COAL CHAMBER performed its second present because the help act for MUDVAYNE final evening (Friday, July 21) at MIDFLORIDA Credit score Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida. Further help on the 26-city “The Psychotherapy Classes” tour, which is produced by Reside Nation, is coming from GWAR, NONPOINT and BUTCHER BABIES.

COAL CHAMBER‘s setlist was as follows, in line with Setlist.fm:

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

4K video of the Tampa present may be seen beneath, courtesy of the IFM RAW YouTube channel.

The West Palm Seaside live performance marked COAL CHAMBER‘s third 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 latest interview with the Loaded Radio podcast, COAL CHAMBER frontman Dez Fafara was requested about the opportunity of new music from him and his bandmates. He stated: “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 stated to them… We booked [festival appearances at] Inkcarceration, Blue Ridge Rock Fest and Sick New World. That is all we had been gonna do that yr till MUDVAYNE hit us up [about supporting them on their summer tour]. And I really stated to them in regards to the MUDVAYNE run, ‘Let’s not do it. I might moderately simply keep pals. Let’s do a number of reveals.’ However the level is once we’re all collectively, I noticed that any drawback we have ever had is gone. To consider it as any form of persevering with drawback could be improper. 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 metallic is at this level, that report could be insane. We had been 10, 12 years too early getting again collectively and releasing that report, in my view. However I assume it is all the time good to preempt what’s coming down the road, and we absolutely did with ‘Rivals’. So when you’re a COAL CHAMBER fan, go take a look at ‘Rivals’, if you have not.”

Concerning what it was like returning to the stay stage with COAL CHAMBER for the primary time in eight years, Dez stated: “[It was] unbelievable. We had been all backstage. After all there is a hundred individuals again there with their cameras on us as we’re hugging. However it was superb. We hit the stage… They had 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 quick — it was solely 30, 35 minutes; one thing like that — so it was out and in. However it was on the top of the day. Individuals had been telling us that, ‘Your stage was essentially the most packed of the day.’ After all I am not placing myself up in opposition to the larger bands; I am simply saying that it’s what it’s. After which after I bought off, I stated 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 ‘Pleased 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 everyone who got here. And the reception that we bought was fantastic.”

4 months in the past, Fafara instructed Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program “Wired In The Empire”, about how COAL CHAMBER‘s reunion took place: “Unbelievable flip of occasions. That really occurred… I used to be on my approach out from COVID. And my spouse known as [the other members of COAL CHAMBER] and stated, ‘Hey, you guys might 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.’ In order 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 understand, why are we not taking part in reveals? These guys are completely totally different individuals than once we broke up. I’ve all the time been the identical — I’ve simply been stable as a rock; and I instructed 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 had been once we put out ‘Rivals’ to the place we are actually… However we’re gonna take it gradual 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 thus 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 however it wasn’t till 2014 that the band started work on a brand new studio album of authentic 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 acknowledged on the time: “I had a variety of enjoyable doing that report and taking part in reveals with them once more. However there have been some circumstances that weren’t splendid and that is why that factor is just not persevering with as of proper now. If one thing comes up and I’ve time and wish to make a report and the members have their shit collectively, I am going to do it. However as of now, there’s some deep-seated shit that sure dudes within the band nonetheless must work out. And in the event that they work it out and wish to tour or make one other report, they will 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 acknowledged in earlier interviews that COAL CHAMBER‘s authentic break up occurred as a result of “I didn’t wish 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 avoid wasting my pals.” He added that his COAL CHAMBER bandmates had been “clear” as of 2012, which made him understand that “it was the proper factor to stroll [away from the group back in 2003].”