Coal Chamber: Whatever Happened To the Nu-Metal band Behind 'Loco?'
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- Coal Chamber: The rise and the fall of the band behind loco
0:00 - Early Years
4:30 - Label Years/Big Management
7:52 - Breakup
9:49 - Reunion/Breakup
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Formed in the early 90s, Coal Chamber was a band that played urgent and aggressive music draped in heavy stage makeup, piercings, and black fetish clothing. As an up-and-coming nu-metal act, the band showed that simplicity and heaviness went hand in hand, and dominated the scene with a darker, more evil approach compared to what other bands were doing. Releasing 4 albums in total (one being gold and the others damn well close), they proved to not be a one hit wonder. When asked what their band name represents in an interview with Lollipop Magazine, guitarist Miguel Rascon stated, “It’s a cold, dark place. It fits the imagery of our music. Potential energy. Heavy. Under great pressure…”
Judging by their appearance, you’d expect a pretty dark, brooding band, but Coal Chamber’s music actually emitted nuances of hope and optimism while also promoting individuality. By the time their third album was released, there was speculation that they’d never perform together again, although they’d reunite for their fourth and final album in 2015. Today, let’s explore whatever happened to the band Coal Chamber.
Coal Chamber frontman Dez Fafara was born in Santa Barbara, California and raised in Los Angeles. He grew up as an outcast telling the LA Times “I was that kid that gets thrown in the trash can at lunch,”. “But I came out on top.” He would draw inspiration from a range of artists including The Cure and Motley Crue. Fafara recalled to the LA Times, “I had Nikki [Sixx] all over my walls! I remember my mom tweaking out and taking the posters down. I just liked the whole look of that band and the heaviness of it”.
In 1992, ahead of Coal Chamber’s inception, Fafara and guitarist Miguel Rascón, better known as Meegs, formed the band She’s In Pain, who was influenced by gothic rock, and would help shape part of the band’s sound early on. Within the next several years, the roots of Coal Chamber would be solidified once the members found each other through the newspaper The Recycler. Meegs would recall to scheter guitars (Sheckter), "I think we all hated each other from the start when we found each other in Recycler." "But it was the music that kept us together."
When we hear about the evolution of popular music, there appears to be this period in the 80s and early 90s when heavy metal music was popular and then alternative rock took over for several years, but against the backdrop of this transition was a burgeoning scene in Los Angeles where the two genres cross pollinated with hip hop, which initiated the birth of nu-metal.
Dez Fafara would tell Metal Hammer about coming up amidst this transition, saying, “The scene was relatively dead,” “We were coming out after the hair metal thing was done and killed off. But there was a sense that something new was forming among the bands at that time.”
"Up in LA there were the Deftones, Coal Chamber and later on, System of a Down. I’m the one who found Static-X when they were playing in front of fifteen people. We would all go to shows every single night and play with each other and create this new scene together.”
Dez would go on to say,
“Clubs started to pack out again. One by one, we all got signed. We were there the night Deftones got signed - a limo rolled up and Madonna rolled through! We were like ‘Holy shit, this thing’s on fire!’ The next one to get signed might have been Korn, then us and then System.”
While emerging bands from the area would soon be slapped with the nu-metal tag, they each had their own set of influences. But like the scenes before it, nu-metal suffered the same fate - a few bands in the scene got huge, record labels went on a signing frenzy, and the public’s taste moved with the times. Eventually, even the term nu-metal became resented by the bands it was meant to describe. Dez would tell Loudersound, “The same thing kind of happened with nu-metal. My guitar player (Meegs Rascón) said it best: ‘nu metal’ was a great term until the second wave of bands came in and we all got put into that ‘nu-metal thing’. At that point, even among us, it became a dirty word. Right now, t - Hudba
I used to worked at a funeral home in Tacoma with a Funeral Director named “Cole Chambers” didn’t seem to realize there was band that shared his name.
Thqt is the greatest funeral director name though ... haha
@@courtneyharlowe6967 would’ve been better if he was Crematory Operator
@@goat_to_hell Not as good as Philip de Coffin
@@bink I forget life is a competition 🙄
@@goat_to_hell Yeah because that was the point of my comment, I was competing with you...
I was OBSESSED with Coal Chamber in high school. Saw them open for Type O and I was hooked.
that must've been a killer show! Love type o
I seen embopen for type o at hard rock in Orlando.
