Chevelle
Chevelle refined alternative metal into a language of restraint, pressure, and sudden release. Centered for most of its career on brothers Pete and Sam Loeffler, the band favors lean arrangements over excess: thick guitar figures, locked-in drums, tense bass movement, and vocals that can turn from murmured unease to full-throated urgency. Wonder What's Next brought the group to a wider audience with "The Red" and "Send the Pain Below," but Chevelle's strength has been consistency rather than one era. Records such as This Type of Thinking, Vena Sera, La Gargola, and NIRATIAS kept tightening the band's identity around muscular riffs, cryptic lyrics, and a dark melodic pull. The music often invites comparison to the more spacious side of alternative metal, but Chevelle's writing is unusually compact. Their best songs feel coiled: a few parts, a heavy tone, a controlled vocal arc, and a chorus that lands because the band has spent the whole track building pressure.
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Chevelle Shows (21)
Chevelle Discography
11 tracks
- 1 Open 2:01
- 2 Point #1 4:21
- 3 Prove to You 3:05
- 4 Mia 2:21
- 5 Skeptic 4:06
- 6 Anticipation 3:08
- 7 Dos 6:29
- 8 Long 4:36
- 9 Blank Earth 5:26
- 10 Sma 2:55
- 11 Peer 4:08
15 tracks
- 1 Family System 4:16
- 2 Comfortable Liar 3:43
- 3 Send the Pain Below 4:12
- 4 Closure 4:11
- 5 The Red 3:58
- 6 Wonder What's Next 4:10
- 7 Don't Fake This 3:39
- 8 Forfeit 3:59
- 9 Grab Thy Hand 4:13
- 10 An Evening with El Diablo 5:43
- 11 One Lonely Visitor 4:05
- 12 Until You're Reformed 4:00
- 13 (High) Visibility 2:37
- 14 Black Boys On Mopeds 3:26
- 15 It's No Good 3:59
10 tracks
- 1 Family System - Live from Ozzfest 4:03
- 2 Forfeit - Live from Ozzfest 4:08
- 3 Point #1 - Live from Ozzfest 6:41
- 4 Until You're Reformed - Live from Ozzfest 4:04
- 5 Send the Pain Below - Live from Ozzfest 4:17
- 6 SMA - Live from Ozzfest 3:11
- 7 Wonder What's Next - Live from Ozzfest 4:33
- 8 MIA - Live from Ozzfest 2:49
- 9 Grab Thy Hand - Live from Ozzfest 4:15
- 10 The Red - Live from Ozzfest 4:23
11 tracks
- 1 The Clincher 3:43
- 2 Get Some 4:27
- 3 Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) 3:43
- 4 Still Running 3:43
- 5 Breach Birth 4:03
- 6 Panic Prone 3:49
- 7 Another Know It All 4:18
- 8 Tug-O-War 4:32
- 9 To Return 3:42
- 10 Emotional Drought 5:24
- 11 Bend the Bracket 5:05
12 tracks
- 1 Antisaint 4:21
- 2 Brainiac 3:21
- 3 Saferwaters 4:11
- 4 Well Enough Alone 4:18
- 5 Straight Jacket Fashion 4:02
- 6 The Fad 3:37
- 7 Humanoid 3:58
- 8 Paint the Seconds 3:58
- 9 Midnight to Midnight 4:24
- 10 I Get It 3:54
- 11 Saturdays 4:03
- 12 In Debt to the Earth 4:12
11 tracks
- 1 Sleep Apnea 3:51
- 2 Mexican Sun 4:15
- 3 Shameful Metaphors 4:21
- 4 Jars 3:19
- 5 Fell into Your Shoes 5:06
- 6 Letter from a Thief 3:27
- 7 Highland's Apparition 4:08
- 8 Roswell's Spell 4:37
- 9 Interlewd 1:21
- 10 A New Momentum 4:25
- 11 This Circus 4:32
11 tracks
- 1 Face to the Floor 3:38
- 2 Same Old Trip 3:09
- 3 Ruse 4:38
- 4 The Meddler 4:13
- 5 Piñata 3:53
- 6 Envy 4:19
- 7 Hats Off to the Bull 3:55
- 8 Arise 4:25
- 9 Revenge 3:30
- 10 Prima Donna 3:40
- 11 Clones 3:27
14 tracks
- 1 Antisaint - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 4:44
- 2 Jars - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 3:35
- 3 Sleep Walking Elite - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 3:29
- 4 The Clincher - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 3:36
- 5 Shameful Metaphors - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 4:47
- 6 Sleep Apnea - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 4:35
- 7 Get Some - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 5:11
- 8 Letter from a Thief - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 4:03
- 9 An Evening with El Diablo - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 6:16
- 10 Send the Pain Below - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 4:32
- 11 The Red - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 4:09
- 12 Straight Jacket Fashion - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 4:08
- 13 Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 4:37
- 14 I Get It - Live at The Metro, Chicago, IL 6:26
10 tracks
- 1 Ouija Board 4:18
- 2 An Island 5:11
- 3 Take Out the Gunman 4:18
- 4 Jawbreaker 4:54
- 5 Hunter Eats Hunter 5:45
- 6 One Ocean 5:49
- 7 Choking Game 5:23
- 8 The Damned 4:15
- 9 Under the Knife 3:57
- 10 Twinge 4:39
10 tracks
- 1 Door to Door Cannibals 4:35
- 2 Enemies 3:29
- 3 Joyride (Omen) 3:36
- 4 Rivers 3:59
- 5 Last Days 4:11
- 6 Young Wicked 3:05
- 7 Warhol's Showbiz 4:30
- 8 Punchline 5:10
- 9 Got Burned 3:39
- 10 Shot from a Cannon 8:11
13 tracks
- 1 Verruckt 3:30
- 2 So Long, Mother Earth 4:52
- 3 Mars Simula 4:11
- 4 Sleep the Deep 1:06
- 5 Self Destructor 5:47
- 6 Piistol Star (Gravity Heals) 4:49
- 7 VVurmhole 0:19
- 8 Peach 4:16
- 9 Test Test...Enough 2:08
- 10 Endlessly 5:14
- 11 Remember When 4:29
- 12 Ghost and Razor 5:51
- 13 Lost in Digital Woods 4:00
1 track
- 1 Peach 4:16
1 track
- 1 Self Destructor 5:47
9 tracks
- 1 Pale Horse 4:37
- 2 Rabbit Hole - Cowards, Pt. 1 4:09
- 3 Jim Jones - Cowards, Pt. 2 5:09
- 4 Hallucinations 4:22
- 5 Wolves (Love & Light) 4:42
- 6 Karma Goddess 4:11
- 7 Blood out in the Fields 3:33
- 8 Al Phobias 3:46
- 9 Shocked at the end of the world 4:55
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