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Rating: Coal Chamber can, in a sense, be considered the purists of nu metal: throughout their rather brief and tumultuous career, they released only three official albums and never showed any ignoble tendencies towards easy listening, not even when nu metal was a genre of mass consumption. It's also for this reason that their success never matched that of other representative names or even undeserving clones of the genre.
"Chamber Music," the second album, was released in 1999 and placed the band among the names that elevated this scene. The influence of Korn, which had so much (perhaps a bit too much) characterized the eponymous debut, is still present but filtered through electronics: Meegs' heavily downtuned guitars are extensively effected, and keyboards are introduced, providing the group’s music with dark hues, a dark and sepulchral distillation of personal obsessions and ghosts. A music, therefore, strongly expressionist and existentialist, as the lyrics demonstrate, once again highlighting the problems of singer Dez Fafara: "Not Living" and other songs describe a man destroyed by divorce, still pointlessly in love with the leech-like wife who abandoned him and took everything away. However, in "Tyler’s Song", dedicated to his son, he emerges as a wise and loving father.
Let's continue with the analysis of the musical content. After a short instrumental introduction with strings, "Mist"", which almost seems to take the album's title literally, the robotic and futuristic bitterness of "Tragedy" bursts in. This is the chamber music of Coal Chamber, even better exemplified by the subsequent tracks: "El Cu Cuy, UnTrue, What's In Your Mind?, Not Living, Entwined" and "Feed My Dreams" unfold in a rhythm section - Mike Cox on drums and Rayna Foss on bass - urgent and nervous, owing much to funk (speaking of Korn influences) and simple yet immensely powerful riffs that sporadically give way to leaden synthetic and futuristic melodies. On these structures, Dez Fafara's flexible voice oscillates vertiginously from fierce spoken parts - let's call them rap - and deep growls - let's call them growl - to a sung register that is now baritone, now perversely androgynous. Regarding the melodic component, the shadowy ballads "Burgundy" and "My Mercy" add touches of black to the autumnal electro-pop of Depeche Mode. Also noteworthy is the curious cover of "Shock The Monkey" by Peter Gabriel, where none other than Ozzy Osbourne joins Dez on vocals.
It's a pity about the somewhat underwhelming finale (truly mediocre "No Home" and "Notion", not even "Shari Vegas" is a gem), without which the work would have deserved top marks. It remains, however, a remarkable piece: its merits lie in its ability to combine the vigorous and masculine vigor of nu-metal with atmospheres of a more androgynous nature and to escape the stereotypes of the genre (first and foremost, nu metal = pumped-up and flashy rap metal). Coal Chamber deserved a better fate.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Tragedy (02:51)
Cynics and Christ-like hypocrites.
How They stick to you like glue.
Jealous and Thoughtless lunatics all they stick to you like glue.
Truth is like a Tragedy.
Unclean undeniably surely.
How They stick to you like glue.
Offensive and corrupt.
How they seem to fuck with you so fuck you.
Truth is like a tragedy.
Come with me I cannot lie.
I'll tell the truth I cannot lie.
Well I cannot I cannot I cannot I canot lie.
Cynics and Christ-like hypocrites.
How they stick to you like glue.
Jealous and thoughtless lunatics.
How they fuck with you so fuck you.
Truth is like a tragedy.
Come with me I cannot lie.
I'll tell the truth I cannot like.
Well I cannot I cannot I cannot I cannot lie.
Truth is like a tragedy.
03 El Cu Cuy (04:22)
"There's a point in time where you cant think for yourself" PAULIE SHOTS!!
I'm placeable listen to the dreams your dreaming
Untraceable tell me now what are you scheming
I'm placeable to the place that you most fear
Untraceable so help me dear
I'm placeable innate yet surely substantial to repay your fade away
Sweetness smells so sweet at your feet just to repay your fade away
I'm placeable i have no place now
Untraceable to your jaded vows
I'm placeable no more of your face
I'm placeable so help me please
I'm placeable innate yet surely substantial to repay your fade away
Sweetness smells so sweet at your feet just to repay your fade away
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
You are one sick inividual
You are so sincere
I'm the one get under your bed increase your dreams and you know it well
I'm the one get under your bed increase your dreams and you know it well hell
I'm placeable to recognize that you'remost favored
Untraceable so tell me now what are you made of
I'm placeable to place you now where you most fear
Untraceable so help me dear
I'm placeable innate yet surely substantial to repay your fade away
Sweetness smells so sweet at your feet just to repay your fade away
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
You are one sick inividual
You are so sincere
I'm the one get under your bed increase your dreams and you know it well
Yeah I'm the one get under your bed increase your dreams and you know it well h
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
Kill the man become the monster
so sincere
04 Untrue (03:26)
where have you been?
i've been here
waiting anticipating
coping with tears
where have you been?
you've been untrue
i've seen it before and i see it again
its quite clear now
your phone rang all nite
i waited here
waiting anticipating coping with fear
where have you been? you've been untrue
i've seen it before and i see it again
you can't stop me you know who i am
this justifies now just what i am
you crucify me won't lay by my side
and now you'll need me until i die
guess what i'm dead
you've been untrue
i've seen it before and i see it again
you can't stop me you know who i am
this justifies now just what i am
you crucify me won't lay by my side
and now you'll need me until i die
i'm dead
05 Tyler's Song (02:49)
Go son. If you get up but they slap you around.
