Happy Boxing Day everyone! In the spirit of the season…have you ever pulled the move at a Christmas gathering where, after realizing you forget to get a gift for your wallflower friend Joey or your Aunt Bunny (who you rarely cross paths with anyway), you say something to the effect of, “Ah shit, I must have forgot it at home! I’ll get it to you after the holidays, once the chaos dies down.” If you’re looking to fill any Xmas present holes and your quick thinking has managed to squeeze a week or two of grace period/avoidance leeway out of the deal, as good place to start is with Haunted Horses forthcoming fourth album, Dweller. That is if your intended recipient is a fan of Killing Joke, Swans, Einsturzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, Treponem Pal and the Young Gods. Heck, if they aren’t, they should be, so why not drop a copy of Dweller under their dried out, fire trap of a tree once it’s released on the 10th of next month?
As a preview to the action, the band is premiering the video for their latest single, “Temple of Bone” with us today. Says vocalist, frontman and founding member Colin Dawson (who formed the Haunted Horses with Myke Pelly a decade ago and are now joined by Filth is Eternal’s Brian McClelland) about the track and video: “‘Temple of Bone’ is the ‘center’ of Dweller, marking the bottom of a descent into darkness. Written at the height of cold winter, life and technology had its way throwing obstacles on the creative path. This led to a period of quiet limbo. Hypnagogic visions inspired the imagery, aiming to capture the sensation of becoming formless. Lyrically working with a concept of discipline over doubt, for one to move past the many phantoms that arrest progress on one’s path. The drums provide the rhythm of a perpetual movement pushing forward against sounds of cold despair. It is from this bleak point, where the record starts to march out of the darkness and into the light.”
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