Therion
Sirius B/Lemuria (Nuclear Blast)
by Martin Popoff
I hesitate to call this a plush, elegant, yet headbanging Therion set, two albums packaged as one, given the flow between the two musically, graphically, and even lyrically, each being a collection of tracks that spans the globe for spiritual, paranormal, and mythic disciplines to the point of offering a track in German plus fragments of both Spanish and Russian. With all sorts of hugely symphonic and choir-blessed folk/prog passages, and plainly chugging metal bits (loaded up with those same classical elements), Sirius B/Lemuria holds one’s attention throughout, the listener marveling in the background at the expense and effort it must’ve taken to pull this off. Another nice touch is the multi-
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