A GOOD EXCUSE TO POST MORE CHIMAIRA LIVE FOOTAGE
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 3:00pm by Axl RosenbergI am SO PISSED that I missed Chimaira’s most recent tour (with Hatebreed), because a) Chimaira slay live and b) I’m fucking dying to hear some more material from The Infection in a live setting – when I saw the band on this spring’s Music as a Weapon tour, the album had literally just come out that day and the band were, consequently, only playing two new songs.
So. Rhythm guitarist Matt DeVries had to pull a Mark Morton and leave the tour early so he could get home for the birth of his new child, Austin (Mazel tov, Matt!); filling in for him is Daath co-guitarist/all around cool dude Emil Werstler. I am using this little fact as an excuse to post this video I saw on Blabbermouth of the Wersterful Chimaira performing “The Venom Inside.” Also, to point out that bassist Jim LaMarca seems to have shed his signature locks. That leaves DeVries as the only dude in Chimaira capable of windmilling. Just sayin’.
Chimaira continue to decimate Europe alongside Unearth, Throwdown, and our friends in Daath through October 12; then, at the end of the month, they hit the States again with Trivium, Whitechapel and Dirge Within. Get dates here.
-AR
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Good job crowd! Way to clap together randomly.
Fuck. The “CLAPs” were supposed to be all unevenly spaced to denote the utter tlack of unison rhythm. Oh well.
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emil is the best dude ever. chimaira has always been pretty terrible tho, just listen to that goddamn breakdown.
they’re good live (not awesome though). I seen ‘em at Music As A Weapon.
Oh sweet they’re playing Irving in Novemeber and I can leave right after they play as well.
Chimaira absolutely SLAYS live. I think they get a lot of haters because they’re more from the Metallica/Slayer/Pantera school of metal where writing good songs is the focus, instead of the new-school “try to outshred everyone else and be the most brutal band on the planet” school of thought. It’s not that they can’t write shit like that, it’s that they don’t need to to make up for a lack of songwriting skills. Nothing beats a good, heavy tune with a killer hook.
Oh, and Jim cut his hair way back in July. Old news!
Agree, Chimaira fuckin rapes live!
there is never a good excuse to post Chimaira, they are that terrible.
jim cut his hair a while ago way to be slow as shit
Can’t wait till Chimaira Christmas 10!
I was at that show! it was fucking awesome.
i seen them back in 02 maybe 03? off the ior tour. would love to chekem out again since there is so much better material to hear live now. ….. im still not sold on the ifection though. got boring quick
I’m going to see them right this evening…