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Now, after over 12 years of defining what Cleveland metal and brutal music should sound like, Chimaira advances their trademark brand of heavy with their latest monster, “The Age of Hell.”
As with most Chimaira records—and everything Cleveland—, the composition of the record was fraught with adversity. Longtime drummer Andols Herrick, bass player Jim Lamarca and electronic knob twister, Chris Spicuzza, had fallen away from the band, leaving Chimaira’s flagship member and singer, Mark Hunter and guitarists Rob Arnold and Matt Devries with an album to record for their debut on SPV/Longbranch with no rhythm section or effects specialist. The splintered Chimaira could have stared at the sun, dissecting separate fires then converging into a singular sphere of blinding defeat. Instead, Hunter, Arnold and Devries pushed themselves into frequent collaborator, Ben Schigel’s Spider Studios with bloodied teeth and balled fists, hell bent on birthing what anyone else would have aborted.
Rather of filling the cavities in the lineup with new members, Hunter, Arnold and Schigel took on the roles themselves, constructing each of the songs, creating electronic auras and having Schigel man the drums. After only 8 weeks in the lab, Chimaira emerged with their 6th album, a series of songs that extract the hallmark elements of the band, braiding them together in a pastiche of soaring violence, vacuum sealed riffing, and memorable hooks, giving the listener a hellish train ride that leaves them drooling.
“This is Chimaira.”
RELEASE EUROPE: Aug. 29th (2011)
RELEASE G/S/A: Aug. 26th (2011)
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