Early Graves - Red Horse


Do you like crusty, gargly, deathcore with random acoustic interludes that sounds like it was recorded by meth addicts in the room next door at a terrifying downtown extended stay motel? I know I do, and that's why I'm sharing Red Horse by Early Graves with you today.

They are sadly no longer a band, calling it quits back in 2021, but that in no way means you can't listen to them or buy my copy for the unreasonably reasonable price of 15. Buy a couple more to save on shipping while you're at it. 

Call me an elitist snob, but I don't think extreme metal should sound good or well produced. Played really well, sure, but shimmeringly open and polished to a chrome shine? He'll no, real metal should sound like you recorded it with an actual boom box tape recorder and a non-musical friend to cup the mic to prevent clipping. Bonus points for making me feel like i need a tetanus shot and strong antibiotics after listening to it.

As for the concept of Red Horse, I'm gonna have to go with that being the horse War rode in on for this particular apocalypse. The disambiguitive alternatives are some type of sucker fish, or an overly inquisitive (in the searching for gossip sense) native American. Totally doubt the protagonist here is a Rapid Engineering Deployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron Engineer, but the vocals aren't exactly crystal clear on first listen, so who knows?The acoustics and guitar solos are, though, like a chilly, haunting wind blowing across a field filled with the stench of dead bodies and gunpowder.

It's good, is what i'm saying. It sounds exactly like what you would expect Red Horse by Early Graves to sound like, and i don't think you can reasonably ask for more than that.

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