As a qualified member of the "English Killer" crew, I´m going to kick some dictionaries with my concert review in english...
As I´ve said in spanish, the concert was the excuse of a long-time-planned (short) holiday trip.
It was so exciting to find myself, with my friends, at the Palatului, with lots of metalheads (and not matalheads) coming from everywhere to this magnificent event.
The night started a bit wrong: we must pay show´s hand program (+-3€), and the set written on it was not in the correct order, in english version at least. I think that tickets price, 74€ in my case, were high enough to give the program free...
Reading the set list i saw that they wouldn´t play "to mega therion"...
but as wise people used to say, each one has his/her own ideal set list...
The show started with the orchestra and the choir playing some Therion songs "extracts". I really cried when the tenor started singing "The Khlysti Evangelist"...but suddenly the song finished; it was only the intro...
They played 3 Therion´s songs extracts, but not in a continued-medley. It was not good for me, i think it should be better the entire songs or, instead, the 3 extracts in one only continous "song". Then, "Clavicula Nox" made us fly to other worlds. Just, fucking great
The second act, came with the band on stage. Fantastic moments (f.e. Dvorak´s "9th" and Verdi´s "Il trovatore"´s extract) and others not too bad; a good experience at all.
The interval between the 2nd and the 3rd acts remind us that it was a classical show.
The last act began with "the blood of kingu", with Mats on stage of course. After that, fantastic songs and very good execution in all of them, but there were some details: Johann´s little mistake while the "trilogy", perception of coordination lacks between the band and the orchestra, flutes and other wind instruments were sometimes imperceptible, and the choir´s volume was so low.
It was a pity, that people started with applauses before some songs end; in the other hand, the theater and the ambient made the show a bit cold. When "The rise of Sodom and Gomorrah", people started clapping and it was so clear that there was starting a good band-audience interaction...but it was too late. After "the rise...", the "Grand Finale" came, and the show ended.
2 hours and a half of very good experience; but I really missed a "bis" and some Chris´words to the audience (lots made great economic efforts).
NTSMS has gone Frankfurt! 