Therion Reveal DVD Plans

Swedish operetic Metal act THERION's Christofer Johnsson (guitars & vocals) spoke to Metal Temple magazine’s Ian Kaatz during this year’s edition of ProgPower USA (Sept. 15-17 at Eartlink Live, Atlanta, GE). In his interview with Ian, Johnsson revealed the band’s plans for a multiple DVD release due for release in March 2006 and also spoke about their upcoming new full length album which still remains untitled. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

- Metal Temple: Have you started writing any new material?

- Christofer Johnsson: "We have all the songs for the next record finished."

- Metal Temple: Wow.

- Christofer Johnsson: "We recorded enough material for 3 albums but only released 2 albums, so we have to catch up."

- Metal Temple: Does the new material sound similar to the double disc ("Lemuria" & "Sirius B" - Nuclear Blast Records, 2004)?

- Christofer Johnsson: "It’s not a double disc, not to be picky. It is two different records but they were sold together as a double disc because not many people have that much money. It was way over-stocked by distributors in the U.S, so that’s why they still have it. We didn’t limit in numbers. For three months people can buy as much as they like. The third one was recorded in the same time frame, so it will be closer to these ones than to our previous records. That doesn’t mean it will sound the same. We divided the three records upon different solo songs. We saved the more progressive ones for the third one."

- Metal Temple: Oh okay, that sounds really sweet. Do you have a release date for the DVD? Because I know that in the previous interview you did with Metal Temple, you said you were working on a live DVD.

- Christofer Johnsson: "I am not going to say how many discs but it will contain multiple discs and it will be out in March of next year."