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THERION “Lepaca Kliffoth” /Deluxe Edition Slipcase CD/


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    Band: THERION
  • Product Code: HHR 2022-16
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  • € 15.90

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THERION
The fourth re-release of the fourth full-length studio album by legendary Swedish Symphonic/Operatic Death Metal band.
During 1995, when many of their contemporaries were rooted deep in the extreme Metal spectrum, Christofer Johnsson and Co. decided to broaden their horizon to bring forth all their musical influences to such an extent that, despite their complete stylistically departure (which rightly unfitting to many), onlookers and open-minded fanatics can always find many things to ponder upon all sorts of classical references and can conceive all eleven songs with renewed interpretation.
Stylistically, "Lepaca Kliffoth" retains the aggressive riffing and sheds the harsh growls of the band's previous Death Metal output, while also incorporating more elements of traditional Heavy Metal (conventional, but with an undeniable dark feeling) and more pronounced Gothic and Symphonic elements, often leading to this album being viewed as a transitional album in Therion's discography. Adding the enticing bass-baritone voice of Hans Groning and the soprano singer Claudia Maria Mokri, who has already refined Celtic Frost's albums with her voice, reinforced the diversity of the album. Also, the dominance of keyboards, more Persian influences, more Progressive melodies, Fredrik Isaksson’s ever flowing basslines, Christofer Johnsson singing in a newer Hardcore way, established the combined songwriting and inventive prowess of the band. Notably, this record also beholds a production appropriate to their multi-faceted, partly Dark Symphonic Death Metal in the broadest sense.
The title refers to the qlippoth (in the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah, and Hermetic Qabalah, the qlippoth are the representation of evil or impure spiritual forces in Jewish mysticism), the opposites of the sefirot. Sefirot meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof ("infinite space") reveals itself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the seder hishtalshelut (the chained descent of the metaphysical Four Worlds).
"Sorrows of the Moon" originally performed by Celtic Frost, based on the poem "Tristesse de la lune" by Charles Baudelaire, with completely new lyrics translated by Therion. The first guitar riff in "Melez" sounds identical to the Scorpions' song "They Need a Million".
Enticing news in that sense for the old or newly exposed souls, this record comes alive again as part of Hammerherat’s re-release offensive in the remastered CD version (with startling double bonus tracks) now and then the LP version a little later.
Hammerheart Records, 1995/2022 (HHR 2022-16). Made in Netherlands. Pressed in Czech.


Tracklist:
1. The Wings of the Hydra 03:33
2. Mele 04:06
3. Arrival of the Darkest Queen 00:54
4. The Beauty in Black 03:12
5. Riders of Theli 02:51
6. Black 05:02
7. Darkness Eve 05:19
8. Sorrows of the Moon (Celtic Frost cover) 03:26
9. Let the New Day Begin 03:35
10. Lepaca Kliffoth 04:26
11. Evocation of Vovin 04:54
Total playing time: 41:18 min.


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