You can now watch COAL CHAMBER’s entire performance from this year’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival below
You can now watch COAL CHAMBER’s complete September 8 live set from this year’s Blue Ridge Rock festival courtesy of the Arin Sarris YouTube channel. The Blue Ridge Rock Festival took place at Virginia International Raceway in Alton, Virginia.
COAL CHAMBER’s 2023 Blue Ridge Rock Festival setlist:
01. Loco
02. Fiend
03. Big Truck
04. Rowboat (FLOOD cover)
05. Drove
06. Dark Days
07. Oddity
08. Another Nail In The Coffin
09. Something Told Me
10. Sway
COAL CHAMBER recently completed a U.S. tour as the support act for MUDVAYNE. Additional support on the 26-city “The Psychotherapy Sessions” tour, which was produced by Live Nation, came from GWAR, NONPOINT and BUTCHER BABIES.
COAL CHAMBER played its first two shows in eight years at the Sick New World festival in Las Vegas in May and at the Inkcarceration Music And Tattoo Festival in Mansfield, Ohio in July.
Recently making an appearance on the Loaded Radio podcast, COAL CHAMBER frontman Dez Fafara was asked about the possibility of new music from the band. He said: “We’ve been discussing it. [Sigh] I take a sigh right there, and the reason is because I don’t wanna rush anything. I actually said to them… We booked [festival appearances at] Inkcarceration, Blue Ridge Rock Fest and Sick New World.
“That’s all we were gonna do this year until MUDVAYNE hit us up [about supporting them on their summer tour]. And I actually said to them about the MUDVAYNE run, ‘Let’s not do it. I’d rather just stay friends. Let’s do a few shows.’ But the point is when we’re all together, I realized that any problem we’ve ever had is gone. To think about it as any kind of continuing problem would be wrong. So, okay, cool. Let’s go do MUDVAYNE. And now, of course, talking about new music is very exciting for us.”
Dez continued: “I happen to feel like if [COAL CHAMBER‘s last album] ‘Rivals’, which was released 12 years ago — something like this; 10 [or] 12 years ago — if ‘Rivals’ would have been released now with where the genre is and where, I would say where nu metal is at this point, that record would be insane. We were 10, 12 years too early getting back together and releasing that record, in my opinion. But I guess it’s always good to preempt what’s coming down the line, and we surely did with ‘Rivals’. So if you’re a COAL CHAMBER fan, go check out ‘Rivals’, if you haven’t.”
Regarding what it was like returning to the live stage with COAL CHAMBER for the first time in eight years, Dez said: “[It was] unbelievable. We were all backstage. Of course there’s a hundred people back there with their cameras on us as we’re hugging. But it was amazing. We hit the stage… They were chanting ‘COAL CHAMBER‘, so it was 55, 60 thousand people chanting ‘COAL CHAMBER‘, which just absolute goosebumps on my arms. We came out. We killed it.
“The set was short — it was only 30, 35 minutes; something like that — so it was in and out. But it was at the height of the day. People were telling us that, ‘Your stage was the most packed of the day.’ Of course I’m not putting myself up against the bigger bands; I’m just saying that it is what it is.
“And then when I got off, I said to my wife, ‘What’s going on? What’s going on out there?’ And she was, like, ‘They’re all singing you ‘Happy Birthday’, dummy.’ And I was, like, ‘Wow.’ So it was a pretty incredible weekend… It was an amazing time, man. And I’m grateful. I’m humbled by everybody who came. And the reception that we got was wonderful.”
