Pandemonium is the second Greatest Hits Compilation album from the Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

ese black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Chthonic's

Chthonic (band)

Chthonic is a Taiwanese metal band, formed in 1995 in Taipei. The group incorporates influences from traditional Taiwanese music including the classical Asian instrument erhu...

. It features eleven tracks from eleven years of band history (1996 - 2007). Pandemonium follows A Decade on the Throne - A Live album and DVD especially intended for the Asian market.
A Decade on the Throne and Pandemonium are identical with regards to the tracklist up to a total of nine songs. For Pandemonium, however, seven tracks have been re-recorded with the band's main drummer Dani, who, after an injury during one of the live shows in 2005, hurt himself and had to be replaced by Reno Killerich for the recording of Seediq Bale.
At the time of the release of Pandemonium, the band toured Europe and the U.S., spreading their message of an independent Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 that wants to contribute to international society regardless of Chinese

China

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 oppression.

Track listing

1. "City of Obscurity" – 1:28
2. "Onset of Tragedy" – 6:32
3. "Revert to Mortal Territory" – 3:27
4. "Grab the Soul to Hell" – 5:06
5. "Decomposition of the Mother Isle (Aboriginal Gods Enthroned)" – 11:05
6. "Floated Unconsciously in the Acheron" – 6:17
7. "Indigenous Laceration" – 4:04
8. "Bloody Gaya Fulfilled" – 6:39
9. "Quasi Putrefaction" – 7:03
10. "Guard the Isle Eternally" – 8:55
11. "Relentless Recurrence" – 7:16

Personnel

• Freddy Lim aka Freddy, Left Face of Maradou - Lead Vocals
• Jesse Liu aka Jesse, the Infernal - Lead, Rhythm and Acoustic Guitars
• Doris Yeh aka Doris, Thunder Tears - Bass Guitar/Backing Vocals
• Dani Wang aka Dani, the Azathothian Hands - Drums, Percussion
• CJ, Dispersed Fingers - Keyboards, Synth and Piano
• Su-Nung, the Bloody String - Erhu
  Erhu
  The erhu is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a "southern fiddle", and sometimes known in the Western world as the "Chinese violin" or a "Chinese two-stringed fiddle". It is used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles...