THERION mainman Christofer Johnsson (guitar/vocals) revealed during an interview with Metal Temple magazine's Ian Kaatz at this year's ProgPower USA (Sept. 15-17 at Eartlink Live, Atlanta, GE) festival that the band are planning a multi-disc DVD release, tentatively due in March 2006. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:
Metal Temple: Have you started writing any new material?
Christofer Johnsson: "We have all the songs for the next record finished."
Metal Temple: Wow.
Christofer Johnsson: "We recorded enough material for three albums but only released two albums, so we have to catch up."
Metal Temple: Does the new material sound similar to the double disc ("Lemuria" and "Sirius B"; Nuclear Blast Records, 2004)?
Christofer Johnsson: "It's not a double disc, not to be picky. It is two different records but they were sold together as a double disc because not many people have that much money. It was way over-stocked by distributors in the U.S, so that's why they still have it. We didn't limit in numbers. For three months people can buy as much as they like. The third one was recorded in the same time frame, so it will be closer to these ones than to our previous records. That doesn't mean it will sound the same. We divided the three records upon different solo songs. We saved the more progressive ones for the third one."
Metal Temple: Oh, okay, that sounds really sweet. Do you have a release date for the DVD? Because I know that in the previous interview you did with Metal Temple, you said you were working on a live DVD.
Christofer Johnsson: "I am not going to say how many discs, but it will contain multiple discs and it will be out in March of next year."
Read the entire interview at Metal-Temple.com.
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I checked out the latest album(s) from these guys and had mixed reactions on it. I know I liked alot of the qualities in their brand of metal. Guess it may just take some getting used to. I am gonna revisit it soon cause I am interested in getting to like this band. I know alot of you said they stole the weekend at ProgPower and I don't doubt it. There is quite a buzz going around the US right now about them. Glad to see more people are noticing bands like this and their popularity rising.
Metal Temple: Have you started writing any new material?
Christofer Johnsson: "We have all the songs for the next record finished."
Metal Temple: Wow.
Christofer Johnsson: "We recorded enough material for three albums but only released two albums, so we have to catch up."
Metal Temple: Does the new material sound similar to the double disc ("Lemuria" and "Sirius B"; Nuclear Blast Records, 2004)?
Christofer Johnsson: "It's not a double disc, not to be picky. It is two different records but they were sold together as a double disc because not many people have that much money. It was way over-stocked by distributors in the U.S, so that's why they still have it. We didn't limit in numbers. For three months people can buy as much as they like. The third one was recorded in the same time frame, so it will be closer to these ones than to our previous records. That doesn't mean it will sound the same. We divided the three records upon different solo songs. We saved the more progressive ones for the third one."
Metal Temple: Oh, okay, that sounds really sweet. Do you have a release date for the DVD? Because I know that in the previous interview you did with Metal Temple, you said you were working on a live DVD.
Christofer Johnsson: "I am not going to say how many discs, but it will contain multiple discs and it will be out in March of next year."
Read the entire interview at Metal-Temple.com.
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I checked out the latest album(s) from these guys and had mixed reactions on it. I know I liked alot of the qualities in their brand of metal. Guess it may just take some getting used to. I am gonna revisit it soon cause I am interested in getting to like this band. I know alot of you said they stole the weekend at ProgPower and I don't doubt it. There is quite a buzz going around the US right now about them. Glad to see more people are noticing bands like this and their popularity rising.
