COAL CHAMBER

"I do not find the chords in the caves of coal ..."

With Coal Chamber was formed in Los Angeles in early 1994, and at first it consisted only guitarist Miguel "Migs" RascцЁn and vocalist DEZ Fafara. Soon they were joined by drummer Mike "Bug" Cox, a bass guitar gave her friend's ex-wife Deza Rhine Foss, a single mother. Reyna had never held a guitar in his hands, but quickly learned. At the same time and came up with the name for the group. "Everything turned out as something clogs itself, - says Migs - just liked the word Dezu Coal, and me - Chamber. We decided not to quarrel especially because of this and connected words. It happened Coal Chamber ".

His first album, the guys recorded almost three years, constantly adding new material is already prepared of use. According to Reyna, old songs seemed to them already good enough, and they had to write new. But three years have not been in vain - for the numerous performances in LA's club gained invaluable experience and acquired first fans.

Debut album, "Loco", immediately attracted the attention. At the group has its eye Sharon Osbourne, the famous producer and part-wife of the great and terrible Ozzy. Once at the invitation of Coal Chamber played on Ozzfest, Sharon took a young team under his wing, immediately becoming the unquestioned authority in the team. And Ozzy himself immediately and permanently dragged hearing record group. Powerful advertising rendered good service, and to have Coal Chamber sharply sack into a mountain.

Immediately after the release of "Loco" they went to their second album, "Chamber Music", on which they took 14 months. Almost all the songs were written in advance, in the breaks between tours, but the guys for a long time could not choose from the 18 piles of records that will be included in the album. The main songwriter in the group is DEZ. The second album, he addresses the topic of human relationships, and in doing so declares, all his songs are very positive and have only good, good, eternal.

But then the group began a period of trouble. After the incident in Colorado, where several students shot their classmates, the team was charged with corruption of youthful minds, and calls for mass murder. In part this was helped by the appearance of participants Coal Chamber, which had thoroughly propirsingovany and completely covered with tattoos. And soon, another attack occurred. Three days before the designated mix album "Chamber Music" guy who does it, died in a car. "We were literally crushed and did not know what we do now. Other people we absolutely did not fit ". In the end, they decided to do everything in his hands. The result met their expectations. Not lost in the aggressiveness and severity, the group began to sound more melodic and mature.

It should be noted that with the release of this disc Coal Chamber helped Josh Abraham of Orgy, as well as himself Ozzy Osbourne, who also sang with the band cover version of Peter Gabriel's "Shock The Monkey".

But the group is not going to dwell on the already achieved results, although somewhat surprised at their luck. After initially Coal Chamber was conceived simply as a cool way to kill time. A good example of how to combine business with pleasure.