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Rating: Comeback for the legendary Mayhem.
After the lukewarm “A Grand Declaration of War”, many were expecting a return to the sound of the post-reunion mini CD “Wolf's Lair Abyss” which, although modernized, recalled the sound that made the Norwegian combo famous, the authors of that cornerstone of the genre known as “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas”, perhaps one of the most chilling chapters in the history of all metal.
Well, forget about a return to the origins.
Chimera is a work light years away from the uncontrolled fury of the past. The four are heading towards a more considered black metal, characterized by more airy compositions and the particular emphasis on Blasphemer's riffing, finally highlighted by a less frantic song structure and excellent production, both clean and powerful at the same time.
To understand the new direction, just listen to the beautiful “My Death” which, in a thrilling crescendo, captures us in its complex and dark structure, ending with Maniac's evocative use of voice—drawing on the already successful experiment in “I Am The Labyrinth”—including a clean and “baritone” singing style, giving the piece unparalleled majesty and solemnity.
There are, of course, more devastating moments (the opening “Whore”), and frequent use of blast beats which, though set in a more elaborate context, allow for the unmistakable Mayhem trademark to be recognized.
Among all, “Whore”, “The Dark Night of the Soul”, “Rape Humanity With Pride”, and, as mentioned, “My Death”, but it is the work as a whole, in my opinion, that deserves attention.
Let it be clear, we are not in front of a masterpiece (the malice of “Funeral Fog”, “Freezing Moon” or “Life Eternal” is unlikely to be achieved again), but if you can forget for a moment the ominous and legendary past of the four, I am sure that this album will give you great satisfaction.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Dark Night of the Soul (06:08)
Caress the deceitful snake
The one who speaks in tongues
Of all my devastating truths
Collect the power of my dreams
Cast by the devious fire demons
A thousand whorish tongues
A fiendish lust a hollow trust
In black death salute the visions
Mayhem of living infected blood
In this dark night of the soul
I close my eyes to the world
Kiss my skinless corpus
Make me revel in your weak souls
Make me feast on your nightmares
In black death salute the visions
Mayhem of living infected blood
In this dark night of the soul
Death's heads enshrined in my heart
I deal exclusively in mysterious pain
I seal the orbits of misanthropy
The mystical blood runs tonight
Sifting through your inner thighs
A moment of inconceivable lust
08 Chimera (07:00)
"I will present you with this fornication. Something in space-time is logically ill."
What can be seen in the rear view mirror, expectancy was a Mephisto's gasp,
Your past was never quite there, there was nothing that loose in the
constituents of your substance, it does indeed exist in parts of your neural
commitments to the mind body, Or does evil exist?
There was always something paranoid in the ways she behaved in your guilt,
Conclusions are never to be trusted!
You are not dead, you never existed... You are not dead.
Her devotees were never that pure, pure existence was never arbitrary,
Not in my convictions of the truth, she gave the demon seeds life,
the necessity of the game given, displayed a virtue unseen in you.
There is gang-green in the tubes,
of the vermicular ethics of how your world view presents itself.
Contradictions in terms of how, your life evolves in the chain of being.
I claim you were never a part of reality.
This is where your life lie grows pale, never known to your mirror self,
She was a creature alive in you, But I put my hand through the...
"Hell was never an option for you, Luciferian tolerance yields the given,
Your dissolving truth tables" You are not dead, you never existed
"The sum of all you ever knew equals zero." You are not dead, you never
existed. You are not dead, you never existed... You are not dead, you never existed.
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