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CHON is an American progressive metal quartet from Oceanside, California that plays a style of progressive metal with jazz influenced guitar progressions over fast heavy drums.

History
CHON formed in 2008 in Oceanside, California with Drew Pelisek on bass, Erick Hansel and Mario Camarena on guitar and Mario’s younger brother, Nathan Camarena, on drums. Mario and Erick had started writing material and taught Nathan to play drums so he could play with them. The name CHON comes from the element symbols of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. On June 11th 2013, CHON released their debut EP, Newborn Sun.

CHON released their second EP, Woohoo!, on March 4th, 2014 during their tour with Animals as Leaders, After the Burial and Nevene-K. According to Mario Camarena’s Twitter, CHON will be going into the studio in November of 2014 to work on their first full-length record.

Style
CHON's music has evolved over their three EP's going from a very fast technical sound with distorted guitars and heavy drums to a more laid-back sound with more jazz fusion on more recent releases. CHON, even though they are mostly an instrumental band, has incorporated vocals into only one song, Ecco, off their EP, Woohoo!. Woohoo! was also the only EP to feature fully acoustic tracks such as Super Potion and Dust.

Influences
CHON stated some of their influences include Hiromi Uehara, Return to Forever, Robert Glasper, Chris Dave, Estradasphere.

Discography
Demo 2008 - EP (2008)

Newborn Sun – EP (2013)

Woohoo! – EP (2014)