Person · Male
John Balance
- From
- Mansfield, United Kingdom
- Active
- 1962–2004
- Releases
- 2
- industrial
- dark ambient
- drone
- edm
- glitch
- idm
- post-industrial
- ritual ambient
About
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.
Read more
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.
Member of
-
Current 93 additional
-
23 Skidoo additional
Discography
Other
Links
Reference
Involved with
Is person
Also known as
Jhon Balance · Jhonn Balance
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- d3bcf54e-56f3-497e-b3ac-6f89ae1e7201
- ISNI
- 0000000087862236
- IPI
- 00145570083
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 9 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.