Chamber

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Our new album 'A Love To Kill For' is OUT NOW!

Hailed by Kerrang! as “a baptism of fire, one that will thrill, bruise and possibly disgust,” the debut album from CHAMBER, Cost Of Sacrifice, was a lesson in blunt-force brutality. The Pure Noise Records LP elevated the Nashville-based metalcore quartet to new levels of the underground, earning them a stamp of approval from tastemakers like Revolver and BrooklynVegan as well as slots on tours with the likes of Wage War, Eighteen Visions, Counterparts and Kublai Khan.

But despite this widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike, the band themselves will be the first to tell you their trash-compactor cacophony didn’t go far enough for their liking.

“After putting out the last album, we realized no one needs us to be the pretty band,” guitarist Gabe Manuel says with a laugh. “We’d rather be the fucked up band.”

Thus, the blueprint for A Love To Kill For, the sophomore Pure Noise album from Manuel, vocalist Jacob Lilly, bassist Chris Smith and drummer Taylor Carpenter: faster, louder, more chaotic and unpredictable than ever before. All these elements have been fundamental parts of Chamber’s ear-rattling sound since the group formed in the tight-knit Nashville scene in 2017, but they’ve never been so confident and soul-shaking as they are now.

Produced by longtime collaborator Randy LeBoeuf (The Acacia Strain, Gideon) over the course of a month in New Jersey, A Love To Kill For follows 2022’s surprise Carved In Stone EP and is, unsurprisingly, reflective of the time period in which the band created it – a fraught, turbulent moment in the history of the modern world with unprecedented trickle-down and turmoil, prolonged periods of disconnection and isolation that allowed for existential reflection and detours into destructive behavior.

“It’s an album about people getting lost or mired in bullshit, whether that’s addiction or narcissism or selfishness,” Manuel says. “There are all sorts of ways the people you love can fail you in search of themselves, and ways people don’t come back from that.”

These are heavy topics begetting heavier songs, swerving in techy, math-rock brilliance, rabid tempos and unrelenting antipathy that swirl into a genre-fluid rage. First single “Tremble” sets the musical mission statement for the record – blistering riffs that give way to tremorous breakdowns and grooves alike – while “Devoured” and “To Die In The Grip Of Poison” feature ear-shattering cameos from Kublai Khan’s Matt Honeycutt and Boundaries’ Matt McDougal, respectively, that could soundtrack the most devastating Mortal Kombat fatalities.

“When we were writing, we wanted the songs to both fit together as a cohesive work but also be completely unpredictable,” says Lilly, who joined the band on vocals in 2018 and made his recorded debut on a reissue of Chamber’s debut EP, Ripping/Pulling/Tearing. “Whenever we’d hit writer’s block, we pushed through it with that in mind: just do something fast and wild.”

By the time things let up for a brief breath during the cinematic title track, it’s clear the band have hit another gear, raising the bar on what’s possible for dextrous metal and hardcore while leaving the future open wide for future evolutions of their musical brutality. That’s bad news for others looking to plant their flag in the heavy music landscape, but a win for those lucky enough to experience Chamber’s harrowing live show. (“We’re all about setlists that don’t have any snoozers,” Lilly says proudly.)

As for the band members’ accusations that their past work was too, in their own words, pretty? Beauty is, of course, squarely in the eyes of the beholder, but it’s safe to say the debate’s been put to rest – dead and buried with the dawning of a new era.

“This is what Chamber’s always wanted to be,” Manuel says emphatically. “We love music that’s fucked up and crazy – in the end, I think we’re all pretty crazy anyway.” XX
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Top tracks

06
Final Shape
Chamber
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
02:49
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel
05
Skin
Chamber
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
02:48
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel
01
Tears of Joy
Chamber
Tears of Joy
02:13
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
01
Empty
Chamber
Disaffect
03:26
Writer: Ross Rickers / Composers: Ross Rickers - Ross Toal - Callum Baker - Dan Hedley-Smith - Jack Bald
06
One Final Sacrifice
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
02:11
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
01
Chamber
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
01:10
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
01
Hopeless Portrait
Chamber
Hopeless Portrait
01:07
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
03
At My Hands
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
02:57
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
04
Tremble
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
02:45
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
05
To Die In The Grip Of Poison (feat. Matt McDougal)
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
02:54
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
04
In Search of Truth
Chamber
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
02:22
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel
02
Retribution
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
02:17
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
02
Eternal Memory
Chamber
Transcendental Scenery
05:03
Writer: Chamber / Composers: Chamber
11
Davidian
Chamber
Dead Formats, Vol. 1
05:02
Writer: Flynn Robert Conrad - Duce Adam / Composers: Flynn Robert Conrad - Duce Adam
02
Scars in Complex Patterns
Chamber
Cost of Sacrifice
03:25
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel
01
Fracture
Chamber
Cost of Sacrifice
03:15
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel

