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Coma Beach | |
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| Origin | Würzburg, Germany |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 1993–1996 |
| Labels | Impact Records (Germany), 3118825 Records DK (digital re-release) |
| Members | B. Kafka Captain A. Fear U. Terror M. Blunt M. Lecter |
| Website | Coma Beach on Facebook |
Coma Beach is a punk rock/alternative rock band from Würzburg, Germany. The band was formed in 1993 by singer B. Kafka, guitarist Captain A. Fear and drummer M. Lecter, with bassist U. Terror and rhythm guitarist M. Blunt completing the lineup. After extensive touring in Germany, Coma Beach recorded and released their debut album The Scapegoat's Agony with the German punk label Impact Records (Germany) in 1995. The album title is an allusion to the play Waiting for Godot by Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett and points towards the – for the most part – painful and excruciating emotional odyssey of the unnamed antihero. In 1996 the band disbanded.
In June 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the album The Scapegoat's Agony was re-released in digital form on various audio streaming services, distributed by the independent digital music distribution service DistroKid.
Two years later, from July to October 2023, the band released three tracks off their debut album as singles, once again in digital form: "Jesus' Tears" (including the original version of "I Won't Listen"), "Nothing Right" (including the original version of "Passion") and "Another Song" (including the original version of "Nothing Right"). The fourth single, "Extreme Masochist", was released in February 2024.
Three months later, the band released the EP I Won't Listen, featuring the following four, slightly abridged album tracks: "I Won't Listen (Single Version)", "The Past Of The Future (Radio Edit)", "Passion (Original Version - Radio Edit)" and "Another Song (Radio Edit)". In August 2024, another EP was released, A Madman's Dream/Mind Descending, including the following five songs, which had also made an appearance on their debut album The Scapegoat's Agony: "A Madman's Dream (Single Version)", "Mind Descending (Single Version)", "Absurd (Radio Edit)", "I Won't Listen (Original Version - Radio Edit)" and "Jesus' Tears (Radio Edit)".
Influences
[edit]Coma Beach's musical influences range from Sex Pistols, Ramones, Hüsker Dü, Joy Division, The Cure, The Jesus and Mary Chain to Guns N' Roses, Therapy? and Bad Religion, with their songs frequently straddling the line between punk rock and alternative rock.
The band's English lyrics draw on numerous themes and motifs from various authors, such as the existentialist view of the world's utter meaninglessness, as portrayed in Samuel Beckett's plays and novels; the satirical-sarcastic approach to the absurdities of human existence, as employed in Douglas Adams's narratives; the often tragic and – not infrequently – self-inflicted conflicts that countless characters have to suffer through in William Shakespeare's plays; or Arthur Schopenhauer's system of a radical metaphysical pessimism:
Shock, chaos, pain, rage and isolation: These are the thematic cornerstones of COMA BEACH’s music. The very title of their debut album, "The Scapegoat's Agony", an ominous-sounding allusion to Samuel Beckett's literary works, already bears the haunting promise of a highly unusual experience. Lurking behind it all, there is a clear-eyed artistic vision rather than a generic punk rock album…[1]
Discography
[edit]- 1995: The Scapegoat's Agony (Album, CD, Impact Records (Germany))
- 2021: The Scapegoat's Agony (Album, digital self-release, distributed by DistroKid)
- 2023: "Jesus' Tears" (Single, digital self-release, distributed by DistroKid)
- 2023: "Nothing Right" (Single, digital self-release, distributed by DistroKid)
- 2023: "Another Song" (Single, digital self-release, distributed by DistroKid)
- 2024: "Extreme Masochist" (Single, digital self-release, distributed by DistroKid)
- 2024: I Won't Listen (EP, digital self-release, distributed by DistroKid)
- 2024: A Madman's Dream/Mind Descending (EP, digital self-release, distributed by DistroKid)
External links
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- Coma Beach on DistroKid
- Coma Beach on Musixmatch
- Coma Beach on Genius
- Coma Beach discography at MusicBrainz
- Coma Beach at AllMusic
- Coma Beach discography at Discogs
References
[edit]- ^ "Coma Beach on Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved 2021-08-14.