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Death Is Just The Beginning Classics (DVD) - The Beauty in Black (track 24)



COVER LIST

Here's a small list of all the known songs Therion has covered... There are some more songs on Bootlegs, but I don't have the names!

The first column is linked to the original songs, so that you may compare the original with Therion version, and the second column shows either the appropriate place in discography, or is linked to the cover mp3, if the song is not published on an album.

Original Artist: .....	Original MP3: ......	Therion MP3: ......
Accept	Balls to the wall	Balls to the wall
Iron Maiden	Revelations	Revelations
Abba	Summer Night City	Summer Night City
Saxon	747 (Strangers In The Night)	747 - Strangers in the Night
Iron Maiden	Children of the Damned	A'arab Zaraq - song 4
Loudness	Crazy Nights	Crowning of Atlantis - song 4
The Scorpions	Fly to the Rainbow	A'arab Zaraq - song 3
The Scorpions	Crying Days	Crying Days
Judas Priest	Here comes the Tears	A'arab Zaraq - song 7
Carl Orff	O Fortuna	Deggial - song 11
Accept	Seawinds	Crowning of Atlantis - song 7
Celtic Frost	Sorrows of the moon	Lepaca Kliffoth - song 8
Accept	The King	The King
Manowar	Thor	Crowning of Atlantis - song 6
Running Wild	Under Jolly Roger	A'arab Zaraq - song 5
Venom	Witching Hour	Witching Hour

New Covers
With comments from Chris

• Metallica "Fight fire with fire"

Thoughts we're getting too old to grind, eh? We tuned down the guitars, raised the tempo and kicked some serious ass in the studio. The vocals are done by me in the chorus and by Anders (the bald guy) in the verses. We used to play this song in 1987 when we where called Blitzkrieg.
Recorded and mixed at our own studio Modern Art.

• Judas Priest "Green Manalishi"

This is a cover of their cover on Fleetwood Mac. One of their best songs that I used to listen to a lot when I was young. We tried to do it close to how their original version sounded on the "Hell bent for leather" album (it later appeared in various live versions on Single and Maxi B-sides and the "Unleashed in the East" Live album). As we made a cover on their cover, it's no point in experimenting with our version, as then it would not be a Judas Priest cover, rather a Fleetwood Mac cover...
Recorded and mixed at our own studio Modern Art.

• Thin Lizzy "Southbound"

Here we tried to make everything as different from the Therion way as we could. It sounds like a sup-pop band from the 80's or something. We used Sarah to sing here, but let her use the "normal" voice (not the opera voice). No one would ever guess that this is Therion playing if they didn't know it and that's one of the ideas behind this version. It's fun to try odd things once in a while.
Recorded and mixed at our own studio Modern Art.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SWEDISH HARD ROCK AND HEAVY METAL
In the Desert of Set demo

track 13
Therion - In the desert of set 5:34

[Johnsson]
Recorded: Adolf Fredriks Skola 1995
Produced by Therion
Recorded by Peter Hansson
Line-up:
Christofer Johnsson (vocals, guitar, keyboards)
Johan Mellberg (guitar)
Lars Rosenberg (bass)
Tobbe Sidegard (keyboard)
Fredrik Isaksson (bass)
Piotr Wawrzeniuk (vocals, drums)

Comments: this track was especially recorded for this CD. Although the band had an, and I quote, "anti-budget", it's an interesting track showing death metal can be developed into highly interesting forms. Furthermore you'll also find drummer Piotr on vocals here. The track will appear on the band's next album, but in a totally different version.

In the book itself, there is an comment on Therion (+ discography which lasts from "Time shall tell" til "Lepaca Kliffoth")

Therion (Stockholm)

Christofer Johnsson (vocals, guitar, keyboards)
Piotr Wawrzeniuk (guitar)
Fredrik Isaksson (bass)

The band was formed in 1988 by Christofer. On the first 12" and the album, the members were Christoffer, Peter Hansson (guitar), Erik Gustafsson (bass), Oskar Foss (drums). On the second album Erik was out of the band and on "Symphony masses ..." Peter and Oscar were replaced by Magnus Barthelsson (guitar) and Andreas Wahl (Hexenhaus) (bass), both ex. Formicide. The first album is death metal while on the second album they've slowed down and added influences from Black Sabbath. The '95 releases showed a completely new line-up (above) as well as a more experimental side of the band, with the use of strings, soprano vocals and other oddities in this genre. The music was also more settled and almost classically influenced. "Lepaca Kliffoth" was produced by Harris Johns (Sodom, Tankard, Kreator) and contains a cover of the old Celtic Frost-tune "Sorrows of the moon". On the last album soprano Klaudia Maria Mohri (Celtic Frost) is featured. Christofer also had a short break from Therion to tour and record the album "Underground" (94 Noise) and the CDS "The ballad of Jesus" with Swiss metallurgists Messiah. He is also found in the band Carbonized. Count Grisnackh from Norwegian black metal band Burzum has sworn to kill Christofer, and a girl saying she was the count's girlfriend even tried to burn down his house. The reason ... "Christofer was not a true satanist" ... Do I dare to comment on that? Magnus Barthelsson is now found in the more grunge-influenced band Grain. Late 1995 Fredrik was replaced by ex-Entombed bass-player Lars Rosenberg, Jonas Mellberg, formely of Unanimated joined on guitar and Tobbe Sidegard, also guitarist in Necrophobic is playing keyboards. Piotr and Lars are also found in the band Serpent, who was signed to Radiation Records late 1995. The previously unreleased track "In the desert of set" can be found on the bonus-CD for this book.

