Therion has released their biggest project to date in the form of a three-hour long metal opera. While Beloved Antichrist (Nuclear Blast) has been in the works in various forms for years, it has finally come to completion as a triple album with forty-six songs, and the band hoping to bring it to actual opera houses. The story was initially based on Vladímir Soloviov A Short Tale Of The Antichrist, but has since been adapted and had characters changed and added, ending up with twenty-seven characters performed by fifteen vocalists, along with a full choir. Continue reading
