This is a remastered and remixed edition of Coalesce's ahead of it's time 1997 release, Give Them Rope. The mix is brought up, mainly the guitar. It sounds good, don't know if it was needed, but it's got cool artwork and the remix highlights some things that may have been missed the first time around.
Between the years of 1997 and 2004 lots of thing happened with Coalesce. Numerous breakups and line up changes, the scene they helped develop passed them by, and they found time to do an entire album of Led Zeppelin covers (which is fucking awesome). The original bass player, Stacy Hilt left and was replaced by Nathan Ellis. Ellis stayed with the band for a substantial amount of time, but became focused on his own group, The Casket Lottery to which he recruited Stacy Hilt, the same bass player he replaced in Coalesce to play in his band. Hilt however, would return in 2001 to play bass yet again for the band. James Dewees left after the groups album, Functioning on Impatience, to play keyboards for the Get Up Kid, later he did his own project, Reggie & the Full Effect, and even later wound up as the touring keyboardist for My Chemical Romance. Singer Sean Ingram filled in briefly for the Dillinger Escape Plan and embarked on other projects. Guitarist Jes Steineger remained a constant member, however, it's rumored his numerous religious conversions were reason for many of the band's numerous break ups.
So yeah, tumultuous history and all, but, brutal, hardcore metal needs that to continue, I guess.
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