While nu metal progenitors and purveyors of swaying this way Coal Chamber putting out a new song in time for Halloween would have made way too much sense, but when a new song surfaced on streaming, it turned out to be too good to be true. Based on the cover, it wouldn't be outside of the realm of possibility that this was AI-generated slop, something that Spotify claims to be fighting against, but in reality has more than enabled.
Turns out the second verse is same as the first, as today, another song was put up on streaming, and it is again credited to a James Brandeburg. The song is "Overflowing Blessings," and it is the furthest thing from the down-tuned nu metal we know Coal Chamber for. This sounds like some praise band original, and as someone who was raised Lutheran in the Midwest, I feel I am uniquely qualified to make such an assertion.
No one from Coal Chamber, least of all the usually-outspoken frontman Dez Fafara, has commented on the situation, and in any research I did, I could only find a nature photographer by that name, and he passed away in June of last year, so we won't send any strays the way of his family. Whatever is going on, it seems like the band has no idea, or at the very least is handling it in private, if at all.
The roof is on fire, and we don't need water, we need this and the previous song "Fire Grows Low," AI slop or not, to be taken off of the landing pages for Coal Chamber. And given that it seems like no one else is reporting on this, it feels like I'm being gaslit into believing that they've gone soft.
Dare I say it's driving me... loco.
