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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The Miskolc Experience (2CD+DVD) - OUT NOW WORLDWIDE
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THERION - THE MISKOLC EXPERIENCE - OUT NOW IN NORTH AMERICA!

Out in Europe on June 5, 2009 and on August 25, 2009 in North America, THERION mastermind and only remaining founding member Christofer Johnsson decided to go for a rather special project: the band's appearance at the remarkable and renowned International Opera Festival in Miskolc / Hungary in 2007, resulting in The Miskolc Experience (2CD + DVD).

The event, which took place on June 16, 2007, featured THERION with the Miskolc Bartok Choir, the Choir of the Miskolc National Theater, and the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra conducted by Markus Stollenwerk.

The Miskolc Experience showcases the talent of Christofer Johnsson on guitar, brothers Kristian & Johan Niemann on guitar and bass (who joined THERION in 2000), and drummer Petter Karlsson (Gothic Kaballah and Live Gothic), and features guest vocalists Lori Lewis, Judit V. Molnar, Andras Molnar, Gergely Boncser, and Mats Leven.

The DVD contains a documentary and "THERION Goes Classic" bonus material.

TO VIEW THE COMPLETE TRACK LIST, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

The event was taped on and off stage to preserve a truly unique classic metal event for the THERION fanbase!

The first part – dubbed "Classical Adventures" – features some of Christofer's favourite composers (especially his alltime fave, Wagner) and does completely without guitars or any metal instrumentation, just orchestra and choir.

Part two, "Therion Songs," delivers exactly that: the finest THERION material performed by the band with a huge orchestra and choir.

Rounding off The Miskolc Experience is an entertaining documentary which gives insight in the complicated organization and the no less complicated execution with all ups and downs for the involved crew and musicians.

"It would have been an easy choice just to take a bunch of THERION songs, stand on a stage with an orchestra, and just play…. But THERION isn't a band that settles for what is ‘good enough,'" states THERION mastermind Christofer Johnsson.

"We want to do more than that. So much of what you will hear and see are exclusively arranged for this event and one previous one we did in Romania. We wish to offer you a musical journey where the band both enters the classical world as humble guests as well as invite the classical players and singers into our world."

"There are several ways to incorporate opera and classical music with metal and rock music," continues Johnsson. "Most rock musicians would do it in a rather chauvinistic way: looking upon themselves as the stars and the orchestra, choir, soloists and conductor as a bunch of people just helping them to realize some spectacular event they would do at some point in their career. And as they are the big stars, they would play over the compositions like a bulldozer, adding guitar chords in every inch of even the classical pieces.

Here, THERION tries to show a great diversity by knowing what style and which rock instruments to play in each place, and (very important) when to be quiet and let the orchestra do their thing undisturbed, in which some dynamics between the two worlds can grow."