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CHTHONIC Frontman To Speak At CMJ MUSIC MARATHON

October 27, 2006

MTV.com reports that Freddy, frontman for the Taiwanese black-metal band CHTHONIC, will make his U.S. public-speaking debut November 3 in New York at the CMJ Music Marathon panel "From Glam to Death: Metal Subgenre Feasts". He'll be plugging the band's first U.S. release, "Seediq Bale", which came out October 3.

Influenced by EMPEROR and early DIMMU BORGIR, CHTHONIC play symphonic metal arrangements embellished with baleful melodies on the erhu, a two-string violin from the Far East. But while CHTHONIC are inspired by Scandinavian bands, their music rails, not against Christianity, but against the Han Chinese, who usurped ancient Taiwanese tradition some 300 years ago. "When we play black metal, that's because we are angry about some outside culture that invades our country," Freddy said. "That's the same situation with many bands in Scandinavia, so that's what we have in common with them."

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