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Chimera
Metal · 2004 · 8 tracks

Chimera

Mayhem

A cold, surgical return to black metal form. Dissonant guitars and hyper-accurate drumming create a landscape of high-fidelity nihilism and frozen aggression.

March 29, 2004 · Season Of Mist

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A cold, clinical descent into existential dread and mechanical violence.

Tracklist · 8 Tracks
01
Whore
2:58
02
Dark Night of the Soul
6:08
03
Rape Humanity With Pride
5:41
04
My Death
5:54
05
You Must Fall
4:14
06
Slaughter of Dreams
7:00
07
Impious Devious Leper Lord
5:39
08
Chimera
7:01
Moments Worth Listening For
The sudden shift from frantic blast beats to a crawling, doom-laden groove halfway through My Death.
The title track's closing minutes where the guitars spiral into a dizzying, dissonant vortex of technicality.
The opening mechanical assault of Whore which immediately signals a departure from their previous experimentalism.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Chimera sound next to the rest of Mayhem's catalogue?

Crisp Clean+3.5σ

The production is built around crisp clean than this artist usually allows.

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