I didn’t know shit about them but they were good🤘🤘🤘
Nice, I saw them open for Type 0 in Rochester NY
You saw them on the same tour i did i think. I think Coal Chamber, Powerman 5k, and Fear Factory were on the bill that night.
I saw them open for Pantera in around 97. Still the only band I’ve ever seen where I went out and bought the cd the next day.
Me too. They opened for Type O Negative in Chicago Oct.24,1997. Went out next day to buy their album. Totally blew me away
Same here.
same here... with machine head and pantera, asbury park NJ
Same. The next day me and the dude who seen them with Megadeth were jamming out to the cd in his truck, stoped off at his place for a few minutes and his truck was repo-ed with my cd in it. Went straight out and bought it again.
If that was the tour with Pantera and Machine Head, that tour was amazing.
So thankful they made a comeback this year 🙌
I fucking loved Coal Chamber as a teen! In fact, I still think they were a great band.
After Rayna married Morgan Rose, and got pregnant, she left the band.... I was so soooo sad to lose her, but they're still going strong. I think they're working on a new album with the new bassist
Edit: I wrote this comment before watching the whole video, just fyi lol
Look into devildriver. It's the lead singers new band. I love them 10x more than coal chamber. Such an amazing band. More groove metal than nu metal
@@brycepriar3185 Love DevilDriver! And yes, musically they are better than CC. But I still love CC, too.
@@tmamone83 didn't mean to imply I didn't like CC. one of the first bands to make me fall in love with that type of music.
@@brycepriar3185 It's all good
"the people's tastes moved on"
Millennial here, still rocking it to late 90s/2000s nu-metal.
Cringe
Me too. I love it.
🤘🤘🤘
Jeez I moved on after 2 years
@@BegetterVIIEVEN ...and even those were more than enough
I must've seen these guys half a dozen times in the late 90s/early 2000s. Never bought a ticket to see them specifically, they just always seemed to be opening for other bands I liked
There's a few bands like that I've seen. Like Puddle of Mudd and Saving Abel... I've seen them like 8 times because they always seemed to be opening for other bands. God knows I'd never actually pay to see either of those bands, but if you want a good seat for general admission shows you end up sitting through some pretty boring, or just bad, sets
Same reason I've seen HATEBREED and IN THIS MOMENT so many times. Both of those bands used to tour there asses off and have opened for everybody. And TRUST ME, I am not complaining
@@jordanl908 I've seen In This Moment at least five times opening for other bands. They're awesome. Hatebreed too, but I've only seen them one time, at a festival where Lamb of God was also playing. Hatebreed was in the parking lot before the actual show and at one point Randy from Lamb of God joined Hatebreed to do a song with them. It was cool.
I must of seen them 7 or 8 times under the same circumstances. Music was pretty simple but they put on a good show
Whenever Dez would come through our town, whether with CC or DD, he would ALWAYS take a little time out to play and talk with my singer's stepson who always came along to the shows. You can't help but love a man who cares so deeply for children.
Dez is one of the best metal vocalist ever. He's still awesome live now after 30 years doing it.
😂💀
@I don't know if your asking if I listen to black, death or gore core metal then no I don't. How the fuck is devildriver and coal chamber pop metal anyway?
Who is your pick for one of the best metal vocalist?
@Eddie V lol I forgot they even did that .
I bet his top pick is an inhaler anyway.
I don’t love high pitched metal. Dez’ range is perfect for me.
He sure is. I see devildriver every chance I get.
The feud between ICP and Coal Chamber brought us the AWESOME argument between ICP and Shannon Osbourne
That was priceless!!
ICP are talentless garbage and whack rappers with the same concept
Coal chamber were musically talented
I love Coal Chamber, I remember having their poster on my wall in 98' also love DevilDriver so much. I'm glad we still get Dez doing some CC songs live. Closet I'll get to seeing them so far.
The cover of their first album is so unforgettable, i'm sure that's what they were going for but man it's just weird in the most intriguing way
Dez always comes across as a class act. Coal chamber heavily influenced my appearance growing up. And Devildriver is also a phenomenal band. Happy to say I got to see them alongside trivium and in flames. What a phenomenal show.
Saw Devildriver with their new line up..🤮..old songs were unrecognizable.I gave Dez the Roman colosseum 👎in disgust.I have a Devildriver tattoo..they were my 6th favorite band before..I didn't want to hate Dez..but the more I read into it .He is the problem.Boeklin and Kendrick WERE DD
@@maxxbrentwood5168Boeklin was a wicked drummer and was definitely a big part same with Mark Kendrick
Still enjoy Coal Chamber to this day! The first album will always be a classic for me..
