Blabbermouth.net的介紹： 內文大部分都是肥迪接受專訪講的話， 最主要是介紹這張專輯的概念。 題外話，美國九月一號才發行。 http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode= Article&newsitemID=125691 CHTHONIC: The Story Behind 'Mirror Of Retribution' - Aug. 22, 2009 A four-minute video clip telling the story behind "Mirror of Retribution", the new album from Taiwanese metallers CHTHONIC, can be viewed below. "Mirror of Retribution" will be released in the U.S. on September 1 via Spinefarm Records. The track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. Autoscopy 02. Blooming Blades 03. Hearts Condemned 04. Venom in my Veins 05. The Aroused 06. Sing Linng Temple 07. 1947 08. Forty Nine Theurgy Chains 09. Rise of the Shadows 10. Bloody Waves of Sorrow 11. Spell of Setting Sun 12. Unlimited Taiwan CHTHONIC (pronounced "Thonic") is: Freddy Lim - vocals Doris Yeh - bass Jesse Liu - guitar Dani Wang - drums CJ - piano/synthesizer "49 Theurgy Chains", the new video from CHTHONIC, can be viewed below. CHTHONIC (pronounced "Thonic") is: Freddy Lim - vocals Doris Yeh - bass Jesse Liu - guitar Dani Wang - drums CJ - piano/synthesizer In a recent interview with Speed Beaver Music, CHTHONIC vocalist Freddy Lim stated about the band's new album title and lyrical theme, "A mirror of retribution is the first thing you will meet when you are in hell, the Taiwanese, Oriental hell. Through the mirror, you see all the bad things you and your relatives have done in your lifetime. Each spirit has to face the mirror of retribution then the ghost king will send him to the specific level of hell that he deserves. In the Oriental hell, there are ten ghost kings in ten courts and there are 18 levels of hell and hundreds of small levels. So it takes millions of years for you to serve your sentence. So the original idea is to show this philosophy of hell. All the Asians, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Vietnam, share the same philosophy. "No other metal band has tried to do this. It's too big! So the question is how to do it. It not just like Satan and one burning hell. So in Taiwanese temples, there are some mediums there are people who can travel through heaven and hell and find people, find dead relatives and talk with them. So we needed a story, not just the facts. The story should be in Taiwanese history, so where is the crossover point between Taiwan and hell? So we found the point is the 228 incident which happened in 1947. "It's not just because it's the biggest massacre that happened in Taiwan, but that the last battle happened in front of a very important Taiwanese temple. So it makes sense that someone in the temple who is a medium would try to save his people, save the Taiwanese from the tyrannical KMT army. So he travelled to hell to try to rewrite the book of life and death. So the original idea is to write about the philosophy of hell and then we found the right story to link Taiwan to hell. That's the basic idea of the story. "The first half of the story is how he went to hell and how level by level he tried to find the book of life and death and tried to rewrite it. But then the ghost kings, wizards and monsters in hell found out that he is not a normal spirit, he's still alive, his spirit just left his body, so they, in the 6th song, all the spirits and ghost and monsters, they came from hell to the temple to try to put some seals on his body and suck his spirit back to his body and not allow him to escape from his body again. Then, he decided to kill himself as the only way to go back to hell. But he failed. The end of the story is that he is locked in front of the mirror of retribution for a billion years as his sentence. I think the most interesting part of this album is that we tried to group the same kinds of hells and put them together in one song. There are the mountain of knives and sword forests, different kind of sharp hells all grouped together." -- 如果說歌曲中，吉他、貝斯、鼓的速度是暴風雨加冰雹， 那麼Tarja的歌聲卻猶如神聖的光芒穿透濃密的雲層，使它雨停雲散。 --

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