Coalesce
Mississippi Studios
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Portland
Thursday, January 9 at 8 pm PST
Concert Venue
Thursday, January 9 at 8 pm PST
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w/ Great Falls & Museum of Light
Coalesce’s music has consistently pushed the boundaries of the hardcore and metal genres, forging a mind-boggling obsession with strange, shifting tempos with power, noise, groove, and a creativity paralleled only by the band’s peers in Dillinger Escape Plan and Botch. The origins of Coalesce can be traced back to a band called Breach—a group not to be confused with the European outfit that shares their name. Breach formed in January of 1994 with Jes Steineger on guitar, Stacy Hilt on bass, and drummer James Redd. After a few abortive attempts at finding a musical direction with a different vocalist, screamer Sean Ingram—late of the band Restrain—was invited to join the fold.
As Coalesce, the quartet began to define its own sound, bridging together odd time signatures, an abrasive vocal style, and wandering guitar dissonance. They wrote five songs together and performed for free in basements, eventually releasing a self-titled 7” single through Chapter Records that quickly blew through its initial 1,000-copy pressing. The buzz generated by the single and the band’s increasingly volatile live performances drew the attention of metal powerhouse label Earache, which invited Coalesce to become the third band aboard their short-lived New Chapter imprint. The resulting record was a CD version of their three-song 002 demo. A year later, Coalesce released a split-CD EP with Britain’s long-running Napalm Death. The two Earache releases were supported by a six-week tour with similarly minded Florida band Bloodlet and 108.
oalesce reactivated in 2005 replacing James Dewees on guitars with Nathan “junior” Richardson from the Casket Lottery and immediately started experimenting with sound again and released the Salt and Passage 7”, and in 2009, the band released Ox, their first full-length record in nearly a decade. The album was met with critical acclaim earning them a perfect score in Decibel records when it came out as well as making the cut for their top 100 albums of the decade. Ox saw coalesce tour on their material for the first time in Europe and England and performing live on the BBC Radio 1’s “Rock Show”.
After nearly 12 years of radio silence, in early 2024 coalesce announced “fuck it, we’ll do it” and booked a slot on the final year of Furnace Fest in Alabama. Replacing Nate “junior” on drums is Jeff Gensterblum of Small Brown Bike fame. Shortly after Relapse announced that all of their albums were to be repressed on vinyl. Coalesce is currently booking shows world wide and in the process of writing their next album for Relapse Records.
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