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Thornium was founded by Thyph (a.k.a Thypheuz) in 1993. Thyph entered the studio the same year to record Thornium´s first and only demo “North Storms Of The Bestial Goat Sign”. It contain three songs: “In The Depths Of Northern Darkness”, “North Storms Of The Bestial Goat Sign” and “Min Vandring Till Mörkrets Furste”. All instruments was recorded by Thyph himself starting with the drums, then the guitars on top and lastly bass guitar and vocals. With Thyph having an extensive net of contacts in the Black Metal underground at that time the demo was very well received all over. The demo resulted in a deal for a full length CD with a small Dutch label (r.i.p) named Necromantic Gallery Productions, which have released productions of bands like Gehenna, Dimmu Borgir, Ulver. It was at this time Ulverheim joined Thornium on lead guitar. During the dark winter months of November and December in 1994 Thornium entered the studio once more to record the debut album “Dominions Of The Eclipse”. This time the line-up consisted of Thyph on drums, bass guitar, guitar, throat and Ulverheim on lead guitar and acoustic guitars. Originally the album title was meant to be “Carpathian Night Shadows”, but that title was soon changed. Since the band were unhappy with the eighth track, “Slottet I Skuggornas Mörker”, they wanted to exclude it from the album completely. But after some persuasion from the label (NGP) it was finally added to form the complete debut album of Thornium, which was rele