COAL CHAMBER performed its seventh present because the assist act for MUDVAYNE final evening (Saturday, July 29) at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey. Extra assist on the 26-city “The Psychotherapy Periods” tour, which is produced by Stay Nation, is coming from GWAR, NONPOINT and BUTCHER BABIES.

COAL CHAMBER‘s setlist was as follows, based on Setlist.fm:

01. Loco
02. Fiend
03. Huge Truck
04. I.O.U. Nothing
05. Rowboat (FLOOD cowl)
06. Drove
07. Darkish Days
08. Oddity
09. One other Nail In The Coffin
10. One thing Advised Me
11. Sway

Video of the Camden present will be seen under, courtesy of the Jim Powers YouTube channel.

The Camden live performance marked COAL CHAMBER‘s ninth present in eight years, following appearances on the Sick New World pageant in Las Vegas in Might and on the Inkcarceration Music And Tattoo Competition in Mansfield, Ohio on July 14.

In a current interview with the Loaded Radio podcast, COAL CHAMBER frontman Dez Fafara was requested about the potential for new music from him and his bandmates. He mentioned: “We have been discussing it. [Sigh] I take a sigh proper there, and the reason being as a result of I do not wanna rush something. I really mentioned to them… We booked [festival appearances at] Inkcarceration, Blue Ridge Rock Fest and Sick New World. That is all we have been gonna do that 12 months till MUDVAYNE hit us up [about supporting them on their summer tour]. And I really mentioned to them concerning the MUDVAYNE run, ‘Let’s not do it. I would moderately simply keep associates. Let’s do a number of exhibits.’ However the level is after we’re all collectively, I noticed that any downside we have ever had is gone. To consider it as any type of persevering with downside can be flawed. So, okay, cool. Let’s go do MUDVAYNE. And now, after all, speaking about new music is very thrilling for us.”

Dez continued: “I occur to really feel like if [COAL CHAMBER‘s last album] ‘Rivals’, which was launched 12 years in the past — one thing like this; 10 [or] 12 years in the past — if ‘Rivals’ would have been launched now with the place the style is and the place, I’d say the place nu steel is at this level, that report can be insane. We have been 10, 12 years too early getting again collectively and releasing that report, in my view. However I suppose it is all the time good to preempt what’s coming down the road, and we certainly did with ‘Rivals’. So if you happen to’re a COAL CHAMBER fan, go try ‘Rivals’, if you have not.”

Concerning what it was like returning to the dwell stage with COAL CHAMBER for the primary time in eight years, Dez mentioned: “[It was] unbelievable. We have been all backstage. In fact there is a hundred individuals again there with their cameras on us as we’re hugging. Nevertheless it was wonderful. We hit the stage… They have been chanting ‘COAL CHAMBER‘, so it was 55, 60 thousand individuals chanting ‘COAL CHAMBER‘, which simply absolute goosebumps on my arms. We got here out. We killed it. The set was brief — it was solely 30, 35 minutes; one thing like that — so it was out and in. Nevertheless it was on the top of the day. Individuals have been telling us that, ‘Your stage was probably the most packed of the day.’ In fact I am not placing myself up towards the larger bands; I am simply saying that it’s what it’s. After which after I bought off, I mentioned to my spouse, ‘What is going on on? What is going on on on the market?’ And she or he was, like, ‘They’re all singing you ‘Completely satisfied Birthday’, dummy.’ And I used to be, like, ‘Wow.’ So it was a fairly unimaginable weekend… It was an incredible time, man. And I am grateful. I am humbled by all people who got here. And the reception that we bought was fantastic.”

4 months in the past, Fafara advised Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program “Wired In The Empire”, about how COAL CHAMBER‘s reunion happened: “Unbelievable flip of occasions. That truly occurred… I used to be on my approach out from COVID. And my spouse known as [the other members of COAL CHAMBER] and mentioned, ‘Hey, you guys could wanna textual content Dez or name Dez ‘trigger I do not know if he is gonna make it by the evening. He is telling me the place he needs to be buried and to not promote his ’78 Cadillac.’ So that they began to name me, they began to textual content me, and over a interval of six, seven, eight months, we did not discuss any enterprise in any respect. And we realized that, you already know, why are we not taking part in exhibits? These guys are completely totally different individuals than after we broke up. I’ve all the time been the identical — I’ve simply been stable as a rock; and I advised them, ‘I am stable as a rock. If I come out of this, I’d like to do at the very least one present with you guys.’ And that is how this all began — very organically.”

Dez added: “COAL CHAMBER is a really unpredictable factor, all the best way from its starting, taking part in with PANTERA and BLACK SABBATH, to the place we have been after we put out ‘Rivals’ to the place we at the moment are… However we’re gonna take it sluggish and we’re gonna do what’s acceptable for the model and for the band and particularly the followers which have been with us for therefore lengthy.”

COAL CHAMBER‘s tour with MUDVAYNE will make stops throughout the U.S. in Syracuse, Albuquerque, Phoenix, and extra earlier than wrapping up in Englewood, Colorado at Fiddler’s Inexperienced Amphitheatre on August 26.

COAL CHAMBER existed for ten years earlier than disbanding in 2003 to pursue different musical initiatives. They reunited in 2011 for touring functions but it surely wasn’t till 2014 that the band started work on a brand new studio album of unique materials, the aforementioned critically acclaimed “Rivals”. A number of months of touring exercise adopted earlier than Dez returned to DEVILDRIVER to make a brand new report, 2016’s “Belief No One”.

DEVILDRIVER‘s 2019 co-headlining tour with STATIC-X noticed the Fafara-fronted outfit performing materials from COAL CHAMBER for the primary time.

Fafara painted a bleak image of COAL CHAMBER‘s future throughout a 2016 interview with Revolver journal. He said on the time: “I had plenty of enjoyable doing that report and taking part in exhibits with them once more. However there have been some circumstances that weren’t excellent and that is why that factor just isn’t persevering with as of proper now. If one thing comes up and I’ve time and need to make a report and the members have their shit collectively, I will do it. However as of now, there’s some deep-seated shit that sure dudes within the band nonetheless have to work out. And in the event that they work it out and need to tour or make one other report, they’ll come again and provides me a name. However proper now, everybody in DEVILDRIVER is stoked. Nobody’s preventing. And I really feel fortunate to be the place I’m.”

Dez had said in earlier interviews that COAL CHAMBER‘s unique cut up occurred as a result of “I didn’t need to be across the band’s arduous drug use and I noticed that going onstage each evening that the cash was feeding their behavior, so I walked to save lots of my associates.” He added that his COAL CHAMBER bandmates have been “clear” as of 2012, which made him understand that “it was the correct factor to stroll [away from the group back in 2003].”