Horseback

Jenks Miller operates Horseback from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, shaping the project as a post-metal vehicle that incorporates elements of doom, drone, black metal, and Americana. Its textures draw equally from Neurosis and Earth while echoing Neil Young, uniting the introspective character of roots traditions with metal’s density in a linkage that registers as both instinctive and original. Within a brief span Miller produced an extensive series of expansive recordings, opening with Impale Golden Horn and continuing with the 2009 release The Invisible Mountain, later reissued by Relapse. The cassette-only Forbidden Planet appeared next and was later paired with Impale Golden Horn for the 2011 double-disc edition The Gorgon Tongue. Half Blood arrived in 2012 as the fourth Horseback full-length. Summer 2013 brought Relapse’s three-disc overview The Plague of Knowing, gathering singles, split recordings, live performances, and additional rarities. In 2014 the dark, sprawling five-track album Piedmont Apocrypha followed, while Miller issued the collaborative Roads to Ruin with James Jackson Toth under his own name. Horseback returned to Relapse in 2016 with the entirely self-produced Dead Ringers.