Ελληνικά
Last Updated on 04:04 PM by Lilliana Tseka
Genre: Evil Pop/Occult Rock
Country: Sweden
Label:Adulruna
Year: 2015
Regardless of the reason why Christopher Johnsson created the Luciferian Light Orchestra we will focus only on the musical part. We do not know if it is focusing on commercial or artistic purposes although there were common questions about the fact that an artist with so much love in the 70’s and the occult abstained from creating a project or an album that would move in this music direction at a time where everyone is pretty much “70s-styled” and occult. And whether he flirted a little or a lot with pop, many will probably remember Johnsson in earlier interviews to be deifying ABBA and feeling awe for the achievements of his compatriots. An opinion of mine is that the whole thing seems rather like a musical research … Besides, Johnsson himself, moved into commercial paths in Therion and never hid it.
The Luciferian Light Orchestra is pop. Evil pop, but 100% pop. The fact that we are talking about pop does not exclude or negate how we talk about quality music. The music style tries to sound dark in the footsteps of Ghost and of Jex Thoth, Blood Ceremony and Devil’s Blood. The female vocals of course refer to the last 3 names and only those, since I think it needs several more to blacken the atmosphere in a disc. And even though the mixing was entrusted to Lennart Östlund of Led Zeppelin, the result does not sound like it came the (golden) 70s or even pretentious. There are some catchy choruses, pretty good guitar parts, which probably are the strongest points of the album, while the use of keys does not give something extra and look meaningless. Much Ado about nothing if you consider that it took two drummers, nine singers and five pianists and a total of 20 musicians to record the “Luciferian Light Orchestra”. Always excessive and ambitious,Johnsson although could lead the whole “scene”, “trend”, I do not know how to say it, here it sounds like a good clone of Ghost that from their side they sweep everything. The Luciferian Light Orchestra have the potential clearly, but what reaches my ears is just good. And it marginally does it.
3/6
