2024 will see the return of American Nu-Metal act Coal Chamber with huge touring plans for Australia with the equally resurrected Mudvayne. Time flies when you’re having fun with riffs and next year will also mark nine years after 2015 album “Rivals” so ahead of all that Dez FarFara sat down with Duane James from
Reminiscing about the Livin La Vida Loco Tour back in 1999 which saw them headline with support from Machine Head, Slipknot, Amen and Dope, Coal Chamber bassist Nadja Peulen is the latest to sit in the KnotFest Nu Pod hot seat. The conversation stretches to her work on graphic novels and the recording of “Rivals” as
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
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
Limp Bizkit‘s 1999 single “Breakstuff” from “Significant Other” has been blamed for a lot in it’s time. Woodstock 1999 saw crowd violence and property damage both during and after the bands set. Fans were filmed tearing plywood from temporary festival structures and smashing the place up. The song itself has a highly memorable, if simplistic riff,
