.: Posted by Christofer Johnsson :: October 7, 2001 :.

The decision to bring two support acts instead of making a package with another bigger act give us the opportunity to play a much longer set. So we will besides all the classics that people expect to hear on a Therion show also play some songs that we didn't play very often (like "Beauty in Black") and some that we actually never played before. For example "Seawinds".

As we are playing many shows in South America and Mexico, where or our old records are almost as popular as our new ones, we made a set where we play songs from ALL our albums except "A'arab Zaraq Lucid Dreaming" (yes even from "Of Darkness"), 3 of the very early ones will be put together in a medley though. Normally we would skip these songs in the European set. But as the re-release of the 3 first albums actually has sold pretty well (for being such a release) and as we now have time for a longer set, we thought about to do the same set over here. So all you people that want to see old Therion songs live, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!!! I seriously doubt we will do this again, so it's now or never really! You will also never get more Therion for your money than on this tour, as we're gonna play the longest set ever! I won't you tell what songs though, you'll just have to wait and see. But I can tell you as much as this; we will play minimum 25 songs (3 of them as a part of a long medley though), so basically there will be a pretty long regular Therion set + half a set with old songs. The plan would be:

1 Of Darkness
1 Beyond Sanctorum
2 Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas
3 Lepaca Kliffoth
4 Theli
4 Vovin
1 Crowning of Atlantis
4 Deggial
4 Secret of the Runes
1 Cover song besides the already mentioned "Seawinds"
(or even two more covers? Who knows what we'll do if there's an amazing audience that never wants to go home?)

If you're gonna see one Therion show in your life time, I suggest you do it on this tour!

.: Posted by Christofer Johnsson :: October 7, 2001 :.