DEZ FAFARA: 'SEVENDUST Are Like Old, Watered-Down Coca-Cola'

January 14, 2004

DEVILDRIVER/ex-COAL CHAMBER frontman Dez Fafara has spoken to Pitriff.com about his ongoing "feud" with SEVENDUST and his decision to form DEVILDRIVER halfway through the recording sessions for COAL CHAMBER's last album, "Dark Days".

When asked if he feels the whole SEVENDUST "nonsense" has helped or hurt DEVILDRIVER as far as getting the band's name out there, Dez said, "Uh… SEVENDUST. Dude, I didn't even know they were still a band. They're surely kicking the last can, aren't they? I don't even know what they stand for anymore. They are kind of like old, watered-down Coca-Cola in the morning. You just don't want to drink it. You want to throw it away and go get a new one. Yeah."

Regarding his new band and the decision to form DEVILDRIVER, Fafara said, "Well, you've got to know that when I was presented with the second COAL CHAMBER album, even though Ozzy was going to be on it with me, I was unhappy. The band, from that time on, we really hadn't been talking at all. We really hadn't had a great relationship. We really weren't talking at all. By the time the end of the second record, we were in separate buses and everything else. So, when the third album came up, I had actually said, 'If you make something heavier, then I'll do it.' That's why you get 'Dark Days', which is a little bit heavier — heavier by the way that COAL CHAMBER is. So, I decided to do it, but I was making demos for DEVILDRIVER while I was doing the 'Dark Days' album. I'd spend 8, 9, 10 hours in a day working on 'Dark Days', and come back late at night and be doing DEVILDRIVER demos, only because I just knew that it was over. I sensed a change in the wind in music. I've always been that guy that could sense what was going on. What's going on with me is usually going against what's going on. I just saw a lot of really commercial metal stuff going on, and I knew that we were founders of that scene, along with a lot of other bands. It was time to kill your own scene. I've got a shirt that my wife made me that says, 'Kill Your Own Scene,' and I wear it around my house just as proud as could be."

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