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Review: 'Funeral Horse'
'Sinister Rites Of The Master'   

-  Album: 'Sinister Rites Of The Master' -  Label: 'Artificial Head Records'
-  Genre: 'Heavy Metal' -  Release Date: '11th August 2014'

Our Rating:
Somewhere under the fuzziness and distortion, the dominant low frequencies, the dingy, dark analogue production that sounds like the songs were recorded in a garage on a four-track portastudio on a third-hand cassette-tape with the noise reduction on full, there are some songs. I think.

The press release for the band, fronted by the chucklesomely named ‘Paul Bearer’, along with accomplices Jason Andy Argonauts (Bass) and Chris Larmour (Drums) (and that’s as much mkirth as you’re going to get here) promises an album that’s ‘murky and fuzzed out, punk by execution but unmistakably proto-metal in mass and volume the album peddles the sort of sounds you might find at the angrier end of a Sub Pop or Touch and Go discography’

Opener ‘Until the Last Nation Falls’ lands somewhere between Sabbath and Fudge Tunnel, with a whopping solo toward the end that’s a masterclass in excess. The ferocious assault of ‘Amputate the Hands of Thieves’ is relentless and dingy, with the production values of early black metal albums before slowing to a trudge. It’s all about excess and overdrive: ‘Stoned and Furious’ sounds exactly as the title suggests, assuming the dope’s been cut with speed.

Stating true to the promise of incorporating the vintage and lo-fi grind of traditional stoner, and even classic rock, they wrap he album up with a cover of Rush’s ‘Working Man’, that’s gritty, sweaty and tough. Just the way it should be.
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Funeral Horse - Sinister Rites Of The Master