The Infection

Promotion

Within the order of promoting the album, the band revealed a track name from the album and a piece of the album cover on the main page of their website approximately every other day. The final track and entire cover were revealed on February 12, 2009. "Secrets of the Dead" was released as a single on iTunes March 3, 2009 and was first played for the public at their Chimaira Christmas show in Cleveland, Ohio. The song "Destroy and Dominate" was played live for the first time on Friday, March 6, 2009 at the Dubai Desert Rock Festival 2009. "Destroy and Dominate" was released for free on Chimaira's official Twitter profile on March 16, 2009 for one hour only. On April 16, 2009 Chimaira released the first nine tracks of The Infection on their MySpace profile for listening. The song, "On Broken Glass" is available as downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour.

Production

Rob Arnold told Kerrang! that "Try To Survive" was the first song written for the album.

All songs on the album were written in drop C except for Destroy and Dominate, The Disappearing Sun, and Try to Survive, which were written in drop B.

Fan involvement

In order to further involve the fans and promote the album, Chimaira released the stem files that were used to create the "Destroy and Dominate" music video. Fans were asked to create their own version of the music video. The members of the band chose their favorites and the prizes went as follows:

1st Place: The Infection (Deluxe Tin Box) and two concert tickets to see Chimaira
2nd Place: Two concert tickets to see Chimaira or a Chimaira T-Shirt
3rd Place: Two concert tickets to see Chimaira or a Chimaira T-Shirt

Track listing

All tracks written by Rob Arnold and Mark Hunter, except where noted.

Limited deluxe fan edition

This is a special "Briefcase" version of the album, only 580 are said to be made and the first 100 bought are signed by the band, extra features include:

Personnel