CHAMBER MUSIC is my personal favorite album from them & imo criminally underrated not only just for them, but in the entire nu metal/gothic metal scene.
Their song Bradley hits hard in a way that is difficult to explain. Listened to a ton of metal and nu-metal but that song just deep and dark fast and heavy.
I love how the drums kick in at the start 🤘
its a christmas carol thats why it hits hard
I was hanging out with Rayna when the Columbus, Ohio Ozzfest riots started. She was so cool. I was lucky enough to see the band a few times and she was always so friendly.
Did they ever find her?
What happened to her? I've been curious for years now.
Apparently she was found safe from what I remember reading.
Is it true that she went missing a video just randomly popped up in my CZcams page saying she has gone missing is that true
@@jackko21 Yeh she did go walkabout but was found thankfully and returned to the group-home she lives in.
I remember Coal Chamber opening for Pantera and Anthrax in September 1997. I really liked them.
Fun fact that wasn't mentioned in the video: Sevendust had a song in 2003 called "Enemy" that is basically a diss track against Dez Fafara. Sevendust's drummer at the time was married to Rayna, the bassist from Coal Chamber, and it was apparently motivated by how he felt that Dez treated his wife badly when they were in the band together.
I was waiting for that to come up, too. Apparently it's all water under the bridge now.
Yea,if you'll do some digging you'll find that sevendust is on record apologizing to Dez about that after discovering for themselves what a lying nut job she was in those days.I hope she's gotten it together but these type of women usually get more psychotic and vindictive as they age.
Sounds simpy af, bet he didnt even speak to dez lmfao
@@orsotheshadowqueer7424 classic, i wrote my other reply then saw yours confirming exactly what i thought, just a lying chick
The band is getting back together to playbsome festivals one being Inkcarceration where im going
Coal chamber, specifically the "chamber music" album, is one of my biggest inspirations. They got me into the harder metal scene as well as the gothic and melodic areas of the genre.
Tylers song 😎
Music is subjective and I don’t know anything, but from my perspective, when they showed up on mtv, they just seemed like a Marilyn Manson ripoff and were trying way too hard to be edgy. Never got into them, did see them on tour (or was it Orgy, they’re like the same band, right?)
I like that album and the album before it
Used to idolize this band, saw them at least 4 times in the course of a year and a half. The most memorable one being the show where Slipknot opened for them. Yes, that's right. In 99, Ciao Chamber headlining, with Slipknot, Amen, and Machine Head. Still blows my mind.
My "fondest" memory of Coal Chamber was 20 years ago, I had a dull government job and they were throwing a retirement party at a restaurant... So around noon, a few colleagues hop into my car to go to the event, two very square, government-lifer women in their 60s, and the moment I turn the key my stereo starts blasting Dark Days. One said "what is that demonic filth", the other said "if you're going to murder us, please wait until after lunch because I'm starving".
Rock and roll saved my life I was learning my craft mastering it and instead of doing drugs or break laws I play my guitar
The greatest thing Dez did was start Devildriver- an absolutely incredible band that will always be one of my favourites.
Agreed. I'm shocked they aren't bigger. Pray for villains is one of my all time favorite albums.
I agree, I’ve Got a massive Devildriver tattoo on my leg!!!
I had a friend in the 90’s who said he and his family were close with Dez and his family. I never got proof other that his older brother saying they were like family but they did turn me on to them with the song “Big Truck”. They are still one of my favorite bands, and I have recently started playing them for my kids. They like them too.
Funny side story , I had listened to them and gone to a few of their shows over the years...
I just started going out with my current girlfriend for a few years now...and this band had come up when I was showing her different music I listened to...She never heard of this band and as soon as I showed it to her and what they all looked like she recognized the singer right away...During college she had gone to Beauty School at one point with "Dez" Fafara...and said how he was sleeping around the class including the teacher lol...
The first time I saw them was in Hampton, Virginia with Anthrax and Pantera. My ears were ringing for days after that. Dez is killing it Devildriver, man. Both are excellent bands.
Dude coal chamber embarrassed anthrax on that tour.
@@jonmaher8699 I definitely remember their performance better than I remember Anthrax, and that’s pretty unfortunate, because I’m a big Anthrax fan.
