Fiend (song)

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"Fiend"
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Single by Coal Chamber
from the album Dark Days
Released2002
Genre Nu metal
Length3:01
Label Roadrunner
Songwriter(s)
Coal Chamber singles chronology
"Shock the Monkey"
(2000)
"Fiend"
(2002)
"I.O.U. Nothing"
(2015)

"Fiend" is a song by Coal Chamber, from their third album, Dark Days. [1] It is one of the band's most well known songs and is thought to be about how the band and the nu metal genre were getting heavily criticized at the time.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Fiend" – 3:01

Music video

Dez Fafara and Meegs Rascón drive to a suburban house, where two children are playing outside, their mother, horrified, runs out and ushers them back inside, Fafara and Rascón then walk to the house's garage where Mike Cox and Rayna Foss are waiting, then they perform the song while an increasing crowd of teenagers listens outside. [2]

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References

  1. "Coal Chamber Serves Up Its 'Dark Days'". New.music.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
  2. "Coal Chamber - Fiend". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 2012-01-27.