Therion’s Christofer Johnsson @ 2019 Brutal Assault

@_Therion #brutalassault

Back in the 1990s I didn’t listen to, or like, much of the new music coming out. Grunge, alternative metal, nu metal, rap rock, and the like did nothing for me. Instead, for new music anyway, I turned to some of the sounds coming out of Scandinavia which included black metal and some of the heavier strains of symphonic metal. Among many other bands, I listened to exactly one of Therion’s albums, Theli.

Flash forward twenty or more years. Therion now has 16 studio albums of which I’ve heard one, and that one I haven’t listened to in close to two decades. They hit the stage of Brutal Assault and proceeded to perform the entire album that I’m familiar with! What are the odds?

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This was supposed to be my view, again, in a couple months.

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Joshua Tree bunny

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“I don’t choose what I paint. It’s very, very difficult to write a song or to paint a picture. And I think people who do it, whose work we admire, like John Prine — he doesn’t one day sit down and think, ‘I know, I’m going to write a song about old people and what it must be like to be ignored in old age and the connections between people.’ He wrote that song after he spent a summer delivering laundry to old people’s homes and he would sit and talk to some of the old folk before. And so it’s an expression of some love that he felt in his life and maybe all great work stems from love and from the ability to love.” — Roger Waters

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@LassenNPS @Manzanita_Lake #sunrise #landscape #california

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