THE BATTLE

The Battle are an alternative post-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 added Dan O'Brien (bass) in 2023. The Battle's take on post-rock in a meld of traditional post-rock with alternative rock 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 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), recorded in Joshua Tree, pushes their style of rock further into uncharted blends of desert rock riffs and post-rock ambience. The band's third release, Degenerate Era, was released in July 2021 and showcases the band's most aurally rich and complex arrangements. 

The band brought on Dan O'Brien (bass) to replace Nemo in 2023. Since then, the band have released a series of EPs. Movements: Part One and Movements: Part Two were released throughout 2025. These EPs further push the band's interpretation of post-rock by infusing elements of new wave and prog. 

For Ataraxia (2025), the band returned to Joshua Tree. Described by the band as “an LP trapped in an EPs body,” this four-song release has an LP runtime and provides a culmination to the Movements releases. Ataraxia is slated for a limited pressing vinyl release in spring 2026.