Sitting in the back of a bus, bright blue hair glistening in the suncoming in through the window, the baby-faced drummer strokes the shoulder of his girlfriend curled up in his lap and stares out the window. When the question is asked about what “Spooky-core” means in respect to their music, the Coal Chamber drummer looks at the hundreds of kids attending the concert and replies in a soft voice.”All those kids out there. The kids who aren`t afraid to be different, who aren`t afraid to like something different, but to have a positive message at the same time. There is so much out there that is anti-positive, but a lot of our fans are young, so we are high in the positivity department,”said Mike Cox.Coal Chamber has come out of Los Angeles with determination to back up their self-titled debut in which they toured 18 months in support of. They realize though it is a long road to stardom from the underground scene.”It`s all word of mouth and we try and open up for bigger bands and we usually gain a lot of fans that way. But kids like the underground scene. A lot of kids I talk to are so anti-mainstream that they don`t care who it is, but if it`s not on MTV they like it. But the underground scene is like a club that extends across the world, and the kids like to be a part of that,” Cox said.Coal Chamber has been touring to support its sophomore effort, “Chamber Music,” and have used a re-make of Peter Gabriel`s “Shock the Monkey” as the first single. “We decided to use ‘Shock the Monkey’ because fans can recognize oursound in the song. And if we do get known for that song, it is so anti-pop and the video we did for is so anti-glamorous, so we don`t think of it as asell-out.”From opening the CD with an orchestra to the goth-sound of “No Home,” Coal Chamber explores music from many levels. But perhaps the Coal Chamber sound is no more apparent than on “El CuCuy,” which takes the singing range of Dez Fafara on a roller coaster ride. In “Chamber Music,” Coal Chamber has formed a sound all their own. As more and more heavy music bands continue to pound and thrash and make the same sound as before, Coal Chamber has made their own niche in the industry. The sound Coal Chamber produces is as diverse as the emotions Fafara harmonizes, hooks and screams about.