Beyond Sanctorum

by Therion

Beyond Sanctorum cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1992
  • Label: Active Records
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 1:09:49
  • Community rating: 3.25/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Rex Gissl茅n, Oskar Forss, Christofer Johnsson, Peter Hansson, Magnus Eklov, Anna Granqvist, Fredrik Lundberg

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Swedish band's second album begins hinting at their future symphonic grandeur while remaining firmly entrenched in aggressive, occult-themed death metal. Christofer Johnsson notably experiments with clean vocals, Persian scales, and synthesizer atmospheres, injecting a distinctly progressive ambition into the established Scandinavian sound.

Genres

Descriptors: occult, mythology, atmospheric, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Future Consciousness (4:57)
  2. Pandemonic Outbreak (4:20)
  3. Cthulhu (6:08)
  4. Symphony of the Dead (6:48)
  5. Beyond Sanctorum (2:34)
  6. Enter the Depths of Eternal Darkness (4:45)
  7. Illusions of Life (3:20)
  8. The Way (11:05)
  9. Paths (2:01)
  10. Tyrants of the Damned - Bonus Track (3:46)
  11. Cthulhu - Demo 1991 (6:10)
  12. Future Consciousness - Demo 1991 (5:07)
  13. Symphony of the Dead - Demo 1991 (6:13)
  14. Beyond Sanctorum - Demo 1991 (2:29)

Credits

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