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'HORSE the band' is an experimental metalcore band. Their keyboardist uses the Korg MS-2000 synthesizer to achieve an 8-bit video game-influenced sound, resulting in them often being referred to as nintendocore.
The band booked its own self-managed tours starting the summer of 2002 under parental supervision, including a 3-month orange tour spanning seven cities, in which most shows were unplanned and not promoted. Afterwards the band began to appear on more mainstream shows, first touring with The Dillinger Escape Plan, Hella, and Between the Buried and Me in late 2005.
Throughout 2006 the band toured with a diverse assortment of artists. It toured around the country with The Fall of Troy, Poison the Well, and Criteria. Then, a month after this tour finished on May 28, 2006, HORSE started a tour with Gatsby's American Dream, Portugal. The Man, and Forgive Durden.
The band dropped off of the tour early, proclaiming that the reason the members couldn't continue was because they were in Chicago eating pizza, and claiming that it was the best pizza they had ever eaten. After dropping out of the tour, the band went on to perform at the Warped Tour, as well as the Sounds of the Underground tour. During these tours, the band recorded ''Pizza'' and played shows with GWAR. The EP was released on September 5, 2006.
During the fall of 2006, the band has continued touring to support ''Pizza'' with All That Remains and DragonForce. The tour began in Los Angeles, California on September 8, 2006. After the tour finished, the band began writing its new album, and hopes to have it recorded by March 2007.
On Dec 25 2006, the band issued a special song for Christmas on its MySpace page entitled "A Partridge", a comical spin on the popular Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas". According to a Myspace bulletin concerning the song, it was written and recorded in a single day. Contrary to what people believe, the removal of the song was not because of David Isen's mother's request, but because "Christmas was over", according to Nathan, on a live interview on the website musicplustv.com.
In February 2007, during the recording of the band's next album, an official HORSE the band YouTube channel was started to display videos of the recording process. The channel quickly turned into a forum for the band to post episodes of its own drama "Lawrence and Friends," a show about a love triangle between a sugar cube, a suicidal pencil, and a postcard of Carla Hassett. The band has even gone as far as to write a theme song for the show in its classic synthesizer fashion.
HORSE opened up for the 2007 Family Values Tour in Denver.
HORSE the Band is known for their tremendously energetic live performances. When asked about their on-stage creativity in an interview with their bassist, Dash Arkenstone, he said that "[they] see a lot of bands, a lot of boring bands. [They] thought it would be rad to play in a forest surrounded by wildlife every night." And so they just went ahead with it. So, the stages they performed on during their last tour was filled with pseudo-shrubbery and lifelike stuffed animals that were sometimes brought to them by fans.
The fans' response is clearly equally as energetic as HORSE crowds have brought much to the scene. It is customary that fans clap their hands above their heads during the song Cutsman to imitate the scissors above the head of the Mega Man boss Cut Man that the song references. Also catching on is the new pre-Cutsman-breakdown "dance"/pose The Phalanx, in which fans form a circle in the center of a mosh pit by getting back to back and pointing upwards with one hand while the circle turnis turning clockwise and then bringing their hands above their heads to continue the traditional Cutsman hand-cutting style as the vocalist, Nathan Winneke, begins with the words "Cut, cut...". Sometimes HORSE fans are too wild for their own good. At a show in Mexico, a fan brought an 8-bit NES and slammed another fan over the head with it (who then had to go to the hospital). On their most recent tour, at a show in, once more, New Jersey, a fan walked out of an Asbury Park concert venue sporting a very bloody gash on the back of his head and claimed that he had been "cutsmanned" in The Phalanx.
Horse the Band's lyrics are chaotic and colorful metaphors for vocalist Nathan Winnekes life, often with humorous or "geeky" titles and basises. He once described his lyrics as "lynchian" refering to film director David Lynch.
The band had labeled themselves nintendocore very early on in their career, but members clarified that none of their songs are directly about Nintendo games, but that singer Nathan used various characters as metaphors for people in his life. Some such characters are Cut Man, although the song is spelled "Cutsman"; Birdo, one of the bosses from the NES game Super Mario Bros. 2, in the song "Birdo"; and the rabbit-like nemesis from The Legend of Zelda in the song "Pol's Voice". Similarly, the song "A Million Exploding Suns" refers to the Marvel Comics character Sentry, who is described as having the power of that amount.
