CHIMAIRA Selects Producer For New Album

Cleveland, Ohio's CHIMAIRA has tapped producer Ben Schigel to helm the sessions for 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: "For those of you that are unfamiliar with Ben, check out his CHIMAIRA discography: 'This Present Darkness' (producer, engineer, mixer); 'The Impossibility Of Reason' (producer, engineer); self-titled (producer, engineer). He also worked with Andy Sneap tracking the drums for 'Resurrection'.

"As you can see, he has been a part of this band since the start and we are looking forward to seeing what he has to offer for this record.

"Yesterday [September 17] we tracked some drums to demo the songs we have written."

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 recently 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.