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                                             THERION - Dark Venus Persephone


Therion is Greek for "wild mammoth". 

Back in the year 1987, Christofer Johnsson framed the metal band Blitzkrieg in Upplands Väsby, a suburb of Stockholm. What classification they played is talked about, as their impacts generally were real whip groups, yet they sounded more like the enormous outrageous groups of that period. He was the bassist and vocalist. The line-up was finished with Peter Hansson on guitar and Oskar Forss on drums. This line-up, notwithstanding, went on for two gigs when they chose to part up in mid 1988. A couple of months after the fact Chris began playing guitar rather and, affected by Celtic Frost, he called the band Megatherion and played passing metal. Diminish Hansson played guitar in the new band also. Later Oskar returned and bassist Erik Gustafsson joined. Erik had quite recently left another Swedish underground demise metal gathering called Dismember. 

After a brief time, the name was changed to Therion. With this line-up the two demos, the principal EP and the main full-length were recorded, however on the Paroxysmal Holocaust demo Matti Kärki played out the vocals. Past the Darkest Veils of Inner Wickedness was the main Therion discharge Chris sung. The EP, Time Shall Tell, was just a demo recording that got discharged as a record rather than tape. 

After the 1000 duplicates had sold, the book shop bootlegged another 1000. Not long after, they marked to Deaf Records where they discharged Of Darkness. This collection comprised of tunes that Chris had written in the '80s. The fresher tunes were put something aside for the prospective collection. After this very dynamic passing metal collection, Therion marked to Active Records. Presently the bass player, Erik, needed to move back to his local nation, the USA, so Chris needed to play bass at the end of the day. The melodious idea had changed from society issues to otherworldliness. The record got great surveys and the band was offered their first shows in Holland and Belgium. 

Oskar, now anticipating his second kid, left the band. Dwindle likewise ventured back because of wellbeing and melodic reasons. Another line-up with Piotr Wawrzeniuk (from Chris' other band, Carbonized) on drums, Andreas Wahl on bass, and Magnus Barthelsson on guitar was framed. 

This new line-up was the begin of another period. While Beyond Sanctorum was test, it was with no uncertainty passing metal. Chris needed to trial increasingly and go considerably further, with the outcome being Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas. This wild move of exploring different avenues regarding jazz, modern music, gothic droning, '80s substantial metal, et cetera in the conventional old fashioned metal scene brought on some issue. 

Therion was exchanged from Active Records to the proprietors' new name, Megarock Records. Therion visited supporting Grave and Massacra and in addition a couple featuring appears in Germany. Right now there was only work, work and work for Therion. 

In the blink of an eye Magnus and Andreas abandoned Therion. Fredrik Isaksson turned into the new bass player and Therion was by and by a trio. Chris went off to record a collection with the Swiss band Messiah. When he returned, Nuclear Blast needed to sign Therion, however there was still an agreement for one collection with Megarock, yet the relationship amongst Megarock and Therion was good to the point that Therion was discharged with no money related cases. 

The outcome was the 1995 collection Lepaca Kliffoth, which was more trial yet and included soprano and bass-baritone vocals, more consoles, more Persian impacts, more songs, Chris singing a more up to date more bad-to-the-bone way. The last limits to death metal had at this point been cut off. They visited with Annihilator in Germany and went on a little feature voyage into South America with Tommy Ericsson on second guitar. Fredrik's own issues kept him from visiting, so Lars Rosenberg was employed as a session bassist. Presently Piotr pronounced that he had issues with Fredrik, so Fredrik was terminated. At that point Lars was let go from Entombed and turned into the changeless bass player in Therion. Still, as they didn't offer too well, they didn't have the spending they required, so Chris rang Nuclear Blast chief Markus Steiger and clarified the circumstance. "No more collections in light of my vocals and I require two choirs, a superior recording studio, two makers, and additional time in the studio. If not I'd rather surrender the band and remain content with what I accomplished up until now". Fortunately, Steiger endorsed. Ex-Unanimated guitarist Jonas Mellberg was gotten and Therion recorded their most essential collection ever. 

Therion questioned that Theli would offer. Chris addressed Piotr about it and said this would be the last record, as it would be a flounder similarly as each other Therion discharge. Piotr didn't need this to be the last record, yet accepted the circumstance and began considering history. Dan Swanö played out a few vocals on Theli and also Chris, Piotr, and the two choirs. Jonas and Lars both had liquor issues and amid the recording of an Iron Maiden tribute tune Jonas left the studio without a word and could never return to the band. 

The deals multiplied contrasted with Lepaca Kliffoth's in only a month. They were offered visiting with Amorphis. Theli was the fruitful leap forward the band required and was additionally the begin of unfathomable anxiety. 

