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In amongst all the areas in which the Metal world resides, whether the old guard of the U.K. and America through to the new emerging and sometimes surprising steel fortresses of France, Norway and Sweden, it can be quite easy and utterly shameful, to forget that Metal in any guise is loved all over the world. It is not something that just purely belongs to one particular set of fans or even one country. Perhaps nowhere is this better typified than in the Taiwanese band Chthonic and their fast paced, vocally crunching and bitter but well placed rage that chokes the life out of pretenders to the throne of Eastern Metal.