Then just remember that i will always be there.
When I say to you daddy loves you understand.
I'm out in the real world again I'm trying.
Raise your guard again. They dont't give a damn.
Don't compormise your ideals for anyone else.
Respect your mom and always think of her first.
When I say to you daddy loves you understand.
I'm out in the real world again I'm trying.
Raise your guard again. They dont't give a damn.
Son, if the son don't shine.
I'll try like hell to make light from the dark.
Son if the sun don't shine.
I'll try like hell to make light from the dark for you.
Raise your guard again. They don't give a damn. Go son.
06 What's in Your Mind? (03:55)
Creature do the ones you hurt come into the dreams your schemes
of ripping these lives apart who screwed you.
For me it's love of chase.
For me it's can't create.
If it's simply covered say to one another.
What's in your mind in your mind in your mind that tells you.
Sadness speaks so softly so gently we move through as if eloquently show remorse.
Installment of what is left.
Installment of what is true.
If it's simply covered say to one another.
What's in your mind in your mind in your mind that tells you.
In your mind you know it makes you do what you do.
In your head in your filthy in your head of this mind.
In my mind in my head that makes me do what I do.
In your mind in your head that makes you do this too.
Creature do the ones you hurt come into the dreams your schemes
of ripping these lives apart who screwed you.
For me it's love of chase.
For me it's can't create.
If it's simply covered say to one another.
What's in your mind in your mind in your mind that tells you (she go).
What's in your head?
07 Not Living (03:49)
i realize i'm dead
i'm fucked in the head
i'm not living without you
my life is a game my life is a shame
i'm not living without you
this heart a joke and my life been choked
and i'm not living without you
my life alone my life alone am not living without you
you're bleeding me(3x)
you're bleeding
your'e bleeding me(3x)
you're bleeding
you're bleeding ME(3x)
you're bleeding
your'e bleeding ME(3x)
i realize i'm dead
i'm fucked in the head
i'm not living without you
my life is a game my life is a shame
i'm not living without you
this heart has been choked and my life is a joke
and i'm not living without you
my life alone my life alone am not living with out you
you're bleeding me(3x)
you're bleeding
you're bleeding me(3x)
you're bleeding
you're bleeding ME(3x)
you're bleeding
you're bleeding ME(3x)
YOU'VE
you've taken all from me
what i have to see
what i cannot be inside you
my love my god my love bleeding me
whats this whats this?
i can't live
whats this whats this?
i can't live
whats this whats this?
i can't live
i realize i'm dead i'm fucked in the head
i'm not living without you
my life is a game my life is a shame
i'm not living without you
this heart is a joke and my life has been choked
and i'm not living without you
and my life is a game my life is a shame
and i'm not living without you
you're bleeding me(3x)
you're bleeding
you're bleeding me(3x)
you're bleeding
you're bleeding ME(3x)
you're bleeding
you're bleeding ME(3x)
YOU!!
08 Shock the Monkey (03:42)
Cover me when I run
Cover me through the fire
Something knocked me out the trees
Now I'm on my knees
Cover me, darling please
Hey-ay
Monkey (monkey)
monkey
Don't you know you gotta shock the monkey
Hey, Hey
Fox the fox
Rat on the rat
You can ape the ape
I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I can't take any more
Darling, don't you monkey with the monkey
Hey-ay
Monkey (monkey),
monkey
Don't you know you gotta shock the monkey
Hey, Hey
shock the monkey
Hey-ay
monkey
Wheels keep turning (monkey)
Something's burning (monkey)
Don't like it but I guess I'm learning
Shock!
Shock!
Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt (monkey)
Shock!
Cover me, when I sleep
Cover me, when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine
Make the monkey blind
Cover me, darling please
Hey-ay
Monkey
Too much at stake (monkey)
Ground beneath me shake (monkey)
And the news is breaking
Shock!
Shock!
Shock!
Shock!
09 Burgundy (02:10)
Did you say make it rain for you.
I'd make it storm with a wind like you've never seen before.
So sick I couldn't cure your sores.
I built a snowman for you.
And watched it melt all summer long in front of me.
Endlessly I couldn't cure your sores.
What have you done for me lately?
What have you done for me lately?
Did you say move that mountain for you.
I'd spread the wings of time
and make it all but crumble away today.
If we could watch it together decay.
And when you said to enlighten me.
I thought I had and now that you understand.
One hand washes the other there's nothing more to discover.
What have you done for me lately? Tell me.
What have you done for me lately? Tell me.
10 Entwined (03:49)
Could we please shut our mouths for a while. For only just a while I could take it.
And if we could lay alone for a while. For only just a while I could take it.
You have made me alright complete again.
