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Coal Chamber Serves Up Its 'Dark Days'
05/08/2002 5:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Jerry Armor
(5/8/02, 5 p.m. ET) -- Veteran heavy rockers Coal Chamber have set aside their seemingly perennial in-fighting to return this week with their third album, Dark Days. The Los Angeles band's third Roadrunner Records release, which arrived in stores Tuesday (May 7), is described by frontman Dez Fafara as "way more aggressive," taking the group's sound to a "heavy place that's coming soon."
Fafara tells LAUNCH that despite the album's gloomy name, the words are built to suggest a different vibe. "Lyrically I wanted it to be like when I used to listen to Pantera when I was growing up, right? It would be like, 'I can go do anything now.' I wanted something like that to empower, because right now what you're hearing a lot in music is, you know, 'Oh boo hoo,' everybody's getting 'boo hoo' and 'boo hoo' and 'hoe. . .' You know? I don't want that. We wanted something that made the kids feel crazy, like they could go take on the world. Maybe they're having trouble with their parents, it's like, 'OK, well, listen to this album, get out of it for a minute, go get on your skateboard, don't worry, everything's gonna be fine one day.'"
Coal Chamber was scheduled to play a free gig for its hometown fans Tuesday (May 7) at the Sunset Strip venue the Key Club. The show was to be the first by the group since a fight between Farfara and guitarist Miguel Rascon on stage in Lubbock, Texas not only cut short the set but forced the cancellation of several ensuing dates. In a statement, Fafara called it "a minor setback."
The group makes its U.S. network television debut when it appears on NBC's Last Call With Carson Daly on May 15 performing the single "Fiend."
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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