Choronzon

Music:

Member Since: 7/1/2005
Band Website: choronzon.org
Band Members: P. Emerson Williams
Demimonde Mesila Thraam
Choronzon
Influences: Experiment Haywire , James Joyce, Current 93, Coil, Killing Joke, Voivod, Celtic Frost, Christan Death, Sleep Chamber, Throbbing Gristle
Sounds Like: Who are you, what do you want to know, and why?

Maybe you wonder what in the 31 varieties of Baskin-Robbins Hell " Xeno " is, or if you are really brave, are curious about what it sounds like ...or if it has any potential side-effects, what the contraindications are, what not to take at the same time you're ingesting it...what it could do to your brain, body, and your potential to produce viable offspring--if you're crazy enough to want to raise KIDS, instead of raising energy vortices, demons, consciousness, etc. in the first place. ( We're not. We'll stick to raising Hell and switching it with Heaven and seeing if anyone can tell them apart.)

WHY is this happening?

One gets the feeling this isn't a "band" with members who are in it for the money, the fame or the teenage groupies, so what the hell is it for? What does it do, besides make what could be the world's only music that can actually transmit insanity from creator to listener? (No, that's not just a silly quip. This actually has been known to happen.)

WHO is behind this?

What's the deal with this demon - I'm sorry! Uh, "xenodimensional entity" - in whose honour it has been named? WHERE and WHEN did this all begin? What is the weird coinky-dink synchro-mesh behind it that made its formation different from that of probably ANY other band or music project you've ever heard of before?
WHAT has the Choronzon project been up to, and down from, lately?

That link takes you straight to our "Escapes" page so you can actually hear for yourself. But you might also want to look beneath all this yadda to the "Manifestations" column below.

That is where you'll find up-to-the-minute - oh, let's be real, up-to-the MONTH - news to answer those all-around "what are the project's members doing, both as Choronzon and as individuals?" questions.

~ Choronzon ~

P. Emerson Williams, D. Monde Thraam,
and Choronzon Itself

NEW WORLD CHAOS

Produced in 2005, this double album was the first collaboration of the two Choronzons as one. The entire project involved several very concentrated and protracted ritual effectuations, some of a somewhat meta-political nature, and others far more esoteric and internally-focused. Collaboration was all done via the medium of Internet and the invisible 333 Current. The two-disc work was completed hours before Hurricane Katrina went aground...making it the second Choronzon album to be followed by a major natural disaster within hours of completion.

Until CDs are available, the entire double album, including the half directed by P. Emerson Williams, Complicity Simplexity and that directed by Thraam, New World Chaos, can be downloaded in its entirety on this page or wander through the galleries that start thiswaywards ; each track on both sections has accompanying text (some terse aphorisms, some verse, some prose, and Thraam's digital hallucinography.

Choronzon [ East ]
P. Emerson Williams

MAGOG AGOG

Where it all began for the "eastern" Choronzon. The most black metal-centric of the Choronzon works, it goes beyond the limits of the genre, and doesn't settle for the cliches. Fast, hard, raw sound carries the tracks to their target-zones; even appeals to individuals thoroughly bored with "metal" of any stripe.

ERA VULGARIS

The classic early Black Metal/Industrial album: driving, frenzied, and corrosively toxic to the hypocrisies of the "modern world" which have been so corrosively toxic to us all.

PSYCHOSIS EX MACHINA

The Choronzonic influence takes over...the black-metal sound fights back hard, but here and there, begins to give way to something else entirely, finally dying lovingly in the arms of a thing darker than itself; something even more out-of-control, more blissfully and blasphemously spastic and spasmodic. The sound gathers itself through its own vortex and comes out of it in steady, ritualised, untapped power. Underlaid and overlaid with the seeds of cryptovox - the voice of our Entity, or maybe your ownEntity...delivering messages for you that only you can decipher. Noisy, disturbing, not for squeamish or terminally "default-ness"-addicted. (Psychosis Ex Machina is reported by the Namesake Entity to be one of its special favourites among these treasured instantiations that are these inspired manifestations of this cthonic presence - heading straight for your "comfortable" reality zone.)

PANIC PANDEMIC

With Panic Pandemic, the process begun in the prior album continues and complexifies. The skeleton of the creature Psychosis Ex Machina devoured and subsumed is now transmogrified into an armature of bones on which is hung a mage-fetish, an effigy-object of sacrifice: standing for what? Western Civilisation? Your inner soul? The "Revolution"? All of the above? All of the below? The reality-twister that is the artist/mage in cahoots with cohort Choronzon, madly and yet with infinite care decorates these remains with the detritus of cultural effluvia turned inside out, into caricatures and mockeries, ornaments of fear, disdain, madness and love, carrying memory-imprints of notions, persons, lives, and what happens when such are turned against themselves and drained of purity of essence. Some of these ornaments have mirrors at their centres in which you'll see a familiar face. Stare too long into them, and you may scare yourself blind...but if you dare not look, you might just be, already.

