Choronzon - in Popular Culture

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  • An experimental multimedia project using the name Choronzon has existed since the late eighties, beginning as two separate and unknown cassette-culture projects, one from the West Coast of the USA and the other from the East; when the internet made each aware of the other, they fused these into one project. As of 2012, they operate the domains for the name Choronzon under .org, .net and .info, and have released several albums on CD as well as publishing a printed book, Panic Pandemic. Claiming that what they do is not merely music, but also actual magick acts fused into it, the project's works are distributed through both underground and over-ground means. The ″demon″ Choronzon is cited as an actual member of the project, part of which has centered on extending the mythos around this entity past the Thelemic view into a modernized ″"post-abyssal″″ one, presenting Choronzon as a anti-hero and demigod, after becoming a reversed Satan in the form of a ″″risen demon″″.
  • An invocation of Choronzon forms the basis for an episode of Hammer House of Horror entitled "Guardian of the Abyss". The episode was also the inspiration for the album "Choronzon" by British Blackened Death Metal band Akercocke.
  • Thrash/Metal band "Megadeth" mentions Choronzon in their song "Looking Down the Cross" from their 1985 album, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
  • The death metal band Internal Suffering have many references to Thelema and related metaphysics in their lyrics, including much glorification of Choronzon. Perhaps most notably so on the album Choronzonic Force Domination.
  • In the MMORPG RuneScape, a quest requires the player to kill a large demon called Chronozon, in a reference to Choronzon.
  • A minor demon named Choronzon appears several times in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. His behavior may allude to the occult conception of Choronzon, but the relationship is questionable.
  • An unnamed demon appears in Hellblazer as one of the three devils. Its characteristics mirror Aleister Crowley's descriptions of the demon, such as having no true form and constantly changing shape.
  • Choronzon is one of the collectible demons in the Shin Megami Tensei series of games.
  • Choronzon is the name of a god-like posthuman character in Karl Schroeder's science fiction novels "Ventus" and "Lady of Mazes".
  • Choronzon is the title of a song from Tangerine Dream's 1981 album Exit.
  • Choronzon is the title of the 2003 album by blackened death metal band Akercocke.
  • Choronzon is a recurring theme in the lyrics of Dutch death metal band Nox (not to be confused with the Hungarian Pop band).
  • Choronzon is featured in the 2009 Horror film Necromentia
  • There is a boss in Wild Arms 3 called "Colonzon", an obvious gaff at romanizing Choronzon.
  • In the Horus Heresy series of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Graham MacNeill's novel A Thousand Sons, Choronzon is identified with Tzeentch under the title of the Daemon of Dispersion.
  • The novel "The Trick Top Hat", a book of the trilogy "Schrödinger's Cat" by Robert Anton Wilson, features Choronzon. He appears to Joe Malik when having sex with Carol Christmas because her husband cursed her with a loa.

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