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John Balance

Mansfield, United Kingdom

John Balance is credited on 519 releases across 154 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1982–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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519

Pressings credited

154

Albums

5

Decades active

121

In collections

Biography

Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton (16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004), better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet. He was best known as a co-founder of the experimental music group Coil, in collaboration with his partner Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson. Coil was active from 1982 to Balance's death in 2004. He was responsible for the majority of Coil's vocals, lyrics and chants, along with synthesizers and various other instruments both commonplace and esoteric. Outside Coil he collaborated with Cultural Amnesia (at the beginning of the 1980s), Nurse with Wound, Death in June, Psychic TV, Current 93, Chris & Cosey, Thighpaulsandra, and produced several Nine Inch Nails remixes.

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Credited work

519 releases · 154 albums · active 1982–2025

  • Performance · 881
  • Other credits · 112
  • Engineering · 21
  • Production · 10

Studios: Bar Maldoror · Unique Recording · Paradise Studios (3) · Guerilla Studios

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