Pretty sure I was at that concert- they slaughtered it!
@@Given2Fly7173 at the coliseum, across from the mall and the Hooters just a few blocks away? We probably slammed into each other at one point. Excellent show that night, man. I’ll never forget it.
Hampton Virginia? Was the venue Betty's Boathouse? I saw Jane's Addiction there
Dez used to work out at the same gym as me in Santa Barbara. It was after Coal Chamber broke up and he was starting a new project. He was always really nice and we’d chop it up about music, but man he was very opinionated about other bands. I really dug Coal Chamber though.
Strange what do yo mean by opinionated ? Like was very critical ? He was the shit ?
@@gurusheat3506 he's a very mouthy little man.my friend was his bodyguard..😂metal singer needing a bodyguard
What an awesome first album
I saw Coal Chamber with Sevendust around 2012 and its one of the most memorable shows I ever saw.
I saw them in a small club in Frankfurt at the end of the 1990s and it was one of the most intense gigs i have ever seen, great live act.
Same, Sevendust is always amazing live. But, I've never seen a drummer hit the kit as hard as Mike Cox. Like I'd swear he was about to bust a drum head or shatter a cymbol every time he hit.
Dark Days was the last album I bought before I shipped off to the Marine Corps. Chamber Music was def my favorite though…I loved the strings intro into that pounding rhythm
We had an awesome childhood. Coal Chamber takes Me back lol 🔥🤘
Good to know that Coal Chamber is getting together again for the 3rd time to play a concert I hope they can keep it together for that long I don't think Coal Chamber will make another record of they do I would be surprised by that
Do s fear factory video. They were so awesome. They led me into heavy melodic music
I saw Coal Chamber at the house of blues back in like 01 or 02 in Chicago. Thanks for the nostalgia!
Great job on another great video! I would love to see you do a video on the weird history of fear factory. Love that band but they’ve had a roller coaster of a career in metal.
To me Fear Factory exists on a separate layer than the other bands usually shown on this channel, they've got their own metalhead cult like machine head and basically all other big metal bands. Demanufacture will always be one of the greatest metal albums ever.
Thanks for this! I forgot all about these guys! I never knew that they were considered to be part of the Nu Metal scene. I remember that I thought they were cool, back during my highschool days, cause they had a goth look, & I was heavily into goth culture, back then. Speaking of Static X, you should cover them, too, very soon. R.I.P. Wayne Static!
RIP Wayne🖤☠️🖤 # longliveevildisco
Rip Wayne 🙏
Forget their look (even Korn's lead singer dressed goth before he joined Korn and he's still a huge fan of goth band Christian Death to this day ) there was a reason Coal Chamber were nicknamed Korn Chamber back in the day and that's because they sounded a lot like Korn. People would say Korn were a goth band if they dressed goth but kept the same sound because people listen more with their eyes than their ears.
Thanks for this upload!!!! Been awhile since I listened to their music but still up there at the top of my top 10.
Never got one of their albums, but I saw them live like 6 times back in the day, and they were always awesome
I miss Coal Chamber they had one reunion and one new album and then called it quits again it's a damn shame
I thought "Rivals" was a great album. Probably some of the best material they ever wrote.
@@SuperRoo_22 I agree I love Rivals
They are back again touring. They have their Facebook page active again and everything.
Chamber Music is criminally underrated
"Kill The Man Become The Monster!!" Saw them headline the Livin La Vida Loco Tour. 1999 Sacramento, CA. Slipknot did not perform. (illness) I was sixteen! Opened with that spooky Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween $hit! Front row, I'll never forget it!!
I saw them in Eugene, Oregon in 2000. I remembered Tony soprano’s kid wore a Coal Chamber hoodie on The Sopranos that I wanted so bad. I like their cover of Peter Gabriel’s Shock The Monkey more than the original
I never was into nu-metal much but i used to love these guys. Dez's vocals really did it for me especially on their first album. And yes they "inspired" my piercing phase too lol
I saw them open up for Pantera back in 97. Machine Head was also on the bill. One of my best concerts ever
absolutely loved the video! Congratulations! hope to see more content like this one.
I picked up their album "Chamber Music" in late 2000, on the recommendation of a friend. Coal Chamber was the first band I considered my favorite after outgrowing all the depressing grunge bands I listened to in my early teens. I listened to CM so many times, that over the past 22 years (and still to this day) on the rare occasions when I hear the words "my mercy" or "you're a sick individual" on TV or in a movie, the choruses from the songs "My Mercy" and "El Cu Cuy" actually start playing in my head and I have to give them another listen. "Chamber Music" is essentially burned into my brain for life, and I'm so thankful for that.
