Coal Chamber

The Los Angeles, California based band formed in 1994. It wasn’t until they were signed to Roadrunner Records when they made their first self-titled debut album in 1996 but didn’t hit the shelves until 1997. Their first single that was sold was a song called “Loco” which got the band known and heard. After they sold their second album in 1999 called “Chamber Music” they were hitting the road a lot more with the help of Ozzy Osbourne providing vocals for one of the songs from that album called “Shock the Monkey” which is a Peter Gabriel song.



… More Coal Chamber ended up headlining most of Ozzfest and the Family Values Tour which consisted of bands such as Korn, Orgy, and Rammstein.
After parting ways with their manager Sharon Osbourne over creative differences and personal reasons. The band followed up with their third album “Dark Days” in spring of 2002.

Bassist Rayna Foss-Rose who had a baby with drummer Morgan Rose of Sevendust.
Had left the band to raise her daughter somewhere between 2001 and 2002. Rayna had conflicts of sorts with the singer (Dez Fafara) which he had said,” Morgan and Rayna had found Christ and would be leaving Coal Chamber for good.” After Rayna helped with the third album she was gone. Since then Morgan, Rayna and Dez has not been so close.

In October 2002, Drummer Mikey Cox parted ways with the band after several personal disputes with both the guitarist Meegs Rascon and singer Dez Fafara, due to his personal meth use. The disputes have been on going since 1998 and on the official website they stated they were looking for a new drummer.

Summer 2003 saw the release of their latest album “Giving The Devil His Due” which was a compilation of demo tracks of their known and unknown songs also including songs from soundtracks. In the same year Coal Chamber officially called it quits shortly after Dez left to for the group DevilDriver.
Dez stated that Coal Chamber’s hiatus is permanent and will not be reforming anytime soon.