ChthoniC
// Doris Yeh, bassist & backing vocalistCHTHONIC (pronounced “Thonic”) are a symphonic black metal band from Taipei, Taiwan. “Where The Ancestors’ Souls Gathered” (1999), “9th Empyrean” (2000), and “Relentless Recurrence” (2002) were all independently released, “Satan’s Horns [EP]” (2003), and “Seediq Bale” (2005) are both available from TRA Music, and “Mirror Of Retribution” (2009) is available from Spinefarm Records. ChthoniC’s black metal music also incorporates influences from traditional Taiwanese music including instruments such as a two-string violin known as the hena. ChthoniC have performed at the Wacken Festival in Germany, and also toured throughout the United States together with Ozzfest.
Website: www.chthonic.org
Photo: Clive Arrowsmith / CliveArrowsmith.com
Interview:
Every kind of music has the key to open different doors inside your heart. Music has no thoughts, people do. People who are creating, singing, playing, and listening to a song will pour their soul into it. Without people, music will just be a sound. If you just listened to great music, that means you have the right key to open a new world inside your heart.
For ChthoniC, I think the spiritual significance of our music is to inspire people with a different thought of facing their life. Knowing we’re standing in a very small point of the historic river just like knowing we’re not living in the centre of the universe but a small and beautiful planet in a huge universe. When we know where we are, then we will know where to go. That is the spiritual significance of our music.
“People who are creating, singing, playing, and listening to a song will pour their soul into it. Without people, music will just be a sound.” – Doris Yeh, bassist and backing vocalist in ChthoniC
