1. Typhon [4:36]
2. Uthark Runa [4:41] Three ships of Berik
3. Part 1: Calling to Arms and Fighting the Battle [3:19]
4. Part 2: Victory! [0:44]
5. Lemuria [4:15]
6. Quetzalcoatl [3:47]
7. The Dreams of Swedenborg [4:58]
8. An Arrow from the Sun [5:54]
9. Abraxas [5:21]
10. Feuer Overtüre/Prometheus Entfesselt [4:39]
Sirius B
1. Blood of Kingu [5:45]
2. Son of the Sun [5:35]
3. The Khlysti Evangelist [5:38]
4. Dark Venus Persephone [4:02]
5. Kali Yuga part 1 [3:27]
6. Kali Yuga part 2 [5:48]
7. The Wondrous World of Punt [7:19]
8. Melek Taus [5:31]
9. Call of Dagon [4:14]
10. Sirius B [3:43]
11. The Voyage of Gurdjieff [5:56]
Information
Kristian Niemann: Acoustic guitar, Solo and rhythm electric guitars, Mandolin on The Wondrous World of Punt
Johan Niemann: Bass, Mandolin on The Wondrous World of Punt
Christofer Johnsson: Guitar, Lead vocals on Typhon and Three ships of Berik - Part 1: Calling to Arms and Fighting the Battle, Keyboards on An Arrow from the Sun and Feuer Overtüre/Prometheus Entfesselt, Mandolin on The Wondrous World of Punt
Richard Evensand: Drums, Gong on Kali Yuga part 2 (Guest)
Piotr Wawrzeniuk: Lead vocals on Lemuria, The Dreams of Swedenborg, Feuer Overtüre/Prometheus Entfesselt, Dark Venus Persephone, Kali Yuga part 1 and Melek Taus
Steen Rasmussen: Mellotron on Lemuria, Hammond organ (Guest)
Lars Sømod Jensen: Church organ on The Wondrous World of Punt (Guest)
Mats Levén: Lead vocals on Uthark Runa, Abraxas, Blood of Kingu, The Khlysti Evangelist and Kali Yuga part 2 (Guest)
Jens Nyborg: Prima Balalaika 1, Prima Domra, Alto Domra (Guest)
Sven Lindblad: Prima Balalaika 2 (Guest)
Kavi Björkqvist: Prima Balalaika 3 (Guest)
Peter Mossman: Narrator on Lemuria (Guest)
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra:
Violin I:
Bohumil Kotmel
František Šilar
Lucie Švehlová
Tomáš Barinka
Libor Kanka
Jan Dudek
Jirka Škoda
Ludmila Mrácková
Roman Konecný
Richard Valášek
Miroslav Štépán
Emanuel Ranný
Ludvík Sklenár
Šárka Drancáková
Jan Vlcek
Jan Dramota
Violin II:
Jolana Mazalová
Filip Himmer
Pavel Kutman
Pavel Kržanovský
Jirí Kohoutek
Markéta Kohoutová
Marie Duorská
Vlastimil Zeman
Josef Uycmytil
Martin Kalista
Ladislava Michálková
Petr Štajner
Viola:
Zoenék Zindel
Petr Klas
Jana Šislerová
Jan Stippl
Véra Binarová
Jan Kratina
Milan Soucek
Marina Martincová
Irena Stránská
Václav Benda
Cello:
Miloš Vávra
Radek Schorovský
Milada Strašilová
Radek Širc
Petr Malíšek
Jirí Prímoda
David Havelík
Olga Bílková
Double Bass (4 and 5 string):
Jirí Císar
Stanislav Zoul
Jan Razák
Robin Marek
Jan Dudek
Martin Císar
Rudolf Andrš
Jindra Schulmmann
Flute:
Radomír Pivoda
Václav Sýkora
Oboe:
Jitka Tomšícková
Ivan Orcígr
Basson:
Lukáš Korínek
Svatopluk Cech
Piano and Harpsichord:
Jaroslava Eliásová
Horn:
Jirí Lisý
Petr Duda
Miroslav Kubícek
Lubomír Krystlík
Petra Cermáková
František Pok
Tomáš Secký
Jaroslav Secký
Wagner tuba:
Jirí Lisý
Miroslav Kubícek
František Pok
Jaroslav Secký
Trombones (Bass, tenor and alt):
Aleš Vopelka
František Fejgi
Jirí Odcmárel
Timpani:
Jirí Lisý
Miroslav Kubícek
František Pok
Jaroslav Secký
Kühn mixed Choir Soprano:
Petra Erlebachová
Miroslava Dámlová
Pavlína Plechatová
Ružena Hejná
Markéta Lajnerová
Slavéna Drášilová
Ilona Vzskocilová
Jitka Hurtíková
Milena Holecková
Dana Langerová
Lenka Pecharová
Hana Cervenková
Jana Šulcová
Renata Váchová
Jana Veverková
Bára Kubátová
Véra Pcibylová
Blanka Léblová
Kühn mixed Choir Alt:
Ivana Francánová
Veronika Šindelová
Zdenka Gailová
Daniela Filová
Marie Doležalová
Ružena Pelcová
Eva Kroftová
Marie Jakoubková
Zdenka Fišerová
Eva Walterová
Karolina Vocadlová
Jana Drábková
Martina Straková
Lenka Kucelová
Veronika Tichá
Eva Zbytovská
Dana Mikulejská
Szlva Šrámková
Kühn mixed Choir Tenor:
Zdenék Vykopal
Petr Jindra
Zdenék Mašek
Jaroslav Tománek
Vladimír Rozkošný
Zbynék Valenta
Jirí Skála
Marek Vorlícek
|van Diblík
Ivan Loula
Tomáš Mikulecký
Vladimár Nacházel
Jirí Los
Jirí Dolejší
Kühn mixed Choir Bass:
Milan Dobiáš
Vladimír Štumpf
František Krupala
Jaromír Bélor
Martin Stolbenko
Jan Kratina
Petr Pribyl
Rudolf Hesvadba
Petr Tomés
Bohuslav Rattay
Karel Zochr
Jirí Hannsmann
