''Live in Midgård'' is the first

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by Swedish

symphonic metal Symphonic metal is a cross-genre style designation for the symphonic subsets of heavy metal music subgenres. It is used to denote any metal band that makes use of symphonic or orchestral elements. The style features the heavy drums and guitars ...

band Therion. This double-disc album was recorded in

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during the Secret of the Runes world tour in late 2001. Cover by Axel Jusseit and Thomas Ewerhard.

Track listing

CD one

# "Ginnungagap (Prologue)" # "Invocation of Naamah" (original studio version on Theli (1996)) # "Birth of Venus Illegitima" # "Enter Vril-Ya" # "Riders of Theli" # "Symphony of the Dead" # "A Black Rose (Covered With Tears, Blood and Ice)" # "The Return" # "Baal Reginon" # "Flesh of the Gods" # "Seawinds" ( Accept cover) # "Schwarzalbenheim" # "In the Desert of Set" (original studio version on Theli (1996))

CD two

# "The Wings of the Hydra" # "Asgård" # "The Secret of the Runes (Epilogue)" # "The Rise of Sodom and Gomorrah" # "

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cover) # " The Beauty in Black" # "Seven Secrets of the Sphinx" # "Wine of Aluqah" # "Raven of Dispersion" # " To Mega Therion" (original studio version on Theli (1996)) # "Cults of the Shadow" (original studio version on Theli (1996))

Credits

Christofer Johnsson Christofer Jan Johnsson (born 10 August 1972) is a Swedish musician and producer. He is a founding member and the guitarist for symphonic metal band Therion and was previously a member of Carbonized, Liers in Wait, Messiah, and Demonoid. In ...

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rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a guitar technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse (music), pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., d ...

, lead vocals *

Kristian Niemann Kristian Niemann (born 26 October 1971) is a Swedish guitarist who currently plays for heavy metal band Sorcerer and has previously performed for bands such as Therion, Lithium, and Demonoid Demonoid is a BitTorrent tracker and website f ...

– lead and rhythm guitar *

Johan Niemann Johan Wilhelm Niemann (born 26 June 1977) is a Swedish musician best known as the current bassist of Evergrey and for co-founding the band Mind's Eye. He was also a member of Swedish symphonic metal band Therion and Scandinavian metal band E ...

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bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

Sami Karppinen Sami Kristian Karppinen is a Finnish drummer. He is the drummer of Swedish symphonic metal band Therion (1998–2001, 2017–present), sound engineer and producer in Modern Art Studio, and session drummer. He has been working as drum tech for ...

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drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

Guest musicians

Sarah Jezebel Deva Sarah Jezebel Deva, the stage name of Sarah Jane Ferridge (born 25 February 1977), is an English heavy metal singer. She was the female soprano vocalist for Cradle of Filth for 14 years and the frontwoman of the band Angtoria for 10 years. I ...

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soprano A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hertz, Hz to A5 in Choir, choral ...

, lead vocals *Maria Ottoson – soprano *Johanna Mårlöv –

alto The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: '' altus''), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In four-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in ch ...

*Anders Engberg –

tenor A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below m ...

, lead vocals *Petri Heino –

baritone A baritone is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the bass (voice type), bass and the tenor voice type, voice-types. It is the most common male voice. The term originates from the ...

*Risto Hämäläinen – baritone

External links

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Information about album at the official website
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