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In the summer of 2003, Tobias Buck, who at that time played the lead guitar in the Münster death metal formation Malzan, decided to start a metal side project that should take a different musical direction and lay more emphasis soundwise on power metal and hardcore influences. To carry out his plans, Toby teamed up with drummer Sebastian Heldt, whom he had already played together with in the 1998 Münster talent competition winning new metal band SPOUT, and with singer Benny Hilleke, who had no band experience whatsoever. The three of them started writing songs and rehearsing together but soon...

There are 2 Aera. A krautrock band from the 70s and 80s and a current Berlin based producer of electronic music: 1. Aera was a German band of the 70s and 80s that played a variety of krautrock with fusion and world elements mixed in. Saxophone/flute player Klaus Kreuzeder was the one constant in the lineup, which at times prominently featured guitarist Muck Groh and a succession of bass players and drummers. They released a total of five studio albums and a live album between 1974 and 1982. 2. Berlin-based Aera has been travelling off the beaten path ever since...

chimaera has recently changed it's name into The dying, to stop the confusion with the american "chimaira" Chimaera is a 5-piece band hailing from the north-east part of Belgium called Limburg (kindred, crawlspace, ashlar, full court press, kombat). Raised from the ashes of ?Burden? They started with Chimaera in the beginning of the year 2000, also the time xkoenx joined the forces. Chimaera created a sound you can probably describe as a mix between metal and hardcore. Technical and melodic metal with some midtempo hardcore riffs, and from time to time some aggressive blackmetal-mayhem. This is where Chimaera stands for...