Like a tragedy….
love chamber music, crazy underrated
@@brandansampsan No. it sucks mostly
I remember in like 95 coal chamber members passing out stickers of thier band while we wait in line at the Troubadour. GOD I FEEL OLD ASF🤣
We are old
I saw coal chamber and sevendust back in 97 as a teen and it was one of my most favorite things I've ever done. They were amazing. Got the signed cd and hung out for a bit before the concert. Super cool. All of them. 🖤
The other day I was watching an episode of the Sopranos & AJ had their poster on his wall ..I jumped on YT & started going on memory lane..🤘🤘
Big Truck
I was at that show in Lubbock. It was crazy. We thought it was an act, but when Dez left and the band kinda just played for a few mins then they broke the kit, then walked off stage. It was crazy.
I was also there….. you’re right, it was crazy
im very curious how it went down? I always heard about this, was it violent?
@@gurusheat3506 I was really young. I remember seeing Dez get hit with the guitar. I remember them getting into a scuffle. Then Dez jumped up went to the mic, said this was the last ever Coal Chamber show, then ran to the back offstage. I thought it was an act cause the band started to play another song, then that fell apart when the drummer decided to start breaking the drum set. Then he threw his sticks in the crowd and walked off. Then the rest followed.
@@metpach thanks for the response, maybe a video will surface one day
Partied at the paramount in Tacoma with them after their set. They opened for testament and megadeth. Stellar show!
I was there for the comeback at soundwave, and it was such an amazing atmosphere. They were on a side stage, but people went out of their way to watch them. I liked the short diss they did by stating that they did the drop tuned thing way before korn, and the crowd enjoyed it too.
I loved these guys. Seen them front row in front of the girl bassist. These guys were heavy.
I named my son after the song Bradley.
Loco is still one of my very favourite metal tunes ever, brilliance
I've heard of this band, but I don't remember any of their songs. Cool upload!
First concert and first mosh pit I was ever in. I was 14. Life of Agony, Coal Chamber, Megadeth, in like 1996. Cryptic Writings tour at the Hara Arena in Dayton OH, so I got to see the amazing Marty Friedman in action as well. I was also there for the part in Pantera 3 home video when Phil says "Sonny, light this fucking place up, this is Dayton Ohio!!" rad af boi. I also had a pet raccoon for a while named Meegs lol
i appreciate the talent it takes to write so generously about a band that was known as generic and mediocre even at the time
Mediocre is being generous.
In like 98, my friends local Jacksonville band did a Midwest/east coast tour. We played an off date of Ozfest in Clinton Iowa. I was a fan of Coal Chamber and was lucky enough to go across the street with Des to get some coffee, play a “crack machine” on the bar top with Lemmy from Motörhead, almost fight Whitfield when he was with LOA, and just hang out all night with all of Coal Chamber. Me and Mike hung out the most.
I just turned 40 years old in March and coal chamber is still my favorite band since I was 16 years old. Coal chamber for life. Meegs is my favorite guitarist of all time
Saw them first time live when I was 16 in 1999 lol. Be 40 next April. Meegs reached down and gave my friend his pick, you know with that whole robot puppet thing. She freaked out!!
Have you checked out gemini syndrome he’s the guitarist for that band pretty good stuff.
I like gemini syndrome but not near as much as coal chamber
Rip Wayne...Wisconsin death trip still is the best album ever 🙏
No doubt
Me Loco
Great vid. Thanks for doing this one
One of my favorite bands. Saw them as much as I could in the 90's. Listen to them weekly. Now they are on tour with MudVayne. Just saw Devil Driver with Cradle of Filth. I cant wait!!!! In the PIT
You should do one about SpineShank
Meegs Rascon, the guitarist from Coal Chamber is in a really badass band now called Gemini Syndrome. Really amazing music. Check it out if you havent.
thanks imma check em out
@@brandansampsan amazing band that seems to be bringing good nu metal back. Check em out.
I love this band. Great video!
I LOVED these guys! Them and static-x fueled my love of metal
I would’ve liked to hear you mention the feud Dez had with Sevendust.
Sounds interesting
I remember their little spat. Supposedly Dez and Morgan Rose are pals now. Or at least they’re on good of enough terms for their bands to do some tours together in the past few years.
