THE TOURS THAT WENT TO SHIT

COAL CHAMBER/INSANE CLOWN POSSE

The Amazing Jeckel Brothers Tour, 1999

Poor Coal Chamber. It’s bad enough that they’re remembered solely as Dez from Devildriver’s old band with the daft hair, but they had a rough time on the road even at their most commercially successful. Firstly, the spooky kids headed out with the equally wally-like Insane Clown Posse on a supposed US co-headline run in 1999, only to drop off after two days citing ‘production issues’. Drummer Mike Cox whined to MTV that they’d been deprived of a soundcheck and a stage show. “We thought it was a first show thing. Second show, same thing,” he said. It transpired that they’d been fired following poor ticket sales. Coal Chamber threatened legal action, and started their own tour where they could headline and, therefore, not be upstaged. Unfortunately, they decided to bring a support cast of Amen, Machine Head and, wait for it… Slipknot on their first album! One night, they lowered the curtain on Machine Head while Robb Flynn was still onstage at the end of their set in New York, and were promptly booed offstage when they arrived to play themselves. Silly sausages!

SLAYER/BIOHAZARD AND MORE

Tattoo The Planet, 2001

With a line-up that brought both Pantera and Slayer together to tour the UK, alongside a veritable who’s who of the most inspiring metal bands of the time, Tattoo The Planet could have