Who: Therion When: 7 pm tomorrow Where: Jaxx Springfield
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Who: Therion When: 7 pm tomorrow Where: Jaxx Springfield
Washington Post – Nov 1, 2007
Heavy metal meet modern classical. Now can we all get along? ne European musical collective answers that question at Jaxx tomorrow with an emphatic yes… Therion was founded by Johnsson — still the central creative force — more than 20 years ago as a death metal band. The group’s first few albums little indicate that Therion would one day be considered one of the most adventurous of its kind. As is typical of death metal melody was sacrificed to the dark gods of speed and rhythmic precision. But Johnsson wasn’t content to growl and thrash his way through life. By 1993 the symphonic operatic and world music elements of the band’s sound were becoming established and by the time “Theli” was released in 1996 the old sound was barely recognizable in the rich tapestry of melody. Joining Therion at Jaxx are Minneapolis goth-metallers Aesma Daeva (fronted by Lewis pulling double duty on the bands’ tour) and local heavy metal standouts Division Burning Shadows and Almost Human.
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MTV.com – Nov 1, 2007
According to a statement from Earache Records two members of Polish death-metal band Decapitated were seriously injured in a car accident involving their tour bus and a truck carrying wood in Gomel — which is on the Russian-Belarus border. Frontman Adrian “Covan” Kowanek and drummer Witold “Vitek” Kieltyka sustained serious head injuries as a result of the accident and were taken to a hospital in Moscow for treatment. No additional information on the accident has been made public.
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CBS News – Nov 1, 2007
Marko Perkovic whose folk-inspired heavy metal music has filled concert venues all over Europe has been criticized for a song that incorporates a slogan used by the Ustasha regime during World War II. Critics say some of his fans have used the Nazi salute during his concerts and worn black T-shirts and caps styled after the uniforms of the Nazi-linked government… “But there’s also an element that appears to glorify the regime that collaborated with the Nazis in World War II and that was responsible for thousands and thousands of deaths of Jews Serbs and other Croats. Nenad Milinkovic a Serbian-American who is president of the board of a Serbian rthodox church in Manhattan also had harsh words for the singer. “It’s despicable that in this day and age a neo-Nazi ultranationalist can glorify the actions of the Ustasha Nazi state of Croatia that murdered Serbs Jews and Gypsies in Croatian death camps” Milinkovic said Tuesday. Perkovic goes by the stage name Thompson – for the American submachine gun he used while fighting for Croatia during the Yugoslav war in the 1990s. The Serbs and Croats accuse each other of massacres that resulted in the deaths of more than a million people during World War II and hundreds of thousands after the breakup of Yugoslavia. Weitzman is urging Cardinal Edward Egan to cancel Friday’s concert which will be held at a cultural center run by a Croatian Roman Catholic church in Manhattan. Joseph Zwilling a spokesman for the New York archdiocese said church officials were investigating but haven’t found anything to substantiate the claims.