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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Roadrunner Records
Salesrank: 36720
Released: February 11, 1997 |
| Our Price: $8.55 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Coal Chamber Track Listing:
1. Loco
2. Bradley
3. Oddity
4. Unspoiled
5. Big Truck
6. Sway
7. First
8. Maricon Puto
9. I
10. Clock
11. My Frustration
12. Amir of the Desert
13. Dreamtime
14. Pig
Coal Chamber Reviews:
Coal Chamber - self-titled (Roadrunner) 
2008-09-11 - Review number 149, this is the Los Angeles alternative metal band's debut effort. Maybe too much of a Korn-wanna be but still - I've always liked Coal Chamber. Hadn't put this CD in for a spin in eons, but I still find appealing numbers like "Oddity", the aggressive "Unspoiled", "I", "My Frustration" and "Dreamtime". Twice in the past year, I've seen vocalist Dez's new band Devil Driver and I can honestly understand why Coal Chamber had apparently ran their course in due time. Metal will never die. Thank goodness. Also check out this title's follow-up 'Chamber Music'.
A severe case of musical theft 
2006-09-21 - A few tentative notes from a treble-heavy bass guitar... a sprinkle of hits on a ride cymbal... a light touch of guitar dissonance... something is brewing. Clearly this is the calm before the storm. It even sounds vaguely familiar. I'm trying to remember what it's called...
... "Blind" by Korn?
A suck of breath, someone shouts "GO!" and the song is off.
No. It's supposed to be "ARE YOU READY?!". Jonathan doesn't say "GO!" until the third album, they got it all wrong.
This is the start of "Loco", the first act of musical purgery by nu metal sideshow Coal Chamber. And it's the best one on the album too. From here your patience will only wear ever more thin as Dez and company play redundant song after song, each one based on a single idea stolen straight from Korn's self-titled. Granted that record was highly influencial on many metal bands, but you're not supposed to play it note for note. Almost every song on this record can be traced back to a specific Korn song. For example, as I write this I am listening (perhaps for the last time ever) to "Faget" er I mean "Clown" er I mean "Big Truck" s*** lemme try again.
The same lack of original content permeates the entire record. The best argument for listening to this record is the 45 second "Amir of the Desert" - partly for its saintly length and partly for its mildly entertaining middle school humor. Here Coal Chamber are either the least creative band in nu metal history, or the most dishonest cover band in music history.
MMM. DONUTS.
2006-07-26 - PLAY THROUGH THE LAST SONG (PIG). THERE'S A HIDDEN THING AT THE END.JUST RANDOM CLIPS FROM THE STUDIO.A FEW SONGS TOO.
The Secret
2006-07-08 - I seen these guys in Maine before they were ever famous, at our ever famous Hempstock. Look the secret to coal chamber... buy this album, run away, don't buy anything else doing with them, and you will be fine... look at chamber music and it's all over you blew it!
Decent debut...
2006-02-01 - Ok, so Coal Chamber was not revolutionary (unless you count what could have been after releasing 'CHAMBER MUSIC') but when they started here they proved they had gusto and they had presence and they had power! With the blistering opener "LOCO" they drove the metal world crazy and proved they were just as tough as the rest of them. With Dez growling over Megs crashing guitars and Bugs brilliant drum work, Coal Chamber bursted onto the scene with a proper introduction. "BRADLEY" continues the insanity, but it's the song "ODDITY" that always rings in the back of my mind. The lyrics and guitar work are great and brutal and just out of this world...ha, ok, so not out of this world, but it's a pretty cool song. "UNSPOILED" is a song about Dez's break up with his wife after she left him for re-joining the band. It's pretty good, but you'll notice with htis entire CD that the music is better than the lyrics...Dez is no poet! "BIG TRUCK" is silly but decent, but "SWAY" is freaking awsome, brutal and in your face! "FIRST" is just there, and "MARICON PUTO" is just a skit. "I" is good as is "CLOCK", heavy and in your face and thats good right. "MY FRUSTRATION" follows the pattern and "AMIR OF THE DESERT" is a joke on their manager or something like that, kinda funny..."DREAMTIME" is decent but it just leads up to "PIG" which is brutal and an awsome way to close their debut. It's a little humerous, has a little Deliverence "squeal like a pig" thing going on, but it's a great heavy ending to this CD making you anticipate what they will come out with next, and that next CD was their best (Chamber Music)...anyways, so this CD was a decent debut, with a few cracks in the road but for the most part a pretty decent, brutally crushing ride along the metal express!
