When I first got into hardcore music in the early 2000s, I heard bogeyman-style tales about metalcore giants Coalesce and their chaotic live shows. Those stories were easier to believe after I stumbled across the Missouri band’s 1998 second full-length, Functioning on Impatience (Second Nature). The album opens with the unaccompanied vocals of front man […] The post Metalcore icons Coalesce return from hiatus older and wiser but just as vicious appeared first on Chicago Reader.