BAND: THERION
ALBUM: Lemuria
LABEL: Nuclear Blast Records
LABEL URL: http://www.nuclearblast.com
RELEASE DATE: 2004
BAND URL: http://www.megatherion.de
TRACKLISTING
LEMURIA:
1. Typhoon
2. Uthark Runa
3. Lemuria
4. The Dreams of Swedenborg
5. An Arrow from the Sun
6. Feuer Overture / Prometheus entfesselt
(Full length album contains 10 tracks)
SIRIUS B:
7. Blood of Kingu
8. Son of the Sun
9. The Khlysti
10. Kali Yuga Part 1
11. Kali Yuga Part 2
12. Call of Dagon
13. Sirius B
(Full length album contains 11 tracks)
REVIEW
First off I must apologise on behalf of the label because they have not supplied a full track listing and the bands web site reads . . . Soon to be filled with life. so no luck there and if that statement is anything to go by I am presently scratching my head thinking what on earth this album is about?
THERION are a Swedish classical metal band who have been around for more than a decade. Their discography to date totals a whopping seventeen albums of which I have only heard one and to be honest this partial album will add quite nicely to my collection of already mounting tea coasters!
The metal scene is fragmenting into smaller and smaller pieces yet more and more bands seem to be appearing to grab a fragment of an already diminishing audience foothold. But when bands like THERION come along, one is almost disturbed and shocked to the core that such a band could possibly still exist, especially when its music is nothing more than a stale old fart.
Concept albums and operatic metal albums have always been the bread and butter of the metal scene and the cohesive glues that successful bands have employed ensure there is a fair mixture of the two styles, if not leaning more on the metal and simply borrowing influences to super-charge the music such as Arjen Anthony Lucassens - Star One.
But this? Its not very modern. Its an operatic piece that needs to be viewed inside the confines of an auditorium with dancers and actors going through the motions. The album is stagnant and within the first few minutes numbs the listener into a sense of paralysis. The fact that this is only an excerpt was bad enough but to sit through approximately two hours of this would turn a normal bodily-motion person into a constipated mess.
Reviewer Chief B
Rating 3 /10
ALBUM: Lemuria
LABEL: Nuclear Blast Records
LABEL URL: http://www.nuclearblast.com
RELEASE DATE: 2004
BAND URL: http://www.megatherion.de
TRACKLISTING
LEMURIA:
1. Typhoon
2. Uthark Runa
3. Lemuria
4. The Dreams of Swedenborg
5. An Arrow from the Sun
6. Feuer Overture / Prometheus entfesselt
(Full length album contains 10 tracks)
SIRIUS B:
7. Blood of Kingu
8. Son of the Sun
9. The Khlysti
10. Kali Yuga Part 1
11. Kali Yuga Part 2
12. Call of Dagon
13. Sirius B
(Full length album contains 11 tracks)
REVIEW
First off I must apologise on behalf of the label because they have not supplied a full track listing and the bands web site reads . . . Soon to be filled with life. so no luck there and if that statement is anything to go by I am presently scratching my head thinking what on earth this album is about?
THERION are a Swedish classical metal band who have been around for more than a decade. Their discography to date totals a whopping seventeen albums of which I have only heard one and to be honest this partial album will add quite nicely to my collection of already mounting tea coasters!
The metal scene is fragmenting into smaller and smaller pieces yet more and more bands seem to be appearing to grab a fragment of an already diminishing audience foothold. But when bands like THERION come along, one is almost disturbed and shocked to the core that such a band could possibly still exist, especially when its music is nothing more than a stale old fart.
Concept albums and operatic metal albums have always been the bread and butter of the metal scene and the cohesive glues that successful bands have employed ensure there is a fair mixture of the two styles, if not leaning more on the metal and simply borrowing influences to super-charge the music such as Arjen Anthony Lucassens - Star One.
But this? Its not very modern. Its an operatic piece that needs to be viewed inside the confines of an auditorium with dancers and actors going through the motions. The album is stagnant and within the first few minutes numbs the listener into a sense of paralysis. The fact that this is only an excerpt was bad enough but to sit through approximately two hours of this would turn a normal bodily-motion person into a constipated mess.
Reviewer Chief B
Rating 3 /10
