The reunited COAL CHAMBER performed its second present in eight years on Friday, July 14 on the Inkcarceration Music And Tattoo Competition at Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. Fan-filmed video of the live performance could be seen under.

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, who performed their first present in eight years this previous Could on the Sick New World pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada. 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 have been gonna do that 12 months till MUDVAYNE hit us up [about supporting them on their summer tour]. And I really stated to them concerning the MUDVAYNE run, ‘Let’s not do it. I would reasonably simply keep buddies. Let’s do a couple 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 form of persevering with downside can be incorrect. 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, for my part. However I suppose it is all the time good to preempt what’s coming down the road, and we certainly did with ‘Rivals’. So in the event you’re a COAL CHAMBER fan, go take a look at ‘Rivals’, if you have not.”

Relating to 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 have been all backstage. After all there is a hundred folks again there with their cameras on us as we’re hugging. Nevertheless it was superb. We hit the stage… They have been chanting ‘COAL CHAMBER‘, so it was 55, 60 thousand folks 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 essentially the most packed of the day.’ After all I am not placing myself up towards the larger bands; I am simply saying that it’s what it’s. After which after I obtained 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 reasonably 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 obtained was great.”

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 happened: “Unbelievable flip of occasions. That really occurred… I used to be on my method out from COVID. And my spouse referred to 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 way of the night time. 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 enjoying exhibits? These guys are completely totally different folks than after 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 no less than 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 way in which from its starting, enjoying 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 gradual and we’re gonna do what’s applicable for the model and for the band and particularly the followers which were with us for thus lengthy.”

COAL CHAMBER will assist MUDVAYNE on “The Psychotherapy Periods” tour this summer time. Produced by Dwell Nation, the 26-city trek kicks off on July 20 in West Palm Seashore at iTHINK Monetary Amphitheatre, making 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 tasks. 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 loads of enjoyable doing that report and enjoying exhibits with them once more. However there have been some circumstances that weren’t preferrred and that is why that factor isn’t 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 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 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 combating. And I really feel fortunate to be the place I’m.”

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