Dez Fafara

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Bradley 'Dez' Fafara; ex-front man of Coal Chamber, current front man of DevilDriver.

Born May 12 1961, has a wife named Anastasia, 2 sons (one named Tyler) and is of Italian heritage. He made four albums with Coal Chamber: Coal Chamber, Chamber Music, Dark Days, and the b-sides album Giving The Devil His Due. Dez wrote a song about one of his sons, Tyler, most appropriately named Tyler's Song. He also collaborated with Ozzy Osbourne for a remake of Shock The Monkey, a song originally by Peter Gabriel. Not long after the break-up of Coal Chamber did Dez start DevilDriver. So far in DevilDriver, he has released two albums, DevilDriver and The Fury of Our Maker's Hand. Fafara recently made a song for the compilation Roadrunner United, an album created by Roadrunner Records for their 25th year anniversary. His song was titled Baptized In The Redemption, and he made the song with Dino Cazares (Asesino, ex-Fear Factory, ex-Brujeria), Andreas Kisser (Sepultura), Paul Gray (Slipknot), and Roy Mayorga (Stone Sour,ex-Soulfly).

Dez refuses to talk about his earlier years with Coal Chamber and the subject of their break up is highly disputed among fans of both Coal Chamber and DevilDriver. Everyone could only seem to agree on the fact that the break up was messy and led to serious arguments between band mates.