Saturday, 4 November 2017

Therion - Gothic Kabbalah(2007) - from gothic metal with a progressive conclusion

Finally time for "The" Therion album that brought me to this amazing band "Gothic Kabbalah", Any of the following musics will enter immediately  in your mind they need time. With no further ado let's advance to this album songs

The first song of the album is "Der Mitternachtslöwe" a germanic title translating by Lion of Midnight, it was one of the first songs I felt in love with, it is almost a prophetic song. Seems like the Runes Are being read to us, it feels so good, it ends so amazingly as it starts


The second song of the album is the homonymous track, "Gothic Kabbalah", for some reason this track in youtube has the Lemuria cover.... well. This is not so epic as the one before, but still a pretty solid song to hear, it has a more epic approach to it. the segments between parts are some of my favourites from Therion


The third song of the album is "Perennial Sophia", Snowy Shaw is simply amazing in here with his deep vocals, is an iconic song, and live sounds even more amazingly. It grows in your mind so violently that it will never leave your mind. It end once again with a prophetic feeling surrounded by an enormous magical veil. Once again shout out for Jonny A Magnis Maxima youtube channel.


  The 4th song is "Wisdom and the cage" in this song once again with snowy in highlight we have the difference between a deep strong voice of Snowy and the melodic female voice. It incorporates so much the Gothic theme, the darkness around it. This song makes me cry as I recall amazing moments I lived hearing this one song. The part containing the female voice and the instrumental part after it around the middle of the song make me cry every time from how beautiful it is.



The 5th song of the album is The one which deserved the official video, "Son of the Staves of Time", the Videos is really week, but the song might be the first to attach to your mind. It's a good one to start until the others are getting their way. The female vocals at beginning gives an extra something to the song, and the return with the acute sound of the instruments fit so well. Here it is the time of Mats Leven to shine.




The next song I am talking about is 8th of the album, I could be here all day talking about every song on the album, but I decided to talk and focus more on those songs I enjoy the most in this amazing album, The next song I am talking about is "Close Up the Streams". This song has a phantasmagoric sound to it which I love in the female vocals, and a mystic voice in Snowy Shaw's voice. It results soooo well in my opinion


Time for my favourite ones, the 9th song of the album is called "Wand of The Abaris", it follows what is talked about in "An Arrow From the Sun" from Lemuria, the first part of the song is already really good with the melody fitting the vocals of a prophetic tone once again, with the female voice giving it the mystic sound from ancient times, and the guitar crying. But the second part is what makes it superb, the vocals there seem like a prophecy happening the truth revealing and the chords on it bring it to a simply majestic sonority, I miss more words to show how much I love this song. Even the chorus which normally are the most commercial part of many songs fits so well. along side with The Siren of the Woods my favourite song.




The 10th song for a long time I didn't like it, has it is more of a tale than of a song, "Three Treasures", but with time that part started to catch me more and more, and now the last part of the song is my ringtone on my Android. That instrumental part he last 50 minutes more or less are other simply amazing piece of musical art.  I started as is obviously shown to love this track, and I think you might like it too. I will give you the full song, and then, a cut I made only of the instrumental final part. Enjoy

 Instrumental part:


Approaching in fast pace from the end of the album, we have the 13th song Chains of Minerva. This is one of the most calm ones and in more of a terrain song in between all I already shown, this one is to show you how even the simpler songs sound so good


The 14th song of the album is "The Falling Stone" if you were missing a more paced song with fast lyrics? here you go. I think it is one of the fastest songs in pace from therion, more Symphony than melody in it.


To finish an amazing album nothing less than a mythical song, "Adulruna Rediviva", It is a progressive song basically, several paces with a touch of classical music. It is such an important song, that some years after the album been released(6 exactly) and after some events I will talk about on the next album they decided to record a video for this song, and I must say despite not having some of the original singers showing in the video it is really interesting the idea for the video.



Well with this another Therion album is presented, only two more to go. see you soon.





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