Biography
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Years Active
2008 – 2016 (8 years)
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Founded In
Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Flanders, Belgium
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Members
- Thijs De Cloedt
Belgium’s best-kept guitar secret. Up until today, at least.
Some bands are stuck for years. Others manage to immediately set everything ablaze. Horses on Fire resolutely chose the latter. These young foals are stamping with impatience to light your fire. Don’t say you haven’t been warned.
HORSES ON FIRE :
Thijs De Cloedt (1979) music, guitar
Michélé De Feudis (1982) music, lyrics, vocals, guitar
Alessandro De Feudis (1984) drums
Anthony Statius (1987) bass guitar
What it sounds like? Well, if you listen to the single Draw the line, you’ll hear a dash of Dan Auerbach, a pinch of Black Mountain, but more than anything, you’ll hear a song than when played live, only gets better and better. (“We want to have a live reputation”). If you listen to Glassmade giants, you’ll be introduced with the frontman’s a head voice floating over a groovy southern rock rhythm. If you put on Season of Hate, you’ll be drumming along the rhythm on your steering wheel in a blink. That’s what it sounds like.
They’re all songs that seem to find a balance between brute force and bluesy bridges, between machismo and melody, pop and rock, pathos and a wink, and between, yes indeed, guns and roses. Song you can take to war. Or to a record company. “We’ve been shopping for record labels for weeks”, they say in one voice. “We visited a lot of label companies, but in the end our gut feeling told us that V2, an indie label, would be the best choice. Especially since they already knew all of our song titles and numbers after only one visit. Even though the label is very selective in signing with Belgian bands, we could feel weren’t the only interested party.”
The untitled debut album of Horses on Fire will be released on February 7th, 2012, on V2 records.
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