Choronzon are an American band whose twin roots lie in industrial and black metal music. They began as two separate and entirely unrelated bands with the same name: the eastern half was a Florida based black metal-styled band formed in 1986 by P. Emerson Williams, while its western counterpart was the San Francisco old school industrial project of Demitria Monde Thraam. In 2002, the two respective Choronzons became aware of each other via the internet, and agreed to share use of the name, before going still further and collaborating musically.
Prior to the merging of Choronzons, the East Coast Choronzon released of a series of self produced cassettes before being signed to the record label Nocturnal Art Productions in 1998, and released the album Magog Agog. Three more albums followed, in which the sound moved further away from conventional black metal into industrial and experimental territories. The first release from the conjoined Choronzon was the double album New World Chaos, produced in 2005, whose recording was completed mere hours before Hurrican Katrina made landfall.
Choronzon is not an "occult themed" project. It IS the thing, it is not merely about it, or influenced by it. Each 'album' or 'working' that is offered represents actual, protracted effectuations - some to create, some to destroy, and some are aimed straight at YOU, ALONE, who first see and hear the audiotextuvisualities - which are the Power, not merely a symbol of it or pathway to it. We open the sacred to the profane, and let them mingle. But that which was too much decried and described in past times require new codes, to protect its Current and its Codex. That which was open will close, that which was shut down will open out. Prediction is futile. Give up. But "give up" properly...
"Those who know don't tell. Those who tell don't know."
The current lineup of Choronzon is P. Emerson Williams (Guitars, Bass, Vocals), Demimonde Mesila Thraam (Software synthesizers, effects and samples, Vocals) and CHORONZON (Xenodimensionally-Manifest Master of the 333 Current)