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Well the artwork seems very simple. But I hope they come up with good shit. Lemuria n Sirius B kicked ass.

That is a Brialliant Art Work!

Therion shall again Crown The King.

Wasn't this revealed like 10 days ago?

very nice artwork

So?

I like the artwork. Sometimes a more simplistic approach works better, case in point.

I am salivating waiting for February 7th. This album is going to kick ass, and should be a contender for '07 album of the year.

Word.

Maybe. But with a new singer (Snowy Shaw) I wonder how the songs featuring him will sound. I still havent checked anything out with him on vocals.. Good drummer though.

Febuary will br great for 2 reasons then:
Therion and A Dance of Dragons (have a cookie if you know what that is).
Pity their only going to London in the tour - can't be assed going that far south.

Dance of Dragons is due in February?? I looked at George Martin's site the other day and there was nothing, so I really hope you are right. Need to know what happens with Jon Snow and the others!

Well it seems the album already leaked to the internet and doesn't sound to great aswell...

I really hate it when people download an album and then proceed to trash it online.

It's like you're waiting to see a movie, a movie you're really looking forward to; then some jackass comes online after downloading it from some Japanese bootleg site and proceeds to trash it. Totally ruining it for you.

I REALLY HATE NAZI MODS.

A "nazi mod" is one that abuses his powers and edits someone's shit for no reason, or deletes their posts, or bans them for no reason. I do neither.

Love,
Ken

That always makes me more excited since I generally love albums that divide fans. Although since his comment wasn't specific at all I'd probably just ignore it.

anyways... what's a good place to start with Therion?

Not sure, I own nothing before Vovin, but I'm working on it. I know the early stuff is much more death metal than what it is today. Maybe like early Tiamat? Lemuria/Sirius B is amazing, though.

I think their major breakthrough came with Theli. That was quite an inovating album for that time, featuring a lot of soprano vocals and choirs, and it's a very good album to this day. They still play live a lot of songs from that album, including the kick-ass opener To Mega Therion and the brilliant ballad Siren Of The Woods. They played like 4 songs from it when I saw them last year. You could start with that. It's not death metal at all. And as a bonus you get Dan Swano singing in about three songs and he does a terrific job. He really elevates the songs with his clean singing.

By the way, I'm going to see them live again in about three weeks. A world premier for them, their first ever symphonic concert, with a 70 persons choir and a 100 men orchestra onstage. They'll play pure orchestral versions of Therion songs, classics from
Wagner, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Dvorak, Verdi and Therion own songs together with orchestra and choir. The price's a bit spicy, but I bought tickets anyway, figuring it will be worth it.

Well 'Secret of the Runes' and 'Theli' are 2 personal favourites of mine. Really melodic stuff. You'll definitely enjoy 'Theli'.

How's Snowy Shaw's singing by the way? He's quite a stranger to me.

[hysterics] WHAT THE FUCK?! WHY DON'T THEY COME TO SWEDEN?? THERE ARE TWO SWEDISH BANDS ON THAT TOUR, AND THEY DON'T COME TO SWEDEN! WHAT THE FUCKING HELL?! [/hysterics]

x infinity

I'm new to Therion myself Noodles. I just found their music this year. I picked up a copy of Lemuria/Sirius B and was blown away. This is usually found in a 2 CD set and it's really fantastic!