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Chthonic Force is the joint project of Vadge Moore (exDwarves / Phoenix Thunderstone) and Wendy Van Dusen (Neither/Neither World). Venturing into the realms of Industrial, Power Electronics, Experimental, Noise, and Ambient, their work has traversed the boundaries of musical genre and conventional morality. Since the band's inception in 1999, Chthonic Force has released two full-length albums (1999's Chthonic Force and 2003's Agathodaemon), a split single (Mouth Pigs), and appeared on several compilations. Their collaborations have included work with underground luminaries such as Peter Sotos (Whitehouse), Monte Cazazza (Throbbing Gristle / Industrial Records), Boyd Rice (NON), Cole Palme (Faktrix), and Thomas Thorn (The Electric Hellfire Club). Delirium Tremens: The Best of Chthonic Force includes the choicest cuts from Chthonic Force's albums, singles, collaborations, and compilation appearances. Initially released in 2007 as a limited edition of 100 signed and numbered CDRs, this 2020 reissue is presented as a nonlimited Digipack CD, digitally remastered by Bob Ferbrache at Absinthe Studio. In support of this "best of" collection, Vadge Moore has been interviewed on various radio shows and podcasts, as well as giving interviews to websites and print magazines."

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Delirium Tremens: The Best of Chthonic Force is a very unusual musical experience. ... Musically it is an adventurous production transcending a range of traditional genres and mixing ambient, metal, electronic, and industrial as well as what could be interpreted as noise and textured sound effects. In regards to content it really pushes the boundaries, this is a collection of tracks which have been carefully and deliberately compiled to go beyond the confines of bourgeois morality and examine thoughts which would normally be considered contraband. Satanism, amorality, sadism, mass murder, might-is-right and misanthropy are all part of the package. This is not petty diabolism or simple rebellion, these are well considered contraventions of traditional values and will force any listener to consider the hypocrisy of modern standards of behavior and so called ethics. ... This is a dark and confronting album with both a superbly edgy musical style and content which makes it stand out from the crowd.

     —Synergy Magazine, Australia

Brooding and malevolent ... Chthonic Force tap into a dark nihilistic mysticism heralding the undergrowth, the base and primordial. ... Noise, industrial and ambient combine as a backdrop to subjects which are dark, savage and primal giving prominence to

     —Compulsion Online, Scotland

Chthonic Force's aural enterprise is ... a phantasma of delight for the noise ambient aficionados seeking a break, with orated nihilism coupled into bleak buttresses of organically hacked-apart electronics.

     —– Heathen Harvest, USA

songs are characterized by dark atmospheres mixing Industrial, Ambient and Experimental music together with on top narrative vocals. The lyrics have something controversial, somewhat shocking and yet also philosophical. ...

     —Side-Line Magazine, Belgium

More psychodrama than strictly musical experience ... This isn't a pleasant album by any means. Then again, Chthonic Force's aim is to make you think and feel in the real, not be submerged in the fantastic. ...

     —Chain D.L.K., USA

To try to pinhole the sound Chthonic Force create would be an injustice ... brutal yet accessible may be one way; twee it certainly is not!

     —Flux Europa, England

reeks of old oil, burning candles, sweat; blood and dirty water; and sounds like an industrial black mass conducted in a sunken WWII bunker... Simply put - It sounds quite unlike anything I have ever heard before.

     —The Aither, Australia