Taiwanese metal band CHTHONIC release new single 'Endless Aeons'
30-04-2025
Taiwanese metal band CHTHONIC, featuring in its ranks Member Of The Taiwanese Parliament Freddy Lim, has returned with a new single, “Endless Aeons”.
The Taiwanese title of “Endless Aeons” is a Buddhist term describing the gathering of many people to chant Buddhist sutras. “Endless Aeons” also features bassist Doris Yeh singing in the traditional Taiwanese enka style.
CHTHONIC lead vocalist Freddy Lim states: “CHTHONIC‘s music is always about reincarnation and catastrophe — it’s very religious.”
He continues: “In the past, our works told Taiwan’s ever-reincarnating catastrophes. When I discovered that actually someone close in my family is a victim of one of these catastrophes, it became personal, and started writing ‘Endless Aeons’ and other songs.
“When will these catastrophes be over? If we could start our lives all over again, would it be possible for us to be without remorse? This song is a question, and the answer.”
CHTHONIC guitarist Jesse Liu, the song’s co-writer, comments: “This is a song that sounds complicated, but actually simplistic. Answering a complicated question with simple words, this is how the song is supposed to be.”
The video for “Endless Aeons” is a continuation of CHTHONIC‘s previous videos — including “Defenders Of Bu Tik Palace”, “KAORU”, “Millenia’s Faith Undone” and “Pattonkan”. Characters in the new song are victims of the 228 uprising and massacre in 1947 who fell into infernal reincarnation. Through the song “Endless Aeons”, they are reborn again, but fall through the tunnel of time into a CHTHONIC concert, a development that signifies interruption of the reincarnation.
CHTHONIC has released several albums, including “Mirror Of Retribution” (2009),“Takasago Army” (2011) and “Butik” (2013) on Spinefarm/Universal Music. In their time they’ve performed at such fêted events as Ozzfest, Download, Wacken Open Air and have toured Europe and North America multiple times.
However, the band’s activity halted in 2016 when lead vocalist Freddy Lim was elected to Taiwanese Parliament.
For almost a decade, Freddy has been occupied with parliamentary work, and other members have been working on their own projects — resulting in only occasional large Taiwan performances for the CHTHONIC. Occasional musical output followed (2018’s “Battlefields Of Asura” album and 2023’s “Pattonkan” single, which was selected to Grammy‘s Global Spin) but almost all overseas performances were halted.
CHTHONIC are:
Freddy Lim (lead vocals)
Doris Yeh (bass, backing vocals)
Jesse Liu (guitars, backing vocals)
Dani Wang (drums)
CJ Kao (keyboards, synthesiser)
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