Coal Chamber, Fear Factory, Etc. Tour Postponed As…

Coal Chamber have postponed their planned touring with Fear Factory, Twiztid, and Black Satellite to the spring. Dez Fafara, vocalist for Coal Chamber, issued the following statement regarding the postponement, revealing that medical issues he is currently suffering prevented him from undertaking the trek as previously planned. His statement reads as follows:

“With a heavy heart, let me tell you a story about life taking a turn, I’m writing to you from my bed.

I’ve been running 6 miles daily, I’ve been rehearsing two hours daily in my home studio and excited to hit the road, I’m excited to get on a bus with my brothers and sister and my crew, I’d never felt better and as you all know. I fought back hard after long haul Covid tried to kill me.

Saturday morning I woke up and I was coming up my stairs. I saw flashes in my eyes. I passed out and my wife revived me. My vitals were through the roof, and I was sheet white and vomiting, and the whole world was spinning. Anahstasia called 911. I ended up in the back of an ambulance and did nine hours in the ER testing all my vitals including taking X-rays of my heart and lungs. My doctor has advised me to get a cat scan, and until further testing, I am on bedrest and must postpone the Tour. Our agent sprung into action to rebook this tour for March 2025, and until we can figure out what the fuck medically is happening.

We will see you in March 2025 on the Fiend For The Fans Tour. This tour postponement is surreal, I was looking forward to playing with my band and connecting with fans, friends and family on the road.

I want to take a moment to thank everybody for their outpouring of love and outpouring of calls and texts checking on me. It seems like the word spread and the whole industry has been ringing my phone since Sunday; musicians, agents and managers and I really really appreciate it.

My band has been amazingly understanding and call me hourly – I thank them immensely for their caring nature.

Kiss your loved ones, no one is promised tomorrow. I’ll fight my way back to be with you all onstage you can be sure of that as well I’ll keep you all updated on my socials as to what’s going on. Apologies if this news causes you to rearrange your schedules to attend the concert with us and I want to say thank you in advance. We are all truly in the dark and I’m looking forward to finding out what’s going on. HAIL”

– Dez Fafara, Coal Chamber“

Fafara has previously went into detail about his struggles with COVID-19, describing it as a near-death experience. He also later revealed in 2023 that lingering complications from the disease were preventing him from travel at the time.

The rescheduled dates for this tour now run as follows:

03/05 Denver, CO – Summit
03/07 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
03/08 Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
03/09 Tempe, AZ – The Marquee Theatre
03/11 San Antonio, TX – The Aztec Theatre
03/12 Houston, TX – House of Blues
03/14 Dallas, TX – House of Blues
03/15 Fort Worth, TX – Tannerhill’s Tavern & Music Hall
03/19 Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
03/22 Newport, KY – Mega Corp. Pavillion
03/23 Columbus, OH – Kemba Live
03/25 Norfolk, VA – NorVa
03/28 Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
03/29 Harrisburg, PA – HMAC
03/30 Boston, MA – Big Night Live
04/04 Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theater
04/05 Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom
04/09 Ft. Wayne, IN – Piere’s Entertainment Center
04/11 Flint, MI – The Machine Shop
04/12 Flint, MI – The Machine Shop
04/13 Chicago, IL – Concord Music Hall
04/15 Sauget, IL – Pop’s
04/16 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
04/18 Maplewood, MN – Myth Live

Update: August 16th, 2024 04:01pm:

Former DevilDriver drummer John Boecklin, who performed alongside Fafara in that groove metal outfit from 2002 to 2014, has publicly accused Fafara of lying about his health to cover for alleged low ticket sales for the aforementioned tour.

Speaking via Instagram today, August 16th, Boecklin launched the following diatribe at his former bandmate: