Coalesce played their first NYC shows in 14 years with Cave In (pics)

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Coalesce played their first NYC shows in 14 years with Cave In (pics)

Kansas City mathcore vets Coalesce are back for the first time in 12 years and they’ve been playing a very select few shows. Having made their return with a hometown-area show at The Bottleneck in Lawrence, KS in September, they played Furnace Fest earlier this month and then made their way to the Northeast over the weekend for two shows at The Meadows in Brooklyn and one at The First Unitarian Church in Philly. They were co-headlining shows with Boston lifers Cave In, with support from Eye Flys at the first Brooklyn show (10/18), Majority Rule offshoot NØ MAN at the second, and Rid of Me in Philly. They’ve got fellow Midwesterner Jeff Gensterblum (Small Brown Bike, The Casket Lottery, etc) on drums for these shows, and they loaded their sets with classics and really made these intimate shows feel like it did to see Coalesce back in the day. At Saturday’s show, NØ MAN vocalist Maha Shami joined Coalesce for a song during their set.

Cave In looked and sounded as larger-than-life as ever as they mixed things up between their recent album Heavy Pendulum and their timeless classics, and they covered the Codeine song that they’re named after. Pictures of the Friday show by Dimitry Mak are in this post, along with fan-shot videos from throughout the weekend.

Next up for Coalesce: Chicago and Kansas City shows in December.

Coalesce @ The Meadows – 10/18/24 Setlist (via)
A Disgust for Details
73-C
What Happens on the Road Always Comes Home
Cowards.com
One on the Ground
Wild Ox Moan
A New Language
Burn Everything That Bears Our Name
Next on the Shit List
Through Sparrows I Rest
Have Patience
The Purveyor of Novelty and Nonsense
In My Wake, for My Own
A Safe Place
You Can’t Kill Us All

Cave In @ The Meadows – 10/18/24 Setlist (via)
New Reality
Blood Spiller
Nightmare Eyes
Cave-In (Codeine cover)
Blinded by a Blaze
Careless Offering
Off to Ruin
The World Is in Your Way
Moral Eclipse

Tags: Cave-in, Coalesce, Eye flys, Heavy metal, Music, No man, Punk, The meadows