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Main Forum => About Therion => Topic started by: Luth on June 23, 2009, 10:08:04 am
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This is a simple question: who has been Therionized by you?
My answer: I showed Therion to my ex-school driving teacher, and he liked it (I don't think it is a real Therionization, though), I've Therionized Xiquet and, Xiquet Therionized his guitar teacher just yesterday. The teacher asked him to bring music he likes, and he brought all my Therion collection. I've to say that Xiquet's teacher is a monster... he has played all over the world with his guitar and can play what you like to ask him... Well, he was terribly surprised by Therion quality... I think Xiquet has Therionized him :ninja:
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I have logically therionized a couple of people :spock:
First, I must say that I was therionized by my sister and her boyfriend at the time. I drifted a away from metal during the early 90's tired of the recurrent death metal tendencies (always faster, always harder). Then, she brought me a home-made tape with some metal songs (a gift from her boyfriend), the first of which was Tomegatherion. My reaction was very simple: My jaw dropped, I stayed in shock for 5-10 minutes, then went to my sister's room and asked with a trembling voice: "What on earth is this thing?"... the rest is history.
Then, in Canada I therionized two more people: 1. A good friend of mine who is pretty much into brutal death metal stuff, but who also knows how to recognize good music when he hears it. He got therionized by Gothic Kabbalah, and his reaction was quiet logical ( :spock: ). "Man, this album is almost perfect. The guitars sound when they have to, the singers sing when they have to ... just wonderful... not bad for a non-death metal band".
2. A colleague of mine. He was driving me to a meeting in Ottawa (a looong 5 hours and a half drive), and tired of his music he said to me: "Alright man, let's give a try to your stuff. Put something good that anybody might like". I played Vovin, and since the first notes from Rise of Sodom his reaction was exactly the same than mine when I first heard Tomegatherion: Jaw dropped, stayed in shock for some minutes, etc. I had to make him a copy of all my Therion cd's before coming back from the meeting. He told me: "You won't get into my car without a copy of all the albums of that band you played the other day".
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Nice topic, Luth! :lol3:
The survivor of my most successful Therionizing action is the boyfriend of my mother. He's more than 70 years old, a huuuge fan of classical music. I simply gave him a copy of GK as a present, because I thought he would like that. And in fact he did! :wOOt: He is used to listen to the album regularly. :thumbup:
Other victims of my activity are a good friend of mine and her boyfriend. He asked me for Therion music, so I made a copy for them. I got no reactions yet, but I'll meet her tomorrow so I'll ask her for sure if her bf is still alive. :D
My colleagues also know that I'm into Therion, and one of them asked me for some music I like, but that was Opeth, that's another story. :)
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Hello Therionizers,
I have successfully therionized some younger friends of mine at the astronomers' society. I have also therionized a couple of friends I know from elsewhere. On my party last Saturday they played SOTR all by themselves, without any hints of mine, and even twice. :)
I gave a couple of the softer tunes to my parents as well, and they do like them, but this doesn't really count as a full-fledged therionisation. :lol3:
Cheers!
Markus
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I Therionized myself in a way.. I was checking through the cds in our local library.. I found Secret of the Runes... I heard about Therion from magazines coz at the time there was someone writting about how Lemuria is an amazing album.. so as I found SOTR I thought let's give it a try.. at the time I didn't know anything about runes and I found the cover smth I must study and get the meaning.. I was 14 I think.. still too much in rock and grunge and such.. and I've fallen in love with the first song and than everything else.. it was just so perfect.. I could feel it the way like nothing else before.. like it's a part of me, in my blood..
And than I first tryed with a schoolmate of mine.. and she loved them and still does too..we were young and eager to find new music and so I just borrowed cds to her... than I think next victim was my.. let's call him ex-bf (or actually it was two of them who got Therionized by me).... and than a girl I knew from the place we lived before we moved to where are we now.. and maybe some more.. I always just suggested them and when people got to buy or usually download cds from net and got to their first listening they liked them... but now.. everywhere I go everybody knows them.. I think I'll have to go back to primary school and teach kids what good music is.. :evil2: :ninja: :lol3:
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My mother. I showed "Gothic Kabbalah" to her and she loved it. ^_^
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I was therionized by a misterious guy from the internet 7 or 8 years ago. He told me that it was the kind of music i must listen. My first step in the therionizing process was Lepaca Kliffoth, and with Secret of the Runes i was totally iniciated in the dark realms :ninja:
These are the people i remember i therionized
1.- Ixtlán band members (Gothic Kabbalah) :evil2:
2.- A friend who was at his 15teen (6 years ago) very deep in the ¨ Smashing Pumpkins current style¨ I prensented him Therion and Dissection, and when now he is almost a practicioner of the left hand path :lol3: ( now when we go to drink some beers, we always listen Gothic Kabbalah and Reinkaos albums, as well as our hymn ¨Free bird¨ from Lynyrd Skynyrd).
