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Therion - Of Darkness



7 | 214 votes |
Release date: February 1991
Style: Death metal

Owners:

306 have it
17 want it


01. The Return
02. Asphyxiate With Fear
03. Morbid Reality
04. Megalomaniac
05. A Suburb To Hell
06. Genocidal Raids
07. Time Shall Tell
08. Dark Eternity
09. A Suburb To Hell [Demo Version] [Re-issued 2000 bonus]
10. Asphyxiate With Fear [Demo Version] [Re-issued 2000 bonus]
11. Time Shall Tell [Unreleased Version] [Re-issued 2000 bonus]
12. Dark Eternity [Unreleased Version] [Re-issued 2000 bonus]

Additional info
Produced by Tomas Skogsberg and Therion.
Engineered by Tomas Skogsberg.
Recorded and mixed at Sunlight Studio, Stockholm, August-September 1990.
Cover art by Gary Querns from original by Johan Losand and Rikard Olund.
Inner cover art by Johan Losand.
Photos by Mats Lindbom.

All music and lyrics by Christofer Johnsson.

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Comments: 21   Visited by: 410 users
31.01.2012 - 09:14
Rating: 6
M C Vice
ex-polydactyl
At arout 3:25 on A Suburb To Hell, is he using something to alter his voice, or can he do that himself?
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02.05.2014 - 20:46
Rating: 9
Daggon
Underpaid M.D.
Can't believe this album is rated so low, I consider this one a classic Death Metal album, probably one of the best albums of the whole Swedish Death metal movement. Really, I'm in awe...
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11.05.2014 - 15:24
Rating: 7
Sang Dalang Abu

Written by Daggon on 02.05.2014 at 20:46

Can't believe this album is rated so low, I consider this one a classic Death Metal album, probably one of the best albums of the whole Swedish Death metal movement. Really, I'm in awe...

obviously not one of the best album in swedish death metal, I think "Cladestine" is best in 1991 era. But "Of Darkness" album so fuckin' great
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20.12.2014 - 21:49
Rating: 8
NorthernDickhead

Average rating 6.72 by Therion fans.... Do they listen death metal at all?
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20.12.2014 - 21:52
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by NorthernDickhead on 20.12.2014 at 21:49

Average rating 6.72 by Therion fans.... Do they listen death metal at all?


I don't think so. And I am willing to bet that they became fans of the band at earliest with Theli.
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21.12.2014 - 03:07
Rating: 6
M C Vice
ex-polydactyl
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 20.12.2014 at 21:52

Written by NorthernDickhead on 20.12.2014 at 21:49

Average rating 6.72 by Therion fans.... Do they listen death metal at all?


I don't think so. And I am willing to bet that they became fans of the band at earliest with Theli.

Beyond Sanctorium's the earliest one I gave a good rating to. I'm not much of a death metal fan.
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"Another day, another Doug."
"I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples."
" 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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21.12.2014 - 09:40
Rating: 8
Koen Smits

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 20.12.2014 at 21:52

Written by NorthernDickhead on 20.12.2014 at 21:49

Average rating 6.72 by Therion fans.... Do they listen death metal at all?


I don't think so. And I am willing to bet that they became fans of the band at earliest with Theli.


Yeah, they became fans with their later works, when Therion became less good for me.
On the other hand: with the releases of Carcass, Dismember, Pungent Stench, Pestilence , Entombed, Morbid Angel (and a lot more incredible stuff) this one maybe stayed under the radar for some people
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Written by Bad English on 05.04.2014 at 15:05

but spoil thius film is like spoil porn and say porn ends whit cum shot ...
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21.12.2014 - 11:49
Ilham
Giant robot
I never tried early Therion because the symphonic stuff gave me ebola. I should try their dm albums, I'm pretty sure I can't like them less than the others. I guess I'll start with this.
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21.12.2014 - 20:08
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by Ilham on 21.12.2014 at 11:49

I never tried early Therion because the symphonic stuff gave me ebola. I should try their dm albums, I'm pretty sure I can't like them less than the others. I guess I'll start with this.


