Funeral Horse – “Underneath All That Ever Was” [SoundCloud Song Stream]

The Skinny: Funeral Horse return with their new album Divinity For The Wicked, which will be released on September 15th through Artificial Head. You can now stream and share their new song “Underneath All That Ever Was” just above!

Like a vision of ’80s post-hardcore punk rock, red-eyed and burning one in the back of Heavy Metal History 101, under the influence of The Melvins, Kyuss and Harvey Milk, Funeral Horse make music to gouge minds to. From album opener “There Shall Be Vultures,” a track that straight off the bat (teeth flying) showcases one of the many strutting rock assaults the trio have become expert in peddling, Divinity For The Wicked throws open its doors to a wider world of distortions and digressions.

Leading the charge with “Underneath All That Ever Was”, a lumbering paean drawn in part from words found in a suicide note of one of Bearer’s co-workers which had gone unnoticed for several days pinned to an office bulletin board, this is Funeral Horse at their darkest and most pensive. The Tuareg desert blues of “A Bit Of Weed”, the funereal bagpipes that send off “Gifts Of Opium And Myrrh” and slow cinematic burn of instrumental “Cities Of The Red Night” suggest there’s more than meets the immediate ear this time around for a band already masterful in the delivery of unfiltered noise and heavy fuzz rock.