Chthonic - Break it into the big time!!!

August 1st 2014

Waken, Open air Festival, Germany

Chthonic break new ground with first main stage appearance at the Waken Festival!!!

East Asia's premier Black Metal band Chthonic return to the Wacken Open Air festival on Friday August the 1st, and this time they’re not coming alone…For their third appearance at Germany’s premier metal event, Chthonic based in Taiwan will celebrate their first ever main stage appearance 'The Black Stage’ by combining their exotic brand of Hard Rock with the Chai Found Oriental Orchestra, who perform using a variety of traditional instruments, including hena, ruan, box zither, pipa, yangqin, flute and sheng.

The Chai Found Oriental Orchestra is an award wining group who have appeared onstage with Chthonic in the past, performing four songs at a selection of concerts in Taiwan. These special events were duly recorded / filmed, and form the basis of Chthonic’s ‘Ián-bú’ DVD released in February of this year. For the fourty five minute Wacken show, however the orchestra will be expanded from four musicians to ten to make the overall experience that much greater ‘Orient Metal’ meets traditional Asian musicians, with both sides delivering to the max!

“We are very much looking forward to returning to Wacken, It’s a legendary festival with a great history, and we see this as a very important stage in our music career. We've been using lots of traditional sounds over the past seven studio albums… this time, we will bring both an oriental orchestra plus a VJ to play the show! We hope to give fans a truly unforgettable memory!” - Doris Yeh (Chthonic)

In addition to the Wacken appearance Chthonic have a number of other major festivals lined up for the summer including Brutal Assault (Czech Republic) and Summer Sonic (Tokyo and Osaka, Japan); last year, the band played more than seventy concerts in Europe and the US and previously they have appeared at Ozzfest (US), Fuji Rock and Loud Park (Japan) and Download and Bloodstock (UK). Once their summer touring schedule is complete, Chthonic who have played more than five hundred concerts in the past ten years and will return to Taiwan to start work on a new movie project a comedy in which the band members play themselves, after which pre-production for the next studio album will kick in. With Chthonic, there’s never a dull moment and certainly never a quiet one!