Always willing to break down my will again.M
I intend to render my sensibilities have all gone mad.
You tend to talk about the better things.
Then let's move on to better things.
I'm using all my sensibilities.
Would you please assume that face.
The one that you make at me.
And if we could mae love for a while.
For only just a while, God, I need it I need it.
You have made me alright complete again.
Always willing to break down my will again.
I intend to render my sensibilities have all gone wild.
You tend to talk about the better things.
Then let's move on to better things.
I'm using all my sensibilities.
If we could get caught in the moment.
Get caught in the moment. Our senses run dry.
I would sacrifice mself for you.
If we could get caught in the moment.
11 Feed My Dreams (02:55)
Time is a canvas and I will paint it
And with you I bestow what i have it
And your are my colours and your are my colours
And your are my paint to make my life
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams some more
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my
You are the clay that moulds my life
And I spin you around and you see it through
And you are the one that i mould into
And I mould into and you're everything
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams
You can't lie before I you shunned
Wild and you lied I am whole again inside you
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams some more
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my
Dreams
You are the fabric that moulds my life
And the wool that keeps me together inside
And you stitch me 'cause you you walk me through and
And I am yours and there is nothing before you
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my dreams some more
Feed my dreams some more
Come feed my
Feed my dreams some more (I can't tell inside you)
Come feed my dreams (inside you)
Feed my dreams some more (inside you)
Come feed my dreams (inside you)
Feed my dreams some more (im glad theres so much)
Come feed my dreams some more (inside you)
Feed my dreams some more (inside you)
Come feed my (inside you)
I'm not asleep
Asleep............
12 My Mercy (04:04)
When I die I'll die with my mercy
When she cries I'll cry with her
In my life see I've loved an angel
My Mercy
My Mercy
Such a glance the softest of skin
Wax dripping so paper thin
Remember oils positions of plenty
Well this memory how it still haunts me
We are love, we are love
When I die I'll die with my mercy
And when she cries I'll cry with her
And in my life see I've loved an angel
My mercy eternal to me
We are love we are made of many
We are two we are made of few
You've taken my life and left me to blame
You'll never understand the shame
I would die for my mercy can't you see
Eternally eternally
We are love we are made of many
We are two we are made of few
We are love we are made of many
We are two we are made of few.
14 Shari Vegas (03:16)
That guilt you've denied will only defeat you
So stay clean for me cause that's what you should do
That gaze in your eyes remember when you died
Etch that memory for the next sunrise
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
I've come clean a change of scenery
I've come clean Shair Vegas
I've come clean a change of scenery
I've come clean Shair Vegas
Lackluster love affair has left you so jaded
Those rings around your eyes they make you look faded
Come say to me that you'll live one more day
For that my friend for that I will pray
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
I've come clean a change of scenery
I've come clean Shari Vegas
I've come clean a change of scenery
I've come clean Shari Vegas
What's worth keeping you'll receive
Exit only let them see
What's worth keeping you'll receive
Exit only let them see
What's worth keeping you'll receive
Exit only let them see
What's worth keeping you'll receive
Exit only always let them let them see
What's worth keeping you'll receive
Exit only always let them let them see
What's worth keeping you'll receive
Exit always let them
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
So pleased to meet you Shari
I've come clean a change of scenery
I've come clean Shari Vegas
I've come clean a change of scenery
I've come clean Shari Vegas.
15 Notion (03:26)
There it goes it goes with her
It never leaves so easily
And there it goes it goes with him
It never leaves so easily
And thoughts come
And thoughts go
Tear people apart who don't know
It's just a notion that comes to me
It's just a notion that comes to me
It's just a notion that comes to me
It's just a notion that comes to me
Here it comes it comes to her
It doesn't come so easily
And here it comes it comes with him
It doesn't come so easily
And thoughts come
And thoughts go
Tear people apart who don't know
It's just a notion that comes to me
It's just a notion that comes to me
It's just a notion that comes to me
It's just a notion x8
It's just a notion that comes to me
Notion!
It's just a notion that comes to me
It's just a notion that comes to me
It's just a notion that comes to me
It's just a notion x8
It's just a notion that comes to me
Notion!
16 Anything but You (04:41)
Sweetened possessive farce
Our saints become sparse
And it's an option to be transparent
So in your soul that it's inherent
Now that you've found your wings (you want to fly)
Now that I've done those things (you've said goodbye)
It would be ample if only you'd trample
What you could not choke in life
Choke, choke, choke, choke
Now that you've sold your soul
What was the human toll
And oh your sacrifice (your sacrifice)
And oh what my vice (you were)
And it would be ample if only you'd trample
What you could not choke in life
Choke, choke, choke, choke
I could be anyone
I could be anything except for you
I could be anyone
I could be anything except for you
Except for you
Anything except for you
No, it had to be a lie it didn't rain twice
The clouds over my head but I'm not dead yet
I could be anyone
I could be anything except for you
I could be anyone
I could be anything except for you
Except for except for except for you
Except for except for except for you.
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