Born as a death metal act in 1992, the band began a melodic route in 1995 and by its second album had introduced female vocals and a cello. Some known pre-label works are: Inexorable Reciprocation of 1993, Promo '93, Dies Irae of December 1994 and a summer 1995 tape called Pilgrimage.
After touring with Sentenced in the spring of 2000 in Finland, Charon signed with Spinefarm Records. In the same year the band inked a deal with Finland's Dex-Viihde booking agency. The autumn of 2001 is spent recording the third album. In November of 2002 the band issues a single called Little Angel. The single is also the subject for a video which is later to appear on a Spinefarm video compilation. The album Downhearted is issued in the summer of 2002 and the band tours Europe with Nightwish and After Forever.
Charon parted ways with guitarist Jasse Von Hast in late 2003. Poisonblack is the band formed by Sentenced singer Ville Laihiala in which the singer is Leppalouoto. For My Pain's guitarist Lauri Tuohimaa accompanied Charon on the band's Russian tour in December, 2003.
Leppalouoto would join Amorphis for live dates when that band's singer would quit the act.

CHARON - TEARSTAINED - EMANZIPATION/DIEHARD
Following years of slugging it out in the underground, through to the release of a debut called Sorrowburn and a Wolfheart side project, Finland's Charon has developed a little profile for itself and is establishing things further with this release. Further entrenched in the atmospheric side of heavy music, the band continues with its mournful and gothic essence, only occasionally going up tempo - quite successfully actually on tracks like Sin and Your Christ. The band is definitely inclined towards the gothic elements with its cello, violin, keyboards and guest female presence, but to this day still offers enough 'meat' for metal fans with commercial inclinations to warrant some attention. Nice sound and a somber atmosphere are, of course, a given here.