Chimera

Chimera is the third full length album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. It is the fourth and last Mayhem album to feature vocalist Sven Erik Kristiansen (Maniac). TurboNatas of fellow Norwegian band Red Harvest provided the album artwork. The album art is a screenshot from the 1922 silent film Häxan.

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.

Line - Up

* Maniac (Sven Erik Kristiansen) – vocals
* Blasphemer (Rune Erickson) – guitar, additional bass
* Necrobutcher (Jørn Stubberud) – bass
* Hellhammer (Jan Axel Blomberg) – drums

Trivia

LP Version limited to 1000 copies on black/ blue splatter Vinyl.
Also released as picture disc (lim. 500) with the cover picture on side A, and
band photo (with Maniac holding a pig head on a spike) on side B.

Re-released on Gatefold LP in 2006 by Back on Black Records.

All songs written and composed by Maniac & Blasphemer.