Chamber

CHAMBER have the unique advantages of both foresight and hindsight, demonstrating reverence to bygone pioneers and provocateurs. They salute those whose landmark albums pre-dated the appropriation of “metalcore” by anemic boy bands with formulaic choruses and mall metal parts. They worship at the altar of do-it-yourself chaos merchants like Converge, Botch, Coalesce, and Disembodied, with the vision to incorporate the esoteric atmosphere of Deftones and Gojira.

The band’s full-length debut, COST OF SACRIFICE, is a gob-smacking, life-affirming, invigorating smack across the face, to anyone who dares to despair that the genre’s salad days are forgotten. Angry, ferocious, mournful, and at times blissfully melodic, CHAMBER deal in devilish speed and frantic nervosa, without sacrificing unrelenting heaviness. Emotional confessions abound in the lyrics, with a plainspoken examination of trauma and personal upheaval, befitting the music.

Often unhinged but never completely off the rails, CHAMBER temper their assault in powerful restraint, in terms of structure and maturity, balancing the blast furnace burst of their earlier output. The Ripping / Pulling / Tearing collection issued by Pure Noise Records, which gathered the band’s self-released EPs and a brand-new song, was the opening salvo in what is sure to be a long campaign of carnage. CHAMBER blend mayhem with melody, and headbanging with heaviness, without ever sounding disjointed beyond the type of irreverence of hardcore legend.

CVLT Nation heralded the band as “both surgically precise in execution and feral in attack.” Critics have zeroed in on the mashup of technicality and madness, drawing favorable comparisons to The Dillinger Escape Plan, with nods to death metal and even grindcore and industrial. Kerrang! included CHAMBER in a list of 6 Underground Metalcore Bands Redefining The Scene Right Now.