The best of COAL CHAMBER.

I’ll talk about a metal band, one of the best music bands ever…

Ever since I’ve known the metal music world, I’ve tried to listened different kind of metal. That’s why, time ago, I found a special sound with one of the more strong rhythm. “Coal chamber” was its name.

The music of coal chamber is the sound of internal combustion. Contemporaries of korn, they described their music as “spookycore”. Their music can just be compared to musical exorcisms. Listening to the music contained in their albums, one can identify the dark side of excellent lyrics in their spooky noise.

 Tension defined coal chamber throughout its eight- year existence. Formed in Los Angeles in the spring of 1994, coal chamber self-producer four-song demo and began gigging regularly on the sunset street. It could be heard in Dez Fafara’s ominous whispers, guttural growls, and belligerent bellows. It emanated within Miguel “meggs” Rascon’s anarchistic guitar player, with riffs ranging from the eerily ethereal to the downright chaotic. It thundered through the relentless, hammering rhythms of bassist Rayna Fosse-Rose and drummer Mike Cox.

Just when it seemed like they were one step closer to success. Fafara quit the band in late 1995, choosing his marriage over his music. But after a few months of missing his musical outlet, the vocalist made a life-altering choice to return to the band.

On their eponymously titled 1997 debut, coal chamber shook the rafters with an aggressive blend of minimalist noise and rage.

The real test of their longevity came when the band took his music to the people.

During their eight –year alliance, the members of coal chamber escape their L.A. rehearsal room to become one of the original leaders of the “ñu metal” movement. They sold a million records domestically, had songs appear o movie soundtracks including the scorpion king, scream 3, resident evil and bride of chucky, and played throughout U. S. and Europe.

The catalog of music coal chamber left behind serves as both a testament of their resilience and document of their demons. Fafara once said it was too easy to breed self-doubt and self-hatred but harder to breed self-confidence.  He tried to achieve a balance between despair and hope within his lyrics. Many of his conflicts, not to mention the band’s personal struggles, may remain unresolved, but that template of tension provided the necessary springboard for their metallic mayhem.

- Maggot Rossales.