This album release isn't merely a bunch of "songs" but an elabourate interplay of word, sound and image, heralding the direction of Choronzon's future, reaching out far beyond the limits imposed upon a "rock band".

Panic Pandemic is two CDs - a double-album of moving music and noise, resisting all genre-labels, while engulfing and digesting same into itself. - The audio comes bundled with a full-colour print book by P. Emerson Williams, an accomplished artist as well as noisician, which features his artworks in both oil and digital formats, with the sort of paper quality and printing they deserve. Though it's the size of a "coffee-table" book, it's not just a bunch of pretty pictures. Textuality runs through and around the images: a twisting, interleaved alternation of monologue and moodscape that just might scare the living shit out of you. And you thought you didn't scare easily? There's a first time for everything... A rare experience, not to be missed.

DAMNATUS

Film made in Germany, based on the Warhammer 4000 milieu. with characters and situations from the game. Material from Psychosis Ex Machina was chosen for the soundtrack.

Choronzon [ West ]

Demitria Monde Thraam

ZERO DIVIDED BY INFINITY

The Choronzon from the San Francisco Bay Area was incepted in 1989, three years after D.M. Thraam first encountered the Namesake Entity while engaging in more-or-less traditional "ritual magick" with a past lover who, being taught to avoid anything that seemed redolent of the Daemon of the Abyss, rather abreacted when she mentioned seeing "a gateway or door made of three triangles a-spinning, with an engagingly inviting Presence behind it". Against this Thelemic friend's advice, she took up the invitation. The rest was - and is, and shall be - history.

Zero Divided By Infinity, themed around the impossible tesseract geometry of the higher dimensions beyond those known by human minds, and fuelled by the love, wild power and inscrutable ways of this ineffable being whom Thraam took a shine to - and a year and a half to make an album as a paean to.

It was MIDI-sequenced on a very early version of Performer on a Mac IIci, hooked up to a Mirage sampler and an effects-box that could wring a slim fraction of the wonders of today's VST philtres upon sound. Also used was "Hell's Picnic Table" (a metal table, sans umbrella or legs, painted with the Choronzonic triptrigram and stood on its side, with contact-microphone taped to it, making fingertaps into thunder. One track enlisted the aid of bass guitar from Jan O. Sanguine of Katharsis - the most hard-edged, passionate "old-school" of San Francisco industrial bands in the late eighties and the only one known to involve a female frontwoman. (Katharsis' red-and-black and Choronzon's characteristic yellow-and-black were "the colours" of sheet-metal-bashing, amp-blowing industrial in those days.) With accompanying text, Xerox graphics...and one hell of a story about what happened the day the album (and its accompanying hoodoo) were finished. All tracks are downloadable and the textual inserts scanned for display . Though first ill-fated, Zero Divided By Infinity is proof that a thing once thought gone forever sometimes won't be.

If you came here looking for the definitive, canonical collection of Just About Everything pertaining to the entity Choronzon whose Number is 333, you are Exactly where you Belong. Salutations, Seeker!

Demitria Monde Thraam, acting as Annunciator to and for Choronzon, has gathered this material from all over the vast reaches of net-space: excavated it from hidden esoteric zones, dug it out from the depths of the World Wide Abyss, so that it may be preserved and presented here in one locale, to Enlighten and Endarken all comers. Writings and art will run all sorts of gamuts: from good to awful, from interesting to dry, from relatively sane to stone-crow wack. It will entertain in one place, inform in another, and here and there, may cause a laugh or three to escape you: inbetween a groan or two.Choronzon values laughter and irony very highly; you may not always get the jokes, or get them immediately, though. Even Thraam, arguably as intimately close to this being as anyone could possibly get--Choronzon has been her animus and incubus, and companion in current-rides through the Aethyr, and loving Guide to the Xenodimensions for (on and off) nearly twenty-two years, now - even SHE doesn't always get them. Or gets them in a totally different way than intended; after which she usually proceeds to attempt to vex Choronzon right back. (And sometimes, even successfully manages.)

What lies within? If it is about Choronzon, you SHOULD find it here--or will, at some point. Miscellaneous Incomprehensible Psycholytic Fallout. All Manner of Mischief, Melee and Mirth pertaining to "That Mighty Devil". Anything at all that spills out of the centre of Choronzon--or even from the the back end. Textuality, Hallucinography, Perverse Verses. Various, Sundry and Sundered Notions of Reality, Unreality, Surreality et. al. cetera. The resonants of Choronzon are everywhere now, showing up in unexpected zones. Maybe your next door neighbour is one...
Record Label: Foamin' Sodomy Records
Type of Label: None