Posts Tagged ‘Horseback’
Horseback Complete New Album, Titled Half Blood
Posted on Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Chapel Hill, NC’s Horseback has completed the recording on their new full-length and highly anticipated follow-up to 2009’s The Invisible Mountain.
The album, titled Half Blood was described by mainman Jenks Miller as “the band’s most ambitious record to date that represents a synthesis of the approaches we’ve explored in the past”. Truly a natural progression in their increasingly prolific catalog, Half Blood was self-recorded and produced by Jenks Miller at The Chateau in the band’s hometown. Additional tracking was done at Arbor Ridge Studios and Track and Field Recording by Nick Petersen.
Half Blood is set for a Spring 2012 release via Relapse Records and features stunning cover artwork from renowned Russian surrealist painter Denis Forkas Kostromitin.
The material on Half Blood is an amalgamation of drone, doom, black-metal, psychedelia, post-rock, noise, and ambience recorded with a wide array of instruments including guitar, bass, drums, keys, piano, bells, contact mics, field recordings, drum programming, noise and various signal processors.
More details on the album including a full tracklisting, cover art, and song samples will be revealed shortly.
Tags: Half Blood, Horseback, Jenks Miller, relapse records, The Invisible Mountain
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Pyramids / Horseback Premiere A Throne Without a King pt 2 Via Pitchfork
Posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Forward-thinking Southern U.S. black metal experimentalists Pyramids and Horseback premiere a new track via Pitchfork called A Throne Without a King pt 2 .Culled from their collaborative album , out January 24 on Hydra Head, “the collection opens with an individual song by each artist before easing into the 45-minute title track, a ...read more
Album of the day: Mount Moriah – Mount Moriah
Posted on Saturday, December 24th, 2011
As we move towards the end of 2011, here’s a worthy record that we overlooked the first time around earlier this year. Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: In a 2006 interview with Pitchfork, the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle explained why he chose Bellafea as an opening act: “I took out good bands ...read more
Album of the day: Pyramids / Horseback – A Throne Without A King (Split + Collaboration)
Posted on Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Lovingly pinched from The Inarguable: So here it is. Don’t lie, you’ve been impatiently waiting for this all year, too. The (what can only be described as) epic marriage between two of the world’s finest experimental entities, namely Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s blackened psychedelic monster Horseback and obscure Texas acid post-rock ...read more
Milwaukee’s Utech Fest: In Pics/Video (by Stefan Raduta)
Posted on Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Last weekend (6/11) I attended the first edition of Utech Festival in Milwaukee. Having been bewildered by Mamiffer at this year’s Roadburn, as soon as I saw their name on the bill I bought my plane ticket… they were joined on stage by two other phenomenal acts, Locrian and Horseback, ...read more
Album of the day: Locrian / Horseback – New Dominions (12″)
Posted on Sunday, June 12th, 2011
Loving pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: I’m always personally excited to hear anything new from Locrian OR Horseback, so you can imagine how much I was looking forward to THIS. The avant-drone equivalent of a particularly stellar issue of ‘Marvel Team-Up’ from heavy hitters Locrian and one-man stealth unit Horseback ...read more
Invisible Oranges: In Conversation With Horseback’s Jenks Miller
Posted on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Joseph Schafer of Invisible Oranges recently conducted an interview with Jenks Miller, songwriter and mastermind of American psych / drone rock act Horseback, and it discusses the past and present of the band. Invisible Oranges: Horseback is one of the first Bandcamp release success stories, alongside perhaps Cloudkicker and Iron ...read more
Album of the day: Horseback – The Gorgon Tongue
Posted on Saturday, May 14th, 2011
Lovingly pinched from ALARM Press: Jenks Miller is the sole constant in avant-metal outfit Horseback. Miller’s output — occasionally under his own name, often as Horseback, and recently with the Americana group Mount Moriah — has been a steady trickle over the past three years, with each release offering a ...read more
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