I hadn’t listened to Coalesce’s Ox in a bit, so I threw it on again this weekend, and holy shit. Why did so much good music come out this year? How the fucking fuck am I supposed to narrow all this shit down to just ten albums? Fuck you, brilliant musicians!!!But I digress. Ox. It’s [...]
One of the few graffiti pieces not done by rick ta lifeCoalesce recently embarked on their first European trek ever, so we asked them to document the journey in the form of a few tour blogs. This is the first blog in a three-part series about their touring, with each blog written by a different [...]
The fine people at Relapse Records have provided us with a killer prize for the first edition of Name That Tune. The rules are simple. Stream the snippet of music below and leave a comment with the name of the band and the title of the song from the snippet. From the correct answers, we [...]
I don’t want to say too much about Ox because Sammy O’Hagar is working on the review even as I type this, but the album rules. Hard. I won’t even argue about it; people that don’t like it are no friend of mine.Lambgoat is currently streaming the entire album. Check it out before it’s released [...]
It's a story as old as the hills: boy meets boy, boy records ground-breaking metalcore with boy, boy replaces boy with another boy which the other boy only finds out when he turns up for boy practice. Coalesce, like most bands with a fifteen year history, leave behind them a tangled web of friendship, thwarted ambition, sublime glory and not-so indefinite hiatuses.
Coalesce - Functioning On Impatience Second Nature CDWhile many have imitated and a select few have taken the complicatedcore sub-genre of hardcore to new heights, none have matched Coalesce's ferocity, density or unorthodox nature. From the stunning medical text-inspired packaging to the slower, groove-oriented undercurrent winding its way throughout Coalesce's trademarked sonic onslaught, Fun...
It's a story as old as the hills: boy meets boy, boy records ground-breaking metalcore with boy, boy replaces boy with another boy which the other boy only finds out when he turns up for boy practice. Coalesce, like most bands with a fifteen year history, leave behind them a tangled web of friendship, thwarted ambition, sublime glory and not-so indefinite hiatuses.
The fine people at Relapse Records have provided us with a killer prize for the first edition of Name That Tune. The rules are simple. Stream the snippet of music below and leave a comment with the name of the band and the title of the song from the snippet. From the correct answers, we [...]
One of the bands I’m most bummed about not getting to see at Scion is Coalesce; I have no friggin’ idea which rocket scientist decided to stick one of the day’s most anticipated bands on the shitty Purgatory stage, but at the end of the day it didn’t seem worth it to listen to the [...]
Coalesce - Functioning On Impatience Second Nature CDWhile many have imitated and a select few have taken the complicatedcore sub-genre of hardcore to new heights, none have matched Coalesce's ferocity, density or unorthodox nature. From the stunning medical text-inspired packaging to the slower, groove-oriented undercurrent winding its way throughout Coalesce's trademarked sonic onslaught, Fun...