Artist: Coalesce
Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
Year: 1999
Tracks: 7
Functioning On Impatience
Year: 1998
Tracks: 7
Give Them Rope
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
Coalesce's medicine has systematically pushed the boundaries of the hard-core and metallic element genres, forging a mind-boggling compulsion with unusual, shifting tempos with power, noise, vallecula, and a creativity paralleled only by the band's peers in Dillinger Escape Plan and Botch. The origins of Coalesce stern be traced indorse to a caboodle called Breach -- a grouping not to be at sea with the European outfit that shares their call. Breach formed in January of 1994 with Jes Steineger on guitar, Stacy Hilt on bass, and drummer James Redd. After a few unsuccessful attempts at finding a musical direction with a different singer, yeller Sean Ingram -- later of the band Restrain -- was invited to join the sheepcote.
As Coalesce, the quartette began to define its own heavy, bridging together odd meter signatures, an abrasive vocal style, and erratic guitar noise. They wrote quintet songs together and performed for free in basements, finally releasing a self-titled 7" individual through Chapter Records that speedily blew through its initial 1,000-copy pressing. The buzz generated by the single and the band's increasingly fickle live performances drew the attention of metallic element powerhouse label Earache, which invited Coalesce to suit the tierce lot aboard their fugacious New Chapter imprint. The resulting record was a CD interlingual rendition of their three-song 002 demo. A year by and by on, Coalesce released a split-CD EP with Britain's long-running Napalm Death. The two Earache releases were supported by a six-week circuit with likewise minded Florida stripe Bloodlet and Krishna-core mavens 108.
Upon reversive place, Coalesce skint up for the number one clip, with Redd exit sour to college in Baltimore shortly later. In 1996 the band re-formed, this time with frenzied James DeWees aboard. The fresh invigorated band signed a take with Philadelphia's Edison label, which released Coalesce's debut full-length album, Give Them Rope. It was a bludgeoning affair molded with Ingram's increasingly deep solomon Bellow and lyrical musings, personal polemics unlike many of the band's contemporaries. Split singles with Boy Sets Fire and the Get Up Kids followed, with Coalesce coupling up with each band to "reinterpret" 1 another's songs. Nathan Ellis replaced Hilt in the band around the time that Functioning on Impatience was released through band sidekick Dan Askew's Second Nature Recordings. The record saw the band streamlining their sound, sacrificing a bit of musical barbarism in party favor of a subtle handiness, all the patch left fabulously originative. The like label too released a record that presented freshly recorded versions of the 002 songs alongside tracks from a prospicient out of print undivided, titling it A Safe Place/002.
A trip to Red House Studios to record an album's worth of '70s tilt songs resulted in septet Led Zeppelin covers alternatively, as Coalesce became so beguiled by the smattering of Zeppelin songs they had primitively elected to platter that they distinct to pay tribute exclusively to them. The songs were released as There Is Nothing New Under the Sun through Boston's Hydra Head label, the same company that issued the split with Boy Sets Fire. All of these releases, conjugate with a smattering of live appearances, culminated in several larger metal-oriented labels pursuing the isthmus. After narrowing it down pat to two labels, Coalesce single-minded to go with Relapse, decision making to break up formerly once more before the recording of their newfangled label debut had even begun.
Conflate reassembled long enough to make 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening. It was arguably their topper elbow grunge by that point -- accentuated by Ingram's now unmistakable lyric prose, Steineger's now signally Jimmy Page-like approach to riffian writing (albeit combined with his possess outlandish time signatures), Ellis' runny basslines, and DeWees' scattershot and powerhouse drumming. Hydra Head asked for one last birdcall dynasty to include on the CD interpretation of the Boy Sets Fire split, so Ingram, Ellis, and producer Ed Rose improvised over an old acoustic track, creating "Bob Jr." A final depict, dubbed Last Call for the Living, was discussed much up to now never materialized. Members stayed busy -- DeWees with the Get Up Kids (for whom he had begun playing keyboards) and Reggie and the Full Effect; Ellis fronting a band called the Casket Lottery on guitar and vocals (together with the guy rope he replaced in Coalesce, Hilt). Ingram was tangled with various projects -- including a live appearance screaming for a then singer-less Dillinger Escape Plan at Krazy Fest 4 in Louisville, KY, and a long-discussed project with members of Seattle's Training for Utopia called the American Spectator.
A collection of old Coalesce recordings surfaced as a vinyl-only release through Florida's No Idea, with the band re-forming once over again in 2001. This time the card included Ingram, a returning Hilt on bass, DeWees, and a modern guitar player named Cory White. Operation on Impatience was the first record album released under this card, arriving on Hydra Head Records during the following summertime.
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