DEAD HORSE: 1988 Demo Available for Download

June 20, 2007

The 1988 "Death Rides a Dead Horse" demo cassette by Texas visionaries DEAD HORSE has been made available for download at the Bang! Bang! metal demo blog.

According to the blog post, "Galloping out of Houston, TX, these guys didn't fit the mold at all. They revisited S.O.D. mosh music, presaged death metal, and excelled at a kind of sloppy grindcore that seemed like a combo of CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER and cowpunk. They were outside the pastures of metal, coming up with psychedelicized visions of Satan that offered a grim resistance to the coming great fascist takeover."

Though DEAD HORSE's two albums — "Horsecore" from 1989 and "Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers" from 1991 — were reissued in the late 1990s by Relapse, those CDs are now rare. More recently, DEAD HORSE singer/guitarist Michael Haaga served a stint in SUPERJOINT RITUAL.

Bang! Bang!, the weblog of Ian Christe (author of "Sound of the Beast" and host on Sirius Satellite Radio's Hard Attack),is dedicated to "celebrating the tradition of freely-traded heavy metal demo cassettes and preserving the pioneer spirit of the underground, one magnetic particle at a time."

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