Artist: THERION
Album: "SYMPHONY MASSES: HO DRAKON HO MEGAS RE-RELEASE (CD)"

Year: 1993/ 2000
Media type: CD

I suppose this was the most experimental album in some ways. Here the 80’s heavy metal and classic influences got into the picture. We had always had really shitty budgets back then (as we had shitty salefigures) and this album was no exception. So to use a real orchestra for the classic arrangements had not even become a dream yet at this time. But a istener of today can definitly recognize what was going on back then and in a song like (for example) ”Eye Of Elipse” hear some traces of the Therion style later to show up on the THELI album in combination with choir. On this album we did our first tour in Germany (with Samael, Grave and Massacra) and there we discovered the difference between REAL beer deutsches pilz und weitzenbier) and elk-piss (swedish beer).

(Christofer, THERION)

TRACKLIST:

01. Baal reginon
02. Dark princess Naamah
03. A black rose
04. Symphoni drakonis inferni
05. Dawn of perishness
06. The eye of eclipse
07. The ritual dance of yezidis
08. Powerdance
09. Procreation of eternity
10. Ho drakon ho megas