Coalesce

Sean Ingram (Chant) Jes Steineger - (Guitare) Nathan Ellis - (Basse) Nathan "Jr." Richardson - (Battery)
In January 1994, Jes Steineger (guitar), Stacy Hilt (bass) and Jim Redd (battery) founded Breach. That same year, Sean Ingram (chant) joined the trio who took advantage of it to rename himself Coalesce in order to avoid confusion with the Swedish band (Breach ). After a first 7 inches recorded at the West End Studios, Coalesce joined the British branch of the Earache Records label where they met Ed Rose who would be involved in the production of several of their records. In 1995, 002 marks the real start of Coalesce which will be followed by a first US tour alongside Bloodlet and 108 . It was at this time that Sean Ingram and Jim Redd entered into conflict, leading to a first separation in 1996. Shortly afterwards, the band reshaped with this time James DeWees to the battery. The band then asserts its atypical and complex style between hardcore punk and hardcore metal. Following the recording of the album Functioning on Impatience , Nathan Ellis replaces Stacy Hilt at bass. In 1998, the combo recorded There is Nothing New Under the Sun , Led Zeppelin's cover album on Hydra Head (republished in 2007). The same year Coalesce took the road with Neurosis , Nile and Dillinger Escape Plan for a tour on the East Coast. Once again, technical problems and tensions push the band to stop the tour and then to separate. This does not prevent the band from finalizing in several sessions their latest album 012:Revolution in Just Listening . Meanwhile Nathan Ellis plays in The Masket Lottery, James DeWees holds the position of keyboardist at The Get Up Kids and starts a solo project today well known, Reggie and the Full Effect. Coalesce reshaped again in 2002 with Cory White instead of Jes Steineger for a national tour. In September 2005, the band announced that it would give its last concert to Lawrence (Kansas). Concert during which Sean Ingram announces the end of Coalesce and the birth of a new project (which will not succeed). True to their chaotic history, Sean Ingram announced in 2007 to the surprise of all of Coalesce recorded two new songs. The latter will be released the same year on a 7 inches named Salt And Passage which will be accompanied by a new tour. 2009, Ox arrives without too much warning him either (joined in the year by his little sister OxEP ) at Relapse .