Dead Horse (band)
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| Origin | Houston, Texas, United States |
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| Associated acts | Pasadena Napalm Division |
| Website | horsecore |
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dead horse is a thrash metal band from Houston, Texas, which was active in the 1980s and 1990s. They have also been described as death metal and crossover thrash. dead horse also incorporated elements of country music and Texas culture that can be heard on songs such as "Hank" from Horsecore and "Chiggers" from Feed Me.
Their first release titled Horsecore: An Unrelated Story That's Time Consuming was released independently in 1989 while they had one nationally distributed LP in Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers which was released in 1991 through the independent record label Big Chief and distributed by Metal Blade which distributed under its parent Warner Bros. Records. They released the self-financed EP Feed Me in 1993 which was intended as a demo for Interscope Records but failed to garner any major label interest. It was about that time that lead vocalist/guitarist Michael Haaga left the group to pursue other interests and Dead Horse replaced Haaga with Austin musician Scott Sevall(ex Force Fed) and rerecorded the 93 demo and released it as the EP BOIL(ing) on Beermoment Music in 1996.
Haaga went on to form The Demonseeds with drummer Joseph Fazzio and bassist Craig Cazaubon and managed one album entitled Knee Deep in Hell's Grasp released in 1999. The band was also nominated by the Houston Press in 2000 for "Best Metal/Hard Rock" but didn't manage to win their category as far as the "Readers Choice" was concerned but did manage to win the "Critics Choice" for that category.
Haaga is also credited on the first release from Superjoint Ritual titled "Use Once and Destroy" as the band's bassist and backing vocalist but his credit is buried 14 lines down below the other listed band members, just below the disc's "Photography" credit. He also went on to release a solo LP with the backing of several musicians from the Houston and Austin area entitled The Plus and Minus Show. It was released in late 2004 and it managed to garner four Houston Press Music Awards in 2005 or really five awards if you include the one awarded to Best Guitar winner Kelly Doyle that year, who in addition to playing in The Plus and Minus Show, also played in Houston Bands Three Fantastic and Clouseaux. Haaga's first solo effort won Album of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Song of the Year and Local Artist of the Year. The band broke up shortly thereafter.
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