1. Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton, better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet.
10 Facts About John Balance
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John Balance was best known as a co-founder of the experimental music group Coil, in collaboration with his partner Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson.
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John Balance was responsible for the majority of Coil's vocals, lyrics and chants, along with synthesizers and various other instruments both commonplace and esoteric.
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John Balance was extremely active as a youth and in his early twenties.
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John Balance released three compilation albums of music by bands and artists about which he was enthusiastic: Endzeit, Bethel and The Men with the Deadly Dreams.
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Also from his youth, John Balance was an avid occultist, maintaining a lifelong interest in the likes of Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare.
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On 13 November 2004, during a period of heavy drinking, John Balance fell from a two-storey balcony at his home and died that evening in the hospital.
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John Balance published an underground zine, Stabmental, and released a track, "A Thin Veil of Blood", using the nom de guerre Stabmental.
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John Balance then joined up with Peter Christopherson and Boyd Rice to record Nightmare Culture under the moniker "The Sickness of Snakes".
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John Balance subsequently joined Psychic TV and performed alongside Christopherson; however in 1984, John Balance and Christopherson left the group to develop Coil.