THERION — Lepaca Kliffoth (review)

THERION — Lepaca Kliffoth album cover Album · 1995 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
bonnek
The first half of the 90's saw the rise of doom-death. A style of slow-paced doom metal with gruff vocals that combined the power chords of Black Sabbath, the slow dirge and nihilism of the industrial new wave band Swans and the zombie type of vocals that you used to scare your little sister with.

Anathema, My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost are best known but also Sweden (of course) had its exponents, such as Therion, be it without entirely fulfilling their promise yet on this album. It is decent, but it is the sound of a death metal band that realized they weren't heavy nor skilled enough to hold their ground in this normally very technical scene. So they compensated their disadvantage by experimenting, by finding creative solutions and by trying out new things on the unsuspecting audiences. An approach that often leads to great things.

This transitional album is mostly straightforward 'doom death & roll' with occasional experiments with choirs and violins. Their next album would reveal all the potential of this fertile marriage. Lepaca Kliffoth will probably only appeal to you if you want to seek out where Therion came from and if you can stomach the gruff vocals. I’ve found myself quite liking it, but never enough to motivate me to explore the Therion history any further back then this one.
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