CHTHONIC To Support MARDUK In Eastern Europe, Finland

Having recently completed a 60-show North American tour that saw them become the first-ever Asian extreme metal band to play Ozzfest, the Taiwanese six-piece CHTHONIC has confirmed a third leg of its fall European tour. In between tours of England with Canada's 3 INCHES OF BLOOD and Western Europe with Finland's ENSIFERUM, the group will join black metal legends MARDUK for a week-long tour of Finland and the Baltic States.

"When we started CHTHONIC," says vocalist Freddy Lim, "we practiced by playing songs by CRADLE OF FILTH and MARDUK, so it's pretty unbelievable that we just finished playing a few shows with CRADLE in the U.S. and will soon get to support MARDUK!"

In August, CHTHONIC flew straight from the Dallas Ozzfest to the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany, Europe's largest annual heavy metal event, only to fly back to America immediately afterwards in order to resume its "UNlimited" tour (named to protest how the United Nations [UN] limits Taiwan's full participation as an independent country). Lim says the band is grateful that this European leg of the tour — which kicked off in Taipei earlier this summer following the international re-release of 2002's "Relentless Recurrence" and last year's "A Decade On The Throne" 2CD/DVD live set — will last longer than a few hours.

"We spent a ridiculous amount of time in airplanes getting to Europe just to play for 40 minutes at Wacken, so we're excited to spend six full weeks there this time and have the chance to visit so many different countries," Lim says.

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