"IN THE DESERT OF SET DEMO"




THE KING

"The King" is also a track by ACCEPT, which can be found on the album "I'm a Rebel", from 1980.
The Therion version is released on the TRIBUTE TO ACCEPT VOL.1 (1999)

Christoffer Johnsson's comments on THE KING :

When growing up in the early 80s I listened only to one thing: Heavy Metal!
Unlike many other forms of music, Heavy Metal is also a life style, and who
knows what could have become of me if it wasn't for bands like ACCEPT,
planting their metal seeds into my young pre teenage mind and making me
dream about becoming a "metal star" one day! Those dreams made me start
playing music myself and I'm sure there are plenty of other bands from my
generation that are able to say the same thing. As this recording was recorded
under very simple conditions (basically with some recording equipment on the
floor in a cellar where we rehearse), it somehow reflect us as some old fans
giving a more personal tribute than if it would have been done in the big way
with full orchestra and choir like the today traditional Therion is like.

"THE KING" (Therion version) in MP3 (CD quality)
"THE KING" (Accept version) in MP3 (cd quality)



BOOTLEG STUFF

Known Demo's & Bootlegs:

Paroxysmal Holocaust (DEMOTAPE 1989)
Beyond The Veils Of Inner Wickedness (DEMOTAPE 1989)
Theli Demo (DEMOTAPE 1995)
Live In Stockholm (BOOTLEG 1989 LP)

Known Bootleg-video's:

THERION-Rinkeby, Sweden 11/4/89 36 min. 3+
THERION-Uppsala, Sweden 4/9/93 41 min. 4
THERION-Zug, Switzerland 9/11/93 33 min. 3
THERION-Pudahuel, Chili 8/11/95 57 min. (slightly dark) 4 (no close-ups)
THERION-Dynamo Fest., Eindhoven, Holland 1997 53 min. 3+ (outdoor show)
THERION-Hydrogios Club, Salonica, Greece 5/3/97 36 min. 3+
THERION-Stuttgart, Germany Ten Years Nuclear Blast Fest. 8/10/97 53
THERION-Dynamo Fest., Mierlo, Holland 5/21/99 64 min. 4+ (2nd gen.) (front of stage) (outdoor show)



BANDS WITH SOMETHING TO DO WITH THERION MEMBERS
The complete list of bands (including those not listed here)+ BIG essays
written by Chris on each of them + some "files" are all available in the
Fanclub. The following comments are also writen by Christofer Johnsson:

Carbonized

Carbonized was a band that was formed 1988 by Lars Rosenberg. Piotr Wawrzeniuk joined 1989 and I was asked to record the guitars on the first album as a session member by the end of -90, but was asked to join permanently after the recordings. The first album was called For The Security and contained psychedelic grindcore. The second album was called Disharmonization and was less grinding and more psychedelic. The third album, entitled Screaming Machines, was only psychedelic and was a mixture of the worst (=most psychedelic tunes) of Sonic Youth, Syd Barret era Pink Floyd, old Black Flag and Voivod! Not many people could stand this album and nor could the record company - the album was recorded 1992 and later re-mixed january -93, but wasn't released until 1996! However, in opposite of that Carbonized was a project done by Therion members as many people have though, all members of Carbonized was later picked up by me to join Therion (Piotr did 4 albums with Therion and Lars one - THELI).

Liers In Wait

Liers in Wait is the band of the famous metal cover painter Kristian Wahlin (Therion, Tiamat, Bathory, Dissection, Atheist + many many more). I was asked to sing on this mini-album as a session singer. So I did. The music was EXTREMELY jazzy, chaotic and complicated death metal. Completely unlistenable to simpleminded music lovers indeed!

Megaton

Megaton is an electonic pop duo that hired me as a studioguitarist, as they wanted to try something diffrent and add some heavy guitars on it.

Messiah

Messiah is another band that I joined as a session singer. I was however labeled as a permanent member, even though I in reality didn't have much musical effect on the band (I wrote one riff if I remember it correctly). The album "Underground" was however a big innovation from the ealier more conservative deathrash type of metal, as it was more in a progressive thrash/heavy metal vein with traces of death metal and even some hard core.
There was a single made on the to say the least controversial song "Ballad Of Jesus" who had some really original lyric, telling a story about Jesus as a pedofile, raping children ritually. "Very untasteful" was one comment from a major german magazine. Never the less innovative?

Robots

The Robots is a punkrock band where Piotr is playing drums.

Serpent

Serpent is a doom band in the vein of early Black Sabbath where Piotr is doing the lead vocals.