Kimaera

Last updated
Kimaera
Origin Beirut, Lebanon
Genres
Years active2000 - present
Labels
  • Eternal Sound Records
  • Stygian Crypt Productions
Members
  • Charbel Abboud
  • Pierre Najm
  • Georges Antabi
  • Joe Nassar
  • Michel Kammouj
Website www.kimaera.info

Kimaera is a Lebanese death metal band founded by vocalist and guitarist Jean-Pierre Haddad in 2000. The band's music combines oriental metal, doom metal and death metal influences, with gothic undertones resounding through melodic interludes of violins, pianos and occasional female vocals. [2]

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History

In March 2004, the band released God's Wrath , a self-produced single. The release got the attention of Stygian Crypt Productions, which in turn led to the band's release of their debut album Ebony Veiled . [3] The album was released in February 2006 in Lebanon and on 20 April 2006 the album saw a worldwide release. [4]

Kimaera is among the first wave of international metal bands originating from the Middle East, [5] known in their homeland as the "Lebanese Ambassadors of Doom". [6]

The band released its second full-length album Solitary Impact with Stygian Crypt Productions in July 2010, [7] along with their first official music video "The Taste of Treason" . In 2013, Kimaera released their third album The Harbinger of Doom after inking a deal with the German label Eternal Sound Records. [8]

In February 2022, Kimaera's lead singer, Jean Pierre Haddad, was found dead in his apartment in Egypt after a natural gas leak. [9]

Members

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

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