Coal Chamber were set to launch a headlining US tour featuring Fear Factory, Twizted, and Black Satellite next week, but the outing has been postponed after frontman Dez Fafara experienced a near-death medical emergency.
The “Fiend for the Fans Tour” was supposed to launch on August 23rd, but is now set to kick off on March 5th, 2005, in Denver, and run through an April 18th show in Maplewood, Minnesota, with tickets available here.
Fafara, who had previously battled long COVID, detailed his harrowing medical experience is an open letter to fans, writing:
“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.”
Dino Cazares of Fear Factory added, “Sometimes you have to make tough decisions and I know Dez, if he could be on tour right now he would but health and family come first. We wish him a speedy recovery and we look forward to cybercrushing it on the “Fiends for the Fans”tour 2025.”
Tickets for the existing shows will be honored for the new dates. More rescheduled shows are expected to be announced shortly. See the updated itinerary below.
Coal Chamber 2025 Tour Dates:
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