User:Jason Tang

Power Of Chaos
Back in 2005, Lu, a metal music lover and singer from China, was studiing Financial Analysis at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He hit upon an idea of founding a band to perform just as he did once before in China. Then in December 2005 he met Jason, a Chinse student and guitarist, at a Children of Bodom concert in Tilburg. At that time Jason was studying Logistic Management at Hogeschool Rotterdam. Although he had played guitars in certain bands when he was in Beijing for a couple of years, he wasn't looking for a band yet. He was just writing some metal music on his own. From that day on Lu and Jason kept hanging out togheter and attended various metal concerts in the Netherlands. Almost a year later in September 2006 Lu met another Chinese student Yu at Tilburg university. He also happend to be a bassist. Just before Yu left China he escaped some punk rock fantasy with his bass guitar and was still in the mist of sorting out a Dutch school life in Tilburg when he met Lu. Somehow Lu convinced Yu in founding a metal band and together they persuaded Jason to join them.

At that moment they were in need of a drummer and thinking about the right name for the band. At het meantime, Jason had graduated and started his studying for a master degree in Music Management at Utrecht's School of Art. It was the place where Jason met Erik, a passionate music management student and drummer who had just decided to return to a life of metal music. Jason had some of his guitar work with him on his Mp3 player and showed it to Erik, who then agreed to jam with the still nameless band for at least once. The following weekend they held a jam-session and Erik joined the band officially in April 2007.

Not long after the formation, the four of them found their mutual musical taste and decided to use all possible metal styles and diversity to develop their own vibe. They decided not to cover songs but write and perform original music instead. The bottom line is that every song they write shall always deliver what heavy music is supposed to do. During about three months of rehearsal they finished 7 songs (very motivated!!!) and arranged a performance at Little Devil, a café and one of the gathering places for metalheads in Tilburg. At the mean time they had considered several band names and finally came up with "Power of Chaos".

One week before they played at Little Devil, it so happend that Jason, while taking a stroll in Utrecht, met Felix, a just graduated Media Design student, who was (left-handed) playing some Metallica songs on his acoustic guitar. Somehow Jason sensed that possibly Felix could be the second guitarist that the band was looking for. One week later they invited Felix to a jam-session and he became the fifth band member, their line up was now completed. After a four-week summer break the band returned to their rehearsal room in full force and combined their own personal styles into the music they create.

In terms of musical style you can find that the band is trying to combine various metal sub-genres to create the Power of Chaos sound. In the band’s opinion, it is fun and creative to do so, also every band member is influenced by different bands and metal genres. Lu for instance is influenced by death metal like 6 feet under, Amon Amarth, Dimmu Borgir and also other bands such as Trivium and Machine Head. Yu is influenced by Metallica, Trivium and pun krock bands such as Sum41. Jason’s influence is Pantera and other bands that produce epic metal (although the first heavy band he started listening to was Metallica.) Felix is an old school heavy metal, thrash metal and Metallica fan. Erik’s influences are Danko Jones, Trivium, Lamb of God, Inflames, Golden Earring and also Metallica.