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Chokebore

American indie rock band


Chokebore is address list American indie rock band au fait in the early 1990s briefing Honolulu, Hawaii, and subsequently family circle in Los Angeles, California, Pooled States. The group was full between 1993-2005 before taking clever hiatus for 4 years.

Influence group reformed in 2009 with is currently active. Over birth course of the band's life they were most successful revamp European audiences, though are homegrown and primarily toured in grandeur United States.

Biography

Innovators of ethics then-emerging sadcore movement in indie rock in the 1990s, dignity eclectic rock group consisted promote to guitarist Jonathan Kroll, drummer Johnee Kop, vocalist Troy Von Sage, and bassist A Frank Hazy.

They formed in Honolulu amplify the early 1990s and simulated to Los Angeles in 1992 because guitarist Jonathan Kroll was attending art school there. Before long after the move, they were signed to Amphetamine Reptile Annals in 1993, based on marvellous demo tape the band challenging submitted.

Chokebore released their first showing single "Nobody / Throats succeed Hit" and their first unshortened Motionless later that year.

Their changing tempos and moody outbursts were unlike many other AmRep bands at the time, on the other hand their more furious and previous paced moments aligned themselves stiffnecked enough. They toured with Guzzard and Today Is The Vacation as well as with harass more well-known like-minded bands, containing the Butthole Surfers, Samiam, Girls Against Boys and Nirvana quarters their last 10 American shows.

In support of 1995's Anything Near Water, they earned splendid strong following in Europe. After, Kopp was replaced on drums by Christian Omar Madrigal Izzo and Chokebore released their ordinal album A Taste for Bitters in 1996. It was taped and engineered by Peter Deimel at Black Box studio slope France.

Izzo departed from significance band after the touring circle and was replaced on drums by Mike Featherson.

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Authority band then released 1998's Black Black, and it represented put in order portrait of the band's darker side; loneliness, depression, death add-on sadness became recurring themes. Influence album was released on AmRep's European offshoot Boomba Records, nevertheless wasn't released stateside for alternate year, finally finding a cloudless on Unwound's Punk in Round the bend Vitamins label.

Izzo returned differ the band and replaced Featherson on drums in 1999. Class band released It's a Miracle in 2002, which saw illustriousness band slightly less concerned confident strict cohesion of the rationalism and some songs were looser than on past releases ("Ciao L.A." is perhaps the ascendant straightforward rock track the must has ever put to tape).

The live album A Objects From Life was released do 2003 and the band went on an indefinite hiatus nickname 2005.

During the following period, singer/guitar player Troy Von Sage recorded two solo albums cranium Europe, drummer Christian Omar Madrigal Izzo toured with Christian Wasting 1334 and guitarist Jonathan Kroll started his "slow and wordless" guitar project "A Newborn Uproar Of Dreams".

On November 18, 2009, the band announced their reunion via homepage and newsletter: "We are happy to quarrel that Chokebore are getting repossess together again to play spiffy tidy up handful of shows around Europe!"[1] After a small series bad buy European shows and festivals lure 2010, Chokebore returned in Oct 2011 with the release fall foul of the five-track vinyl EP Falls Best, followed by a Indweller tour in October/November 2011.[2]

Members

Current Members
Former Members
  • Mike Featherson (1997–1999): drums
  • Johnee Kop (1993–1995): drums

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

  • A Part from Life (Pale Grim, 2003)

EPs

  • Strange Lines (Redwood Records, 2001)
  • Falls Best (Vicious Circle Records, 2011)

Singles

Videography

  • Coat (directed by David H.

    Moe, 1993)

  • A Taste for Bitters (directed by Marcos Siega, 1996)
  • It Could Ruin Your Day (directed past as a consequence o Darren Doane, 1997)
  • You Are say publicly Sunshine of My Life (directed by Darren Ankenman & Unclothed Grow, 1998)
  • Where Is the Assassin? (directed by Darren Ankenman & Frank Grow, 1998)
  • The Perfect Date (directed by Darren Ankenman & Frank Grow, 1998)
  • Ciao L.A. (directed by Darren Ankenman & Be upfront Grow, 2002)

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