{"id":270521,"date":"2026-01-06T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270521\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:52:07","slug":"coalesce-part-ways-with-guitarist-jes-steineger-cancel-upcoming-european-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270521\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalesce part ways with guitarist Jes Steineger, cancel upcoming European tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of recent allegations <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/lambgoat.com\/news\/51008\/coalesces-jes-steineger-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-student-band-issues-statement\/\">leveled against guitarist Jes Steineger<\/a>, <strong>Coalesce<\/strong> have effectively parted ways with the member. The band have also canceled their upcoming European tour.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas metalcore veterans appear to have wiped their social media presence, with confirmation of the split and tour cancellation surfacing via <strong>Roadburn Festival<\/strong>, who announced the band&#8217;s withdrawal from the event.<\/p>\n<p>A short statement was included with that from the band, it reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Coalesce has parted ways with their guitarist and, as a result, will be unable to fulfil the upcoming shows.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve, December 24th, 2025 from a former student of Steineger at <strong>Lindenwood University<\/strong> in St. Charles, MO, alleges an inappropriate relationship with them through email which then turned slightly physical. Which was detailed in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/lambgoat.com\/news\/51008\/coalesces-jes-steineger-accused-of-inappropriate-relationship-with-student-band-issues-statement\/\">several Reddit posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While both parties were reportedly of age and, at one point, willing participants, Steineger ultimately resigned or was let go following an internal investigation conducted by the school&#8217;s HR department.<\/p>\n<p>It was alleged that Steineger provided the student with his personal email address, bypassing the university&#8217;s established communication protocols between faculty and students.<\/p>\n<p>No public statement was ever issued regarding his departure from Lindenwood University.<\/p>\n<p>The affected tour dates:<\/p>\n<p>04\/16 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn<br \/>04\/18 Bethune, FR @ Le Poche<br \/>04\/19 Bristol, UK @ The Fleece<br \/>04\/20 Manchester, UK @ Rebellion<br \/>04\/21 London, UK @ The Garage<br \/>04\/22 Brussels, BE @ Botanique \u2013 Rotonde<br \/>04\/23 Koln, DE @ Helios37<br \/>04\/24 Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia<br \/>04\/25 Prague, CZ @ Klub 007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of recent allegations leveled against guitarist Jes Steineger, Coalesce have effectively parted ways with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[137991,18,117,12061,19,17,73397,7163,337,5],"class_list":["post-270521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-coalesce","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-hardcore","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lambgoat","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115848960305961238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}