Start here and listen to Beyind Sanctorum as well which is also death metal although with some non-death metal elements but few enough to call it a death metal album.
You can venture with caution with Symphony Masses but after that one well... You wont like anything else. I dig a lot of Therion actually. Both old and new. Well, not NEW new. I stopped caring after Gothic Kabbalah.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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21.12.2014 - 20:26
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by X-Ray Rod on 21.12.2014 at 20:08

Start here and listen to Beyind Sanctorum as well which is also death metal although with some non-death metal elements but few enough to call it a death metal album.
You can venture with caution with Symphony Masses but after that one well... You wont like anything else. I dig a lot of Therion actually. Both old and new. Well, not NEW new. I stopped caring after Gothic Kabbalah.

Okay thanks for the tips. Might even try one of the symphonic ones. See if my mind changed with time.
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07.02.2016 - 09:31
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Perhaps Christofer Johnsson should listen to this album again so maybe he recovers something this band lost a long time ago.

Their balls.
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09.02.2018 - 15:33
nikarg

This is the only Therion album worth listening to. Very good stuff.
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10.02.2018 - 15:35
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by nikarg on 09.02.2018 at 15:33

This is the only Therion album worth listening to. Very good stuff.


Aw c'mon. I'd say Beyond Sanctorum is pretty ballsy and interesting.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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11.02.2018 - 02:34
nikarg

Written by X-Ray Rod on 10.02.2018 at 15:35

Aw c'mon. I'd say Beyond Sanctorum is pretty ballsy and interesting.

I admit I may have been a little harsh so I'll rephrase: Of Darkness is the best Therion album and their first three releases are the only ones worth listening to. The symphonic stuff gives me ebola, just like Ilham said.
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25.02.2018 - 19:39
Vombatus
Potorro
"McDonalds feed their cows with our children's LIIIVESSSS!"


Love this shit
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20.04.2020 - 00:11
JoHn Doe

Every once in a while, I enjoy listening to this.
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24.07.2021 - 20:58
kevindebrajne
Account deleted
Let's delete all symphonic metalheads from this site so the average score is somewhat accurate. Such a legendary album, especially when you realise that its one of the first swedish death metal albums ever.
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25.07.2021 - 00:43
Rating: 6
Redel

Written by Guest on 24.07.2021 at 20:58

Let's delete all symphonic metalheads from this site so the average score is somewhat accurate.

Well, sort of difficult approach, and you know that. But I'll take it you are not being too serious here and just want to let us know how inferior the taste of symphonic metalheads is.
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25.07.2021 - 18:27
kevindebrajne
Account deleted
Written by Redel on 25.07.2021 at 00:43

Well, sort of difficult approach, and you know that. But I'll take it you are not being too serious here and just want to let us know how inferior the taste of symphonic metalheads is.

I have nothing but respect to people who enjoy symphonic metal and I did not intend to insult any of them, my point is that if you dont listen to X genre, maybe you shouldn't rate X genre albums. Kinda childish dream I know
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25.07.2021 - 19:17
Rating: 6
Redel

Written by Guest on 25.07.2021 at 18:27

Written by Redel on 25.07.2021 at 00:43

Well, sort of difficult approach, and you know that. But I'll take it you are not being too serious here and just want to let us know how inferior the taste of symphonic metalheads is.

if you dont listen to X genre, maybe you shouldn't rate X genre albums. Kinda childish dream I know

Yeah, ongoing discussion that one.
If you ask me, everyone should vote on any album they like to vote on.
Apart from the fact that restrictions on voting allowances would be impossible to monitor properly, they would return non-desirable rating distributions imo. We would only see average ratings of very good, excellent or perfect because people tend to like the albums from the genre they listen to.
But that is my view on the topic and it implies that people mostly vote based on how much they like an album, not based on objective quality. If you want ratings based on objective quality -- again my view -- you dont need a voting system anyway, staff could just put together their heads and figure out the proper objective rating for each album.
Well, I tend to go too far on this topic easily I know...
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27.01.2022 - 08:27
Rating: 6
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
After listening to Theli, I didn't expect this style to be the origin of this band. It's similar to other Swedish bands of that time (Entombed, Dismember), but nothing extraordinary.
Just some solid old school death metal
7.5/10
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