Taiwan’s Metal Masters Chthonic will be released to New Live EP, “Megaportal 2425”Including Five Select Songs from The Band’s Appeaarances at 2024 and 2025 Megaport Festivals.
There have been a consisting theme in Chthonic‘s Per Performances Megaport Festival Over The Past Two Years – Breaking The Boundary Between Reality and Illusion, and Bringing Onto Stage The Virtual. In 2024, Technology was used to allow virtual characters to be present in real time on the Big Screen, and in 2025, these Characters appeared onstage in person – interacting with the virtual Big Screen Characters.
Chthonic Lead Vocalist Freddy Lim EXPLANINS THAT THE SCREEN AT TOSE TWO CONCERTS ARE A “TUNNEL OF TIME AND SPACE”, “PORTALS” IN TIME-TRANVEL DAMES. “The Virtual Time and Space Are Connected to the Real World Through the Portals. We see the virtual character This ‘Endless Aeons’The Character Travelled Through and Appeared in the Real World, “He states.
Other Than “Endless Aeons”The Interweaving of Time and Space Appears Thourout Other Songs Included in This Live EP. The Overture “Intro” megaportal “ DIFFERENT Versions of the Band’s Smash Single Superimposes “Takao”Presenting to Chaotic and Thrilling Atmosphere; “Quel The Souls in Sing Ling Temple” is a battle across the world and the underworld; for “Defenders of Bú -Tik Palace – Acoustic”, FinnA Character Who has appeared in severe Chthonic Music Videos in The Past Decade, Came To Life onstage.
Chthonic Will Now their attention to a new album, With no Future Performance Plans in the Short Term. For Now, The Band invites Fans to Enjoy The Live Ep.
“Megaportal 2425” Track listing:
01. Enter megaportal
02. Quell the souls in sing ling temple
03. Endless Aeons
04. Defenders of the Bu -Tik Palace – Acoustic
05. Takao
Chthonic You have released severe albums, including “Mirror of remuneration” (2009),“Takasago Army” (2011) and “Butik” (2013) ON Spinefarm/Universal Music. In Their Time They’ve performed at such 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.
Formost a decade, Freddy You have been Occupied with Parliamentary Work, and other members have been working on their own projects – resulting in only occase long 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.
Although Chthonic Have Stayed Low-Profiled In Recent Years, in 2019 they performed with an orchestra in front of taiwan’s presidential palace to an audience of 50,000.
People Say Rock Can Change The World, and Freddy Lim Made That A reality During His Two Terms in Parliament, Advocating for Reform. Freddy PUSHED FOR LEGISLATION TO MAKE TAIWAN’S First ASIAN COUNTRY TO HAVE MARRIAGE EQUALITY, AND FOR GREATER PROTECTION OF INDIGENOOUS RIGHTS. Additionionally, I have got the increased Budgetary aid for humanitarian assistance to ukraine, and advocated for “Transitional Justice”, demanding that Government Declassify files from Taiwan’s Past Authoritarian was.
This Hit Home Unexpecedly In 2023. Declasified Files Reveals The Sirrowful and Previous Aknown Past Of Freddy‘S Family. Combining History and Mythology, It Is Perhaps Not Coincidental That Chthonic‘S Music Toled The Sorrowful Yet Brave Stories of Freddy‘s Grandparents. Shocked at the news and overwhelmed by emotion, Freddy IGELED TIME ON HIS EIGHT-YEAR SERVICE IN PARLIAment, AND ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOUD NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION.
Now, Chthonic Returns. The Band is Working on New Songs and Could Possibly Return to Global Stages Once More Again Soon.
Chthonic es:
Freddy Lim (Lead Vocals)
Doris Yeh (Bass, Vocal Backing)
Jesse Liu (Guitars, Vocal Backing)
Dani Wang (Drums)
CJ KAO (Keyboards, Synthesizer)