You know initially, I never even knew Dez was in Coal Chamber at all - he was always the Devildriver dude to me in my teen years. Which is kinda funny since I was one of the few alt/emo/metal kids in my area who DIDN'T despise nu-metal, though I hid any incriminating CDs when company came over.
Interestingly I became a fan of Motionless in White back then, and they have a serious Coal Chamber vibe/sound now and they're HUGE.
HOOOOLY CRAP!!! Man I loved Coal Chamber and kept up with them until probably 2016. The quotes you hit this with are a massive suprise as I.. thought I knew the full stories.. Or at least knew as much to leave it open ended. You really grabbed peices of this story that I didn't know of. ...and that's because I would stan them for quite a bit. Maybe your process is simple to you.. but just know.. your researching process is REDICULOUSLY GOOD. Hope whoever was in charge of this video is doing well and is killing it!!! You've got a gift.. or skill.. or whatever term you're most receptive to lol.
Thanks
i got a cd in high school i put it on every day getting ready for school good shit man thanks cc for the jams
Dez is one of the greatest people I've had the pleasure to encounter in my life. All because of a T-shirt I happened to wear at an Ozz-Fest..
Loco was the first metal song I remember hearing. Before I heard it I always claimed I hated metal but then when I heard Loco, Sway and after that Psychosocial by Slipknot, I just burst and became obsessed with metal. Is Coal Chamber silly? Hell yes!! It's very very cheesy. But It's fun.
@Frank Lopez I have also heard them yes, and many many many many many others.
But Coal Chamber and Slipknot were my first.
Now I'm listening to Black metal, funeral Doom, Death metal all the time.
I think they said literally in their song that they fiend for the fans and fodder for the paress.
I always root for my favorite bands in the paress.
I'd been a fan since my teen years, never had a chance to see them because they'd never came to New Zealand.
Seeing them at Soundwave (and the night before at a small club show) for their first shows in over a decade was everything I wanted as a 16 year old, experienced in my early 30's.
Had a crowd surfer land on my head and do some serious damage at the soundwave show (during loco...). A couple of weeks in a neck brace was still worth it!
I use to listen to the bands first CD over and over back in 2000 as a teen after a former friend played it for me. I was heavily into nu-metal back then. Good times I miss for sure.
I found out about coal chamber from the Scream 3 soundtrack and the song Enemy by Sevendust.
I loved that soundtrack, great bunch of bands on it, it got me into System of a down
Here’s the icp Sharon Osborne feud
Story czcams.com/video/yUSNnH5uX60/video.html
and the video I did on Snot czcams.com/video/RtWYfbdEqGM/video.html
Hey from Riverside, CA Rn'R True Stories! How's the search for a voice actor going? Ever thought about covering stories of bands from the Inland Empire? The Locust, Suicide Silence, Narcoleptic Youth, etc. I used to hang with the guys from The Locust. I went to highschool with Mitch, the lead singer of Suicide Silence, and my girlfriend's English professor was Joey Bondage from Narcoleptic Youth. I'd love to help out with a project of yours in any capacity, if that's something you do. Regardless, keep up the FANTASTIC WORK! I've told everyone I know about this channel. Thanks for sharing and caring. Peace!
@@korypo303 we have hired two voice over actors, their just in the process of doing their first scripts. More info to follow! Thanks! As always, feel free to use our request form in the description box to put topics you'd like to see us cover.
What's next? The photographer situation involving Arch Enemy?
I remember liking this band in middle school but it was too hard to find their music. This was the early 2000s so MTV never played any hard rock or metal music anymore when they DID play music videos. My local radio rock station never played them. It would be a few more years before CZcams would come into existence. I remember all the kids I wanted to be liked Coal Chamber.
I got a little bit into DevilDriver in high school. Never bought an album but "Die (And Die Now)" spoke to my angsty soul, lol.
Dez Fafara seems like he has a pretty decent head on his shoulders, which is nice.
Man... I saw them in twice I think... Once in Chicago opening for Pantera in '97 or '98.... They were BRUTALLY under rated! Classic heavy band!
Boght the first album when it first came up, attracted to Sway and Loco. Their best is Dark Days, it is an INCREDIBLE album. However, they seem to be pretty bad live.
They were awful live. I was a big fan, and I couldn’t even tell which songs they were playing.
I saw them early on in a tiny venue in St. Louis and they were pretty good live.
