, magic and ancient traditions and writings.The band was reformed in 1988 under the new name Megatherion and began to be influenced by the Swiss heavy metal band Celtic Frost.The new group name was originated by their album To Mega Therion.Hansson was still guitarist, while Johan Hansson became a new bassist and Mika Tovalainen a drummer.The band name was soon shortened to Therion and the rhythm section was replaced by Erik Gustafsson of Dismember as a bassist and Oskar Forss returned as a drummer.Sample from Therion's "Asphyxiate with Fear".From the album Of Darkness....It was still technically a demo, as it was only published by a local record store House of Kicks in a printing of 1,000.The record got the band their first record deal with Deaf Records.Therion continued as a trio with Hansson, Forss and Johnsson filling in on bass guitar.Piotr Wawrzeniuk, from the band Carbonized in which Johnsson also played, took up drumming duties.Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas in 1993.As a Therion's first and last doom metal record it was very experimental, incorporating elements of jazz, industrial music, traditional 1980s heavy metal and religious chanting.Fredrik Isaksson was brought into the band as the new bassist.After a few months break, the band got an offer from the famous metal label Nuclear Blast.Despite the record deal, Megarock Records decided to let Therion go without any strings attached.Fredrik Isaksson left the band after some personal problems.Sample from Therion's "To Mega Therion".Sample from Therion's "Clavicula Nox".Problems playing the files?Therion began recording their new experimental album, entitled Theli.Theli is considering to being almost acclaimed as the apex of Therion's career to date.It featured for the first time a real string orchestra and a hand picked choir of considerable number.Total sales were over 150,000 copies in Europe alone.It was a short album fleshed out with several covers and live tracks that the record label and management insisted be placed on it to make it a full length album.Through Karppinen, Kristian Niemann joined the band on guitar, along with his brother Johan Niemann on bass.Johnsson had already made material for the next release Deggial which is far more symphonic, employing far more complex orchestral scores, this time using a full orchestra as opposed to a simple string one.The record went on to sell more than Theli but never reached the high sales of Vovin.Therion then began a big tour to promote their new record.For the recording he built band recording studio "Modern Art".Therion followed up this release with a tour with Evergrey and My Insanity as support acts.The album was later put for sale on Therion's webstore when the fanclub was shut down and replaced.Sample from Therion's "Lemuria".On July 2005, an album entitled Atlantis Lucid Dreaming was released.The final concert took part at the ProgPower Festival in Cheltenham, UK on the March, 2006 and that was the last Christofer Johnsson vocal stage performance.Therion released their first DVD entitled Celebrators of Becoming on May 2006.Lori Lewis and Christofer Johnsson with symphonic orchestra and choir during the live classical show at the Miskolc Opera Festival, Hungary, 2007.Therion frequently uses visual symbols in its album covers.Most of them are according to magick, occult and Dragon Rouge themes.Hendecagram, the star of Qliphoth, an eleven pointed star also called Star of Seth, is the most often used symbol by the band.The star symbolises the night side of the Qabalah.Other symbols used uniquely include:
Pentagram, closely Pythagorean pentagram (one point down), is shown on the Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas cover on the dragon's head.Some of the material from the Blitzkrieg era survived to the first Therion album Of Darkness...Guitar column doesn't list him as a collaborating guitarist.Therion era and verifying album credits.Beyond the Darkest Veils of Inner Wickedness.My vocals + Metal Mania and ProgPower UK festivals.Therion at All Music Guide
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Always my personal favorite of the Swedish death metal bands, Therion have combined Celtic Frost aesthetic and style with heavy death metal on several albums, reaching from their roots on Of Darkness...Beyond Sanctorum to the apocalyptic Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas, and continue to produce reasonable music although with their following albums they've sold out.Review: At a time when death metal verging on protest music, Therion brought forth an album that took its listeners on a descent into the dark and primordial world of the subconscious, then built from a sense of mystery within it and concept of existence beyond the obvious physical and numeric manifestations of modern society.To that raw and guileless genre Therion add a sense of enigmatic majesty in the creation of bassy catacombs of musical pathways that lead to oblique directional shifts, staggering possibilities inside of a major theme of hollowness with mortal weight.At the time of its emergence, this refuted both the functionalist 1980s and the pacifistic, materialistic futurism of the decade that followed.Enter the Depths of Eternal Darkness
7.Its thick but flexible riffing, percussive shading and accentuation hybridized with a tendency for melodic resolution by way of introducing motif alteration, provide a basis for the experimentative layering of melodies that, with similar techniques also in use by Godflesh, became an important technique for black and death metal to come.As in other albums, the passionate voice of emotional contrast gives rise to an unfettered embrace of the world in light and dark, coming close to Burzum in its seeming desire to stimulate fantasy and thought above any form of polarized action.Review: And bringing their country from the void of abysmal rock, Therion save the day with their newest, Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas (Pavement).Lovecraft in metal lyrics may have been proclaimed some time ago, but Therion refute this powerfully with their third release in this country, a conceptualized album which combines the best of death metal with older traditions of metal, ending up with something normals can listen to as well.Therion emerged on the Swedish scene with Of Darkness...Attention never really came from across the big pond, and consequently Therion are almost unknown to American listeners.The Eye Of the Eclipse (5:01)
7.The Ritual Dance Of The Yezidis (2:08)
