Chinchilla
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Chinchilla continues the amusing tradition of oddly-named German power metal bands (imagine trying to promote a tour consisting of Chinchilla, Squealer, and Custard in America). Their early history is a bit murky — they formed in 1988 and by 1990 had recorded an album, No Mercy, of which not a lot is known (it’s not even listed on the official site’s discography), and after guitarist Udo Gerstenmeyer left the band, they folded soon afterwards. Four years later, Gerstenmeyer recruited a completely different lineup and recorded what initially was a demo, but turned into the Who Is Who EP. More lineup changes ensued, and finally the band had some stable footing, releasing Horrorscope in 1998 before signing with Metal Blade in 2000. The 2000 release, Madness, is the album reviewed here. Not surprisingly, Chinchilla’s style is rooted in Euro power metal 80’s-style. They don’t have the galloping pace of a Gamma Ray, but are more of a mid-paced melodic power metal band, maybe not too far removed from Iron Savior or Sinner. Overall, Madness is a competent album. It’s not going to set the world alight nor impress anyone with originality, but the staples of the genre (singalong choruses, simple but nicely constructed riffs, a power ballad or two, and so forth) are here for the listening, with the interesting cover choice of Kiss’ “I Stole Your Love” (staying relatively faithful to the original) thrown in for good measure.
After two releases in 2000 and 2002 with the same members, the the lineup change bug has bitten again, with three new members joining the band in 2002, eventually releasing Madtropolis a year later.
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Poisonickie
Such a nice title!
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Harmaa_Griffin
I like the title o-0
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bellweather
california chinchilla was better
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Shallow_Reasons
Why are you so underrated?!
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Darmer_91
amazing band!
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MigueleMetal
Great Band!
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theSensenmann
Just heard the Running Wild cover. good job boys. :)
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Eduardo_Bardo
worst name band!
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theSensenmann
A rather good group. Nervertheless they get a bit boring when you hear them a lot. The albums all have some very good songs but also a lot of songs that are rather mediocre.
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NorthernGuy
Father forgive me...
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Ablatitious
"Fight", the opening track to Madness, is my favorite Chinchilla song.
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Thor Bear
One of the good songs by an otherwise mediocre band. They have quite their own style though.
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PandaGetSad
AWESOME music!!!!
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Pancho-
Duh. The one I know is alternative, post-punk, or whatever...
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BlackRainbowFT
yes... the bio is indeed negative. I don't like the use of euro-"something". It is often used to say "american > european". Meh, maybe that's just me ;) Chinchilla are a rather good band (I discovered 'em back in 2001 or 2002)... but the only song that really stands out to me is "fight" ;) or maybe "queen of the rain". I don't know... I should re-listen to them a bit more carefully since my taste have evolved in the past 6 years (I like a broader spectrum of genres).
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Timo_JZ
They are like edguy, my favorite band. And the bio is a bit negative..... what? it's very negative!
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ChrillDeVille
I like their cower of The Boys are Back in Town.. :P
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w00tlars
I indeed like them! Resently discovered them. Father Forgive Me really own
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Zeitgeist1
A very good Band!!!
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bardism
Great band.
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