HORSE THE BAND: 'Murder' Video Available

"Murder", the new video from HORSE THE BAND — the experimental metalcore act from Los Angeles — can be viewed below (courtesy of Metal Injection).

Commented director Gary Lachance: "The video was filmed live in Belgrade, Serbia midway through HORSE's Earth Tour which was self-funded, self-booked and traversed 45 countries in 90 days. The show was packed with crazed Serbians power drinkers who, before entering, had chugged innumerable three-liter bottles of beer and gorged themselves on five-pound hamburgers. They had come from far and wide. These were rural wildmen… hill people. The venue was a cramped, smoky dungeon, with an overflowing bathroom, no security, terrible sound and a tiny stage that emptied onto a slimy concrete staircase, which was to serve as a battleground for the hundred or so fanatics in attendance. Things were looking good. And from the first note, it was nonstop anarchy, a heaving tangle of violence and hilarity as brutish men and merciless women performed a dance of death, hurling themselves and their opponents to the floor, crushing each other in 20-something dogpiles, tearing steel fences from the floor, destroying the few functioning light fixtures, removing their clothes, and coming dangerously close to ruining HORSE's equipment and ending the tour."

HORSE THE BAND's third full-length album, 2007's "A Natural Death" (Koch Records),sold 3,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD featured significant lyrical and musical evolution into the concepts of nature and mortality while moving slightly away from the band's previous Nintendo metaphors. The song "Murder" is inspired by the Western novel "Lonesome Dove", in which a Native American named Blue Duck stalks and kills white settlers on the plains.