Tag: Coal Chamber

Interview: Meegs Rascon chats with Lena Scissorhands!

If we’ve learned one thing from the Party Time Excellent series of interviews from Infected Rain frontwoman Lena Scissorhands, it has to be to expect the unexpected and this week she’s joined on the sofa by Coal Chamber and Gemini Syndrome guitarist Miguel “Meegs” Rascón, who being totally honest, is the last person we expected

Playthrough: “Nest of Vipers” from Devildriver!

You don’t get more of a tease than this. Just the guitar solo out of “Nest of Vipers” from the upcoming new Devildriver album “Dealing with Demons“. That’s all, no more, no less. Fortunately, Neal Tiemann delivers an absolute ripper. It’s labelled as a part #1 with a second volume expected within 12 months from

Vs Tuesday: Two Bands! One Song! Who Wins?! FIGHT! STP.

In 1993 MTV recorded a set from San Diego Grunge band Stone Temple Pilots for their iconic Unplugged series. During the set the band played a new song that was cut from the aired performance but when the track featured on the soundtrack of The Crow, a film starting Brandon Lee and based on a

Riff Police! Pull Over! #62: Kittie Vs Coal Chamber!

Rewinding the tape back to 1997 and Roadrunner Records Monte Conner taking a chance on a Nu-Metal quartet from Los Angeles California by the name of Coal Chamber. The band had been around 5 years at the point where their self-titled debut was ready and were something of a known entity having performed on the

Throwback: “Fiend” by Coal Chamber!

Widely recognised as the heaviest and most aggressive album from Los Angeles Californian Nu-Metal quartet Coal Chamber, “Dark Days” was produced by Ross Hogarth and appeared via Roadrunner Records in May 2002. It was the album that sowed the seeds for vocalist Dez Fafara’s next project, Groove Metallers Devildriver after tensions within the band that boiled

Bootleg: “Loco” from Devildriver!

Devildriver frontman Dez Fafara told us before the last Coal Chamber album “Rivals” in 2015 that he would have played Coal Chamber songs live with Devildriver if he didn’t think there was a chance of Coal Chamber coming back. Last July he said that they were never coming back and true to his word, as

Bootleg: Devildriver in San Antonio Texas!

Sadly while Devildriver are co-headlining with Static-X on the 20th Anniversary Tour for “Wiscon Death Trip”, they won’t be following them over to the UK in September. So here are a pair of Pro-Shot cuts from their set in San Antonio Texas on 23rd June. Sticking to the classics. “I Could Care Less” and “Grinf**ked”.

Review: “Never Young” by Loser

Hailing from Detroit, Michigan and signed to Emmure frontman Frankie Palemeri’s Red Zone Records are Loser, a band that claim to fuser Nu-Metal and Grunge in a new style called Psychedelia. Stating that their influences are Slipknot, Deftones, KoRn and Nirvana, the 5 piece of Sammy Morales (drums), Erik Into (bass), John Hillman (guitar), Brandon