.: Posted by Christofer Johnsson :: November 17, 2006 :.

Back in 1999 I started to write music for a follow up album to Deggial. Lets call it Album-X. I wrote 7-8 songs for it before I one day played 2 songs (later named "Secret of the runes" and "Asgard") to Kristian that I had written for a project (which in the end never took place) and he said "Hey, those songs should not be used for some project, they belong in Therion!" I didn't know how they would fit in with the album I was writing on and didn't bother much about it until I woke up one day and had felt "Gee, I really want to make a nordic concept album" and those two songs was perfect for it. So Album-X had to be put on ice and instead the Secret of the Runes album was written in about 2-3 months and we started the recordings of that album instead.Â
2003 we wanted to record that Album-X, but meanwhile the amount of songs (see beginning of the text) had grown a lot - we had songs enough for 3 albums! Let's call them X, Y and Z. They formed a trilogy and we decided to record two of them and release at the same time and save the third one for the future. So we recorded Sirius B (Album-X) and Lemuria (Album-Y) and Z was saved.Â
2005 I got the idea for a completely different kind of album AGAIN due to some songs I had written and the decision was made to make the album we recorded 2006 - Gothic Kabbalah and let Album-Z rest for some years more. However, we took 2 songs from Album-Z and put on the Gothic Kabbalah record. Those were "Der Mitternachtslöwe" (which I didn't feel suited totally with the other songs on Album-Z) and "Adulruna Rediviva", which was reworked and prolonged with several new written parts (yet this is a song that can tell you a bit of the musical direction of Album-Z). And because of those 2 songs Gothic Kabbalah gets connected musically with the trilogy and it all of a sudden becomes a quadralogy.Â

.: Posted by Christofer Johnsson :: November 17, 2006 :.