The Chasm is a death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band originally from Mexico

Mexico

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, and currently residing in Chicago

Chicago

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. Though their first album was released in 1994 the band got wider recognition only after Earache Records

Earache Records

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 signed them on. Aside from death metal, the band is influenced by other metal genres, such as thrash metal

Thrash metal

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, black metal

Black metal

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, progressive metal

Progressive metal

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, and doom metal

Doom metal

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.

The band formed from the core members of the now-defunct Mexican band Cenotaph.

Discography

• Procreation of the Inner Temple (1994)
• From The Lost Years (1995)
• Deathcult For Eternity: The Triumph (1998)
• Procession To The Infraworld (2000)
• Reaching The Veil of Death (EP) (2001)
• Conjuration of the Spectral Empire (2002)
• The Spell of Retribution (2004)
• Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm (2009)

Current members

• Daniel Corchado - vocals, guitar (1992 - )
• Antonio Leon - drums (1992 - )
• Julio Viterbo - guitar (1999 - )

Former members

• Erick Diaz-Soto - guitar (1992–1993, 1994–1997)
• Luis Martinez - bass (1992–1994)
• Luis Antonio Ramos - guitar (1993–1994)
• Rodolfo Riveron - bass (1994)
• Roberto Valle - bass (1999)
• Alfonso Polo - bass (2000–2003)

External links

• [ Allmusic] biography
• Official Site