HORSE the band is an experimental metalcore band from Lake Forest, CA. Their current keyboardist, Erik Engstrom, uses the Korg MS-2000 and more recently, the Roland Juno-D synthesizer and LSDJ Game Boy cartridge to achieve an 8-bit video game-influenced sound, a reason behind their tongue-in-cheek labeling of "Nintendocore". Band of Horses, known early in its life as simply Horses, is an American indie rock band formed in Seattle by Ben Bridwell, Mat Brooke, Creighton Barrett and Rob Hampton, who were joined in February 2006 by Joe Arnone. ... Location of Lake Forest within Orange County, California. ... This article is about the U.S state. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Metalcore is a fusion of extreme metal and hardcore punk that began in the United States. ... Experimental rock or Avant rock is a type of art music based on rock and roll which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, and/or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique. ... Post-hardcore; this specific genre was created by others as a sourse to relaese the emotion that builds inside, making the music intimate and touching to listeners. ... In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Koch Entertainment LP is a North American entertainment company with offices in New York, Nashville and Toronto. ... Pluto Records is an independent record label started in 1999. ... Metalcore is a fusion of extreme metal and hardcore punk that began in the United States. ... Lake Forest is a city located in Orange County, California. ... For comic book character, see Korg (comics). ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... Roland Corporation ) TYO: 7944 is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. ... This article is about the Nintendo hardware. ... For the entire Game Boy series of handheld consoles, see Game Boy line. ... In the history of video games, the 8-bit era was the third generation of video game consoles, but the first after the video game crash of 1983 and considered by some to be the first modern era of console gaming. ... Nintendocore (or NEScore) is a subgenre of music inspired by metalcore music and the instruments which accompany 8-bit video game soundtracks[1], most notably those on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)[2]. It is characterized by sounding similar to 8-bit video game music/chiptunes, often combined with other...

Biography

The band booked its own self-managed (and self financed) tours starting the summer of 2002, including a 3-month orange tour spanning seven cities, in which most shows were unplanned and not promoted. More recently they booked their own world tour, called EARTH Tour, spanning 45 countries.^{[citation needed]}

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.-1... Poison the Well (commonly abbreviated as PTW or said PT-Dub) are a hardcore/metalcore band from Miami, Florida currently signed to Ferret Records. ... Criteria is an indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska. ... is the 148th day of the year (149th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gatsbys American Dream Gatsbys American Dream is a fairly prolific, Seattle, Washington-based rock band. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Forgive Durden is a four piece band from Seattle, WA and formed in 2003. ...

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.^{[citation needed]} 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. Warped Tour is a touring music and extreme sports festival. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Pizza is an EP by the experimental band HORSE the band on Koch Entertainment, released September 5th, 2006. ... GWAR is a satirical heavy metal musical group formed in 1985. ... is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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 had hoped to have had it recorded by March 2007. All That Remains is a metalcore band from Springfield, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the band. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... This article is about the U.S state. ... is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ... MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ... The 1995 re-release album cover of White Christmas A Christmas song is a song which is normally sung during the Christmas period, and usually has lyrical content addressing the holiday, the winter season, or both. ... This article is about the religious period from Christmas to Epiphany. ...

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. YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ...

Early 2008 saw the band planning a world tour that would hit 40 countries starting in early March. The band stated "we've become disillusioned, bad-attitude nerds and pariahs of the established music industry."^[1] They asked for their fans' help booking shows in most locations, with no plans of bringing other bands along on the tour.

On February 17th, 2008 it was announced that Chris Prophet had left the band and that Jon Karel from The Number 12 Looks Like You would be filling in on drums during the world tour, however now that the world tour has concluded the band is without a drummer. In addition to having to search for a new drummer, Nathan Winnike is currently recovering from a broken collarbone.

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, Dashiell 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."^[2] 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 equally as energetic. 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, moving clockwise, and bringing their hands above their heads to continue the traditional Cutsman hand-cutting style. Meanwhile, vocalist Nathan Winneke begins with the words "Cut, cut...". Another recent trend is the dance for the song The Red Tornado (Refers to the DC Comics character Red Tornado) in which fans enter mosh pits, extend their arms in complete opposite directions, and spin 360º to emulate the "tornado" image. Mega Man firing his weapon while in Shadow Mans stage from Mega Man 3 (NES). ...

