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Staff review by
DerRozzengarten
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"Taste the tempting Fruit and be an Outcast from the Paradise."
Therion have to be one of the acts closest to me, emotionally speaking, since they are one of the first metal bands I listened to seriously, wih Vovin being one the first albums I bought back in 1998 when it came out, playing its part in the unorthodox way I slided into metal music. Ever since they never ceased to amaze me and what I learnt from them is that if a Therion album is good, it has to captivate you from the very first listen. Of course you can't conceive everything it has to say from one spin, but it makes you highly interested into keep on spinning and spinnning until you can say that you own the album's cause of existence up to a welcome extent. Gothic Kabbalah was the first Therion album that didn't have a big impact on me, although good and a natural continuation of Lemuria/Sirius B, less heavy but metal of course, based upon the orchestrations, the symphonic passages and the operatic vocal lines. So I was really curious of what will happen with Sitra Ahra.
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 13.01.2012 at 05:09
Written by RavenKing on 13.01.2012 at 03:36
Written by Goran Veljanoski on 05.10.2010 at 03:10
Therion's music has been always about orchestration and choirs and the guitars were only the background of the music.
You need to listen to their first albums if you believe this.
that person will really get a shock when listening to the first two albums  which are my favs by them btw. Total Swedish death metal in one of its harshest forms. Still play those two albums regularly.
"Of Darkness" and "Beyond Sanctorum" are the only Therion albums I like.
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| Rating: 6 |
I suppose if you were someone who had never heard anything by therion before, and listened to this album, you would probably be fascinated. But for those who had heard the 'Sirius B' and 'Vovin' albums, 'Sitra Ahra' may well have seemed a damp squib in comparison. Though the first half of the album is slightly more upbeat (and albeit more exciting), everything here serves a boring collection of metal songs backed up by an opera and some classical overtones. That said, therion still keep the listener intrigiued with a more than fascinating 'Kings of Edom' and brilliant '2012', but the other songs merely play by themselves, rather than link up to each other as a neat cycle.
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 Atrus - 03.05.2013 at 15:42
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| Rating: 7 |
Nice album, but too much fillers in... some awesome themes though (Kings of Edom!)
And the new band look ¬¬ theyre shameful. Looking at the Band photo at Metal Storm and crying >_<
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