Austrian progressive sludge/doom riff wizards Chorosia share new live session from Unison Studios in Luxembourg

Photos by Martin Ramisu

Vienna, Austria based progressive sludge/doom metal band Chorosia has released a full live session video, recorded at Unison Studios in Luxembourg on September 2nd, 2026.

Setlist:
01. Intro
02. Reptoids
03. Opinionated And Mute
04. Pale Nights
05. Hands, Switchblades, And Vile Vortices

Progressive sludge/doom riff wizards from Vienna published a new live session video premiering two new songs.

Chorosia just shared a new 24-minute live session video from their time in Luxembourg during their last month’s tour. The session contains four songs, two of which are previously unreleased: »Opinionated And Mute« and »Pale Nights«. The band promises a new album early next year; until then, you can hear the songs on YouTube.

Is it progressive sludge or is it death/doom? It’s quite unclear what genre niche Chorosia belong to but it sure is heavy.

Chorosia are a four-piece band from Vienna and genres were never their thing. Chorosia’s music is kind of heavy and weird, unpolished and unpredictable. It’s about defiance, frustration, (mis)understanding, loss, and occasional moments of strange beauty and encouragement buried beneath all that distortion.

The band’s self-titled debut album was released in 2018. Raw, DIY, and recorded with whatever they had back then, it got picked up by a few underground outlets so Chorosia started gigging around Austria and nearby countries. That included opening for acts like Crowbar, Dopelord, Black Tusk, The Skull, Deafkids and aftershow gigs for Neurosis and Yob.

The second album, »A Call To Love« (2021, Grazil Records), pushed things way further, both musically and emotionally. It’s a strange record featuring folk parts, blast beats, clean vocals, grind sections, and slow doom anthems. People didn’t really know where to put it, but two words that summed it up were mostly “Beautiful” and “Weird”.

Chorosia’s most recent EP, »Stray Dogs« (2023, Grazil Records / Kvlt und Kaos), expands even more into that discomfort like a 35-minute punch in the gut. Critics have called it “Vicious”, “Disturbing in a good way”, and “A sludge metal masterpiece”. As Toilet ov Hell put it: “Chorosia is a band fluent in chaos”.

Since their beginning in 2017, Chorosia have been pushing the envelope of this vaguely defined genre people call “progressive sludge” album after album, gig after gig. They are just four dudes making music that they want to hear, gigging and touring and dragging their amps across the old continent. Think caveman riffs, but the caveman has just become self-aware.

Chorosia is:
Anto Pranjić – Guitars/Vocals
Florian Zeus – Guitars
Christian Umkehrer – Bass
Gregory Reinig – Drums

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well