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'''Coal Chamber''' are a NuMetal band formed in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, California... well, actually it'd be more accurate to say they were one of the ''first'' NuMetal bands, and in fact the name itself comes from an early review of their music. The band is notable for not utilizing the HipHop influence taken by some other bands of the subgenre; they preferred a darker, more gothic and industrial sound, and could be considered something of a precursor to bands like Music/{{Slipknot}}.
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'''Coal Chamber''' are a NuMetal band formed in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, California... well, actually it'd be more accurate to say they were one of the ''first'' NuMetal bands, and in fact the name itself comes from an early review of their music. The band is notable for not utilizing the HipHop influence taken by some other bands of the subgenre; they preferred a darker, more gothic and industrial sound, and could be considered something of a precursor to bands like Music/{{Slipknot}}.
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* NewSoundAlbum: ''Chamber Music'' toned down the aggression and added elements of GothicMetal and IndustrialMetal, to mixed reactions. ''Dark Days'' was closer to the sound of their self-titled debut, except a lot harder and faster.
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* NewSoundAlbum: ''Chamber Music'' toned down the aggression and added elements of GothicMetal and IndustrialMetal, to mixed reactions. ''Dark Days'' was closer to the sound of their self-titled debut, except a lot harder and faster.
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* NuMetal: An early TropeCodifier for the style. Coal Chamber captured what the whole scene looked like before the HipHop influence became more prevalent around the TurnOfTheMillennium.
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* NuMetal: An early TropeCodifier The TropeNamer for the style.style, with a review for their debut being the first time the term was utilised. Coal Chamber captured what the whole scene looked like before the HipHop influence became more prevalent around the TurnOfTheMillennium.
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* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted-Dez is a pretty laid-back dude in interviews, contrasted with the madman barking lyrics at you during Coal Chamber songs.
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After Meegs and Dez publicly patched things up at a Devildriver concert (which involved a special rendition of "Loco") the band reunited in 2011 for a tour, with new bassist Chela Rhea Harper. Signing to Napalm Records, the band put out their fourth album, ''Rivals,'' in 2015. They reunited with Nadja Puelen prior to the sessions. The reunion didn't last long due to some more internal struggles, and the band went on hiatus in 2016. While Dez declared Coal Chamber dead in 2018, he clarified later that as far as one more reunion goes, he "wouldn't put it past us."
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After Meegs and Dez publicly patched things up at a Devildriver concert (which involved a special rendition of "Loco") the band reunited in 2011 for a tour, with new bassist Chela Rhea Harper. Signing to Napalm Records, the band put out their fourth album, ''Rivals,'' in 2015. They reunited with Nadja Puelen prior to the sessions. The reunion didn't last long due to some more internal struggles, and the band went on hiatus in 2016.
While Dez declared Coal Chamber dead in 2018, he clarified later that as far as one more reunion goes, he "wouldn't put it past us."
" Sure enough, the band announced another reunion for the Sick New World festival in Las Vegas, in May of 2023.
While Dez declared Coal Chamber dead in 2018, he clarified later that as far as one more reunion goes, he "wouldn't put it past us.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: "Beckoned" from ''Dark Days'' can be summed up like this. It's about self-destructive friends ruining their lives and probably going to Hell when they die, but at least they'll go together. This stings harder knowing how drugs were about to play a role in the band's breakup.
-->You have messed up, can't do anything \\
I have messed up, can't do anything \\
You're just a fuckup, I'm just a fuckup \\
We're just two fuckups; at least we're fucked up together
-->You have messed up, can't do anything \\
I have messed up, can't do anything \\
You're just a fuckup, I'm just a fuckup \\
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After Meegs and Dez publicly patched things up at a Devildriver concert (which involved a special rendition of "Loco") the band reunited in 2011 for a tour, with new bassist Chela Rhea Harper. Signing to Napalm Records, the band put out their fourth album, ''Rivals,'' in 2015. They reunited with Nadja Puelen prior to the sessions. The reunion didn't last long-the band went on hiatus in 2016, and Dez declared Coal Chamber dead in 2018.
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After Meegs and Dez publicly patched things up at a Devildriver concert (which involved a special rendition of "Loco") the band reunited in 2011 for a tour, with new bassist Chela Rhea Harper. Signing to Napalm Records, the band put out their fourth album, ''Rivals,'' in 2015. They reunited with Nadja Puelen prior to the sessions. The reunion didn't last long-the long due to some more internal struggles, and the band went on hiatus in 2016, and 2016. While Dez declared Coal Chamber dead in 2018.
2018, he clarified later that as far as one more reunion goes, he "wouldn't put it past us."