Song lyrics

HORSE the band's lyrics are chaotic and colorful metaphors for vocalist Nathan Winneke's life, often with humorous or "geeky" titles and bases. He once described his lyrics as "lynchian" referring to film director David Lynch.^{[citation needed]} For other persons named David Lynch, see David Lynch (disambiguation). ...

The band had jokingly labeled themselves "Nintendocore" very early on in their career. Some such characters are metaphorically referred to include Cut Man from Mega 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, a schizophrenic hero with this abundance of power. While these characters are certainly mentioned, the actual songs themselves have nothing to do with them. They are simply a metaphor to represent something else that Winneke has experienced in his lifetime. Mega Man firing his weapon while in Shadow Mans stage from Mega Man 3 (NES). ... Birdo, known in Japan as Catherine ), is a fictional, anthropomorphic dinosaur-like creature featured in Nintendos Mario series of video games. ... This article is about the version released outside of Japan. ... This article is about the first game in the series. ... This article is about the comic book company. ... For other comic book characters of the same name, see Sentry (comics). ...

2007's A Natural Death featured significant lyrical and musical evolution into the concepts of nature and mortality while moving slightly away from the Nintendo metaphors. The song "Murder" is inspired by the Western novel Lonesome Dove, in which a Native American named Blue Duck stalks and kills white settlers on the plains.

A Natural Death can be played infinitely and in a continuous loop. The last song, "Lif", ends with the sound of howling winds that open the album's first song, "Hyperborea". This is likely a representation on the infinite progressive continuity of the cycle of life and death, in line with the main themes of the album.

Current projects

The band, as of March 5, 2008, started their EARTH TOUR. The band booked the tour themselves, and will be visiting 45 countries, starting with Australia. April 27 the band visited Belarus. They were the first American band to visit the country in ten years, after Cannibal Corpse. Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band founded in 1988. ...

The has also been filming Tour Journals for Earth Tour which are put on Youtube by filmer and director Gary Lachance. As of May 3 two videos have been released: YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ...

Australia Earth Tour 2008 Video #1 [1]

New Zealand Earth Tour 2008 Video #2 [2]

The videos have been said to be part of a new reality show for Fuse TV but Fuse has yet to confirm but have been confirmed for a DVD release along with the finale of Lawrence and Friends. Fuse is a music video-oriented television channel. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ...

In June 2008, it was announced that HORSE the band had parted ways with Koch Records.^[3]

Videography

• "Bunnies"- R. Borlax
• "A Million Exploding Suns"- The Mechanical Hand
• "Lord Gold Throneroom"- The Mechanical Hand
• "Birdo"- The Mechanical Hand
• "New York City"- A Natural Death

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Members

Current members

• Nathan Winneke – vocals
• David Isen – guitar
• Dashiell Arkenstone – bass guitar
• Erik Engstrom – Synthesizer/LSDJ

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Former members

• Jon Karel (Touring member) – drums
• Mike Benitez - bass guitar
• Andy Stokes – bass guitar
• Adam Crook – vocals
• Eli Green – drums
• Jason Karuza – drums
• Alex Duddy - drums
• Christopher Prophet - drums

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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 CD (re-release, 2007, Koch Records)
• A Natural Death CD (2007, Koch Records)

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References

• Bonnie Johnson. "Majoring in Rockstar Studies: Part I: 'HORSING' around", The Stanford Daily, 2004-10-22. 
• http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1509692/09152005/horse_the_band.jhtml
• Andrew Parks. "Horse the Band", Decibel Magazine, 2005. 
• http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/entertainment/entertainment_item.asp?NewsID=85

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External links

• Official site
• HORSE the band @ Pure Volume
• HORSE the band @ MySpace
• HORSE the band at Allmusic
• HORSE the Band discussion forum
• HORSE the Band interview on Rockmidgets.com