Ho Therion Ho Therionized
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I therionized some people from Puławy, my mum - maybe because Thomas is handsome and nice? :P anyway, if I well remember she said she likes Lemuria :)
I was therionized by my brother. He got Theli cassette (of course pirate copy) from his classmate and friend, felt in love and started to buy some Therion cassettes. First was Deggial, Lepaca Kliffoth and Vovin. When we were playing some day in Battle Tech III - game, some kind of Battle Ships; we were listening to Deggial cassette - some days later I asked him for some Therion songs, he gave me Lepaca Kliffoth and I felt in love with Therion - that's how it has started :)
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I therionized my friend - but since he's a death metal fan I got him only into the first two albums :lol:
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I Therionized my wife. She'd never heard of them but when they came to Toronto in 2007 I said I was going and she volunteered to tag along. Well...she loved it. Next thing I knew, all my CDs were in her car! Her favorite is Rise of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Edit: It was 2007 when Therion was in Toronto
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More than 3 Gf's and 100 students!! Easily!!
yo yo yo
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Oh my goodness, Loke,
100 students? That's a hell of a lot. Perhaps only Chris has therionised more people than that. :lol3:
Cheers!
Markus
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Indeed. That sounds almost like the quick spreading of a new religion :pop:
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Well... in my case the only one that I sucessfuly Therionize was my cousin :drunk: xD the older one... because the youngest... well he almost get it, but between his addiction to Txus's (Mago :sick: de Oz :sick: drummer) d**k (:afaid:) and his obsession with -core things (and also emo things) he decided that commercial stuff was fine for him...
I wish I could say that one day he will change his path, grow up (or at least put his feet on the ground), to abandon the path of evil (:lol3:)... But... I don't think that day comes...
Anyway, my cousin, the 'healthy' one, make the attempt to Therionize his girlfriend (but this time, Vile Valo and friends arrived to put end to the festival) and I, well I tried to Therionize my niece, my girlfriend and my pet :biggrin: but the only one who show any progress is my the pet ... ironic, huh? Nah, i'm kidding... (or not? :innocent:)
Indeed. That sounds almost like the quick spreading of a new religion :pop:
Can you send some apostles/preachers/whatever :bow: for this lands? :pop:
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Hey Arax,
a therionised pet? I can imagine a growling dog, but what else do I have to think of? A cat, banging its head to "Mega Therion"? A parakeet, joining the soprano in "Arrow from the Sun"? Or what does your therionised pet do? :wOOt:
Cheers!
Markus
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My girlfriend, a friend, other friend, and a bunch of guys I know who just love copying my tastes, my mother, and that's about it.
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I think therionising one's mother counts threefold.
Cheers!
Markus
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And we will all surely try to Therionize our children, of course!
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For sure!
And the best way to convince children of anything is to forbid it to them. :ninja:
World domination, anyone?
Cheers!
Markus
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I love when my mom enters my room and says to turn up the volume so she can listen. Sometimes she plays some Therion songs to her friends ;D
Probably all my friends listen Therion because of me, not as much as me but anyway. They go to the concerts with me. :)
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I have this spot with my best friends called ¨Quintas Papagayo¨, and is a private place near my house full of rocks besides the sea. We always go at least one time for week and I started to introduce Therion to them some years ago, and know the main anthem of our reunion is ¨Lemuria¨.
This is the magick place. I will propose to change the name to Lemuria instead Quintas Papagayo.
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i182/lavaniegos/quintas.jpg)
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i182/lavaniegos/DSC_0036.jpg)
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That's awesome Lava, more pictures please!
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I only have this other one, but soon i´ll take some more.
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i182/lavaniegos/DSC_0040.jpg)
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Great thx, I want bigger ones!
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Greetings! Mashkihitho here, sharing his ''Therionizing'' story.
I ''Therionized'' my brother!
He's way into Power and Haevy metal and doesn't like any other stuff that much.... until one day he listened to ''Gothic Kabbalah''. That day everything changed. He was mesmerized by Mats Levén and Snowy Shaw. Also fell in love with Katarina and thought that Lori was amazing. Anyways, he saw them back in 2008 in Mexico City and he called me from the concert, he astonished and thanked me for introducing them to him.
Last month the two of us saw Therion in Guadalajara!
Who knows who else would end up Therionized in the days to come.
Cheers!
Mashkihitho.
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Hey Mashkihitho,
that's a great story! It's always good to experience something special - as a Therion-concert, for instance - with a person who is close to you.
Cheers!
Markus
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Lucy, I also love Opeth. But ok here's my story...
I 'think' I Therionized my girlfriends sister. I forget which song I was playing, I think it might've been something off of Vovin, mayhap Clavicula Nox. But my gf's sister said "Hey, this is pretty awesome, who is this?" And I was pretty proud of myself, because she normally listens to Disturbed and other bland radio metal. So I thought that was rad.
