Chamber Music (Coal Chamber album)

Chamber Music
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 7, 1999 (1999-09-07)
Recorded1998–1999
StudioLong View Farms (North Brookfield, Massachusetts)
GenreNu metal, gothic metal[1]
Length55:14
LabelRoadrunner
ProducerJosh Abraham
Coal Chamber chronology
Coal Chamber
(1997)
Chamber Music
(1999)
Dark Days
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal5/10[3]
The Great Rock Discography5/10[4]
Rock Hard7/10[5]
Spin5/10[6]

Chamber Music is the second studio album by American nu metal band Coal Chamber, released on Roadrunner Records on September 7, 1999. The album has industrial elements, most notably on their cover of "Shock the Monkey". The shift in sound was influenced by the involvement of several keyboardists, such as Jay Gordon and Amir Derakh of Orgy, DJ Lethal of Limp Bizkit and production assistance from Dave Ogilvie of Skinny Puppy. It is their second-most successful record and achieved moderate commercial and positive critical success.

  1. ^ "The 50 best nu metal albums of all time". April 2022.
  2. ^ "Chamber Music - Coal Chamber". AllMusic.
  3. ^ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  4. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (2002). "Coal Chamber". The Great Rock Discography (6th ed.). Canongate. p. 210. ISBN 9781841953113 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ "Chamber Music". Rock Hard (in German). Vol. 148. August 28, 1999. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  6. ^ LaPage, Mark (October 1999). "Reviews". Spin. Vol. 15, no. 10. pp. 152–153.