The Infection
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| Studio album by Chimaira | ||||
| Released | April 20, 2009 (USA) April 24, 2009 (Worldwide) |
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| Recorded | September 2008 – December 2008 at Spider Studios | |||
| Genre | Groove metal, metalcore | |||
| Length | 55:36 | |||
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Ferret Music (US) Nuclear Blast (Worldwide) |
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| Producer | Ben Schigel | |||
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| Allmusic |    |
| About.com | |
| Blabbermouth.net | 7/10 |
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| Metal Sucks | |
The Infection is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Chimaira. Released on April 20, 2009, it reached position 30 on the Billboard 200 charts on its first week of release, selling around 15,000 copies. This was improvement from the previous album's debut at No. 42. It is also their last album to feature long time bassist Jim Lamarca, drummer Andols Herrick, as well as longtime keyboard player Chris Spicuzza and guitarist Matt DeVries.
Within the order of promoting the album, the band revealed a track name from the album and a piece of the album cover on the main page of their website approximately every other day. The final track and entire cover were revealed on February 12, 2009. "Secrets of the Dead" was released as a single on iTunes March 3, 2009 and was first played for the public at their Chimaira Christmas show in Cleveland, Ohio. The song "Destroy and Dominate" was played live for the first time on Friday, March 6, 2009 at the Dubai Desert Rock Festival 2009. "Destroy and Dominate" was released for free on Chimaira's official Twitter profile on March 16, 2009 for one hour only. On April 16, 2009 Chimaira released the first nine tracks of The Infection on their MySpace profile for listening. The song, "On Broken Glass" is available as downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour.
Rob Arnold told Kerrang! that "Try To Survive" was the first song written for the album.
All songs on the album were written in drop C except for Destroy and Dominate, The Disappearing Sun, and Try to Survive, which were written in drop B.
In order to further involve the fans and promote the album, Chimaira released the stem files that were used to create the "Destroy and Dominate" music video. Fans were asked to create their own version of the music video. The members of the band chose their favorites and the prizes went as follows:
1st Place: The Infection (Deluxe Tin Box) and two concert tickets to see Chimaira
2nd Place: Two concert tickets to see Chimaira or a Chimaira T-Shirt
3rd Place: Two concert tickets to see Chimaira or a Chimaira T-Shirt
All tracks written by Rob Arnold and Mark Hunter, except where noted.
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