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  • Discography
Albums
(P) 2023 Pure Noise Records
14-07-2023
A Love To Kill For
01
Chamber
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
01:10
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
02
Retribution
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
02:17
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
03
At My Hands
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
02:57
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
04
Tremble
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
02:45
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
05
To Die In The Grip Of Poison (feat. Matt McDougal)
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
02:54
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
06
One Final Sacrifice
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
02:11
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
07
We Followed You to the Bitter End
Chamber
A Love To Kill For
00:12
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
Access the complete album info (14 songs)
℗ 2020 Epitaph, previously released by Pure Noise Records
23-10-2020
Cost of Sacrifice
01
Fracture
Chamber
Cost of Sacrifice
03:15
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel
02
Scars in Complex Patterns
Chamber
Cost of Sacrifice
03:25
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel
03
Paranoia Bleeds
Chamber
Cost of Sacrifice
02:36
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel
04
Visions of Hostility
Chamber
Cost of Sacrifice
01:56
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel
05
Impulse
Chamber
Cost of Sacrifice
02:31
Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel
06
In Cleansing Fire
Chamber
Cost of Sacrifice
02:52
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel
07
Numb (Transfuse)
Chamber
Cost of Sacrifice
03:53
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel - Mike Moynihan / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Jacob Lilly - Christian Smith - Marcus G. Manuel - Mike Moynihan
Access the complete album info (10 songs)
5th Power Entertainment
14-02-2020
Abnormal
01
Skull
Chamber
Abnormal
02:01
Writer: Derek Skirvin / Composers: Derek Skirvin
02
Nothing
Chamber
Abnormal
02:51
Writer: Derek Skirvin / Composers: Derek Skirvin
03
The Abyss
Chamber
Abnormal
03:30
Writer: Derek Skirvin / Composers: Derek Skirvin
04
Prey
Chamber
Abnormal
02:36
Writer: Derek Skirvin / Composers: Derek Skirvin
05
Messinwitchu (feat. Bvne & Sloan)
Chamber
Abnormal
03:56
Writer: Derek Skirvin / Composers: Derek Skirvin
06
The Dirt (feat. Raven Hunter & Jenocia X)
Chamber
Abnormal
04:27
Writer: Derek Skirvin / Composers: Derek Skirvin
07
Fake
Chamber
Abnormal
02:59
Writer: Derek Skirvin / Composers: Derek Skirvin
Access the complete album info (12 songs)
℗ 2019 Epitaph, previously released by Pure Noise Records
17-07-2019
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
01
Replacing Every Weakness
Chamber
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
02:38
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel
02
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
Chamber
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
02:36
Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel
03
Every Blade
Chamber
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
02:16
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel
04
In Search of Truth
Chamber
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
02:22
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel
05
Skin
Chamber
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
02:48
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel
06
Final Shape
Chamber
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
02:49
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel
07
Vessel
Chamber
Ripping / Pulling / Tearing
02:27
Writer: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Taylor Stephenson - Jacob Lilly - Gabe Manuel
Access the complete album info (8 songs)
2017 Chamber
21-10-2017
Chamber
01
Organic Recitative (Live)
