Coal Chamber Talks

COAL CHAMBER guitarist Meegs recently offered the following comments about the group’s upcoming third full-length CD, entitled Dark Days, which is due to be issued through Roadrunner Records in early 2002.

Read the comments here:

'As for the tone of the album, it will be a combination of both records. It will definitely be very heavy, I mean HEAVY. The experimentation and craziness in the sonic department is just plain sick!!! I spent a lot of time on this album to record all the noises and tones that I hear in my head all the time. The guitar chug is very bottom heavy and the abuse of effect pedals and technology is very prominent. the vibe of the record is very angry and chaotic. I promise that it will be insanity of the highest level!!!

'This album will be both a continuation and a progressive change of our previous stuff. It will continue to be as heavy, if not heavier, than our first record. But it will be a big onslaught of sonic mayhem and experimentation that we started on the 2nd album, except 100 times more brutal and angry as f.ck!! Dez's vocals are plain scary!! The guitars are super-thick and the bass and drums feel like a steamroller!!! The sounds on this record are very intense, for sure!!! The songwriting is very, very intense because the band as a whole was going through a very difficult time in our lives. And it shows in the material. The tension, frustrations, disappointment, and anger are definitely prevalent on the disc!!

'My favorite [new song] as of now is probably ‘Drove’. It is one f.cking heavy-ass song!!! It starts out chaotic and ends that way. The guitar textures and noises are very quirky and experimental. It's a very ‘COAL CHAMBER’-type of groove. The tones, vocals, and production are beyond subsonic. Couldn't be more proud.

'The overall tone and theme of this album is very dark and angry. It definitely reflected on these two past years of the bands career. Very turbulent. We've all pulled through though, and wrote the most heaviest and intense material we've ever done!! This album was a very cathartic and psychotherapeutic experience for the whole band. As we wrote this material from our hearts, this record definitely reflects what we were feeling at the time. Kind of like The Shining meets Halloween.

'There's a tension on this record that is unsettling. A lot of lashing out at people kind of emotions. Anger, frustrations. A very dark and heavy record. Not a suicidal type of vibe, but more of a unleashing of a lot of internal and outside demons.'

Source: Blabbermouth