Deftones were not good live either unfortunately
@@kornboy22, I’ve seen Deftones twice. Once they were great, the other time they were terrible.
I thought "Rivals" was really good. That & the Self Titled are their best imo.
What caught my attention about Coal Chamber a few years back was a clip reel of interviews with Dez. Starting at the Coal Chamber days and ending with his current interviews promoting Devil Driver. It's like watching a very intelligent but super socially awkward and shy kid evolve into a brilliant and well spoken very confident and well adjusted adult. Not really into his bands that much. But damn he's a captivating dude. He's got a level of intelligence and always says something or makes points that I can 100% relate to. Forget wild sex drugs and rock n roll cliches, stereotypes, attitude and fuckery. He's an intelligent well read muffukker. He's a legit intellectual.
love how thoughtful Dez is about his work. Thanks for this video :) i loved then when i was a lil hot topic teenager. Definitely bought Dark Days at Best Buy the day it came out (my mom drove me)
If you'd ever met rather guy, you wouldn't be saying this...
I've seen them live twice. Once back in Soundwave 2012 in Australia and the second time was the other day when they toured Australia with Mudvayne. They are an awesome band.
Coal Chamber was part of my teens years. But there was another band part of my teens years that's faded into obscurity. A band called Jimmi's Chicken Shack with songs like Dropping Anchor and High. I still listen to their first album called Pushing The Salmonella Envelope. What ever happened to them?
Great album title considering the band's name. Jimmi's Chicken Shack - Pushing The Salmonella Envelope.
I remember getting their promotional packet for that album. It was in a manilla envelope, as most are, and it was stuffed with your standard 8x10 glossy photo, a promotional CD, feathers, and a rubber chicken. It's still probably one of my favorite packages to this day.
@@jasonedward6993 Ha! Great touch with the rubber chicken lol. Oh and the feathers.
Out of the "nu metal" bands...Chamber was the most underrated in my opinion. In fact, alot of bands associated with Roadrunner Records are extremely underrated in my opinion and they have some of the bands around attached to their name...Yes, Slipknot and StoneSour are awesome as hell, but RR needs to really push some of their other talent to the spotlight as well...I mean, Fear Factory, to me, is one of the prime examples of a really great band that has headlining potential and somehow even though loved by fans, still comes short of reaching mega superstar status of other "nu metal" bands like Korn, Bizkit, Orgy, etc...and it seems like Chamber unfortunately is on the same path that Factory landed on.
I Still listen the album Chamber Music pretty often.
There are many bands I truly love and regret never seeing live before. Coal Chamber, LSD (Life Sex and Death), Alice in Chains, LA Guns, Marilyn Manson, Black Label Society, and Suicidal Tendencies.
I'd fuckin love to see those bands too. now days the onliest ones you'd be lucky enough to catch is "A.I.C and Black Label"
But as much as I love Jerry Cantrell and his guitar work, it doesn't do any good trying to listen to their newer shit w/out the voice of Lane Staley. (Which fucking kills me! Cause I love and can feel a lot of the music from that era. After I almost met the same fate as Staley, definitely hit close to home.) But BLS is still live and well! Kicking ass as only Zack Wilde does!
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@@rednekilla9254 I often refer to this new Alice in Chains "Jerry and Friends" or "Almost in Chains". I respect the Jerry and I think he has every right to carry on with that band but they really aren't doing any spectacular these days. The new albums are lifeless and I've seen cover bands that play the classics with more conviction. Maybe it's good enough for some people but I wouldn't spend the money to see them again.
It must be a "metal head" type of thing, but every band you mentioned, I get down to. Like everyday! I don't even want to open my eyes in the morning unless it's to hear.......(how will I laugh, stillborn, not living,or anything Lane Staley)
The first time I was exposed to this band was from a Dee Snider movie named Strangeland, which some special edition of the dvd had the video for Loco. I was attracted to the dark gothic image of the band, bought their album Chamber Music, but soon realized that the lyrics were garbage, and they even attempted to cash in on the “nu metal does 80’s covers” when they released Peter Gabriel’s “Shock the monkey” with Ozzy as a guest vocalist. Probably the last nu metal cd I ever bought.
Good movie
I was like the only guy in my high school rocking coal chamber shirts they were never super popular but they were always my favorite
Had the first album it was great. Not many of those bands of that era aged well but at the time they were great for me as an angry teen.