!!!Discography
# ''Coal Chamber'' (1997)
# ''Chamber Music'' (1999)
# ''Dark Days'' (2002)
# ''Giving The Devil His Due'' (2003) (compilation of B-sides, remixes & demos)
# ''Rivals'' (2015)
!!!Discography
# ''Coal Chamber'' (1997)
# ''Chamber Music'' (1999)
# ''Dark Days'' (2002)
# ''Giving The Devil His Due'' (2003) (compilation of B-sides, remixes & demos)
# ''Rivals'' (2015)
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* ArchEnemy: Dez made one out of Morgan Rose from Sevendust, who wasn't very happy with Dez after his wife Rayna fell out with the band. This resulted in the Sevendust song "Enemy."
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* NuMetal: An early TropeCodifier for the style, before HipHop influence became more prevalent.
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* NuMetal: An early TropeCodifier for the style, style. Coal Chamber captured what the whole scene looked like before the HipHop influence became more prevalent.prevalent around the TurnOfTheMillennium.
* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted - Dez is a pretty laid-back dude in interviews, contrasted with the madman barking lyrics at you during Coal Chamber songs.
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: The band broke up because the band sans Dez got into methamphetamine, and he didn't want to fund their addictions. They didn't reform until the others cleaned up.
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: The band broke up because the band sans Dez got into methamphetamine, and he didn't want to fund their addictions. They didn't reform until the others cleaned up.
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* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted-Dez is a pretty laid-back dude in interviews, contrasted with the madman barking lyrics at you during Coal Chamber songs.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: It seems to be a rule that there must always be a female bassist in the band.
* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted-Dez is a pretty laid-back dude in interviews, contrasted with the madman barking lyrics at you during Coal Chamber songs.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: It seems to be a rule that there must always be a female bassist in the band.
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* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted-Dez is a pretty laid-back dude in interviews, contrasted with the madman barking lyrics at you during Coal Chamber songs.
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* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: 6, tops.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 7 in the early days, probably closer to 8 now.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 7 in the early days, probably closer to 8 now.
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After Meegs and Dez publicly patched things up at a Devildriver concert (which involved a special rendition of "Loco") the band reunited in 2011 for a tour, with new bassist Chela Rhea Harper. Signing to Napalm Records, the band put out their fourth album, ''Rivals,'' in 2015. They reunited with Nadja Puelen prior to the sessions.
sessions. The reunion didn't last long-the band went on hiatus in 2016, and Dez declared Coal Chamber dead in 2018.
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* NewSoundAlbum: Attempted with ''Chamber Music'' toned down the aggression and added elements of GothicMetal and IndustrialMetal, to mixed reactions. ''Dark Days'' was closer to the sound of their self-titled debut, except a lot harder and faster.
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* SopranoAndGravel: Dez would sometimes engage in clean singing to balance out the growls, though it's less "singing" and "tensed-up muttering".
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* MotorMouth: The verses of "Loco" are delivered in a rapid-fire fashion.
* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted-Dez is a pretty laid-back dude in interviews, contrasted with the madman barking lyrics at you during Coal Chamber songs.
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* SingingVoiceDissonance: Dez is a pretty laid-back dude in interviews, contrasted with the madman barking lyrics at you during Coal Chamber songs.
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Dez Fafara (vocals) and Meegs Rascón (guitar) formed the band in 1993, and soon acquired the services of Rayna Foss (bass) and Mike "Bug" Cox (drums). After creating a local stir and being promoted by Dino Cazares of Music/FearFactory, the band were signed to Roadrunner Records, only to be briefly dropped when Dez quit out of disagreements with his wife. Dez wound up getting divorced (which inspired the song "Unspoiled") and rejoined the band. After being a part of the very first Ozzfest in 1996, they released their [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut]], lead by the single "Loco," in 1997. It remains their most successful album, going Gold in the US.
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Dez Fafara (vocals) and Meegs Rascón (guitar) formed the band in 1993, and soon acquired the services of Rayna Foss (bass) and Mike "Bug" Cox (drums). After creating a local stir and being promoted by Dino Cazares of Music/FearFactory, the band were signed to Roadrunner Records, Creator/RoadrunnerRecords, only to be briefly dropped when Dez quit out of disagreements with his wife. Dez wound up getting divorced (which inspired the song "Unspoiled") and rejoined the band. After being a part of the very first Ozzfest in 1996, they released their [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut]], lead by the single "Loco," in 1997. It remains their most successful album, going Gold in the US.
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* CoverVersion: The aforementioned Music/PeterGabriel cover, featuring [[Music/OzzyOsbourne Ozzy]]!!!
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* CarefulWithThatAxe: Dez, pre-breakup.
* CoverVersion: The aforementioned Music/PeterGabriel cover, featuring [[Music/OzzyOsbourneOzzy]]!!!Ozzy]]!
* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''The Best Of Coal Chamber.''
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* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''The Best Of Coal Chamber.''
* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: 6, tops.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 7 in the early days, probably closer to 8 now.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 7 in the early days, probably closer to 8 now.
* SanitySlippage: Dez's whole vocal style in the early days had this approach, going from a mumbled rambling of a verse to an unhinged bark on the chorus. Later, and especially post-Devildriver, he's all growls.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Dez by many accounts, but he's straightened out over the past few years.
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* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Burgundy," a weird, spacey track from ''Chamber Music.''
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* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: The band broke up because the bands sans Dez got into methamphetamine, and he didn't want to fund their addictions. They didn't reform until the others cleaned up.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: It seems to be a rule that there must always be a female bassist in the band.
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Sharon parted ways with the band after creative differences. After "finding Christ," Rayna Foss would fall out with Fafara and leave the band herself to raise a child with Morgan Rose, the drummer from Music/{{Sevendust}}. She would be replaced by Nadja Peulen for the ensuing tour for back-to-basics third album, ''Dark Days.'' The tour wound up fraught with infighting, culminating in an on-stage altercation in Lubbock, Texas where Dez stormed offstage after getting hit with Meegs' guitar. The band did a few more appearances, but dissolved completely in a mess of bad blood and drug abuse. Dez went on to form the band Devildriver to some success.
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Sharon parted ways with the band after creative differences. After "finding Christ," Rayna Foss would fall out with Fafara and leave the band herself to raise a child with Morgan Rose, the drummer from Music/{{Sevendust}}. She would be replaced by Nadja Peulen for the ensuing tour for back-to-basics third album, ''Dark Days.'' The tour wound up fraught with infighting, culminating in an on-stage altercation in Lubbock, Texas where Dez stormed offstage after getting hit with Meegs' guitar. The band did a few more appearances, but dissolved completely in a mess of bad blood and drug abuse. After putting out the demos/rarities collection ''Giving The Devil His Due,'' Dez went on to form the band Devildriver to some success.
* CoverVersion: The aforementioned Music/PeterGabriel cover, featuring [[Music/OzzyOsbourne Ozzy]]!!!
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-->'''''PULL!'''''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Coal Chamber then...]]
'''Coal Chamber''' are a NuMetal band formed in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, California... well, actually it'd be more accurate to say they were one of the ''first'' NuMetal bands, and in fact the name itself comes from an early review of their music. The band is notable for not utilizing the HipHop influence taken by some other bands of the subgenre; they preferred a darker, more gothic and industrial sound, and could be considered something of a precursor to bands like Music/{{Slipknot}}.
Dez Fafara (vocals) and Meegs Rascón (guitar) formed the band in 1993, and soon acquired the services of Rayna Foss (bass) and Mike "Bug" Cox (drums). After creating a local stir and being promoted by Dino Cazares of Music/FearFactory, the band were signed to Roadrunner Records, only to be briefly dropped when Dez quit out of disagreements with his wife. Dez wound up getting divorced (which inspired the song "Unspoiled") and rejoined the band. After being a part of the very first Ozzfest in 1996, they released their [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut]], lead by the single "Loco," in 1997. It remains their most successful album, going Gold in the US.
Sharon Osbourne briefly became their manager through the time of their next album, ''Chamber Music,'' released in 1999. This partnership allowed Coal Chamber to bring in Music/OzzyOsbourne as a guest vocalist for a cover of Music/PeterGabriel's "Shock The Monkey." ''Chamber Music'' in general altered the band's sound in order to have more of an electronic sheen and a better sense of melody, but the album didn't sell quite as well as the debut.
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[[caption-width-right:350:...and Coal Chamber now.]]
Sharon parted ways with the band after creative differences. After "finding Christ," Rayna Foss would fall out with Fafara and leave the band herself to raise a child with Morgan Rose, the drummer from Music/{{Sevendust}}. She would be replaced by Nadja Peulen for the ensuing tour for back-to-basics third album, ''Dark Days.'' The tour wound up fraught with infighting, culminating in an on-stage altercation in Lubbock, Texas where Dez stormed offstage after getting hit with Meegs' guitar. The band did a few more appearances, but dissolved completely in a mess of bad blood and drug abuse. Dez went on to form the band Devildriver to some success.
After Meegs and Dez publicly patched things up at a Devildriver concert (which involved a special rendition of "Loco") the band reunited in 2011 for a tour, with new bassist Chela Rhea Harper. Signing to Napalm Records, the band put out their fourth album, ''Rivals,'' in 2015. They reunited with Nadja Puelen prior to the sessions.
!!Tropes associated with Coal Chamber include:
* ArchEnemy: Dez made one out of Morgan Rose from Sevendust, who wasn't very happy with Dez after his wife Rayna fell out with the band. This resulted in the Sevendust song "Enemy."
