Because their self-titled debut was released just a bit later than the album of fellow New Yorkers Korn, Coal Chamber was branded as (yet another) clone. Quite wrongly, as Coal Chamber managed to attract full houses in the New York underground scene at the same time as Korn. With the new album "Chamber Music" they seem to want to step out of the shadow of Korn, by coming up with a spicy melting pot
… of styles; Orchestral whims of Type-O-Negative are linked to the romance of The Gathering, not forgetting Pantera's intensive power and The Deftones' frustrations, of course. A multi-voice album, which will not get boring after many spins. (R.vd.H.) _more
