The Battle are an alternative rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. Brothers and band founders Donne (drums) and Ron Copenhaver (guitar) started the band in 2016 with Chris Shaheen (guitar) and Dan O'Brien (bass) to begin work on an instrumental project that would later become the band's first release. The Battle's take on post-rock in a meld of traditional post-rock with alternative and desert rock. This unique blend takes them where few post-rock outfits dare to go: heavy riffs and booming rhythm sections.
The band's captivating live shows carry audiences on a dynamic, emotional journey, with few words spoken by the band. Each song flows from one to another for an orchestrated, unrelenting experience. Like the best of post-rock, the band can be as quiet and subtle as they are loud and forceful.
Their first release, Truth, Like Light, Blinds (2017), is an evocatively dark and hopeful album filled with inventive post-rock guitar and a looming desert rock rhythm section. The band's follow-up effort, The Last Place On Earth (2019), pushes their style of rock further into uncharted blends of desert rock riffs and post-rock ambiance. Their third release, Degenerate Era (2021), is the band's most intricate and sweeping album. The band started recording their fourth release in the fall of 2022 and is slated for a release later in 2023.