Coal Chamber was one of the key players in the nu and gothic metal scene in the 1990s. The band existed from 1993 to 2003, and again from 2011 to 2016. Frontman Dez Fafara booted up DevilDriver in 2002, and hasn't looked back.
Coal Chamber and DevilDriver don't share any members, though that's not stopping Fafara from adding Coal Chamber songs to DevilDriver's live show. Fafara cites Danzig playing Misfits and Samhain songs, and Rob Zombie playing White Zombie songs, as one of his reasons for doing so in an interview with Metal Paths.
“I will tell you this now, DevilDriver is going to start playing four Coal Chamber songs. I’m tired of waiting to play the music that made me who I was. I waited fourteen years to play ‘Loco’ again, and that’s the song that made me who I was … I had a late night phone call with Glenn Danzig. [He] called my house, and he told me, ‘Listen, when I left the Misfits, I played Samhain songs and Misfits songs when I was playing Danzig songs. When Rob Zombie left White Zombie, he played White Zombie songs. Why have you waited for long?”
It seems like an odd choice, but maybe it'll work? Coal Chamber doesn't really sound all too much like DevilDriver, and the songs Fafara wants to add are maybe a little bit dated at this point, so we'll see what happens.
