CHIMAIRA Selects Mixer For New Album

Cleveland, Ohio's CHIMAIRA has tapped Chris "Zeuss" Harris to mix the band's follow-up to 2007's "Resurrection", tentatively due in early 2009 via Ferret Music in the U.S. and an as-yet-undetermined label in the rest of the world (the band is no longer signed to Nuclear Blast, which released "Resurrection" in Europe).

Commented CHIMAIRA: "One of the cool things about being in a band is that you get the opportunity to work with people you admire and respect for many reasons, including the records they have helped shape. We had the chance to work with Colin Richardson and Andy Sneap on our other records. Now we are going to let our longtime friend Zeuss handle the mixing duties.

"Working with Zeuss on this album will bring a completely different vibe and we feel it will wind up being the heaviest-sounding CHIMAIRA record to date. We are not being cliché and saying, 'This is our heaviest album ever!!!!' but in terms of tones and power, we feel this guy is going to make the new record sound like an axe just hit you in the mouth.

"Zeuss has worked with a lot of our friends and is responsible for some of the most brutal-sounding records out there. We are pumped."

CHIMAIRA is preparing to begin recording the new CD with producer Ben Schigel. Ben previously worked with the band on the "This Present Darkness" (producer, engineer, mixer); "The Impossibility Of Reason" (producer, engineer); self-titled (producer, engineer); and "Resurrection" (drum tracking) albums.

CHIMAIRA has posted the third in a series of webisodes (see below) documenting the making of the band's new album.

The group will enter Ante Up Audio in Cleveland on October 21 to begin laying down drums for the new CD. CHIMAIRA says, "This is the third time we will be using this studio for our drums. We first came here in 2005 when we tracked the self-titled record. We loved it so much that we made sure we came back at the end of 2006 for 'Resurrection'. We are anxious to return."

CHIMAIRA recently posted a previously unreleased song from the "Resurrection" sessions entitled "Kingdom Of Heartache" on its Facebook page.

The band released a digital-deluxe version of 2007's "Resurrection" (Ferret Music) via iTunes. The iTunes-exclusive version of the album, which came out in June, includes two bonus tracks, "Kingdom of Heartache" and "Paralyzed", as well as well as a video guitar lesson from the group's renowned guitarist Rob Arnold. The lesson was taken from Arnold's contribution to the Rock House Method instructional DVD series.