Secret of the Runes (album)
Secret of the Runes is the tenth studio album by Swedish symphonic metal band Therion. It's a concept album based on Norse mythology, where each song describes one of the nine worlds. Cover artwork was made by Thomas Ewerhard, it features nine Scandinavian runes, each corresponding to a certain mythological world. Album also includes two cover versions as bonus tracks. A music video was filmed for the Summer Night City cover. Track listing All songs written by Christofer Johnsson. Runes Runes shown on the front cover (and also in the booklet) are Nordic runes with the Elder Futhark alphabet. On the back cover every song has its own rune character: "Ginnungagap (Prologue)" "Midgård" "Asgård" "Jotunheim" "Schwarzalbenheim" "Ljusalfheim" "Muspelheim" "Nifelheim" "Vanaheim" "Helheim" "Secret of the Runes (Epilogue)" Secret of the Runes title is written in the Elder Futhark alphabet on the front cover as: · · · and it is transliterated as: "sekret of þe runes". Credits Christofer Johnsson - rhythm guitar, keyboards, percussion, additional choir and orchestra arrangement on Bonus Tracks Kristian Niemann - lead and rhythm guitar Johan Niemann - bass guitar Sami Karppinen - drums, percussion Piotr Wawrzeniuk - lead vocals on "Crying Days" and "Summernight City" Vocal