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Upplands Väsby, Sweden (1987 – present)

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1) Therion, formerly known as Blitzkrieg (1987-1988) and Megatherion (1988), is a symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in Upplands Väsby, Sweden in 1987. In April 2008, Christofer stated that the musicians are parting in their own ways, however the band has not officially disbanded, Christofer is currently looking for new band members to continue the musical work.

Therion was initially a death metal band, however starting with 1995’s Lepaca Kliffoth, Therion began to gradually incorporate symphonic elements into their metal music. The band has seen many changes in line-up and style throughout its history. Only Christofer Johnsson, Kristian Niemann (guitars), Johan Niemann (bass), and Petter Karlsson (drums) were considered the constant members. All others, including vocalists like Sarah Jezebel Deva, Piotr Wawrzenuk, and Mats Levén, are session members.

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. The band is one of the first both commercial and audience successful heavy metal with fully live orchestra featured. It is also one of the bands which originated, popularized and highly influenced the symphonic metal genre.

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Ydolon wrote:
Monday evening

Live dates huh? I hope they tune down the theatrecality of their shows. They kind of blowed the last time I saw them.

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pszczolekw3 wrote:
Monday afternoon

@peaceguard - I must agree with you, I also don't know why Lemuria is the best scrobbled track. But however it doesn't mean it's also best track, I must also say that on many band's pages the top track usually isn't the best one (like eg. Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (wtf?)). It's just, that people who usually don't listen to certain group, occasionally play the ones they know from somewhere (radio? TV? dunno).

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AnnaDraconida wrote:
Sunday evening

Join if you like to pimp your About Me!

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peaceguard wrote:
Sunday evening

I'm not saying that Lemuria's a funny song, but this fuss about it is. Let's look at the ranking.. even when we skip all these great songs placed far far away, I think that tracks from the top ten are mostly better than Lemuria. Is it's popularity a matter of lightness or Wawrzeniuk's vocals? I don't know..

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Quispiam wrote:
Saturday afternoon

Hah, I love his Swedish accent on the dreams of Swedenborg xD

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Quispiam wrote:
Saturday afternoon

sancho666: I would recommend the Epica album Design Your Universe. Epica has soprano female vocals and growling male, but more significantly a great choir and orchestra with heavy metal riffs, influenced by symphonic, power, goth, progressive and thrash, especially Design Your Universe. Jeez, I sound like an advertiser, but it's true.. :p It's not cheesy in the Nightwish-After Forever-Within Temptation style either, so that might be a nice relief for you :)

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enmesharra wrote:
Saturday afternoon

peaceguard@:why is lemuria funny?

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sancho666 wrote:
Friday evening

Can anybody recommend me band symilar to Therion and Virgin Black, please? I know there are many bands playing gothic/symphonic metal but they all sound cheesy, the same, not good song writing to me, most of them with girls singing the same nightwish style If You know what I mean, or growling guys. Therion and Virgin Black got great unique vocalists and also using a lot of choir singing. Check polish band TOWER (amazing 2 albums) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guY104hYFNY

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alices_inferno wrote:
Thursday evening

Symphony Masses fucking rocks, beginning to end. [2]

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demander wrote:
Thursday morning

Suddenly my favourite therion song became one that i didn'd like at first, Wand of Abaris, is something fenomenal musics like this and Son of the sun are something special for me last days I hope even with the reformulations in band, therion can keep on form several years more with the great quality

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Quispiam wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

I can't get the Lemuria fuss either. It's a good song but nothing special - no more technical, epic, accessible or catchy than anything else.

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xkuladiamond wrote:
Wednesday morning

early albums need more love

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peaceguard wrote:
7 days ago

What's it all about Lemuria? It's a good song, but it's a bit funny.. after a moment it'll have two times more scrobblings than the second one.. :| And there are so many great, much better songs than it.

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artemidionis wrote:
9 days ago

Life to the end.. ..................

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GhostOfOdin wrote:
11 days ago

Funny cause Theli is the the only one I don't have in their discography, well, I'm missing Crowning of Atlantis too.

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Liampie wrote:
14 days ago

I think Theli is the best album to start with. More accesable than Vovin and just as good.

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AngryBes wrote:
15 days ago

"If someone who has never heard a song from Therion, wants to get started with them, then which album or song would you recommend?" Album - Beyond Sanctorum, song The Way or Cthulhu

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Carnassial1 wrote:
15 days ago

Cheers everyone! You can vote for "Symphonic metal" in "Favorite Heavy metal Sub-genre Poll" on my profile page Carnassial1 It's over 2500 votes now. I'll be glad if you take a shot.

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Quispiam wrote:
15 days ago

Mausthemighty: Theli/Vovin.

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StakerSen wrote:
15 days ago

EPIC ALBUM COVERS but so so music.

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