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Chokebore | |
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| Origin | Honolulu,Hawaii, U.S. |
| Genres | Alternative rock Indie rock |
| Years active | 1993–2005 2009–present |
| Labels | Amphetamine Reptile, Boomba Rec, Punk iN My Vitamins, Pale Blue, Vicious Circle |
| Members | Troy Balthazar James Kroll Jonathan Kroll Christian Omar Madrigal Izzo |
| Past members | Mike Featherson Johnee Kop |
| Website | www.chokebore.net |
Chokebore is an Americanindie rock band formed in the early 1990s inHonolulu,Hawaii, and subsequently based inLos Angeles, California, United States. The group was active between 1993 and 2005 before taking a hiatus for 4 years. The group reformed in 2009 and is currently active. Over the course of the band's history they were most successful withEuropean audiences, though are based and primarily toured in theUnited States.
Innovators of the then-emergingsadcore movement inindie rock in the 1990s, the eclectic rock group consisted of guitarist Jonathan Kroll, drummer Johnee Kop, vocalistTroy Von Balthazar, and bassist A Frank G. They formed inHonolulu in the early 1990s and moved toLos Angeles in 1992 because guitarist Jonathan Kroll was attending art school there. Shortly after the move, they were signed toAmphetamine Reptile Records in 1993, based on a demo tape the band had submitted.
Chokebore released their debut single "Nobody / Throats to Hit" and their first full-lengthMotionless later that year. Their changing tempos and moody outbursts were unlike many other AmRep bands at the time, but their more furious and quicker paced moments aligned themselves just enough. They toured with Guzzard andToday Is The Day as well as with other more well-known like-minded bands, including theButthole Surfers,Samiam,Girls Against Boys andNirvana on their last 10 American shows.
In support of 1995'sAnything Near Water, they earned a strong following in Europe. Afterwards, Kopp was replaced on drums by Christian Omar Madrigal Izzo and Chokebore released their third albumA Taste for Bitters in 1996. It was recorded and engineered by Peter Deimel at Black Box studio in France. Izzo departed from the band after the touring cycle and was replaced on drums by Mike Featherson. The band then released 1998'sBlack Black, and it represented a portrait of the band's darker side; loneliness, depression, death and sadness became recurring themes. The album was released on AmRep's European offshoot Boomba Records, but wasn't released stateside for another year, finally finding a home onUnwound'sPunk in My Vitamins label.
Izzo returned to the band and replaced Featherson on drums in 1999. The band releasedIt's a Miracle in 2002, which saw the band slightly less concerned with strict cohesion of the aesthetics and some songs were looser than on past releases ("Ciao L.A." is perhaps the most straightforward rock track the band has ever put to tape). The live albumA Part From Life was released in 2003 and the band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2005.
During the following years, singer/guitar playerTroy Von Balthazar recorded two solo albums in Europe, drummer Christian Omar Madrigal Izzo toured withChristian Death 1334 and guitarist Jonathan Kroll started his "slow and wordless" guitar project "A Newborn Riot Of Dreams".
On November 18, 2009, the band announced their reunion via homepage and newsletter: "We are happy to announce that Chokebore are getting back together again to play a handful of shows around Europe!"[1] After a small series of European shows and festivals in 2010, Chokebore returned in October 2011 with the release of the five-track vinyl EPFalls Best, followed by a European tour in October/November 2011.[2]
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