Turquoise/Black Smoke Vinyl LP
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CHTHONIC - Battlefields of Asura CHTHONIC
turquoise/black smoke Vinyl 12 Inch Vinyl Album
CHTHONIC's award-winning 2018 album Battlefields of Asura reissued on vinyl in September via Svart Records. CHTHONIC is a Taiwanese metal band formed in Taipei in 1995, with the members nowadays split between Helsinki and Taipei. Their 2018 album Battlefields of Asura is an award-winning release.
With this album, CHTHONIC won their second Golden Melody Awards, Taiwan’s equivalent of the Grammy Awards. CHTHONIC's lyrics are inspired by Taiwanese mythology, folk stories, and history, while its music incorporates elements of traditional Taiwanese folk music, enka, and the sorrowful melodies of Taiwanese opera. These are accompanied by traditional instruments such as the hena and koto. Also integral to CHTHONIC's sound are elements of symphonic black metal and melodic death metal, along with intense riffs and solos. Critics have attempted to categorize CHTHONIC as death metal, folk metal, or black metal, but the band has opted for the simpler label of metal.
Track List
1. Taste The Black Tears
2. Drawing Omnipotence Nigh
3. The Silent One's Torch
4. One Thousand Eyes
5. Masked Faith
6. Flames Upon The Weeping Winds
7. Carved In Bloodstone
8. A Crimson Sky's Command
9. Souls Of The Revolution
10. Millennia's Faith Undone
11. Autopoiesis