Luboš Klancík
Milan Kottas
Michael Mergl
Pavel Mesany
František Mizerovský
Jan Moravel
Jirí Uherek
Classical soloists:
Jitka Tomšícková: Solo oboe
Petra Cermáková: Solo horn
Classical vocal soloists:
Anna-Maria Krawe: Soprano on Typhon, An Arrow from the Sun, Abraxas, Son of the Sun, Dark Venus Persephone, The Wondrous World of Punt, Melek Taus and Call of Dagon
Jana Bínová-Koucká: Soprano on The Dreams of Swedenborg, The Khlysti Evangelist and Kali Yuga part 1
Karolína Vocadlová: Alt on The Dreams of Swedenborg
Ulrika Skarby: Alt on Lemuria, An Arrow from the Sun, Son of the Sun, Dark Venus Persephone and Melek Taus
Tomáš Cerný: Tenor on Typhon, The Khlysti Evangelist, Kali Yuga part 1, The Wondrous World of Punt and The Voyage of Gurdjieff
Jaromír Bélor: Bass on The Wondrous World of Punt
Michael Schmidberger: Bass on Typhon, An Arrow from the Sun, Feuer Overtüre/Prometheus Entfesselt and Dark Venus Persephone
Right after Deggial I had ideas for a new album, but one day I woke up and felt I needed to make a Nordic concept album for some reason. Secret of the Runes was then written more or less in 2 months; however, the 7-8 songs for this original follow-up to Deggial were put on ice for the time being.
After finishing the world tour for Secret of the Runes, making Live in Midgård, recording a Demonoid album, and having a small vacation, those 7-8 songs had grown to 55 songs and pieces that could be developed into songs. This was partly due to my own productiveness and also because Kristian had become well synchronized with his song writing, delivering both complete songs and parts that I could put together with my ideas into songs (and the other way around too) – not to forget Johan, who had also written a bunch of songs.
We went through the songs and realized that we had enough good material for three albums. Recording one after the other, promoting, and touring each one separately would have taken several years and would have been a bad idea; and being so productive, we would have had another 55 songs waiting when we finally came to the end of it.
Recording all three at once would have been too much work on our shoulders, so we made a compromise and recorded two at once for a simultaneous release and saved songs for the third one. The way of dividing the songs was to take the more progressive songs for the future third album, the songs that were more straightforward and heavy metal inspired to Sirius B, and then the rest were put on Lemuria (thus making it the most diverse of these 3 albums). However, after recording the two albums we swapped a few of the songs between the albums, which made them slightly more similar to each other but also more varied in themselves.
These albums had 171 people participating in the recordings and the huge orchestra and choir were very different sounding compared to the more close and intimate sound created on the previous album, Secret of the Runes.
All drums, bass, guitars, balalaikas, domras, mandolins, rock/metal vocals and most of the opera soloists were recorded at the Modern Art Studio, Stockholm (April-July and September 2003). Engineered by Sami Karppinen. Assistance engineering by Kristian Niemann.
Orchestra, choir and additional opera soloists were recorded at Smecky Studio, Prague, Czech Republic during September 2003. Egineered by Jan Holzner. Assistants: Michael Hradisky and Zdenék Pekarék.
The mixing and the recordings of hammond organs, mellotrone and narration were done during September/October 2004 at Sun Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark. Engineering and mixing by Lars Nissen. Assistance engineering by Andreas Hviid.
Produced by Therion and Lars Nissen.
All classical and choral arrangements by Christofer Johnsson.
Cover and layout by Thomas Ewerhard.
Orchestra was recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (see individual credits above) and was conducted by Adam and Mario Klemens.
The choir was recorded with the Kühn Mixed Choir (see individual credits above) and was conducted by Mario Klemens.
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