8.Therion may be Europe's most underrated metal band, given the attention they've received around here.To dress this up as a novel approach to the genre, gratuitous keyboards and chanted vocals and extensive bluesy guitar solos are added.Vocals have degenerated from a death growl to a hoarse shout of rigid cadence, sounding like a dockworker communicating a defect in lift machinery instead of music.Like their inspiration Celtic Frost, Therion seem determined to fulfill the classic rock tragedy of gaining just enough recognition to try too hard for more, at the same time abandoning the hard work and pride in their music that made earlier albums while sometimes amateurish communicative music, and have thus created their "Cold Lake."Moments here show the same brilliance that crowned earlier Therion albums, but here it is as ornamentation and not structure, melding the aesthetics but not conceptual power of progressive rock and operatic vocals into what is ultimately very cheesy radio hard rock.Perhaps Therion are craftier than thought, and realizing that metal's audience was downgrading with the end of creative impetus in death and black metal, decided to be a big fish in a small pool by making distracting and pompous music for fools.Whatever their intent, this carnival music is a sequence of unrelated ideas competing for attention and relying on short attention spans to be taken seriously as a continuity of musical idea, and should be avoided by the serious listener.Children Of The Damned
5.The Gates To A'arab Zaraq Are Open
15.Further, the band usually confuse themselves, and end up prostrating themselves as whores, thus losing the respect of their fans.This CD is a collection of outtakes from Theli, a soundtrack and some Therion odds and ends that chronicle this band's descent into commerciality and simultaneous rise in the esteem of metal fans as a whole.The next track, "Fly to the Rainbow," is apparently a cover of an old Dio tune, which is amusing considering how similar it is to "The Way" from Therion's epic second album.It sounds very much like punk hardcore with a metal chorus.All finesse is gone, all artistry, and what replaces it is the populist heavy metal mentality.Although plenty of cliches and obvious figures work their way into this music, it's clear that (were Swedes to control Hollywood) soundtracks are where the "new" Therion belong.Deggial (Nuclear Blast, 1999)
To their credit, Therion formulated a vision before its execution, and it took several albums to adapt.This however won them a new audience, and the path became clear...This album is far from terrible, but seems extraneous in contrast to later (or much earlier) Therion.Bonus points for the Orff cover that concludes the album, an interesting take on the music that introduced one of the first proper death metal albums (Sepultura's "Morbid Visions").An Arrow From The Sun
9.Lemuria (Nuclear Blast, 2004)
Probably the most "power metal" album Therion has produced, this fusion of heavy metal songwriting and styles ranging from punk through speed and death metal exemplifies what defines that niche genre.Like a fusion of Overkill and late Iron Maiden ("Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"), it is highly operatic and dramatic like a high school production of Hamlet, but the essential musicality of Therion has been rescued from its true nadir, the execrable "Lepaca Kliffoth," which attempted to fuse the simplicity of underground styles with heavy metal riffs and ended up boring most of us silly.Really, it's unwise to even consider listening to this album unless you like power metal enough to have a cheese tolerance worthy of a French chef.Like distant ancestors DBC and Powermad, Therion integrate death metal precision strumming into heavy metal in a form that produces fluid cadence in which the changing of notes defines an offbeat rhythm that drives the song.What makes this band intriguing is its fusion of ancient knowledges, from Phoenician to Norse to Indian to Nietzschean, in an attempt to discover a greater meaning in life than our functional, utilitarian jobs'n'shopping survival.Every generation must have its introductions to the halls of ancient learning, and as Iron Maiden must have been to the 1980s, Therion is to the now.The Crowning Of Atlantis
2.From The Dionysian Days
6.Thor The Powerhead (Manowar Cover)
7.To Mega Therion (Live)
9.The Wings Of The Hydra (Live)
10.And here is where Therion really shines: it's hard to recall a heavy metal band since Deep Purple with this much poetic sentiment in its lead playing, or as much rhythmic or harmonic variation.Therion has attempted since "Ho Drakon Ho Megas," and has been magnificently successful for them.Try not to think of it as the same Therion that recorded a true underground metal epic, "Beyond Sanctorum," but imagine it as a heavy metaller's Dave Mathews Band."To Mega Therion" revealing how far this band have come in adapting to their new style by being relentlessly repetitive in contrast.Several themes from the second and third Therion albums are repeated here in different context, to similar but less theatrically extreme effect.In fact, one way to describe the difference between this style and earlier Therion is that this music aims for a consistent sensation interrupted by the voice of lead guitar; older work was like opera, ranging between experiential extremes with lead guitar and vocals as icing on the cake.Time Shall Tell (House of Kicks, 1990)
As a band matures, much as a person does, it grows into those limbs that seem ridiculous and too large or gangly; so was the case with Therion, who blasted through three demos of cerebral and doomy grinding death, eventually on "Time Shall Tell" developing the aesthetic that would enable their subsequent album to wrap its dark sound in mysticism and contemplation instead of absurd bursts of energy followed by vigilante riffs which like nightstalkers close in for a combat so absolute it necessitates rapid change the instant its spell of shock and terror lifts.Most interestingly, rhythms are uptempo with a degree of complexity achieved by assimilating the subordinate counterpoint to a dominant rhythmic theme into a core of internally divided patterns like a spiral staircase descending into a dungeon.SiteCatalyst code version: H.Plugin: Days since last Visit 1.Therion (read more)
5,505,782 plays scrobbled on Last.Therion was initially a death metal band.Lepaca Kliffoth, Therion began to gradually incorporate symphonic elements into their metal music.Therion takes its lyrical themes from various mythologies, occult and magical teachings, and ancient traditions and writings.Christian Book of Revelation, though the word itself is taken from the Celtic Frost album To Mega Therion.There was also a thrash metal band from UK called Therion.Both the bass and guitar solo on Symphony Of The Dead are massive win, like the whole album.If you need quality death metal,you should check out Nile or Cryptopsy.I've been a huge Therion fan ever since 1998 and I still love all of their albums up to GK, but man, they've sold out.One of the few good swedish bands, I like it.Web Site Support
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