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Therion Beloved Antichrist Tour 2018.

Even smiling makes my face ache.

"Beloved Antichrist" is a rock opera in 3 acts. Originally we wrote almost 4 hours of music, but at an early stage I realised it would get too heavy for audience with such a lenght, so in the end we recorded around 3,5 hours of music. After reviewing the final results I cut it down even further and we ended up with 3 hours 4 min (this means we have around 25 min of unreleased material saved from these recordings). It was a tough work to cut it down, because not every scene can be removed due to the storyline. And the weakest musical compositions are not necessaily linked to the removable scenes. I would estimate around 75% of the material has been written by me, the rest was written by Thomas, Vidal and Linnea. Nalle also wrote a scene with me, but it was one of the scenes that was cut out. Musically I would say around a third of the material sounds like "classic Therion". Another third sounds very different from what you would expect to hear from us. And the last third is something in between. Which means those who are open minded and wants to explore something new will have plenty of dig in to. And those who ”don't give a shit about rock operas and just wants a new Therion album" can burn a CD or make a play list with the songs they like (and use the other CD's to even out a rickety table or something). Important to take notice of is that this is NOT a regular album release where the lyrics is a storyline. It is NOT like Ayreon or Avantasia. This is music composed for a theatrical stage work. Like a Therion version of Jesus Christ Superstar (the working title while writing it was even "Antichrist Superstar"). And just like you can buy Jesus Christ Superstar also as an audio release, you can also buy "Beloved Antichrist" as an album. The concept is totally the same. This is vital for the understanding of this release. However, I would also like to stress the fact that the tour we do in the first half of 2018 is NOT a theatrical performance of the opera. On this tour we will treat "Beloved Antichrist" just like any other CD release and perform the songs like normal. We will try to stage the theatric version on the second half of the year. Tracklisting: CD 1/Act 1: 1. Turn from Heaven 2. Where will you go? 3. Through dust through rain 4. Signs are here 5. Never again 6. Bring her home 7. The solid black beyond 8. The crowning of splendour 9. Morning has broken 10. Garden of peace 11. Our destiny 12. Anthem 13. The palace ball 14. Jewels from afar 15. Hail Caesar 16. What is wrong? 17. Nothing but my name CD 2/Act 2: 1. The arrival of Apollonius 2. Pledging loyalty 3. Night reborn 4. Dagger of God 5. Temple of new Jerusalem 6. The lions roar 7. Bringing the gospel 8. Laudate dominum 9. Remaining silent 10. Behold Antichrist 11. Cursed by the fallen 12. Resurrection 13. To where I weep 14. Astral Sophia 15. Thy will be done CD 3/Act 3: 1. Shoot them down 2. Beneath the starry skies 3. Forgive me 4. The wasteland of my heart 5. Burning the palace 6. Prelude to war 7. Day of wrath 8. Rise to war 9. Time has come / Final battle 10. My voyage carries on 11. Striking darkness 12. Seeds of time 13. To shine forever 14. Theme of Antichrist