Chimaira Posts New Music Video For "Destroy And Dominate" Online
Band Photo: Chimaira (?)
Chimaira has posted a new music video online of the song "Destroy And Dominate," which comes from their latest album "The Infection." The video can be viewed below.
What's Next?
- Previous Article:
Video Of Kenny Hickey Playing New Material Online - Next Article:
Toxic Holocaust Posts "Nuke the Cross" Video
37 Comments on "Chimaira Posts New Music Video Online"
Member
4. writes:
Megalomaniacal - I'd like to know how you can judge the new Chimaira CD by ONE song. The CD is quite enjoyable, sure it's not Impossibility, or in my case, my favorite Chimaira record, Resurrection, but still it has that nice feel to it, that makes me want to throw up the horns and headbang away.
To make fun of Chimaira, while loving Slipknot, is kind of disgrace. Slipknot is generic, granted, the first two CD's were...somewhat great. They had a new vibe to them, something new to offer, but look at them now, they have nothing to bring to the table. Chimaira may not have brought the same intensity and fire that they had with some previous records, but damn, they put a lot into this new album.
In closing, Megalomaniacal, do yourself a favor, download, buy, whatever you choose to do, CD's and actually LISTEN to them before you automatically assume they are terrible.
Member
6. writes:
Then still, regardless, that doesn't make your opinion on the album any different. You haven't heard it, so how you can you claim it's bad? Simple answer, you can't.
Sometimes you got to go against a gut feeling and give it a try You never know, you may like Chimaira if you listened to it. Hicks, definitely not. Mark Hunter is probably one of the most appreciative frontmen in metal today. He loves the fans.
Trust me, give them a listen. Don't be too quick to judge. If you just stick with Slipknot, it's going to get bland, it's going to get boring. Expand your metal knowledge, and enjoy what metal has to offer.
Member
Member
Member
9. writes:
I don't think all metal has to be lightning speed. Their last two albums felt thrown together to me. This one seems to be well thought-out. I may even say meticulously thought-out. It still says Chimaira to me and I love that the samples are clearly present again.
10. writes:
I don't think all metal has to be crazy fast either, but I found this song boring. For me a song has to be dynamic, and there's got to be something unique in the song to hold my attention.
The thing that bothered me about this video was the product placement! The Apple laptops in the studio scenes with the logo perfectly angled towards the camera... maybe its just me that gets irritated by blatant advertisement in music videos...
Member
Member
12. writes:
I hated the album. Too f***in sludgy for my tastes and it just f***in seemed like it was droning on for the rest of eternity. But this video undoubtedly kicks some serious ass. There were actually two or three songs that I liked (On Broken Glass, in particular) but the rest of the album sounded like it was thrown together. Resurrection was waaaaay f***in better.
Member
Member
Member
15. writes:
This new album is heavier in the overall feel but it's way too boring, the tempo is too slow for the whole album and once you've heard about 2 minutes of venom inside, you've heard the whole thing. Their self titled was the best and they probably won't ever top it.
Member
Member
17. writes:
Member
Founder, owner & programmer
20. writes:
If anything, I'll say Chimaira ring out ot me in a metalcore fashion. While they do sound fairly different fromt heir contemporaries, you can still set the vocals within the framework of that particular vocal style, and the breakdowns are a dead giveaway. There are other telltale signs, but I'll leave that to cynic if he wants to explain it; he's much beter at catogorization, and I've sort of, ummm...ignored, metalcore for a while now, so my expertise in the matter is a bit lacking. :P
Now playing: Sol Asunder- Code
Member
Founder, owner & programmer
22. writes:
Chimaira has always had a tinge of metalcore about them with he vocal delivery and breakdowns. But the riffing (and drumming I think) is almost always atypical for metalcore/hardcore and I wouldn't call them a metalcore band. Still, to haters of a genre or sound, it usually only takes one similarity to get lumped with the rest of them.
Member
Member
Member
27. writes:
Yeah db, that is one problem I have when I try to call them metalcore. I dont really hear any of that "gothenburg riffage" that is a signature of the genre.
I dont hate metalcore, but I do get dissapointed in it from time to time. Only now, as the genre seems to be fading in popularity, do really good bands seem to be leaping up form the woodworks. The agonist, Brother Von Doom, Within the Ruins, among others, just seem to be gaining a bit of notoriety for their talents, when before, the scene was flooded with mediocrity. Everybody just wanted to be Unearth, or, failing that, an All That Remains rip-off. it made the genre really annoying for a while. chimaira, if we want to call them metalcore, was one of the few bands that gave me clinging hope and interest to the music style. Now I'm not even sure they were even part of it. lol
Nwo Playing: Shai Hulud- Venomspreader
Member
29. writes:
Well, from what I have heard by them I would have labelled them Metalcore, but I have ben told they are all 3 genres I mentioned before. I wouldn't have called them Deathcore (what is Deathcore anyway? Bring Me The Horizon? JFAC? I'm a bloody reviewer (not for this site) and I'm confused...)
bananaterracottapie1 - I shall follow your suggestion. I'll get (the rest of) Ressurection. I have that song, and 'The Flame'.
NP - Guilty of Being White - by Slayer - Original band; Minor Threat.
Founder, owner & programmer
30. writes:
Ripping off the Gothenburg sound is by no means a cornerstone of metalcore, although it's common in the more recent melodic metalcore. Metalcore was around before that trend hit. The easy way to look at it is this: Hardcore (punk) is widely considered the crossing of Punk with Metal. And metalcore is the merging of hardcore and metal (more metal than plain hardcore). Deathcore is just the merging of death metal with metalcore or hardcore.
I've heard a number of bands lately that straddle the line of melodic (Gothenburg) metalcore and melodic death metal so closely I can't make up my mind which they are.
Like any other big trend though, some characteristics of metalcore have rubbed off on other metal genres far and wide, from vocal deliveries to breakdowns.
Member
33. writes:
Ahh I see what you mean DB.
I've studied the history of the "-core" genre's before, always at a loss as to how "crossover", the term they used for metal hardcore back when it first started, managed to spawn bands like Unearth and Killswitch. But in the sense that the genre did originally sound different, and then absorbed gothenburg riffage afterwards as a sort of "micro-trend gone horribly wrong", that puts a little bit more perspective on it.
it's funny, because technically, I already knew all that, but, having lost touch with that corner of the music scene, knowledge tends to leave the head until somebody reminds you that it's still there.
Forgive me, I'm mostly speaking for my health lol
This STILL leaves me at a loss for what to call chimaira! i know we've had nearly the same convo before about them too, but at a loss, I revert to the same old lumping of catagories. :P
Member
Former Contributor
35. writes:
"Like any other big trend though, some characteristics of metalcore have rubbed off on other metal genres far and wide, from vocal deliveries to breakdowns."
The reason why I'm so singularly repulsed by metalcore, why I treat it more than just another genre. A parallel might be folk metal's influence on black metal and power metal. There are so many folk tinged bands out there now you're truly up sh** creek if you don't like the sound.
Member
Member
To minimize comment spam/abuse, you cannot post comments on articles over a month old.
1. dimentian writes:
nice vid. sorry they'll never top impossibility. huh, ironic.