Chaos Theory (Hanging Garden album)
Chaos Theory is the debut album by American thrash metal band Hanging Garden, released in March 2, 2008. The album was a well-received effort that blended elements of thrash, and speed metal and mostly got positive reviews from the critics, a video was made for "Chaos Theory" and "Missing Crown".
A Tour supported the release, "The Chaos Theory Tour" which mostly took place in United States and Canada, with Kreator. On June, 2008, Capitol released a remastered version for ordinary compact disc playback systems, with three bonus demo tracks. Chaos Theory was mostly produced by themselves, the mixing wasn't perfect, main cause of the remastered version released three months prior to the release.
Structure
Death, warfare ,madness/sadness and the afterlife are the main topics explored throughout the album, with songs such as "Swallowing Pillows", "Unborn" and "Death To Be Writen" which is pre-[...], "Missing Crown" which is based on the movie, "The Man Who Would Be King". "Amytis" portrays the story of the hanging gardens of babylon through a different point of view. The album also features 3 instrumentals which have been played in all most all Hanging Garden concerts since its release. And songs like "Paper Grenade" portrays plot that ultimately leads to war and mass [...].The album includes songs from their 3 song demo, such as "Chaos Theory", "Waiting For Your Death" and "Amytis", except better crafted and altered lyrics at few points. The band was praised for their lyrics and MusicAL performance but the one that they faced major criticism for their live performance. As during the tour, guitarist Ace abruptly left the band, and was replaced by touring guitarist Joey Albert. Causing the band chemistry to be effected, Ace later rejoined Hanging Garden in October 2008 and they got their act together and their performance got better. On the song "Unborn", there is only Michael Young on guitar as other guitarist Ace left at the time. The song is done differently in live, with added solos by both Michael and Ace.
Track listing
Re-release Bonus Tracks
Personnel
- Pro – lead vocals
- Michael Young – lead guitar/rhythm guitarist
- Ace – lead guitar/rhythm guitarist on all tracks but "UnBorn"
- Andy Fields – bass, backing vocals
- David Peterson – drums