Coal Chamber's last release was in 2015
Coal Chamber split up in 2003 after 10 years as a band. They reunited for shows in 2011, and in 2015 released the album Rivals , until Dez Fafara returned to Devildriver to release Trust No One in 2016.
In an interview with the Australian podcast Scars And Guitars , Fafara said: “If you’re a band that’s starting out, you need to listen to me. Don’t start a band with partners – ever. Because I can’t go to Coal Chamber now unless I involve the others, and I’m the one who came up with the name, I’m the one who started the band and in the end, my dream, the thing I started, because it’s with partners, I can’t just go out and do it.”
“So let me tell you what’s going on,” he continued. “I finally… And this is a conversation that could really go on for hours, but we’re going to get this over with. Most guys – [Glenn] Danzig , Rob Zombie – when they leave their bands, they play their music. […] I said to myself and to my wife, to everyone around me, I’m burying this. No, it’s not coming back. The minute I step on stage with Devildriver to play Coal Chamber, it’s never coming back. I told Meegs [guitarist, Miguel Rascón] that. I told Mike [Cox, drummer] that.”
“I don’t know if it’s this year or next, but we’ve already started rehearsing six Coal Chamber songs on stage. And once I do that, even putting a little bit of Coal Chamber on stage, there’s no going back.”
“I wish I could be the person who would say, ‘Oh, it’s definitely coming back,’ and give the fans some hope and all that stuff. But I’m just a realist, right? And life is short […] Since we have a recording contract, we have everything we need to move forward, I reached out to my mom and said, ‘What’s going on?’ And it was like the drummer said, ‘I’d rather build houses,’ and the guitarist would rather live with his parents. So…I’m doing Devildriver and I’m going to play Coal Chamber songs.”
