Peaceful Death & Pretty Flowers

 (14 customer reviews)

By re-releasing this CD, Metal Blade has hopefully saved this band from obscurity when they really deserve recognition for what they've done. I was in a band who opened up for Dead Horse one night while they were touring to support PD&PF. I had never heard of them before, but I've never forgotten them since. To say that Dead Horse played Death Metal does absolutely no justice. They had the speed, the urgency, and the brutality to compete with the best of them, but they had elements that made them standouts (and maybe in a genre that does not often breed or reward originality or creative brilliance is exactly why they've never gotten their due recognition). Musically, you could tell these guys were having fun. Gigantic, brick-heavy riffs blasted out of those down-tuned guitars... sometimes sludge-ridden, sometimes razor-sharp and quick. The drums and bass kept the blastbeats and doom-like tendencies alternating while they held the tunes together... often while the two...Read more

No words can describe these... rednecks, drunkards, maniacs... favorite moments from childhood - dead horse shows at the New Orleans Music Hall... we'd wait for months... i lived in texas for a year and drove to houston six times to see them... jesus, this is a great album... rockin, heavy, and FUN... la la la

At least that's what we did at the shows...Folks, this is Death Metal with a sense of humor. Their first album Horsecore will always be special to me and have a place in my heart, but I have to recommend this one as the one needed to make any CD collection complete. It's a shame Mike had to leave the band followed by them breaking up. My stepsons tore up the CD I had and it's great that I could still get another one from Amazon...