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艺人
Therion
语种
英语
厂牌
Nuclear Blast
发行时间
2004年05月24日
专辑类别
录音室专辑

专辑介绍

Musicians

Kristian Niemann: Acoustic guitar, Solo and rhythm electric guitars, Mandolin

Johan Niemann: Bass, Mandolin

Christofer Johnsson: Guitar, Lead vocals, Keyboards, Mandolin

Richard Evensand: Drums, Gong

Piotr Wawrzeniuk: Lead vocals

Steen Rasmussen: Mellotron, Hammond organ

Lars Sømod Jensen: Church organ

Mats Levén: Lead vocals

Jens Nyborg: Prima Balalaika 1, Prima Domra, Alto Domra

Sven Lindblad: Prima Balalaika 2

Kavi Björkqvist: Prima Balalaika 3

Peter Mossman: Narrator

The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Bohumil Kotmel

František Šilar

Lucie Švehlová

Tomáš Barinka

Libor Kanka

Jan Dudek

Jirka Škoda

Ludmila Mrácková

Roman Konecný

Richard Valášek

Miroslav Štépán

Emanuel Ranný

Ludvík Sklenár

Šárka Drancáková

Jan Vlcek

Jan Dramota

Jolana Mazalová

Filip Himmer

Pavel Kutman

Pavel Kržanovský

Jirí Kohoutek

Markéta Kohoutová

Marie Duorská

Vlastimil Zeman

Josef Uycmytil

Martin Kalista

Ladislava Michálková

Petr Štajner

Zoenék Zindel

Petr Klas

Jana Šislerová

Jan Stippl

Véra Binarová

Jan Kratina

Milan Soucek

Marina Martincová

Irena Stránská

Václav Benda

Miloš Vávra

Radek Schorovský

Milada Strašilová

Radek Širc

Petr Malíšek

Jirí Prímoda

David Havelík

Olga Bílková

Jirí Císar

Stanislav Zoul

Jan Razák

Robin Marek

Jan Dudek

Martin Císar

Rudolf Andrš

Jindra Schulmmann

Radomír Pivoda

Václav Sýkora

Jitka Tomšícková

Ivan Orcígr

Lukáš Korínek

Svatopluk Cech

Jaroslava Eliásová

Jirí Lisý

Petr Duda

Miroslav Kubícek

Lubomír Krystlík

Petra Cermáková

František Pok

Tomáš Secký

Jaroslav Secký

Jirí Lisý

Miroslav Kubícek

František Pok

Jaroslav Secký

Aleš Vopelka

František Fejgi

Jirí Odcmárel

Jirí Lisý

Miroslav Kubícek

František Pok

Jaroslav Secký

Petra Erlebachová

Miroslava Dámlová

Pavlína Plechatová

Ružena Hejná

Markéta Lajnerová

Slavéna Drášilová

Ilona Vzskocilová

Jitka Hurtíková

Milena Holecková

Dana Langerová

Lenka Pecharová

Hana Cervenková

Jana Šulcová

Renata Váchová

Jana Veverková

Bára Kubátová

Véra Pcibylová

Blanka Léblová

Ivana Francánová

Veronika Šindelová

Zdenka Gailová

Daniela Filová

Marie Doležalová

Ružena Pelcová

Eva Kroftová

Marie Jakoubková

Zdenka Fišerová

Eva Walterová

Karolina Vocadlová

Jana Drábková

Martina Straková

Lenka Kucelová

Veronika Tichá

Eva Zbytovská

Dana Mikulejská

Szlva Šrámková

Zdenék Vykopal

Petr Jindra

Zdenék Mašek

Jaroslav Tománek

Vladimír Rozkošný

Zbynék Valenta

Jirí Skála

Marek Vorlícek

|van Diblík

Ivan Loula

Tomáš Mikulecký

Vladimár Nacházel

Jirí Los

Jirí Dolejší

Milan Dobiáš

Vladimír Štumpf

František Krupala

Jaromír Bélor

Martin Stolbenko

Jan Kratina

Petr Pribyl

Rudolf Hesvadba

Petr Tomés

Bohuslav Rattay

Karel Zochr

Jirí Hannsmann

Luboš Klancík

Milan Kottas

Michael Mergl

Pavel Mesany

František Mizerovský

Jan Moravel

Jirí Uherek

Classical soloists

Jitka Tomšícková: Solo oboe

Petra Cermáková: Solo horn

Comments from Chris

Right after Deggial I had ideas for a new album, but one day I woke up and felt I needed to make a Nordic concept album for some reason. Secret of the Runes was then written more or less in 2 months; however, the 7-8 songs for this original follow-up to Deggial were put on ice for the time being.

After finishing the world tour for Secret of the Runes, making Live in Midgård, recording a Demonoid album, and having a small vacation, those 7-8 songs had grown to 55 songs and pieces that could be developed into songs. This was partly due to my own productiveness and also because Kristian had become well synchronized with his song writing, delivering both complete songs and parts that I could put together with my ideas into songs (and the other way around too) – not to forget Johan, who had also written a bunch of songs.

We went through the songs and realized that we had enough good material for three albums. Recording one after the other, promoting, and touring each one separately would have taken several years and would have been a bad idea; and being so productive, we would have had another 55 songs waiting when we finally came to the end of it.

Recording all three at once would have been too much work on our shoulders, so we made a compromise and recorded two at once for a simultaneous release and saved songs for the third one. The way of dividing the songs was to take the more progressive songs for the future third album, the songs that were more straightforward and heavy metal inspired to Sirius B, and then the rest were put on Lemuria (thus making it the most diverse of these 3 albums). However, after recording the two albums we swapped a few of the songs between the albums, which made them slightly more similar to each other but also more varied in themselves.

These albums had 171 people participating in the recordings and the huge orchestra and choir were very different sounding compared to the more close and intimate sound created on the previous album, Secret of the Runes.

Other Info

All drums, bass, guitars, balalaikas, domras, mandolins, rock/metal vocals and most of the opera soloists were recorded at the Modern Art Studio, Stockholm (April-July and September 2003). Engineered by Sami Karppinen. Assistance engineering by Kristian Niemann.

Orchestra, choir and additional opera soloists were recorded at Smecky Studio, Prague, Czech Republic during September 2003. Egineered by Jan Holzner. Assistants: Michael Hradisky and Zdenék Pekarék.

The mixing and the recordings of hammond organs, mellotrone and narration were done during September/October 2004 at Sun Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark. Engineering and mixing by Lars Nissen. Assistance engineering by Andreas Hviid.

Produced by Therion and Lars Nissen.

All classical and choral arrangements by Christofer Johnsson.

Cover and layout by Thomas Ewerhard.

Orchestra was recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (see individual credits above) and was conducted by Adam and Mario Klemens.

The choir was recorded with the Kühn Mixed Choir (see individual credits above) and was conducted by Mario Klemens.


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