The Evolution of Chaos
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January 29, 2010 |
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2009 |
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| Label (s) | Mascot Records | |||
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10 |
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68 min 30 s |
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Studio (s) |
Trident Studio, Pacheco |
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The Evolution of Chaos is the third studio album by the US thrash metal band Heathen . It was released on January 29, 2010 via Mascot Records, 19 years after their last album Victims of Deception .
Emergence
The recordings took place at Trident Studios in the Californian city of Pacheco . The album was produced by Juan Urteaga . For cost reasons, the album was recorded in several sections, as Urteaga was busy recording for other bands. Originally Urteaga was supposed to do the mixing too , but the band didn't like the results. Finally, The Evolution of Chaos was mixed by Danish producer Jacob Hansen .
The band wrote seven new songs for the album and completed the album with the three songs from their demo from 2005. The songs "Control by Chaos" and "Undone" and "Red Tears of Disgrace" were performed by Kragen Lum , "Bloodcult" written by Jon Torres. All other titles are by Lee Altus . Except for "Undone" all lyrics were written by singer David White.
As a guest musician occur Sadus - bassist Steve DiGiorgio and Exodus - guitarist Gary Holt on. DiGiorgio plays the sitar on "Dying Season" and bass and e-bow on "No Stone Unturned" . Holt contributed a guitar solo for "Control by Chaos".
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The album cover was designed by Travis Smith and shows a city destroyed by a war. People in the various stages of development walk over a footbridge and represent hominization . At the end of the footbridge, people fall as skeletons into the depths.
The song "A Hero's Welcome" is a dedication to American war heroes. Guitarist Lee Altus described the song as a tribute to the band Thin Lizzy .
“I didn't want to do a cover version , I wanted to write a Heathen song from a blueprint by Lizzy. This is our thanks to Phil Lynott for all the great music he gave us. "
Track list
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| 1 | Intro | Altus | 1:21 | |
| 2 | Dying season | Altus | White | 5:40 |
| 3 | Control by chaos | Lum | White, Urteaga | 7:09 |
| 4th | No Stone Unturned | Altus | White | 11:10 |
| 5 | Arrows of Agony | Altus | White | 6:40 |
| 6th | Fade Away | Altus | White | 5:44 |
| 7th | A Hero's Welcome | Altus | White | 6:52 |
| 8th | Undone | Lum | Lum | 6:42 |
| 9 | Blood cult | Torres | White | 4:30 |
| 10 | Red Tears of Disgrace | Lum | White | 5:51 |
| 11 | Silent Nothingness | Altus | White | 6:51 |
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The German trade magazine Rock Hard voted The Evolution of Chaos album of the month. Editor Frank Albrecht gave the album the top grade of 10. He described the album as a “masterpiece” and as the album “ Metallica never made after Master of Puppets ”. Marc Halupczok from Metal Hammer called the album one of the best albums of the year because of the "brilliant mix of nasty Thrash riffs and goosebumps melodies". The album also received positive reviews outside of the metal scene. In his review, Jan Wigger from Spiegel Online praised the guitar work by Lee Altus and Kragen Lum, which "is one of the most impressive things you have cobbled out of the bone-hard camp in the last twelve months".
The Evolution of Chaos entered the German album charts at number 75 and thus reached the first chart position in the band's history.
Web links
- The Evolution of Chaos at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Thomas Kupfer: "In good company" ( Rock Hard , February 2010, p. 34)
- ^ A b Frank Albrecht: "Klare Ansagen" (Rock Hard, June 2009, p. 56)
- ↑ officialcharts.de: Chart tracking Germany
- ↑ Rock Hard, February 2010, p. 97.
- ^ Metal Hammer, February 2010, p. 94.
- ↑ Jan Wigger: Listened to: The most important CDs of the week In: Spiegel Online . Spiegel Online GmbH, February 9, 2010, accessed on February 11, 2010.