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Therion talk musical influences

THERION have released a new video!

With the symphonic metallers gearing up to release their elaborate and expansive three hour long operatic project, Beloved Antichrist, this week, now, the band have released a new video! In the video, which is available to watch exclusively below, mastermind and solo original member Christofer Johnsson gives us the lowdown on just some of the bands that have influenced the sound of THERION!

Watch the official video for Beloved Antichrist: Bands that influenced THERION exclusively here on Distorted Sound: 

With the dynamic rock opera set for studio release this week, the band are working on the possibility of bringing the entire production to the stage and while this monumental undertaking still simmers away in production, the band are now underway on a pan-European tour taking them across 25 different countries, where they will perform some new and some classic tracks.

Remaining UK tour dates are as follows:

07.02. UK Aberdeen – The Assembly
08.02. UK Glasgow – Audio
09.02. UK Sheffield – Corporation
10.02. UK Belfast – Limelight
11.02. IRL Dublin – Tivoli
13.02. UK Bristol – Bierkeller
14.02. UK Birmingham – o2 Institute

Beloved Antichrist is set for release on February 9th via Nuclear Blast Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

For more information on THERION like their official page on Facebook.

James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.