COAL CHAMBER Cancels Fiend For The Fans Tour

COAL CHAMBER

Fiend For The Fans Tour Cancelled

Dez Fafara Issues Statement

First off let me say that we are sending prayers to all who are affected in these terrible California wildfires.

We have many friends on evacuation or that have lost everything please donate or do what you can to help.

At this time, I will be taking down the scheduled touring this year until quarter 4 to focus on my health.

For everybody that has shown support and given me positive comments, sent our family prayers or contacted us with well wishes, I want to thank you so much. It means a great deal to not only myself but my family during this trying time.

I’ve had a very blessed life and in all lives some rain must fall and certainly over the last few years. It’s been stormy for my family and I with my health.

I’m looking forward to getting healthy. My attitude is positive and when I’m ready I’m gonna get back on the road harder than ever with both Coal Chamber and DevilDriver.

There are a lot of things in the works with both of those bands, but I won’t go over them now because I want to focus on this announcement and I wanted you guys to hear it straight from me.

To all those who supported me, been behind me, I’m so sorry that these tours have to come down but at this time I’m just not able to go do my job at 100%.

Love one another and be good to one another.

– Dez Fafara

It’s been almost three decades since Coal Chamber, the Californian metal quartet, came screaming out of the dead zone of Hollywood in the early Nineties.

When singer Bradley ‘Dez’ Fafara and Miguel ‘Meegs’ Rascón first met in 1992, these two hot-headed misfits first wrote songs under the name She’s In Pain, recruiting bassist Rayna Foss and drummer Mikey Cox. After renaming themselves Coal Chamber and honing a unique sound and art direction, the band broke through to public awareness with their gold-selling, self-titled debut album in 1997. A slot at the first Ozzfest and a management deal with Sharon Osbourne helped to propel the quartet to national level.

Over the next six years, Coal Chamber experienced several lifetimes’ worth of excess, making their trajectory both unpredictable and stressful. Tours with Danzig, Type O Negative, Megadeth, Pantera and many other artists built their reputation, but substance abuse nearly derailed the musicians and intra-band tensions almost destroyed them.

Two more albums, Chamber Music (1999) and Dark Days (2002), came before their differing personalities finally drove them apart. Foss quit after Dark Days and was replaced by Nadja Peulen, and after 2003’s compilation, Giving The Devil His Due, no-one expected to hear from Coal Chamber again, especially after Fafara embarked on a second career with the successful DevilDriver. This made the 2015 comeback album Rivals all the more unexpected, with veteran 80s icon Al Jourgensen of Ministry guesting on track “Suffer in Silence”, reasserting Coal Chamber’s authority for a new generation of metal fans.

International tours followed before the musicians went their separate ways, but eight years later still, Coal Chamber returned for of successful live dates with Mudvayne throughout the U.S in 2023 as well as sold out shows 2024 in Australia. You literally could not make this story up, and yet the 30 years of angst and adrenaline that make up this band of survivors can be heard in every note on the albums in this collection. There’s a reason why the word ‘Loco’ is so closely associated with Coal Chamber—and the madness isn’t over yet.

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