I first picked up a CD by Houston thrash metal band Dead Horse back in the early nineties, right before I left  scorching hot San Antonio Texas for the drizzly overcast of Seattle, where I would spend my last ten years in America before coming here to China. At the time I bought 1991’s Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers I really knew little of the band except for what a heavy metal Mexican gal I worked with said about them and I felt her praise was biased. At the time I really did not know much about metal music except for the early albums by Metallica and I certainly was not one at that time in life to buy Indie records. That is something that would change in me while in Seattle. The truth of the matter is I simply did not like the CD much and it went into a box and would come out a few years later after I had developed a taste for metal and I really appreciated it more than I could have during my time in San Antonio. Coming out of the same grueling and brutal Texas metal bar scene that spawned more successful acts like Pantera  Dead Horse did the type of touring in places that literally separate the men from the boys. After some seven years of touring and building up a devoted following they released around 1990 what would really be their only two albums except for some EPs that never drew the attention of big record labels.

I am not all that familiar with 1989’s Horsecore album as I just got the album for the 1st time from Rapidshare (RS links to the complete albums given here, simply too much work to upload all these songs, some 39 total, and link them back here) and I put up some songs based on their titles. I just feel songs with titles like Mindless Zombies and Adult Bookstore HAVE to be great. I posted four songs from Peaceful Death Pretty Flowers that show how great the album sounds over all. The themes are thrash metal but with morbid overtones and even some social wit and sarcasm. The band continued on even after the doors to big success were closed on them, and even after frontman Michael Haaga left they continued on with a new singer. Haaga would play bass and sing for Phil Anselmo’s Super Joint Ritual project. Probably a band few people have heard of but certainly own whose brief appearance and recorded output in the history of thrash and death metal’s early days is deserving of the respect they still garner amongst people who still remember when seeing a band promote 666 (as Dead Horse did in their  logos and t-shirts, designed by Haaga, that were similar to Pushhead’s Metallica designs) was sort of fun and campy more than dark and sinister. And just how sinister could a band really be who would do a metal cover of the B-52’s Rock Lobster?

Line Up:

GregMartin – (guitar, vocals)

Michael Haaga – (guitar, vocals)

Allen Price – (bass guitar, background vocals)

Ronny Guyote – (drums, background vocals)

PEACEFUL DEATH AND PRETTY FLOWERS

Tracklist:

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

Length: 62:33

COD PIECE FACE

TURN

LA LA SONG

LIKE ASRIELLE

RAPIDSHARE LINK: Dead Horse – Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers

HORSECORE: AN UNRELATED STORY THAT IS TIME CONSUMING

Tracklist:

1. murder song  2. born believing  3. crushing of the irate  4. hank 5. bewah  6. world war whatever  7. forgive  8. army surplus 9. piece of veal 10. mindless zombies  11. adult book store  12. flowers for the dead  13. too close to home 14. scottish hell  15. subhumanity 16. someone  17. army surplus  18. word war whatever 19. bewah  20. born believing  21. scottish hell  22. subhumanity

Length: 45:55

MURDER SONG

MINDLESS ZOMBIES

ADULT BOOKSTORE

SUBHUMANITY

RAPIDSHARE LINK: Dead Horse-Horsecore

How to download the song. Must have Real Player:

1) Play the song.

2) Right click on player and select “Download This Song to Real Player”

3) Song will down load using your download manger, but song title will change.

4) Save song, rename, enjoy.

Will not show download option? Go to the download link page in my sidebar.

AUDIO FILES MAY BE NOT WORK FOR A WHILE. I AM RESOLVING THE ISSUE. PLEASE HANG LOOSE WHILE ALL FILES ARE MOVED TO MY HOSTING ACCOUNT AND THEN MOVED BACK TO INDIVIDUAL POSTS. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME BUT IT WILL GET DONE EVENTUALLY. SORRY.

URANIUM WILLY 4 FEB 10

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