* BigShutUp: "No Home."
->''SHUT UP, I'll kick you out''
->''SHUT UP, I'll do you in''
* BigWordShout: Too many examples to list.
* LoopedLyrics: Too many examples to list.
* MadnessMantra: Dez came up with several of these on the debut.
-->"this is the way it's got to be, this is the way it's got to be, this is the way it's got to be, this is the way it's got to be....."
* MetalScream: Dez and his monster growl.
* NuMetal: An early TropeCodifier for the style, before HipHop influence became more prevalent.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: Dez is a pretty laid-back dude in interviews, contrasted with the madman barking lyrics at you during Coal Chamber songs.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Dez by many accounts, but he's straightened out over the past few years.
* StudioChatter: The HiddenTrack on the self-titled debut is several minutes of joking around from the recording sessions.
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: The band's riffs were a bit minimal, often only one or two chords. "Oddity" and "Tyler's Song" are good examples.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "Loco," "Big Truck."
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[[caption-width-right:350:Coal Chamber then...]]
'''Coal Chamber''' are a NuMetal band formed in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, California... well, actually it'd be more accurate to say they were one of the ''first'' NuMetal bands, and in fact the name itself comes from an early review of their music. The band is notable for not utilizing the HipHop influence taken by some other bands of the subgenre; they preferred a darker, more gothic and industrial sound, and could be considered something of a precursor to bands like Music/{{Slipknot}}.
Dez Fafara (vocals) and Meegs Rascón (guitar) formed the band in 1993, and soon acquired the services of Rayna Foss (bass) and Mike "Bug" Cox (drums). After creating a local stir and being promoted by Dino Cazares of Music/FearFactory, the band were signed to Roadrunner Records, only to be briefly dropped when Dez quit out of disagreements with his wife. Dez wound up getting divorced (which inspired the song "Unspoiled") and rejoined the band. After being a part of the very first Ozzfest in 1996, they released their [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut]], lead by the single "Loco," in 1997. It remains their most successful album, going Gold in the US.
Sharon Osbourne briefly became their manager through the time of their next album, ''Chamber Music,'' released in 1999. This partnership allowed Coal Chamber to bring in Music/OzzyOsbourne as a guest vocalist for a cover of Music/PeterGabriel's "Shock The Monkey." ''Chamber Music'' in general altered the band's sound in order to have more of an electronic sheen and a better sense of melody, but the album didn't sell quite as well as the debut.
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cc_718b2176_f1db_4dce_8ccc_a37badbd1060.jpeg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:...and Coal Chamber now.]]
Sharon parted ways with the band after creative differences. After "finding Christ," Rayna Foss would fall out with Fafara and leave the band herself to raise a child with Morgan Rose, the drummer from Music/{{Sevendust}}. She would be replaced by Nadja Peulen for the ensuing tour for back-to-basics third album, ''Dark Days.'' The tour wound up fraught with infighting, culminating in an on-stage altercation in Lubbock, Texas where Dez stormed offstage after getting hit with Meegs' guitar. The band did a few more appearances, but dissolved completely in a mess of bad blood and drug abuse. Dez went on to form the band Devildriver to some success.
After Meegs and Dez publicly patched things up at a Devildriver concert (which involved a special rendition of "Loco") the band reunited in 2011 for a tour, with new bassist Chela Rhea Harper. Signing to Napalm Records, the band put out their fourth album, ''Rivals,'' in 2015. They reunited with Nadja Puelen prior to the sessions.
!!Tropes associated with Coal Chamber include:
* ArchEnemy: Dez made one out of Morgan Rose from Sevendust, who wasn't very happy with Dez after his wife Rayna fell out with the band. This resulted in the Sevendust song "Enemy."
* BigShutUp: "No Home."
->''SHUT UP, I'll kick you out''
->''SHUT UP, I'll do you in''
* BigWordShout: Too many examples to list.
* LoopedLyrics: Too many examples to list.
* MadnessMantra: Dez came up with several of these on the debut.
-->"this is the way it's got to be, this is the way it's got to be, this is the way it's got to be, this is the way it's got to be....."
* MetalScream: Dez and his monster growl.
* NuMetal: An early TropeCodifier for the style, before HipHop influence became more prevalent.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: Dez is a pretty laid-back dude in interviews, contrasted with the madman barking lyrics at you during Coal Chamber songs.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Dez by many accounts, but he's straightened out over the past few years.
* StudioChatter: The HiddenTrack on the self-titled debut is several minutes of joking around from the recording sessions.
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: The band's riffs were a bit minimal, often only one or two chords. "Oddity" and "Tyler's Song" are good examples.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "Loco," "Big Truck."
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