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Brilliant Album, unfortunately can't get it to play on my X-box 360, And the track listings are mixed up. But that's nothing to do with the sale. The album can easily be one of Chthonic's best.

one of asian best band ever... for fans of cradle and dimmu borgir..

One of my favourite Symphonic Black Metal cds ! Its most excellent. Buy,buy buy buy buy buy ,buy it NOW.

This is symphonic black metal along the lines of Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir. The band are from Taiwan which influences the music greatly bringing a strong oriental feel to the songs. There is use of traditional instruments and the lyrics are based in Taiwanese folklore reflecting a tragic period in the countries history. The songs sound vast with excellent interplay between the female and male vocals. Chthonic take you on a journey.Love this CD

This is symphonic black metal along the lines of Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir. The band are from Taiwan which influences the music greatly bringing a strong oriental feel to the songs. There is use of traditional instruments and the lyrics are based in Taiwanese folklore reflecting a tragic period in the countries history. The songs sound vast with excellent interplay between the female and male vocals. Chthonic take you on a journey.Love this CD

I found this band on Myspace, I was hooked straight away! The 2 songs I listened to on Myspace were Bloody Gaia Fulfilled and Quasi Putrefaction and well its the best black/death metal ive heard in a while, you should buy this album!

フレディ・リム(vo)　ジェシー・リウ(g)　ドリス・イェ(b,vo)　CJ・カオ(Key)　ス・ナン(二胡)　ダニ・ワン(dr)1995年結成の、台湾出身シンフォ・ブラック。2007年4th。日本統治時代の1930年に起こった、台湾原住民セデック族による抗日暴動事件「霧社事件」をテーマにしたアルバム。音楽的には、Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filthあたりの影響が濃いシンフォニック・ブラック。歌詞は英語と台湾語。１ヶ所だけではあるが、日本語も出てくる。ヴォーカルはダニ・フィルス級の壮絶な高音絶叫系。そしてドリス嬢の麗しいバッキングヴォーカルも、良いアクセントになっている。攻撃性や暴虐性と、壮麗さや美しさが絶妙に融合。しかし何より耳を惹くのは、二弦の東洋ヴァイオリン、二胡のむせび泣くような音色だろう。実際二胡の音域は人の声にかなり近く、女性ヴォーカルかと思ったら実は二胡だった、という場面もしばしばあった。北欧のシンフォ・ブラックの流れを組みながらも、東洋的な要素を加味した独特の音世界。5th「Mirror of retribution」と、6th「Takasago Army」ともストーリー的に繋がっているので、日本で普通に生活しているだけではなかなか知る機会のない歴史の暗部に、是非とも触れてほしいと思う。

台湾のシンフォニックブラックメタルバンド、ソニックの4th。台湾産のブラックメタルバンドとして2ndの頃から注目していたが、ついに日本盤デビュー。CRADLE OF FILTHあたりを思わせる禍々しくも美しい世界観で疾走するサウンドは以前は弱点だったドラムの弱さも克服されていて、堂々たるレベルに仕上がっている。シンフォニックなキーボードアレンジはどこか幽玄を感じさせる空気があり、ダミ声絶叫Voに絡む女性Voや、もの悲しい二胡の音色にも注目だ。どうせなら英語版ではなく中国語のまま配給して欲しかったが、メロディの雰囲気や怨念の込められたような音には充分地域性を感じ取れる。日本盤にはライブ映像とPVの入ったDVDが付属していてお得ですよ。

Every Chthonic fan knows this album is one of their bests and it's defiantly a good album to start out with if you're new to this band. I keep seeing some reviews mentioning they are "Chinese" but they are Taiwanese.The English version of this album contains three different videos on the cd and sometimes when you load it up on a PC it'll play the videos first or vice versa and doesn't give you option if you want videos or just the music, it's a little annoying but can be easily fixed.But the video of Bloody Gaya fulfilled is a clip from their DVD "A decade on the throne" So it's nice they give you a tiny sample of their awesome concert with the album. The other live video isn't from the dvd it's just some random live performance they recorded and put on it.

This is up their as one of the best albums Ive heard this year, only behind Wisdom In Chains "Class War" album. Im so glad these guys are still doing their thing. One of the best black metal type albums Ive heard, probably the best. I think these guys are far better than Cradle and even better than Dimmu Borgir. From start to end its great! Like others are saying, this album is simply beautiful, very melodic. Uses a good blend of the female backup vocals keyboards and the asian violin (I forget what its called). Best songs are Progeny of Rmdax tasing, Bloody Gaya Fulfilled, and Quasi Putrefaction. I really recamend this album simply to anyone that likes metal. You wont be disappointed.

I love chthonic. I found their newer stuff first and went back and discovered this gem. I love the dark symphonic sound of this album. Doris has a lot of backup vocals on this one, which really ties the songs together nicely. I would recommend checking this out even though it sounds different from the newer stuff, if that is how you discovered chthonic as I had.

Chthonic are a symphonic/black/death metal band from China (which is impressive enough in and of itself), and have been in the limelight as of late, winning the asian equivalent of a Grammy, and touring with the huge Ozzfest tour in the 'states. They play a fairly original brand of metal incorporating traditional Chinese instrumentation, symphonic elements and female vocals. Their latest release is a concept album of sorts concerning an obscure Chinese cult, weird mysticism and (of course) suicide and violence, and is based on historical events.That having been said, this album simply doesn't seem to evoke much of anything, with a sterile production which buries the guitar in the over-layered mix (a cardinal sin in metal, if ever there was one), occasionally annoying instrumentation and effects, and simply a general lack of anything that really makes you pay attention. Ecspecially when compared to some other recent metal releases this year, this one just doesn't stand out much, which is surprising considering the band's story (simply being a metal band in communist China itself must have been very difficult, to say the least)and the relatively original cultural "angle" on the precedings.....it should be pointed out, however, that the artowrk and packaging of the release are exceptionally well done, and the disc does have additional multimedia content, although the bonus tracks are inexplicably stacked right at the beginning of the disc, requiring an annoying "page" past five tracks until you can actually listen to the album if you are in your car, for example. Oh well,maybe next time.