Of Darkness...
Of Darkness... is a debut studio album released on February 1991 by the Swedish band Therion and it contains songs written in the early years of the band, during the 1980s. The album is indicated by the band itself as an end of its first era.
The album was re-released on 27 November 2000 under Nuclear Blast label as a part of The Early Chapters of Revelation box-set. It contains remastered songs, as well as four bonus tracks.
Recording and production
After releasing the third demo record Time Shall Tell EP in 1990, Therion got attention from the British label Deaf Records, a subsidiary of Peaceville Records, and signed the band's first contract.Of Darkness... was recorded in Swedish studio Sunlight in Stockholm from August to September 1990 and released on February 1991. The initial line-up has not been changed since its last production. The album was produced by Tomas Skogsberg and the band itself.
Songs, lyrical themes and influences
Of Darkness... consists of songs Christofer Johnsson had written in the years of 1987–1989. Despite having newer songs, the band opted to save them for their next full release. The album can be seen as a progressive death metal album in that it contained mainly influences that were not standard to death metal at the time. The album was influenced especially by the Celtic Frost's thrash metal album Into the Pandemonium. Its sound was compared to Dismember (melody), Suffocation and Morpheus (rhythm), Entombed, Napalm Death, Repulsion, Bolt Thrower (guitars), Carcass and other extreme thrash metal and grindcore bands of those days.
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I remember when I used to feel I was in control
"Man on top of world. man on top of world"
Everywhere I went people said that we'd last a whole lifetime as a whole going down that road.
All the time we spent together deep inside I thought I'd know if there was a problem that it would show
Proven evident that love is blind sight would come and go once my eyes had opened I was alone.
Will I ever be without you, able to see without you the life that we'd both planned through where did it all go wrong?
Hours feel like days, food don't taste like it did before
Brave face feels so false am I fine? yes of course.
Really cannot wait for this ache triggered by a thought to stay dormant or I find a cure
That would be amazing cause all this waiting pacing back and forth I just feel exhausted.
Highs and the lows take their toll on my heart and my soul wishing I weren't alone.
I don't believe that I'm going down
If I could forsee a way of coping now
I'd wear my heart on my sleeve and if I saw you I'd punch your lights out!
It's a little extreme but I've lost the plot and I need to get a hold of myself I know I won't forever be alone.