DevilDriver Frontman Says No To Coal Chamber Reunion
We can’t say that we blame him really.
DevilDriver frontman Dez Fafara has confirmed that he wouldn’t even consider a Coal Chamber reunion. We know that there’s something of a nu-metal renaissance going on right now, but when you’re in a band that’s as kick-ass as DevilDriver, you wouldn’t want to return to Spookycore either, would you?
In an interview with the Scream Queen, Dez was quoted as saying: “Sometimes it’s just best to leave things lying dead. You can revisit them as friends, you know? I mean, I listened to Coal Chamber about a week ago and it was fun. It was good to see where I came from. But, these guys, in my band now, as friends and as players, have inspired me to crazy goals, man. You know what I mean? I got off of hard alcohol, I’m fuckin focused. I got a band behind me that is killer. So now there’s nothing that can touch it. I don’t’ want to fuck that up by diverting my attention to anything but DevilDriver.”
DevilDriver will release their new album ‘Pray For Villains’ on July 13th.







Good man Dez.
Coal Chamber had thier time & a return would hardly be welcome.
next youll be telling us that limp bizkit have reformed….oh wait, that accident already has…doh
God, I love DevilDriver!
Circle pit at Download anyone?
I loved Coal Chamber at the time and still dig their stuff, so would love to see a reunion but not if that meant no DevilDriver. Coal Chamber were good, DevilDriver destroy.
Coal Chamber would be good…just not now. Devildriver are doing brilliantly at the moment so reforming Coal Chamber would be a bad idea. However, if DD took a ‘break’ or hiatus, then a CC reunion would be awesome.
Devildriver are gay. Coal Chamber are better. Despite the irony of my name, I like a wide variety of music unlike Metal Hammer who just jumps on the bandwagon (haha, BAND wagon) and praises people who are being praised by others before MH find out about them.
Devildriver are cool. coal chamber have some good tunes as well.
i cant wait to see Driver at Download.
This isn’t even really news.
With the way devildriver is going right now, could anyone seriously think of a coal chamber reunion?
If there was enough money in the offer, I guarantee he would have done it…
Fuck you ‘Real Metaller’ Metal Hammer have never jumped on the bandwagon. Thats Kerrangs job!
I’m more of a devil driver fan then coal chamber they were good for that nu metal era but a reunion wouldn exactly be the best thing in the world
coal chamber rocked alltho shock the monkey was fucking hilarious you can never beat loco, and real metaller you aint no fucking metaller if you think metalhammer jump on the bandwagon metal hammer creates the wagon whilst others catch up with it, devildriver are fucking extreme and i love them
“Devildriver are gay. Coal Chamber are better.”
Dude, have you even SEEN pictures of what Coal Chamber looked like??? Not so much a Real Metaller, more like a real wanker…
Saw Coal Chamber supporting Type O Negative once at the Astoria. Total dog shit they were.
lol, I saw Type O at the Astoria…THEY were dogshit…
Skumbo, you are obviously more bothered about the IMAGERY than the music. Who gives a shit what they looked like Fiend, Loco, Shock The Monkey and Clock were dope.
I’ve never heard Coal Chamber so I’m not going to say they’re shite or great, but Devildriver are doing more than well enough for themselves now.
And there’s also more than enough nU metal bands playing Download so anyoen needing their fix can get it there lol
Couldn’t give a fuck about imagery mate, their music was bad enough. Let’s bear in mind it was YOU who first started throwing the gay stones, on what basis did you come to that conclusion about DevilDriver?
At the end of the day, Coal Chamber were one of the worst bands to ever curse music. One of the biggest wastes of time, space, effort, money, plastic, paper, aircraft fuel, oxygen and everything else that goes in to keeping a band going. Just so unbelievably shit.
A band isn’t shit if they have fans and fame. But you are obviously one these teenage metal cleches who “throws the horns” constantly, plays guitar hero before branding yourself a better guitarist than Steve Vai and follows the other sheep when it comes to new and “popular” roadrunner bands. And if you really didn’t give a fuck about the imagery, why did you point it out in the first place, champ?
36 years of age, have never had any interest in computer games in my life. Go do your homework son.
I see no denies about you being a metal cleche.
hell yeah? devil driver rocks!!!