★ Nathan Winneke – vocals
★ Chris Prophet – drums
★ David Isen – guitar
★ Dashiell Arkenstone – bass
★ Erik Engstrom – keyboard
★ Andy Stokes – bass
★ Adam Crook – vocals
★ Eli Green – drums
★ Jason Karuza – drums
★ Jason Robert - bass
★ Jason Burkitt - theremin
(Nathan Winneke, current vocalist, used to play bass in the band and, before that, drums.)
★ ''Scabies, The Kangarooster, and You'' demo (1999)
★ ''Secret Rhythm of the Universe'' CD (2001)
★ ''I Am a Small Wooden Statue on a Patch of Crabgrass Next to a Dried Up Riverbed'' EP (2001)
★ ''Beautiful Songs by Men'' EP (2002)
★ ''R. Borlax'' CD (2003, Pluto Records)
★ ''The Effing 69 World Tour tour footage DVD (2004)
★ ''The Mechanical Hand'' CD (2005, Combat Records)
★ ''Pizza'' EP (2006, Combat Records / LIF Records)
★ ''R. Borlax Re-Release'' CD (2007, Koch Records)
★ ''A Natural Death'' CD (2007, Koch Records)
★ Majoring in Rockstar Studies: Part I: 'HORSING' around
★ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1509692/09152005/horse_the_band.jhtml
★ Horse the Band
★ http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/entertainment/entertainment_item.asp?NewsID=85
★ Official site
★ HORSE the band @ Pure Volume
★ HORSE the band @ MySpace
★ HORSE the band official fansite
★ HORSE the band Facebook fansite
★
★ Interview w/ Erik Engstrom (Sept. 2007)
★ Interview by Hate Something Beautiful.com
'HORSE the band' is an experimental metalcore band. Their keyboardist uses the Korg MS-2000 synthesizer to achieve an 8-bit video game-influenced sound, resulting in them often being referred to as nintendocore.
| Contents |
| Biography |
| Stage Performance |
| Song lyrics |
| Members |
| Current members |
| Former members |
| Discography |
| References |
| External links |
Biography
The band booked its own self-managed tours starting the summer of 2002 under parental supervision, including a 3-month orange tour spanning seven cities, in which most shows were unplanned and not promoted. Afterwards the band began to appear on more mainstream shows, first touring with The Dillinger Escape Plan, Hella, and Between the Buried and Me in late 2005.
Throughout 2006 the band toured with a diverse assortment of artists. It toured around the country with The Fall of Troy, Poison the Well, and Criteria. Then, a month after this tour finished on May 28, 2006, HORSE started a tour with Gatsby's American Dream, Portugal. The Man, and Forgive Durden.
The band dropped off of the tour early, proclaiming that the reason the members couldn't continue was because they were in Chicago eating pizza, and claiming that it was the best pizza they had ever eaten. After dropping out of the tour, the band went on to perform at the Warped Tour, as well as the Sounds of the Underground tour. During these tours, the band recorded ''Pizza'' and played shows with GWAR. The EP was released on September 5, 2006.
During the fall of 2006, the band has continued touring to support ''Pizza'' with All That Remains and DragonForce. The tour began in Los Angeles, California on September 8, 2006. After the tour finished, the band began writing its new album, and hopes to have it recorded by March 2007.
On Dec 25 2006, the band issued a special song for Christmas on its MySpace page entitled "A Partridge", a comical spin on the popular Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas". According to a Myspace bulletin concerning the song, it was written and recorded in a single day. Contrary to what people believe, the removal of the song was not because of David Isen's mother's request, but because "Christmas was over", according to Nathan, on a live interview on the website musicplustv.com.
In February 2007, during the recording of the band's next album, an official HORSE the band YouTube channel was started to display videos of the recording process. The channel quickly turned into a forum for the band to post episodes of its own drama "Lawrence and Friends," a show about a love triangle between a sugar cube, a suicidal pencil, and a postcard of Carla Hassett. The band has even gone as far as to write a theme song for the show in its classic synthesizer fashion.