The collection had fetched Nuclear Blast around 28.000 Euro to record, which was by a long shot the most astounding ever, so Chris couldn't approach them to pay for visit. He requested that his companions bail him out. Tommy played drums this time as Piotr was involved with his reviews and Chris connected with some beginner vocalists to play out the melodies live. Tobias Sidegård of Necrophobic got free lager on the visit to play guitar and Kimberley Goss was procured to play the consoles and play out some sponsorship vocals. Amid the visit, Lars' drinking issue deteriorated and the soprano and the tenor began taking medications. Toward the finish of the visit they were altogether let go and not invited back. 

The deals had expanded so much that they were reserved for a moment visit, this time with Piotr and two expert sopranos. Andreas Wahl performed bass on this visit. All things being equal, the fans craved to see the band. A third European visit was reported with Lake of Tears and Crematory with Therion featuring the visits outside Germany. This was across the board year! 

That year, A'arab Zaraq Lucid Dreaming was discharged. It was an interesting collection that comprised of a couple Theli tunes, covers, and a soundtrack Chris accomplished for a craftsmanship film called The Golden Embrace. Indeed, even with another record bargain, enormous spending plans, and fans purchasing their collections, there was still one issue - there was nobody yet Chris in the band. He recorded Vovin with enlisted proficient studio artists in Wolf Simons and Jan Kazda. This was to a greater extent a performance collection for Chris than a Therion collection. Vovin denoted the change into the later, more melodic Therion. 

At the end of the day, the deals multiplied contrasted with those of the last collection. The underground band that had battled for its survival was presently the top of the line band on Nuclear Blast. Sami Karppinen performed drums on the visits and was offered a lasting seat in the band. Parts of an arranged smaller than expected CD (Crowning of Atlantis) were recorded, however Nuclear Blast needed to make it a full-length, so two or three live melodies were included and the collection was discharged in 1999. Sami had great contacts among high-gifted artists in Sweden thus Kristian Niemann joined the band as guitarist. Later his sibling, Johan, joined as bass player. 

While this was a full line-up and a totally new band, Chris had effectively composed follow-up Deggial. The new band individuals didn't have much time or opportunity to add to the music. 

Therion recorded their first idea collection, Secret of the Runes, enlivened by the Viking letter sets and mythology. The monetary allowance was for the most part spent on building Therion's own one of a kind recording studio called Modern Art. 

Mystery of the Runes was once more a more perplexing and melodic collection, however the surveys changed. After the visit, Sami left the band to work all day as sound tech in the studio. Richard Evensand was the new drummer. A couple of the shows amid the visit wound up on Therion's first live collection, Live in Midgard, which was discharged in 2002, the fifteenth year of Therion's life. 

Presently, Therion had put a ton of tunes on the rack and needed to dispose of them. They had material for three collections and chose to discharge two of them immediately, Lemuria and Sirius B. This was once more a change. The collections were more grandiose than any other time in recent memory, a word that Nuclear Blast, as far back as Therion's leap forward, attempt to connect each band with. The monetary allowance was higher than any time in recent memory and more cash was spent. 

Altogether, 171 performers and artists were included in making the collections. The collections were discharged as a 2CD digibook at the cost of one collection and was trailed by a monstrous European and South American visit. Additionally, the Niemann siblings had been occupied with composing more extraordinary tunes, thus the Demonoid venture was propelled. After the Sirius B and Lemuria collections, gets ready for a six-circle DVD box containing two CDs, live shows, and a recorded segment were spread to the general population. It was to be discharged in the spring of 2006. 

Meanwhile, Atlantis Lucid Dreaming, a gathering of b-side material was discharged. In March 2006, Christofer Johnsson expressed that he'd venture down from the vocalist position and won't sing at gigs any longer. The 2006 ProgPower Festival in England should be the last gig with him singing. 


Because of Therion's affiliation with Thomas Karlsson, who started writing Therion's lyrics together with Christofer Johnsson in 1993 and who since 1998 writes all of them, there are a few books out related to Therion and the mythos Therion lyrics are made of. Mörk Magi, written by Tommy Eriksson, has only been released in Swedish and discusses philosophy and aphorisms of Dark Magic. It advocates that one should see the positive sides of dark magic, turning the force it has into creativity instead of destruction. Eriksson lists relaxation practices and invocations as introductions to the dark magic, kabbala and tantrism to the beginner.

Uthark was written by Thomas Karlsson and deals with runeology and rune magic. It discusses the Uthark theory, widely launched by professor Sigurd Agrell in the 1930s. Its base is that runes have more than their literal meaning. There's a dark and hidden secret magic side that only runemasters know of. The book is available in English and German, and a German limited edition edition came with the Secret of the Runes album.

Christofer Johnsson decided to stop singing in 2006. Former King Diamond drummer Snowy Shaw was announced as an additional session vocalist later that year.

In 2008, the entire permanent band line-up parted ways with Christofer Johnsson due to differences in opinion on the future direction of Therion's music. 

On July 7th, 2010, Snowy Shaw left the band, then rejoined on August 25th of the same year. He left the band again in September 2012 to concentrate on his solo project. 

Also in September 2012, Christofer Johnsson announced that Therion would take a few-year break from extensive touring so that he could concentrate on completing his metal opera. 




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