Peaceful Death & Pretty Flowers

Dead Horse | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 1991)
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000008EWP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,020 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cod Piece Face

2. Turn

3. La La Song

4. Like Asrielle

5. The Latent Stage

6. Peaceful Death

7. Eulogy

8. Snowdogs

9. The Lark Nest

10. Medulla Oblongata

11. Aplo

12. Rock Lobster

13. Sawbone

14. Every God for Himself [*]

15. Turn [*]

16. Medulla Oblongata [*]

17. Waiting for the Sun [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential extreme metal, February 10, 2001

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Ken (Youngsville, LA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peaceful Death & Pretty Flowers (Audio CD)

By re-releasing this CD, Metal Blade has hopefully saved this band from obscurity when they really deserve recognition for what they've done. I was in a band who opened up for Dead Horse one night while they were touring to support PD&PF. I had never heard of them before, but I've never forgotten them since. To say that Dead Horse played Death Metal does absolutely no justice. They had the speed, the urgency, and the brutality to compete with the best of them, but they had elements that made them standouts (and maybe in a genre that does not often breed or reward originality or creative brilliance is exactly why they've never gotten their due recognition). Musically, you could tell these guys were having fun. Gigantic, brick-heavy riffs blasted out of those down-tuned guitars... sometimes sludge-ridden, sometimes razor-sharp and quick. The drums and bass kept the blastbeats and doom-like tendencies alternating while they held the tunes together... often while the two guitars went off on their seemingly drunken, swaggering tendencies. All fun aside, the brutally honest and refreshingly introspective / insightful lyrics were (and still are) something special and virtually non-existent in extreme metal, and they were alternately accentuated with shouts and guttural moans to fit the mood or tone of the texts. For example, when Michael Haaga screamed "hate's a part of all of us... a part of us all" he meant it, and you could feel that he was making a statement of our society, not just saying something `cool' or `metal'. Much of the brilliance of this release was the fact that it had so many volatile messages - and the fact that this lyrical urgency was matched by the music - measure for measure.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars goodness gracious, they were the best, September 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Peaceful Death & Pretty Flowers (Audio CD)

No words can describe these... rednecks, drunkards, maniacs... favorite moments from childhood - dead horse shows at the New Orleans Music Hall... we'd wait for months... i lived in texas for a year and drove to houston six times to see them... jesus, this is a great album... rockin, heavy, and FUN... la la la

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Death Metal Music You Can Sing Along With..., July 7, 2001

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Mikey of MikeyWear "mikeymc" (Angleton, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peaceful Death & Pretty Flowers (Audio CD)

At least that's what we did at the shows...

Folks, this is Death Metal with a sense of humor. Their first album Horsecore will always be special to me and have a place in my heart, but I have to recommend this one as the one needed to make any CD collection complete. It's a shame Mike had to leave the band followed by them breaking up. My stepsons tore up the CD I had and it's great that I could still get another one from Amazon...