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Re-Vital-Eyes
Pass Out Of Existence was seminal for me. The Impossibility of Reason was mostly enjoyable, but genuinely, for me, nothing compares to their first Roadrunner Release
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Grundapants
Love Chimaira! Would be amazing to see a new album! Pure Hatred is such a good song!
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ChaosDevin
I have listened to bands such as DevilDriver, Lamb of God, Unearth, Starkweather, Rorschach, Shadows Fall and Threat Signal. They simply cannot compare to Chimaira. Terrific band! The only bands I can think of that could rival them are Overcast and Divine Heresy.
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ObeyCoffee
I went to buy tickets for them back in the day and found out the tour was cancelled because they broke up.
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ChaosDevin
Good news! https://metalinjection.net/tour-dates/chimaira-announces-two-reunion-shows-for-the-impossibility-of-reason-anniversary
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KickAssMetalGuy
Their Instagram just posted 41 minutes ago a white image? I think they might be up to something!!!!
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KickAssMetalGuy
I really hope it happens this time homie, I'm so ready for this amazing band to comeback with all the fury and record a Resurrection pt. 2!!!
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ChaosDevin
They're reuniting to do two shows, for the anniversary of The Impossibility of Reason album.
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Idiots-Rule
It's a lack of label support and their commercial appeal. Chimaira had a well documented track record of how poorly their labels promoted them, especially Roadrunner. They even managed to get prematurely released from their contract with them after the self-titled album's piss poor promotion. They were also heavier than most of their contemporaries and also lacked a lot of the 2000s pop metal elements (e.g. melodic vocals) which bands like Machine Head had a lot more of.
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FiaraDeFiere
still such an amazing band after all these years on standby. I prefer this to lamb of god any day.
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FiaraDeFiere
that's my feeling as well pretty much. Sturm und Drang was decent as well but I feel they go the way of Machine Head. one good album for every handful of mediocre ones.
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spineshank155
It's a shame the band broke up. They were talking about a reunion. Work the shit out and produce more albums!
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Max_Fucktor
Wikipedia says the reunion is still possible, they planned it last year, but Covid ruined their plans.
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Max_Fucktor
100%, Chimaira along with The Dillinger Escape Plan are a few bands who can still do reunions and I'll be really happy about it. Faith No More and Mudvayne did it, now their turn :D
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Legoman1987
Awesomeness ive , been waiting for a reuniuon for so fucking long this amazing news the best i heard in awhile
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Predator-S
Guess so. However, no album after Resurresction didn't quite do it for me. And they used to be so GOOD until up to that point.
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bleedthesky212
Those guys jammed hard on The Age Of Hell! That album was great! So was The Infection. Everything Chimaira did was good. Even Crown Of Phantoms had its moments. The metal genre is running stale and really misses a band like Chimaira.
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Skinny_Felton
Эти пацаны то шо надо!!! Жаль группа распалась, а то щас бы дали всяким новомодным хуебесам просраться.
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ChaosDevin
The classic lineup is reuniting! http://www.metalsucks.net/2017/06/22/classic-chimaira-line-up-announces-reunion-show/
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limonad_limonad
Какая же Salvation адская, лет пять группу не слушал- и всё равно мысленно тащусь от этой песни.
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Idiots-Rule
Crown Of Phantoms wasn't very good to my ears, simply because it was rather Daath feat. Mark rather than vice versa, and I'm not really a Daath fan. They traded in the hardcore-fueled thrash riffing for jazz proggy stuff. Meh. I much more liked The Age Of Hell for it's classical influences in Rob's guitar work.
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Idiots-Rule
I think what really happened is that the guys in Chimaira aged, and so did the music with them - they matured. The Age Of Hell is heavily bashed for whatever reasons, but then you look at the people who bash it and they're not usually very open-minded. Chimaira's last two albums were very different in style and direction, sure, but with an open mind they're still very good albums. Sadly most metalcore kids just seem to be listening to that music through "phases" or because that's what's popular atm. TAoH was very influenced by classical music, especially as far as Rob's guitar work go. It was just too light for the hardcore kids out there, and metalheads are mostly conservative up their own asses. It didn't help that most 2000's metalcore bands were exchanged in favor of more deathcore bands around 2010 or so either. And as far as band chem go, Mark Hunter always seemed to be somewhat of an ass. Just watch their DVD:s and see how he treated people. Rob seemed to be his counterpart.
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Overr_
Three things happened: 1) After Resurrection, they kinda lost some steam and put out some albums that were still good, just not self-titled/Resurrection top-tier metalcore good. 2) As a result of that, people just stopped going to their shows. They were having absolutely abysmal ticket sales, which is unusual considering that their music was MADE to be moshed to. 3) Mark Hunter was obviously getting older and more tired. His vocals post-Resurrection were far less angry, less passionate, less of a stand-out as before. Conflicts in the bands rose and his vocals weren't very good by the end. Chimaira has always had a volatile band roster outside of Mark (and previously Rob), so when the entire band fell apart yet again, he didn't have the motivation to rebuild the band yet again, especially after just one album. It's a shame, Year of the Snake was the best song they ever released and Crown of Phantoms was a step in the right direction. RIP :(
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mrpppatrick
what!? they quit? can somebody explain what happened? been a fan since years, too bad they hardly came to europe
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Idiots-Rule
I believe that Chimaira, just like God Forbid, was simply too metal, too hardcore = too heavy for the big masses. They didn't have enough radio-friendly melodic guitar work or boy-band vocals like As I Lay Dying, for instance.
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