We’re extremely proud to announce the debut self-titled offering by Washington state-based bestial death/goregrind anomaly Horse Butcher, to be released December 20 2024 on CD/MC/digital and now pre-order able via all our channels.
The horrendous release has been teased by Decibel Magazine who in revealing the track “Penduncular Hallucinosis“ via an exclusive premiere, have remarked that the band “formed by members of Hissing wears their love for Pissgrave, early Carcass and Agothacles on their sleeve, and their self-titled EP is a celebration of gory and savage extreme music, as dense as it is aggressive.“ - you can check out the feature and the track HERE.
Members of praised surrealistic black/death metal deformers Hissing re-metastazie in Horse Butcher, a disfigured onslaught of gore-fucked bestial deathgrind worshipping directly at the altar of Carcass, Archgoat, Disgorge, Impetigo and Pissgrave. Where the imperative is repulsing, Horse Butcher step up to take the concept to its most inevitable and gut wrenching conclusions, bludgeoning the mind into a horrendous aural pulp of absolute violence and depravity. The band members’ roots in avantgarde experimentalism are not set aside here, rather preserved to augment the load of horror and disbelief in belching out these six tracks and twenty minutes of neanderthalian carnage and slaughterhouse madness. Several steps backward in human decency and dignity are needed to authentically perceive and metabolize the scum-fucking level of vile barbarism and inhumanity going into these tracks, but what really transpires is the band’s paradoxically nobel mission of reminding us all of what is unfortunately normal, real and happening everywhere every day in this world. A blindness and indifference against which Horse Butcher have seemingly waged a cryptic and gruesome war, by taking the horrors of the world straight back to the listener and shoving the putrid stench, cruelty and repulsiveness of human actions right back into humanity’s face. Gobble up and suffer fuckers.
Horse Butcher emerged in Tacoma, WA when multi-instrumentalist Zach Wise (bassist/vocalist of experimental death metal band Hissing, bassist of experimental rock unit Eye of Nix, as well as guitarist in Pyrkagion and Temple of Abandonment), recruited drummer Seth Hover to create a gore-influenced “side project” in the vein of Disgorge and Pissgrave, during Hissing’s recent and ongoing hiatus. The lineup was then rounded out by Hissing’s guitarist Joe O’Malley on bass, and the band began playing live gigs around their native Pacific North West region while working on a debut offering. Their debut self-titled EP comprised of six tracks for around twenty minutes of music was then released on CD and tape in late 2024, featuring artwork by gore collage master Adam Medford, as well as mastering by Dan Lowndes (Cruciamentum).