Therion's Next Album

[Dolamite S. Biffle]

Not leftovers. They recorded the songs,and then arranged them CD by CD as they thought the songs would best fit together, on a single album. So don't think that they are just songs that didn't cut it for the first two discs.

Cheiron is the most correct. I did an interview with Kristofer and I made the mistake of calling Lemuria/Sirius B a double album which it is not the albums were just released bundled.

Does the new material sound similar to the double disc ("Lemuria" & "Sirius B" - Nuclear Blast Records, 2004)?

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 writen 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.

http://www.metal-temple.com/interview.asp?id=225

 

[SharkBlack]

Wow.... THERION RULES!!!!!

 

[mtndewqueen88]

even more from the twilight zone...

Email from Kliffoth - explaining how Gothic Kabbalah came to be.

Gothic Kabbalah track listing - yet another two-cd set from one of the hardest working bands in heavy metal!

Hey! ManOwaR! - pay attention, ya slackers!!! this is how it's done!

Oh man, thanks for posting this. I remember reading when Lemuria/Sirius B came out that they just had so much material they needed to catch up on releasing songs - hence the double album. I'm absolutely shocked that they had more songs up their sleeve! Amazing.

 

[AngraRULES]

ALL HAIL TO THE MEGA THERION!!!

(I recently got into these guys, after hearing sooooo much about them and not caring before at PP.... what a regret...)

 

[mëtålspëd]

ALL HAIL TO THE MEGA THERION!!!

(I recently got into these guys, after hearing sooooo much about them and not caring before at PP.... what a regret...)

Dude! That completely sucks for you.

 

[4acidbath4]

Nuclear Blast Europe

stream the album, it sounds great.....

 

[BlackenedDawn]

Yes, hearing streamed samples as I type this. Sounds beautiful, as expected. Another THERION masterpiece!! Cheers!

 

[St Enigma]

Gothic Kabbalah is awesome! It's not made of the "leftovers" from the two previous albums, but these songs are newer material. (the release of the third CD from that era has been postponed like explained on The Official Therion Website) Gothic Kabbalah is a concept album, has definitely a more progressive feeling in all the music, less orchestra and way more lead- and sologuitar work than the previous Lemuria/Sirius B era songs. A must buy, no doubt.


Another Therion project will culminate tomorrow December 9. in Bucharest, Romania:

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The founder of opera-metal/symphonic gothic goes for the real thing on December 9th, at Bucharest’s Palace Hall

Founders of the opera-metal music style, the four Therion members and vocal Mats Leven, with international famous classical voices, accompanied by a full orchestra and a big choir, will put on stage a concert to remain for sure in the music book.

Following the last year’s triumphant concert in Bucharest, when they were cheered for minutes by about 4,000 crowd, Therion will go again on stage at the Palace Hall, on December 9th, in a symphonic show gathering 180 musicians from Sweden, Austria, Germany, and Romania.

Ambitious as ever, this time the Swedish go for the real thing and play together with exquisite classical voices, who concerted at world’s renown Opera Houses (Vienna, Munchen, Frankfurt), and with the decades experienced Romanian Radio Orchestra and Choir. 100 instrument players will give the live orchestration sound and 70 choir members will replace the dedicated choir group which Therion accustomed their fans with on tours.


The German Markus Stollenwerk, who already had the experience of conducting a similar project with cult band RAGE - Lingua Mortiis show (1996,1998), will lift his baton for the performance of this unique event.

A stunning repertoire, appealing to both metal heads and classical listeners will for sure put the crowd on fire: classical famous compositions are to be heard in Therion’s version, as well as rare and even first-auditioned Therion songs (all we can tell now is that a church organ will be part of the show

Read an interview with Christopher at Metalhead.ro. Quite a few interesting tidbits about the concert and the new CD. He also reveals that this concert will be recorded and filmed, so chances are that it will be released on CD/DVD, too. I will definitely buy a copy at once when ever the DVD will become available.

 

[Rider of Theli]

Nuclear Blast Europe

stream the album, it sounds great.....

as usual, my response is simply

 

[SharkBlack]

HELL YEAH!!

One of the greaatest bands of ALL TIME!!

AmAzInGAmAzInGAmAzInGAmAzInGAmAzInGAmAzInGAmAzInGAmAzInG

 

[Rider of Theli]

you can now purchase the maxi-single 'Wand of Abaris' at this location for 1.98 euros.

 

[Rider of Theli]

MP3.COM HOSTS LISTENING PARTY FOR THERION'S GOTHIC KABALLAH

"'Epic' is an overused descriptor in metal circles," writes Revolver Magazine in their March 2007 issue out now on newsstands, "but in the case of THERION's 13th studio record, there is really no better word."

