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CQBL010 | Horseback | Forbidden Planet | c38
[Limited edition of 100 White on Clear Blood, Chrome Tapes, Cardstock J-Cards]
Horseback is the psychedelic avant-metal band from Chapel Hill founded and led by multi-instrumentalist musician Jenks Miller. Horseback's last full-length, the entrancing and genre-defying Invisible Mountain, was hoisted through the underground on the Utech and Aurora Borealis labels before finding wide release on Relapse in 2010. Whereas the Invisible Mountain had its own hidden language; Forbidden Planet speaks in tongues. Conjuring a primal brew of severe and otherworld mutations, sounding like everything from blissed-out psychedelic fuzz to distant forest-fed black metal and hideous power electronics all at once. The determined and aggressively transformative atmosphere of Forbidden Planet reaches far beyond the Invisible Mountain's passive hypnosis. As with most Horseback material, hypnotic guitar patterns lead the work, but here they are stripped and broken by chaotic rhythms, submerged in cosmic debris and infused with a blackened alien vocal presence. Six lengthy tracks, featuring the mastering talents of James Plotkin and original artwork from Jenks Miller.
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