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When THERION came into being in 1988 by changing name from the already
existing band BLITZKRIEG, which was founded a year earlier, Christofer had
rather taken inspiration from SLAYER's "Reign In Blood" among other classic
metal albums. At the beginning, the Swedes were firmly rooted in death metal,
a genre which they helped to define, as witnessed by their debut album "Of
Darkness. . . . " (1991). Yet
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