Audio CD review:
Therion - Lemuria

Therion - Lemuria

Band: Therion Title: Lemuria Rating: Release Date: 2004-11-22 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Typhon 2: Uthark Runa 3: Three Ships Of Berik Pt. Calling To Arms & Fighting The Battle Pt.2 Victory 4: Lemuria 5: Quetzalcoatl 6: Dreams Of Swedenborg 7: An Arrow From The Sun 8: Abraxas 9: Feuer Overture / Prometheus Entfesselt

An unusual mixture of power metal, death, goth, and opera This band also has two vocalist, male and female like Lacuna Coil. Overall it tends to sound like basic metal to me with a slight goth tinge like Lana Coil, but it has a mixture of death, "gothish", and opera style vocals. Both of them switch back and forth within songs like Lacuna Coil also. That's where the coil similarity ends, because this band is heavier, darker, and more unique. Both handle the "gothish" and opera parts, while he does a couple of fleeting deathish style vocal lines, which is good imo, because I wouldn't like it if it was all cookie monster vocals. Inbetween time they handle some basic vocals. The album gets a 4 stars for being unique, along with having good musical ability, and a solid fillerless album. I took off 1 star because I don't like cookie monster vocals, even though they were fleeting. Of course that's my taste. Same old therion The tracks on this album that stand out for me are Lemuria, The dreams of sweden borg ,An arrow from the sun and Feuer overture. This album is yet another typical Therion album, different to the others yet the same old sound, which is not to be critical at all, personally I don't love Therion except for the Vovin album, yet I can't resist buying every album, as there is something about their unique sound. This is yet another consistant product from the band, if you like Therion you will like this. You can see a complete list of all Therion discography, or go back to the Therion tabs