Now as for me, I was Therionized by one of my punk friends. One day we were hanging out at a buddy's house, and my punk friend and I were hungry, so I went w/ him to a drive through, and he put in a mixed CD, and "To Mega Therion" came up. What immediately got me hooked was the soprano singer. Just hearing her against a backdrop of metal guitars and choir singing got to me. Before then, I was mostly a thrash metal fan among other genres, listening to Slayer, Sacred Reich, Rammstein and the like, but this new genre of classical metal music quite literally sung to me, heh. I also listen to classical music, (Gustav Holst, Wagner, Carl Orff, etc...) so I loved how Therion combined metal and classical. Now Therion is my absolute fave band.
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I stopped Therionizing people, they were starting to hate me. The fact that 30 people that I know will go to gig in Croatia says it all ;D
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Eya Offy! That means that Therion itself should pay you something as they're having a lot more people in the concert thanks to you! You're helping them making money! :nana:
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Eya Offy! That means that Therion itself should pay you something as they're having a lot more people in the concert thanks to you! You're helping them making money! :nana:
Not only that, my friends are also buying CDs, poster and such! :D
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I therionized my mum! She likes Therion and wants to see their concert :)
It also happened because Thomas was inviting my mum (via mobile) at least twice :)
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Hehe, nice one, Agnes!
Would you tell us how it came to be that Thomas invited your mum? :blink: :wOOt:
Cheers!
Markus
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Sounds like you have a great mom Agnes. Please please share how did Thomas invite her.
we dragged a few people to the concert in 2010..well only 2 :nosweat: , and they left at half because of too much smoke in the tent. :mad3:
still i gave to a colleague at work a selection of therion..i have no news from him yet..so ...i can only hope it will be the firs real therionization :drunk:
G.
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Just Therionized one of my facebook friends :D By the link on Nifelheim put on my wall :hop:
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when I was seeing Thomas, my mum was calling me (not especially :P). first time was in Płock 2008. My mum called me while we were having a tea/coffee/beer in the centre of Płock. Thomas wanted to talk to my mum so I gave him my cellphone. He asked me how to say "you should be here now!" in Polish, helped him - so it was the first time. Next time was in November 2010 - My mum called me, she was thinking that Therion is going to Poland by plane (the weather was horrible), so she was wondering if they managed to get here. Guys were touring by bus so.. :) but a moment later I asked Thomas is he wants to talk to my mum again :P (good chance for my mum to learn some English :P), they talked like "How are you - fine .... you know :P" but it was a second moment when Thomas was inviting my mum to be at the concert.
She has visited Therion myspace website (or youtube) I think,checked their music and that's how she likes Therion :)
So next time I going with my mum :P
Btw. there were maaaany moments when my mum was waving to Thomas (and Thomas waving back) - I used to talk with Thomas on skype - videochat is the best.
ps. there was an idea of Thomas singing at my bro's wedding party (it was my idea). It didn't happen because he was singing next day after the wedding in Sweden. But my bro got a gift from Thomas - his shirt (this one from Siren of the woods 2007 adulruna tour) with some autographs - it stinks.. (it wasn't washed... ) good idea but impossible even to keep it in a car!
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Agnes, that's a great story! Why don't you call Thomas to meet with us in Prague? ;)
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Nowadays I'm Therionizing my girlfriend and the weapon of choice is Sitra Ahra. I think is an excellent album for introducing firiends into Therion.
Normally I try Therionizing everyone who visits me... Years ago I made for myself a T-Shirt (hand painted because the shops didnt have Therion merchandise back then) wich says "Therion" in the back and in front there is a design I copied from a picture of a magazine in wich Christofer was wearing a shirt with it (think it was a show in Mexico around 1999/2000) That T-shirt served well for starting talks about "what the hell is that Therion thing?".
Anyway,my best Therionizing victim is my cat "Don Gato" who always lays down near the sound speakers everytime Therion is playing!
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A cat with a taste for music? :wOOt: You have no idea just how perfectly you fit in here, man!
Cheers!
Markus
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Yeah! "Don Gato" is quite a special type of cat. Sometimes I wonder if he is not actually some kind of demon trapped in a cat's little boddy... His tastes in music, his attitudes, the strange crew of cultits that bring him milk every tuesday...
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Cool :- )) Cat the metalhead :lol:
I usually do not Therionize anyone actually... either they come to me ask on their own or I meet those who are already listeners of this great band. I feel unsympathetic about pushing someone into some music/movies/anything. Cause most of my friends simply do not listen the same music like I do :)
Great cuddle greets to Don Gato!
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I agree with our High Priest! You fit in here perfectly! ps. I have cat too ;) or rather 2 cats ;] at my hometown.
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But that's exactly what therionising is about, Kris! Forcing people into music doesn't work, and trying that is just plain annoying. But speaking about Therion when asked or helping others who start exploring this band, that's what I understand by therionising.
Cheers!
Markus