HORSE opened up for the 2007 Family Values Tour in Denver.
Stage Performance
HORSE the Band is known for their tremendously energetic live performances. When asked about their on-stage creativity in an interview with their bassist, Dash Arkenstone, he said that "[they] see a lot of bands, a lot of boring bands. [They] thought it would be rad to play in a forest surrounded by wildlife every night." And so they just went ahead with it. So, the stages they performed on during their last tour was filled with pseudo-shrubbery and lifelike stuffed animals that were sometimes brought to them by fans.
The fans' response is clearly equally as energetic as HORSE crowds have brought much to the scene. It is customary that fans clap their hands above their heads during the song Cutsman to imitate the scissors above the head of the Mega Man boss Cut Man that the song references. Also catching on is the new pre-Cutsman-breakdown "dance"/pose The Phalanx, in which fans form a circle in the center of a mosh pit by getting back to back and pointing upwards with one hand while the circle turnis turning clockwise and then bringing their hands above their heads to continue the traditional Cutsman hand-cutting style as the vocalist, Nathan Winneke, begins with the words "Cut, cut...". Sometimes HORSE fans are too wild for their own good. At a show in Mexico, a fan brought an 8-bit NES and slammed another fan over the head with it (who then had to go to the hospital). On their most recent tour, at a show in, once more, New Jersey, a fan walked out of an Asbury Park concert venue sporting a very bloody gash on the back of his head and claimed that he had been "cutsmanned" in The Phalanx.
Song lyrics
Horse the Band's lyrics are chaotic and colorful metaphors for vocalist Nathan Winnekes life, often with humorous or "geeky" titles and basises. He once described his lyrics as "lynchian" refering to film director David Lynch.
The band had labeled themselves nintendocore very early on in their career, but members clarified that none of their songs are directly about Nintendo games, but that singer Nathan used various characters as metaphors for people in his life. Some such characters are Cut Man, although the song is spelled "Cutsman"; Birdo, one of the bosses from the NES game Super Mario Bros. 2, in the song "Birdo"; and the rabbit-like nemesis from The Legend of Zelda in the song "Pol's Voice". Similarly, the song "A Million Exploding Suns" refers to the Marvel Comics character Sentry, who is described as having the power of that amount.
Members
Current members
★ Nathan Winneke – vocals
★ Chris Prophet – drums
★ David Isen – guitar
★ Dashiell Arkenstone – bass
★ Erik Engstrom – keyboard
Former members
★ Andy Stokes – bass
★ Adam Crook – vocals
★ Eli Green – drums
★ Jason Karuza – drums
★ Jason Robert - bass
★ Jason Burkitt - theremin
(Nathan Winneke, current vocalist, used to play bass in the band and, before that, drums.)
Discography
★ ''Scabies, The Kangarooster, and You'' demo (1999)
★ ''Secret Rhythm of the Universe'' CD (2001)
★ ''I Am a Small Wooden Statue on a Patch of Crabgrass Next to a Dried Up Riverbed'' EP (2001)
★ ''Beautiful Songs by Men'' EP (2002)
★ ''R. Borlax'' CD (2003, Pluto Records)
★ ''The Effing 69 World Tour tour footage DVD (2004)
★ ''The Mechanical Hand'' CD (2005, Combat Records)
★ ''Pizza'' EP (2006, Combat Records / LIF Records)
★ ''R. Borlax Re-Release'' CD (2007, Koch Records)
★ ''A Natural Death'' CD (2007, Koch Records)
References
★ Majoring in Rockstar Studies: Part I: 'HORSING' around
★ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1509692/09152005/horse_the_band.jhtml
★ Horse the Band
★ http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/entertainment/entertainment_item.asp?NewsID=85
External links
★ Official site
★ HORSE the band @ Pure Volume
★ HORSE the band @ MySpace
★ HORSE the band official fansite
★ HORSE the band Facebook fansite
★
★ Interview w/ Erik Engstrom (Sept. 2007)
★ Interview by Hate Something Beautiful.com
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