Made up of front man/guitarist Paul Bearer, bassist Jason
Andy Argonauts and drummer Chris Larmour, Houston’s
Funeral Horse are offhand in their attitude to technical virtuosity. Whether
rocking their way through dark blues or dissonant experimentation Sinister
Rites Of The Master is unapologetically thunderous.
Following on from last year’s Savage Audio Demon, Sinister
Rites… is released this month on Artificial Head Records. An imprint that to
date has seen releases from fellow Texans and garage convivialists The
Escatones, David Gedge’s much-loved Cinerama and the criminally undersung
post-punk outfit Art Institute.
Under the influence, this current assembly of unholy
noisemakers produce music to gouge minds to. Murky and fuzzed out, punk by
execution but unmistakably proto-metal in mass and volume the album peddles the
sort of sounds you might find at the angrier end of a Sub Pop or Touch and Go
discography. A shot in the vein of Tad via Mudhoney’s raw megaphonic vocals
(‘Until The Last Nation Falls’, ‘Amputate The Hands Of Thieves’) Funeral Horse
also take in the vintage and lo-fi grind of traditional stoner, and even
classic rock, as best heard on their storming cover of Rush’s ‘Working Man’.
LISTEN/DOWNLOAD ‘Until The Last Nation Falls’ via SoundCloud
Sinister Rites Of The Master by Funeral Horse is released
this week as a hand numbered/multi-coloured 12” vinyl (limited to 333 copies)
and can be purchased from www.funeralhorse.bandcamp.com. The band also take to
the road over the coming weeks to promote the album, more details of which you
can find below.
'SINISTER RITES' TOUR DATES:
8/20 – Rubber Gloves (Denton,
TX)
8/21 – Downtown Lounge (Tulsa, OK)
8/22 – Kirby's Beer Store (Wichita, KS)
8/23 – Surfside 7 (Fort
Collins, CO)
8/24 – Burt's Tiki Lounge (Salt Lake City, UT)
8/26 – Studio on 4th (Reno,
NV)
8/27 – Eli's Mile High Club (Oakland, CA)
8/28 – Caravan Lounge (San
Jose, CA)
8/29 – Black Flame Collective (San Bernardino, CA)
8/30 – The Bashful Bandit (Tucson, AZ)
8/31 – Grynde Bar (El
Paso, TX)
9/3 – Fitzgerald's (Houston)
-- opening for Black Cobra and Lo Pan
9/6 – Artificial Head Records - Knight's in Satan's Service
(KISS compilation) Record Release
9/7 – Get sued by Gene Simmons for Knight's in Satan's
Service (KISS compilation) Record Release
Artificial Head Records is a record and tape label based in Houston, TX. The label was founded in 2009 by members of
the experimental punk band, Right Speaker Heavy, and started out releasing
music by Space City Gamelan, Rusted Shut, Right Speaker Heavy and Future
Blondes. It later evolved into releasing "legit" vinyl and tape
releases by the post punk band, Art Institute, the drunken garage rock of The
Escatones and a split 7" by Giant Battle Monster & Ken South Rock. The
label couples (mostly) Houston
area bands with original artwork by Internationally renown artists such as
Savage Pencil, Doug Mac, Sean Aaberg, Raymond Pettibon, Jeff Lamm, and Raymond
Ahn.
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