Blackout

Blackout

The Horse

Riding Easy

Ask any New Yorker what makes them special and they’ll all tell you something different. But there’s something very particular about a city so condensed with a vast range of humanity all facing myriad, daily challenges that gives its rock music a brash, direct aggression unlike other places. Case in point: NYC trio Blackout’s take on doom and stoner rock is filled with a gritty, mechanistic heft unlike bands of their ilk from anywhere else. Subsumed within the greasy grooves of The Horse are echoes of NYC heavy legends like Helmet, Cro-Mags, Judge, Prong and others—not as an intentional homage, but rather a vibe that permeates and inadvertently gives it a unique power few can match. After a brief hiatus between the March 2015 release of their self-titled sophomore album on Riding Easy Records, the band has regrouped and (ahem) gotten back on The Horse for an eight-song blast of riffs that does not fuck around. It was recorded over four days in September 2016 at Spaceman Sound in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, a whirlwind session laced with loads of buds, Petey’s burgers and lipstick. What you have before you now is a messy plate of meat, slathered in weird sauces. A haunted steak from from Centaurus A to sink your tingling fangs into. Sit back, crack a semi cold one, maybe get some snacks… and turn this motherfucker up to 8.

Blackout

S/t

Riding Easy

With food, beer, and America at the forefront, it only makes sense guitar player Christian Gordy and drummer Taryn Waldman would meet at Gordy's 2011 July 4th cookout in Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. With no direction and zero discussion the two instinctually began banging out some massive caveman jams that could party as much as they could crush. In the following months, the two recruited fellow rager Justin Sherrll for bass, and things got loud and heavy. BLACKOUT-referring to blackout drunk, power failure, or a mobster hit on an entire family, was a no brainer for a name. For fans of Acid King, Weedeater, Trouble, and Black Sabbath.