Chimera is the third full length album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Mayhem

Mayhem (band)

Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...

. It is the fourth and last main Mayhem release to feature vocalist Sven Erik Kristiansen

Sven Erik Kristiansen

Sven Erik Kristiansen is a Norwegian musician. He is best known as the former vocalist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name Maniac.-Personal life:...

 (Maniac). TurboNatas of fellow Norwegian band Red Harvest

Red Harvest (band)

Red Harvest was a Norwegian industrial metal band from Oslo. Their 2002 album Sick Transit Gloria Mundi was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy and an alternative Grammy in the "Best Metal Album" category...

 provided the album artwork

Album cover

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing...

. The album art is a screenshot from the 1922 silent film Häxan

Häxan

Häxan is a 1922 Swedish/Danish silent horror film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen...

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At the time of its release in 2004, Mayhem was still being sharply and routinely criticised in the metal underground for experimenting on the band's previous LP Grand Declaration of War

Grand Declaration of War

Grand Declaration of War is the second full-length studio album by Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, released through Necropolis Records, on 16 May 2000.-Track listing:...

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Track listing

Personnel

• Maniac
  Sven Erik Kristiansen
  Sven Erik Kristiansen is a Norwegian musician. He is best known as the former vocalist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name Maniac.-Personal life:...
  
   – vocals
• Blasphemer
  Rune Erickson
  Rune Eriksen is a Norwegian musician. He is best known as the former guitarist in the black metal band Mayhem under the stage name, Blasphemer which he took from a Sodom song. He joined the band in 1995, but parted ways in late 2008...
  
   – guitar, additional bass
• Necrobutcher – bass
• Hellhammer
  Jan Axel Blomberg
  Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg is a three time Spellemannprisen award-winning heavy metal drummer. He is most well known for his drumming with the band Mayhem, with which he began his career...
  
   – drums

Production

• All Songs Published By Season Of Mist
• Produced By Blasphemer
• Engineered By Borge Finstad
• Mixed By Blasphemer, Hellhammer & Borge Finstad
• Mastered By Morten Lund

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Norwegian Albums Chart	28