Nu Metal era was better and lasted longer than the Grunge peak. With the Nu Metal days there was more bands that were commercially successful than in Grunge. There was so many grunge bands that didn't sell shit or were one hit wonders under the big four grunge bands.. I think nobody says this enough because everyone's so scared to put any Nu Metal band above Nirvana or Alice N Chains. And because Grunge is apart the evolution of what became Nu Metal... In my opinion Nu Metal had more energy and the success of the genre lasted longer than Grunge being the thing.. I'm no longer ashamed to put Nu Metal over Grunge
So much truth to this!
Nu metal sucked ass. One of the worst eras of music
They both aged like milk
TLDR: I respectfully disagree.
I was a HUGE fan of both so I've got a lot in this debate. Outside of Linkin Park, KoRn, Slipknot, Disturbed, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, P.O.D. and Deftones (who barely count according to themselves) Nu-Metal was riddled with one hit wonders too. While Nu-Metal's peak went crazy high its comedown was absolutely brutal. For at least a decade you'd be a pariah for liking the genre. I give Nu-Metal credit for being the last major genre to bridge rock music with mainstream culture.
But I think the reason most people put Grunge on a pedestal over Nu-Metal is because Grunge approaches its lyrics with more maturity than "GRRR I'M FUCKING PISSED". Don't get me wrong, I still love that aspect of bands like KoRn, Slipknot and Mudvayne but its not something that really stayed with me as I matured. Nu-Metal takes everything super personally as opposed to Grunge's "whatever" attitude. Because of that I think that's why more people take it seriously or are less embarrassed to be open fans of bands from the Grunge era.
Musicianship plays a big role too. Outside of Linkin Park, Slipknot and Mudvayne a lot of Nu-Metal musicians are really bad. Fieldy from Korn is one of the worst bassists I've ever heard and the dude rakes in millions of dollars for just slapping it. He's even said his role in the band is less important than Head's and Munky's. And for that matter Head and Munky are really average guitarists too. That's why nothing Grunge musicians like Todd Whitener or Carl Bell can dance circles around them, in terms of playing and songwriting.
Nu-Metal seems bigger now because people are embracing the genre for its novelty and corny aspects, which ironically is something the musicins of the genre once took super seriously. That's not a bad thing. Again I love both genres and Nu-Metal is still something more than just a highschool phase for me. Early Linkin Park is some of the best rock music of all time, Mudvayne is finally getting the love they deserve and its cool to see people not shitting on anyone who is an open fan of Korn/Slipknot online anymore. But the fact thst Kurt Cobain was a major influence on Robert Pattinson's portrayal of Bruce Wayne is a big fucking deal. Even the lesser known Grunge bands like Days of the New and Silverchair are building a steady fanbase amongst the youth. And bands like Bush and Stone Temple Pilots are still playing pretty high up on festivals. Never mind the big four's influence which is astronomical. Grunge's influence may seem smaller due to Nu-Metal's resurgence but ultimately it never went away. Nu-Metal is catching the nostalgia train.
@@rawkguy4896 your comment would make sense BUT are you 12? Lp is not even rock, they were a boyband with cringey songs, fanboy.
This is the damage nu-metal did on the fragile minds of their listeners.
IDK I feel like nu metal has gotten an unfair rep. I'm surprised that some nu metal bands like KORN. Slipknot and Coal Chamber's latest albums has gotten good reviews from some of these snobby critics. I don't think rock is gonna overtake hip hop ever again but I do see people listening to rock more in the future.
My first concert ever was Jagermeister Tour on 3/15/01 at the Electric Factory in Philly with Wolfpack, 40 below summer, ill nino, Coal Chamber, and Drowning Pool.
Man I miss Coal Chamber glad I got to see them live
Deftones is the only band from the era that lives on. They have evolved beautifully.
Korn too
It's because deftones aren't nu metal. Deftones are everything. They sound timeless and fresh in every era.
Def tones are crap don't know why people like them so much
Most overrated band ever. Can’t say I have ever enjoyed a single song of theirs.
You called "Deftones"... "The Deftones". Twice. 🤦🏻♂️ You fail. I'm not gonna go listen to "The Tool" or "The koRn" or even "The Gojira", for examples.. deftones have never used "the" in their name. C'mon man, if you're claiming to be a news source of some sort, at least say the band names correctly. Aside from that, decent recap of Coal Chamber. Side note, I think it's awesome that Dez got permission to cover some songs with DevilDriver