Puis Therion a eu un contrat et ce projet est tombé à l'eau, mais Christofer Johnsson a visiblement continué à écrire des chansons dans ce registre, et les a mises de côté. Les voici à présent réunies sur un album, suivi maintenant d'un EP.
On remarque quand même le lien de parenté avec Therion à l'écoute :
https://soundcloud.com/svart-records/lu ... ilies-grow
The Swedish psychedelic group Luciferian Light Orchestra is about to release a new EP! It follows the band's debut self-titled album, released in 2015. The band features mastermind Therion's Christofer Johnsson and Mina Karadzic on vocals, performing songs that Johnsson has written over the years but thought were too retro-sounding for Therion. The EP can be pre-ordered here, it's called Black and contains four songs. You can now hear the tune "Where The Lilies Grow" below.
Johnnson explains the background to the song: "The song dates from 1995 and was one of the two songs that a band called Theli rehearsed. I had doubts about the future of Therion and formed a second band together with my friend Tommie Eriksson, who had been a live session musician for Therion at the time; today, he is playing in the bands Saturnalia Temple and The Tower. I wrote two songs that we began to rehearse, and we had some other people about to become members, as well. Then I unexpectedly got the information from our record label that they would give me the budget I needed to fulfill my musical dreams with Therion, and as a result of that, there was no more time left for the band Theli, and I decided to disband the group and instead named the coming Therion album Theli in tribute to the spirit of the band. One of the songs was re-arranged into what became the song 'Cults of the Shadow' appearing on this - according to fans - legendary album that not only finally brought fame to Therion with over 100,000 copies sold, but also established and inspired a whole new genre of music, Opera Metal."
The Black EP will be released on Svart Records on December 9th through Svart Records.
