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Jenks Miller’s psychedelic metal /drone/sludge project, Horseback, produced an avant-garde sleeper-hit with 2007’s Impale Golden Horn. That record, which Aquarius Records described as “the best drone record of the year” upon its release, boasted four lengthy tracks, each one a vibrant and kaleidoscopic journey toward a manic, inevitable nirvana. More melodic and accessible than most noise records and noisier than most dream-pop records, Horseback’s debut carved itself a niche somewhere between Merzbow and Stars of the Lid, offering a refreshing sound to fans across many sub-genres of psychedelic music. Horseback began its story in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 2006. Horseback toured in the fall of 2007, including a stop at the fourth-annual Arthur Magazine-curated Million Tongues Festival in Chicago. Horseback’s next full-length, The Invisible Mountain, was released by Milwaukee’s Utech Records (Locrian, Aluk Todolo, Mamiffer) in 2009 to underground acclaim; it was then released on vinyl by the United Kingdom occult label Aurora Borealis in 2010 before being picked up by heavy-music powerhouse Relapse Records, who distributed the record around the world. Carried forward once again by Relapse’s greater visibility, The Invisible Mountain scored spots on many year-end lists (including Stereogum, Decibel, BrooklynVegan, Verbicide, All Music Guide, and OMG Vinyl). After the success of The Invisible Mountain, Horseback produced a number of splits with genre-defy

The Invisible Mountain

Half Blood

Dead Ringers

The Gorgon Tongue: Impale Golden Horn / Forbidden Planet

New Dominions

Impale Golden Horn

Piedmont Apocrypha

A Plague of Knowing - Singles, Splits and Rarities 2007-2012

A Throne Without A King

The Gorgon Tongue: Impale Golden Horn & Forbidden Planet

The Gorgon Tongue

On the Eclipse