In an exclusive partnership between Nuclear Blast Records and MP3.com, THERION's latest studio album, the dual-disc Gothic Kaballah, will be available for streaming in its entirety for seven days prior to the album's North American street date of February 6th at the following link: http://www.mp3.com/THERION

"THERION are never predictable," writes Decibel Magazine in their 8/10 review, "and they pull the rug out from under us again on Gothic Kaballah." Inspired by the life of 17th century Swedish antiquarian, runologist, and mystic Johannes Bureus, founding member / guitarist Christofer Johnsson states in his March 2007 Decibel interview that the Kaballah "is a topic that interests me. Most people into esoterism have not read enough about the topic."

Founded in Sweden over twenty years ago and rooted in death metal, Johnsson has since catapulted THERION to the outer reaches of progressive / classical rock music. In the band's recent cover feature in Metal Maniacs, Johnsson explains the stylistic shift for the album (which fans have come to expect) and how it is not "gothic" at all in the musical or image sense:

"It's completely different from anything else we've done. We had five writers working on this album; we only had three core band writers before, so that has expanded our horizons. We have also opted for more typically rock vocal styles. We are influenced by quite a lot of '70s bands like Uriah Heep and [even] have Heep's Ken Hensley [guesting on the album]. The title is a translation from Swedish and 'gothic' is the closest English word used to describe the Kaballah, so that's why we used it."

Gothic Kaballah will be available for streaming between January 30th and February 6th, 2007. Fans are encouraged to sign up for a free MP3.com account and participate in the "Press Pass: Your Take" function to write their own review.

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without a doubt, I own my copy of the limited edition digipak. I have been spinning it non-stop. Just when you think you have all the answers, Therion changes the questions. ... Gothic Kabbalah is a masterpiece if there ever was one. But don't take my word for it - you now have a chance to hear the entire two-album release for yourself before deciding to purchase it.

 

[Jibrille]

I most certainly agree. I was surprised at first how different it sounded but there's no other way to describe it than awesome.

 

[Cheiron]

This truly is an awesome record. Is it their best? I don't know... but its definitely up there. Will be a hard one to beat for '2007'.

 

[AngraRULES]

Really good album. Therion to me works better on CD than live... This is really a superb disc!

 

[Rider of Theli]

I'm so glad everyone is digging this album as much as I am. Therion has - in my book - become the epitome of what 'progressive' music is all about. No two albums of theirs since Lepaca Kliffoth has sounded alike. There aren't many other bands I can name who have progressed in such a positive manner in their approach to music as the people in Therion. I am so glad that I discovered this band a little more than ten years ago. I have been so pleased with each and every release since discovering them.

It has been one helluva ride!

 

[Cheiron]

Isn't it amazing that this album was recorded at the same time as Lemuria and Sirius B? But yeah. This album stood out a lot.

 

[Rider of Theli]

Isn't it amazing that this album was recorded at the same time as Lemuria and Sirius B? But yeah. This album stood out a lot.

actually, only two songs from the new album were held over from the Lemuria/Sirius B sessions...

2006-11-17
Back in 1999 I started to write music for a follow up album to Deggial. Lets call it Album-X. I wrote 7-8 songs for it before I one day played 2 songs (later named "Secret of the runes" and "Asgard") to Kristian that I had written for a project (which in the end never took place) and he said "Hey, those songs should not be used for some project, they belong in Therion!" I didn't know how they would fit in with the album I was writing on and didn't bother much about it until I woke up one day and had felt "Gee, I really want to make a nordic concept album" and those two songs was perfect for it. So Album-X had to be put on ice and instead the Secret of the Runes album was written in about 2-3 months and we started the recordings of that album instead.

2003 we wanted to record that Album-X, but meanwhile the amount of songs (see beginning of the text) had grown a lot - we had songs enough for 3 albums! Let's call them X, Y and Z. They formed a trilogy and we decided to record two of them and release at the same time and save the third one for the future. So we recorded Sirius B (Album-X) and Lemuria (Album-Y) and Z was saved.

2005 I got the idea for a completely different kind of album AGAIN due to some songs I had written and the decision was made to make the album we recorded 2006 - Gothic Kabbalah and let Album-Z rest for some years more. However, we took 2 songs from Album-Z and put on the Gothic Kabbalah record. Those were "Der Mitternachtslöwe" (which I didn't feel suited totally with the other songs on Album-Z) and "Adulruna Rediviva", which was reworked and prolonged with several new written parts (yet this is a song that can tell you a bit of the musical direction of Album-Z). And because of those 2 songs Gothic Kabbalah gets connected musically with the trilogy and it all of a sudden becomes a quadralogy.

 

[Michael TEOF]

I can't see anything topping Gothic Kabbalah for best album of 2007. This album is just freakin' amazing!

The Michael

 

[Pellaz]

I'm behind on getting this -- yeah, me, go figure -- but I heard most of it earlier on Seismic (thanks, TJ) and I can't wait to get an 'official' copy.

I'd loooove to see them at PP in 2008. Note to Glenn, that'll meet the required two-years-away requirement.