Beyond Sanctorum

Therion | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nuclear Blast Americ
• ASIN: B000056P4U
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,732 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awe Inspiring, April 13, 2004

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P-Town Cracker (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beyond Sanctorum (Audio CD)

Despite negative press in the underground metal community, and somewhat lousy production to boot, Therion still succeeds in transending the usual tired crop of "look what I can do!" bands of similar build with "Beyond Sanctorum". The sound is very progressive and experimental, and I have to disagree with one of my fellow reviewers who called this a "transition to a transition album". True, this album falls right before Therion steers their sound into a tight symphonic metal outfit, but that is just how the chips fall. This is TRUE metal. Complex, brilliant, and often wandering into beatiful grinding sonic passages that one with an ear tuned to fine musicianship will appreciate. Need proof? Listen to "The Way", an astonishing 11-minute saga laden with perfectly layered guitar work and exotic insturments. Yes, the sound on this album is a little muddy, but don't let that detract you from experiencing one of metal's most overlooked and underrated death metal albums.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond Excellent, January 18, 2003

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death metal and black metal "death metal and ... (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beyond Sanctorum (Audio CD)

Once upon a time, there was a movement in metal to get away from the shallow trends of a modern age and make epic, powerful, complex metal that transcended the trivial and spoke to an ancient spirit within humanity. With the basic Celtic Frost-influenced Swedish death metal of the first Therion album mixed into progressive metal of a neoclassical order, this Swedish band have wrought a masterpiece of slow buildup and gratifyingly intelligent and emotionally intense release. Each song is a small novel detailing the efforts of something to rise, assert itself and change its world before dissolving in the chaos, passion and madness of what is has unleashed. If you like At the Gates, Bathory, Dissection, or Dismember, this is essential listening.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hey, Could you help me review this album,please?, October 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Beyond Sanctorum (Audio CD)

buy this , and review it . I think that the persons who love Therion are must buy this record. To know the roots of Therion. It's a brutal *** gothic death, you know? and it has some kickin' *** Symphonic parts . i feel terrible when i know that It's nobody review this album.

ps. I know that the language I said is so strange... please not to care about it . you know? I'm thai, and I don't care what grammars shold i have to say.