Chuck Coles (born March 20, 1980) is a Canadian musician. He was the guitarist for heavy metal band

Brown Brigade Brown Brigade was a reggae-influenced heavy metal band created by Sum 41 guitarist Dave "Brownsound" Baksh. The band's final lineup was Baksh (vocals, guitar), Vaughn Lal (bass guitar, backing vocals), Johnny Owens (drums), Chuck Coles (guita ...

and the lead singer, guitarist, and bandleader for The Organ Thieves.

Career

Before joining

, Coles was a member of Canadian

pop punk Pop-punk (also punk-pop, alternatively spelled without the hyphen) is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with power pop or pop music, pop. It is defined by its fast-paced, energetic tempos, and emphasis on classic pop s ...

band Cauterize from 2005 to when it disbanded in 2007; he played his last show with Cauterize on October 19, 2007, while already a member of Brown Brigade. With Cauterize, he played on the albums ''Paper Wings'' (2005), and ''Disguises'' (2007) with its added acoustic EP ''Unmasked''. Coles's addition to the band as lead guitarist provided for stronger three-guitar melodies on ''Disguises'', particularly on the re-release of ''Closer''. Prior to joining Cauterize, he played in local

punk Punk or punks may refer to: Genres, subculture, and related aspects * Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres * Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...

hip-hop Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hi ...

reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its Jamaican diaspora, diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first ...

band ''Murder Culture''. Coles formed the southern/

hard rock Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and Distortion (music), distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the Garage rock, garage, Psychedelic rock, psychedelic and blues ...

band The Organ Thieves with

band-member

Dave Baksh Dave Baksh (born July 26, 1980) also known by his stage name Dave Brownsound, is a Canadian musician best known as the lead guitarist of rock band Sum 41. Baksh quit Sum 41 in 2006 (not counting a guest appearance on stage in 2008) to pursue ...

and former Cauterize band-member Matt Worobec. Coles sings lead vocals, plays lead guitar, and writes most of the lyrics and guitar melodies for the band. The Organ Thieves released their first EP, '' God's Favorite Sons'', in March 2009. In 2013, Coles has joined

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based

psychobilly Psychobilly (or punkabilly) is a rock music fusion genre that fuses elements of rockabilly and punk rock. It has been defined as "loud frantic rockabilly music", it has also been said that it "takes the traditional country rock, countrified rock ...

band

The Creepshow The Creepshow is a Canadian rock band from Burlington, Ontario. The band formed in 2005 when the four original members got together with the purpose of starting a psychobilly band. The Creepshow writes the majority of their songs about horror fi ...

as lead guitarist. In 2017, Coles did a small southern Ontario solo tour opening for

Against Me! Against Me! is an American punk rock band, formed in 1997 in Naples, Florida, by singer and guitarist Laura Jane Grace. That same year, Grace moved to Gainesville, Florida, which is considered the band's hometown. Since 2001, the band's lineup ...

. Currently he fronts his own solo act – Chuck Coles and the United Snakes.

References

External links

Chuck Coles's MySpace page

Organ Thieves web site
1980 births Brown Brigade members Canadian heavy metal guitarists Canadian male guitarists Canadian punk rock guitarists Living people Musicians from Oshawa 21st-century Canadian guitarists 21st-century Canadian male musicians {{Canada-guitarist-stub