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Peaceful Death & Pretty Flowers

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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.

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

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...

How quickly we forget.Dead Horse is a seminal band, with genius extending far beyond the Houston recognition they seem to only receive, here in 2001. True formative "death" metal, if they can be classified in that context, which I disagree with. As much responsible for the death metal "growl" as perhaps even Napalm Death, they are truly innovators in the field of multi-meter songwriting. Give up the props for Dead Horse, for their true ingenuity at the time of inception. The world was not ready for them, and quickly forgot their contribution to modern metal. An absolute necessity for any intelligent collection.

Thank god this was finally re-released. When I first got it, I didn't know what to think of it. At the time, it wasn't heavy enough to be death. Too heavy to be considered thrash and just too damn weird or "out there" to be accepted by anyone else. You can say that this fell through the cracks so to speak. This is one album that you can chill out to or break stuff to. Sludge that sticks to your insides and begs for you to hear it again. Just listen to turn and tell me you don't wanna bang your head...Classic!

Damn - this album got re-released. That's wonderful - it really is. This band was so awesome. I'm from Houston. . . and reading these reviews I take great pleasure in the fact that some people from other places got exposed to this type of talent. Man, in junior high and high school we would just "follow" these guys. We'd see every show we could, often having to sneak into the ones where we were too young to acceptably attend. Man, what a flashback. Anyway - I am excited that they are recieving the hard earned recognition that they deserve. . . only one problem. . . now I will not be the only dude in my area with a copy of this disk. . . (it was out of print for a while and people were always trying to buy that thing from me. . .) LOL.

Cheers!

I first saw these guys in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1990. Incredible band live and on album, which I dont seem to find very often. If you like Thrash Metal, with some Grindcore mixed in you will definitely like this album. The cover of the B-52's song Rock Lobster is probably one of my favorite covers ever, they totally made it there own song.

Great album

BW

Texas Heavy Metal will never dissapoint anybody , and Deadhorse will not end this tradittion , they are very Heavy, fast, crazy; enough to blow your mind , to cut your breath ,to drive you insane, this band (or at least the music contained in this cd)have two basic ingredients wich make it so special great drums faster than a tornado and awesome bass sounds and mixed together with speed rithms complete an explosive style, "horsecore" as the band itself named, check out also the incredible cover of B52 s Rock Lobster, maybe you will feel sceptical about it but once you listen to it you will understand what im talking about , jazzy rithms are also present in the middle of a chaotic , noisy , heavy madness just to calm your by then destroyed nervous and after that , madness will attack again , is very cool!!!!!!

HM

I knew this guy in high school who was related to the drummer and he gave me a tape called DEATH RIDES A DEAD HORSE (which is now the bonus on the first album re-release) and i was blown away! Then there is the classic PEACEFUL DEATH. But there are 2 albums that only the hard core fans know about and that's FEED ME (this one has chiggers on it, really cool song!) and the other album is called BOIL(ING) (this one has my dog the prophet & reach around) If you can git your hands on either one of them, consider yourself lucky!

i am only 15 and didn't know about deadhorse until about three years ago.i heard about them through my uncle and was blown away!i now own both horsecore and peaceful death and feel no disapointment, except i wish they were still around to dish out more!i highly recomend (TO ANYONE) looking into deadhorse and showing your support.