Chamber
Chamber
16:23
Composers: Pere Soto Tejedor - Walter Lampe - Alex Coke - Arjen Gorter - George Hadow
02
Vivace Con Fuoco (Live)
Chamber
Chamber
21:00
Composers: Pere Soto Tejedor - Walter Lampe - Alex Coke - Arjen Gorter - George Hadow
03
Capriccios with a Drummer (Live)
Chamber
Chamber
15:20
Composers: Pere Soto Tejedor - Walter Lampe - Alex Coke - Arjen Gorter - George Hadow
04
Adagio Tenuto (Live)
Chamber
Chamber
05:51
Composers: Pere Soto Tejedor - Walter Lampe - Alex Coke - Arjen Gorter - George Hadow
5th Power Entertainment
27-04-2017
The Armory
01
Hate Mail (feat. D Bane)
Chamber
The Armory
03:26
02
Haters Anthem
Chamber
The Armory
04:07
03
Uh Huh
Chamber
The Armory
02:52
04
How We Livin (feat. Dan Tha Saltine & Koolaid)
Chamber
The Armory
03:31
05
Reign No More
Chamber
The Armory
04:54
06
Unbroken (feat. Hopsin & Raven Hunter)
Chamber
The Armory
04:02
07
Blind from Light (feat. Sadist & Ghetto Devil)
Chamber
The Armory
05:53
Access the complete album info (14 songs)
EPs
℗ 2022 Epitaph, previously released by Pure Noise Records
04-05-2022
Carved in Stone
01
Cellophane Form
Chamber
Carved in Stone
03:28
Writer: Jacob Lilly - Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Jacob Lilly - Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Gabe Manuel
02
Torn from Perfection
Chamber
Carved in Stone
02:41
Writer: Jacob Lilly - Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Jacob Lilly - Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Gabe Manuel
03
Carved in Stone
Chamber
Carved in Stone
03:48
Writer: Jacob Lilly - Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Gabe Manuel / Composers: Jacob Lilly - Taylor Carpenter - Christian Smith - Gabe Manuel
Venn Records
15-06-2018
Disaffect
01
Empty
Chamber
Disaffect
03:26
Writer: Ross Rickers / Composers: Ross Rickers - Ross Toal - Callum Baker - Dan Hedley-Smith - Jack Bald
02
Blood
Chamber
Disaffect
02:55
Writer: Ross Rickers / Composers: Ross Rickers - Ross Toal - Callum Baker - Dan Hedley-Smith - Jack Bald
03
Rusted
Chamber
Disaffect
03:04
Writer: Ross Rickers / Composers: Ross Rickers - Ross Toal - Callum Baker - Dan Hedley-Smith - Jack Bald
04
Another Lost Son
Chamber
Disaffect
02:26
Writer: Ross Rickers / Composers: Ross Rickers - Ross Toal - Callum Baker - Dan Hedley-Smith - Jack Bald
theory and practice records
13-12-2006
Transcendental Scenery
01
Daybreak
Chamber
Transcendental Scenery
01:11
Composers: Chamber
02
Eternal Memory
Chamber
Transcendental Scenery
05:03
Writer: Chamber / Composers: Chamber
03
Ill Hill
Chamber
Transcendental Scenery
04:38
Writer: Chamber / Composers: Chamber
04
Climb
Chamber
Transcendental Scenery
03:24
Writer: Chamber / Composers: Chamber
05
Struggle for Freedom
Chamber
Transcendental Scenery
04:24
Writer: Chamber / Composers: Chamber
06
Under the Same Sky
Chamber
Transcendental Scenery
04:57
Writer: Chamber / Composers: Chamber
Singles
(P) 2024 Pure Noise Records
30-10-2024
Tears of Joy
01
Tears of Joy
Chamber
Tears of Joy
02:13
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
2024 Bass Box Recordings | DBMG
05-04-2024
Rhythm (In My Head)
01
Rhythm (In My Head)
Chamber
Rhythm (In My Head)
04:10
Composers: Theo de Queiroz Lemos - João Victor Queiroz Faria
(P) 2023 Pure Noise Records
14-06-2023
Hopeless Portrait
01
Hopeless Portrait
Chamber
Hopeless Portrait
01:07
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
02
Devoured (feat. Matt Honeycutt)
Chamber
Hopeless Portrait
01:59
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
03
Tremble
Chamber
Hopeless Portrait
02:45
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
(P) 2023 Pure Noise Records
10-05-2023
Devoured
01
Devoured (feat. Matt Honeycutt)
Chamber
Devoured
01:59
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
02
Tremble
Chamber
Devoured
02:45
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
(P) 2023 Pure Noise Records
02-03-2023
Tremble
01
Tremble
Chamber
Tremble
02:45
Composers: Marcus Gabriel Manuel - Taylor Ridlan Carpenter - Patrick Henry Dierig - Christian Palmer Smith - Jacob Alexander Lilly
2016 2016
04-07-2016
Jump Jump
01
Jump Jump
Rado
Jump Jump
02:57