The News Lens
Date: 2017/12/09
By: Darice D. Chang
The long-awaited Chthonic movie will be released December at Kaohsiung Film Festival,
Credit: REUTERS/Pichi Chuang
but considering the band’s political stance and esoteric music, will it be too much for a Taiwanese – much less an international – audience?
Comedy and metal music don’t make for easy bedfellows, “Metalocalypse” (an adult anime series) antics aside, but as fans of international Taiwanese black metal sensation Chthonic know well, the band is as notorious for their quirky ways as their heavy music.
A full three years after initial filming, their upcoming movie is a hilarious hodgepodge of brash youthful energy, political commentary, Hollywood-grade action and cult-classic grade quirk. “Tshiong” (衝組), a Taiwanese term translating roughly to ‘rebellious’ or ‘brash’. The pronunciation in Taiwanese tshiong zois a parody of frontman Freddy Lim’s Taiwanese name, which is homophonous. For those unfamiliar with Lim, he is a founding member of Taiwan’s New Power Party, an opposition party created in 2015 to sustain the tide of pro-independence sentiment that swept the nation in during the Sunflower Movement. [FULL STORY]