The band was founded in 1987 by Christofer Johnsson and started off with recoding a few demos and the mini LP „Time Shall Tell“. THERION’s debut “Of Darkness…“ was released in 1991 and was a huge success for the band within the underground Metal scene. THERION began as a very creative Death Metal band, pushing limits of the contemporary sound and grew beyond themselves. In the course of the years, the bands style developed in a quite unique way and between 1991 and 1996 THERION released groundbreaking records, one being more special than the other. THERION have evolved from a mere death metal act into one of the first projects to take a trip towards the world of classical music, setting the initial standards to a style later known as symphonic metal. The result is a project that will go down in history as symphonic metal’s most ambitious release.