coal chamber
20:42 Thursday, 21 December 2023
Coal Chamber reunited in 2022 as vocalist Dez Fafara, guitarist Miguel Rascón, bassist Nadja Peulen, and drummer Mike Cox. The band has been out on the road ever since, but of course there's the lingering question of if they'll follow-up their 2015 reunion record Rivals.
In an interview with Heavy, Fafara said he's always working on new music and that a new Coal Chamber record isn't out of the question. Or in Fafara's brief words, "we'll see."
"I'm not a guy who sits around and watches TV, so there's always music in the works. That's what I gotta say," said Fafara. "There's always music in the works, man, and after what I survived in my past year, I'm gonna make as much music as I possibly can. If something happened to me today, my wife has hard drives and hard drives of music from me, making it with different people and different circumstances. But it's all I do.
"I woke up this morning and we were having coffee, and after 15 minutes, she looked at me, she's, like, 'Good morning,' actually saying to me, like, 'What are you doing?' And I was writing a song. I was on my phone writing notes, and I wrote something I think is fantastic. So this is kind of what I do. I can't stop. I think there's a drive there. So we'll see."
Coal Chamber originally existed between 1993 and 2003, and then had a brief reunion between 2011 and 2016. Frontman Dez Fafara would go on to perform Coal Chamber songs with DevilDriver live after the breakup, and eventually in 2018 stated that he believed Coal Chamber was "done, and I think it's done forever." Coal Chamber ultimately announced another reunion in 2022 and has since played festivals and even toured with fellow nü-reunion band Mudvayne.
