Five years after, CHTHONIC’s new album Battlefields of Asura, in collaboration with Hong Kong diva Denise Ho, is now released!
Taiwanese heavy metal band CHTHONIC, which is one of its kind, finally comes up with its new album Battlefields of Asura five years after. In the past five years, the five members of the band have turned new pages of their lives, with the lead vocalist having organized a new political party and being successfully elected to a seat in the Taiwanese Parliament, they never forget their promise to their fans about a new album. This time, they even invited the Hong Kong diva Denise Ho to work with them, to produce a uniquely Taiwanese-style heavy metal.
The 11 new songs is an adventure. It’s a journey with Taiwanese immortals. What await ahead are full hostility, murderous emotions, walls of iron that are difficult to conquer, lusts and desires that are not easy to bid farewell too, but there are also courage that inspires infinity. At the end of the adventure, it turns out of a quest for the perpetual prajna. When you feel tears on your face, you would realize that this is where all the stories told in CHTHONIC’s past albums come from.
Although this is an album about Taiwanese immortals showing off their muscles and elves fighting, but everyone could find an exit for their anger, a way to heal their wounds, and find the power for rebirth

政治(英语：Battlefields of Asura)是闪灵乐团第八张录音室专辑，这是他们再隔五年后推出的第一个专辑，同时也是主唱林昶佐当选立委后第一张推出的闪灵专辑。2018年10月10日于台湾发行。并于10月12日在北美发行。本张专辑获得了何韵诗及上帝羔羊乐团主唱兰迪·布莱斯（英语：Randy Blythe）参与演唱。

藉由台湾神佛故事带出的各种意志与精神，追寻理想就如同阿修罗般地历经各种浴血争战
乐团表示，这次新专辑《政治》裡的十一首新曲，就像是一段冒险，穿梭在有血有肉的台湾神佛之中。迎面而来的是满点的战意、无赦的杀气、难攻的铜牆铁壁、难捨的七情六慾，却又激励着无限的勇气，终至永恆智慧的追寻。听到泪流满面，才知道这竟是闪灵过去一系列专辑故事惊心动魄的传奇源起….虽然这是一张台湾神魔唱秋、妖精打架的专辑，但每个人都能在歌曲中宣洩怒气、抒发伤痛、并找到重生的力量。而许多人好奇专辑名称为何用《政治》两个字？闪灵贝斯手及团长Doris表示专辑中文名称为政治的原因是受到1920年代台湾首次政治运动启发而命名，英文名称意思为阿修罗的战场。