CHIMAIRA SEARCH FOR THE NEXT DANNY BOYLE
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 at 12:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
This morning I read on Metal Underground that there’s a band called Kimaera. And I’d just like to take this opportunity to say that everyone in this band is clearly some kind of mental midget. Even if I wasn’t a huge Chimaira fan, it would be hard to encourage another band to use a name so close to a group that’s achieved such a higher plane of success; for example, as much as I dislike Korn, I would never pat another band on the back for being called “Corn.” It’s just dumb. Did these dudes (and chick, apparently) learn nothing from Chimaera, a band which has apparently now changed its name to avoid any further confusion? Sheesh.
ANYWAY, the real Chimaira are now holding a contest where fans can re-edit the footage from their video for “Destroy and Dominate,” which was originally directed by the awesome Todd Bell. The grand-prize winner will receive the limited edition box set version of The Infection plus tickets to the band’s upcoming US tour, and the second- and third-prize winners will receive tickets and/or Chimaira merch. You can download the footage and enter the contest here.
Honestly, I kinda wanna download the footage just because re-cutting it seems like it would be fun, the same way re-mixing the Sacrament tracks Lamb of God released awhile ago was fun. But if you’re one of those people who constantly bitch about how shitty you think every music video is, here’s your chance to try and do better – and potentially win some cool stuff in the process.
-AR
This just in: Axl is a giant Chimaira
This band clearly didn’t read my story on Search Engine Optimization: http://www.metalinsider.net/web-2oh-no/for-the-love-of-google-consider-your-bands-name
First of all, Kimaera is from Lebanon. The country, not the city in Pennsylvania.
Second, judging by the sales on their most recent album, Chimaira, is barely popular outside of Ohio, let alone in western Asia.
I can’t imagine that the bands get confused very often.
i like Kimaera better. i hung in there about three minutes longer than i do with regular Chimaria, so about three minutes 15 seconds.
thats so funny, cuz my band is called sheep of Allah. im the drummer, chrisof adleromo.
i’m mad at chimaira for announcing all these fucking tour dates but still none in canada. fuckers.
The lebanese KIMAERA is 10 years old, and we definitely never even heard of ‘Chimaira’ back then when the band was named and released the first demo, and we barely do now, after putting out 2 albums worldwide.
And just by calling the members of the band (the dudes and the chick) ‘dumb’ and ’some kind of mental midget’ just bcos the two names resemble proves that u r an ignortant piece of shit, and a big one.