Coal Chamber guitarist Miguel “Meegs” Rascón vividly remembers touring with a really younger Slipknot again in 1999. Or extra particularly, how Slipknot made Coal Chamber instantly step their sport up.
In an interview with the Garza Podcast, Rascón recalled the primary present they did with Slipknot, saying he instantly ran onto Coal Chamber‘s bus to let everybody know they had been most likely fucked.
“Slipknot comes up and searching like they had been again then, all actually scraggly with all these torn shit and masks and all that. Dude, they fucking like blew my shit. I noticed a couple of songs. I went to my bus yeah and I yelled at [Coal Chamber], I am going ‘if we do not do something tonight, we’re useless. As a result of these motherfuckers are out to kill us. No shit.’ They’re like ‘what do you imply? What do you imply?’ So I stated ‘get out of the bus and go see this shit.’
“They went in there and so they got here out like, white. I used to be like ‘fuck dude, we received to do one thing.’ We did. We sort of amped up our sport, however that is what I am speaking about – like, having a bit extra ‘oomph’ in your hearth, ?”
Rascón later famous that Coal Chamber getting their asses sonically kicked was a great factor, but it surely was nonetheless tough: “That was not good for me. I imply, for us it was good as a result of we amped it up, but it surely was unhealthy within the day as a result of it was like, these guys had been on hearth. Slipknot again then was on hearth.”
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