CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Horseback
Album....: The Invisible Mountain
Label....: Utech Records
Size.....: 55,0 MB
Source...: CDDA
Playtime.: 38:10 min
Genre....: Metal
Release..: Dec-26-2009
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: avgkbps 44,1Hz Joint-Stereo
TrackList:
01 06:44 Invokation
02 07:14 Tyrant Symmetry
03 07:38 The Invisible Mountain
04 16:34 Hatecloud Dissolving into Nothing
Release Notes
As Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain was a satire of the western approach to
self-actualization, Horseback's The Invisible Mountain is a work composed as
a means to channel the self-destructive tendencies of its maker, Jenks Miller.
The channeling process has required a functionally solipsistic worldview based on
the efficacy of individual will in ascertaining its specific reality. This worldview,
in turn, has caused a sort of fissure between social consciousness and individual
consciousness.
In specific, the invisible mountain is an abstraction of the God-self in this whole process,
a tenuous and ever-collapsing fabrication that perpetuates the individual psyche amidst
processes that would otherwise destroy it or steal its creative power. The mountain itself
is false: existing only to the individual as he climbs toward self-realization, and unknowable
in any external reality; but it is as necessary as it is false. Without the fabrication,
individual reality would crumble and one would be stripped of creative power.
The record itself is based on repetitive guitar riffs and drum patterns similar to mantras in
meditation, blackened vocals referencing the uncomfortable tension between one's quest for
transcendence and their unresolved relationship with the rest of society The tracks are devices
to help maintain discipline in an attempt to conquer. The last track breaks from the mantras
into a less rigorously controlled wash of sound. Liberation.
Pressed with black ink on a black translucent paper sleeve. All white inserts with
poster. Illustration by Denis Kostromitin.