Coal Chamber - Dark Days (2002)

Coal Chamber is one of those nu-metal bands whose songs from the first secondsare brought me back to the times when my friends and I was schoolchildren, gathered in the courtyards and just started listening to alternative music.

In those days it was difficult for us to find interesting music. Mostly popular bands listened, but when I first heard theese insane guys, everything turned upside down.

Coal Chamber was in the late 90s one of the most promising alternative metal bands. Their debut album was released in 1997, at that green time when the public was not fed up with nu-metal, and this controversial genre was still, so to speak, a fertile field for experimentation. This group is distinguished by a mixture of alternative and industrial sound.

“Dark Days” is without exaggeration the most significant studio work of Coal Chamber. Inherent in band, or rather, its music, schizophrenia has not gone away. The truth is now added to her more frenzy. Industrial melodies sound very creepy and inhuman, as if at the very end of listening there will be something truly awful and irreversible.

If you don't know who is Dez Fafara, it means you do not know hellishly terrible and because of this so attractive voice. Dez here surpassed himself in the invention of tongue twisters, and these verbal formulas combined with apocalyptic music create the impression of prayers before the approaching end of the world. Truly Dark Days!

Music is original, band has its own face. Rough sound of guitars, intricate technical drums, shaman rhythms, a lot of cyber sounds, aggressive vocals. Damn, these drums and bass drive me crazy. That is how we remember Coal Chamber.