Welcome to Aloud, Caballo Muerte

Songs, music, like other forms of art, have the gift of capturing those feelings that are sometimes difficult to express. Details we overlook, emotions we don’t try to talk about, episodes we don’t stop to think about… until you come across a song that seems to reveal and describe you. As with Caballo Muerte, they have a lot to say, both with their lyrics and their music.

Whether you’re drawn in by the rhythmic sequences of their songs or by the phrases that stick with you, Caballo Muerte’s songs unfold like a journey through different emotional processes. As an example, “Gardenia,” the first single of their album, reveals a kind of confrontation between emotions, between a past and a present that seem to be in dialogue. The conflict is there, like many of the ones we encounter in our daily lives.

Like the other songs on their debut album, Caballo Muerte recorded “Gardenia” at NoiseStudioa (Zarautz, EH) with Ander Barriuso in March of this year. Oihan Lizaso handled the mastering.

With the addition of Caballo Muerte and PATIMENT, Aloud Music marks a new era. In its history, in theirs, in ours… because since the label started in 2003, it hasn’t stopped discovering bands that have gradually grown and become indispensable.

In these two years, Los Sara Fontan, Puput, Roko Banana, Palmeras Negras, and these two latest offerings, PATIMENT and Caballo Muerte, have joined Aloud Music. A whole team that has been growing in all stylistic dimensions.

Listen to “Gardenia,” the first single from Caballo Muerte’s upcoming album.

CABALLO MUERTE

A couple of years ago, in 2023, Rakel, Beatriz, Saúl, and Eneko got together in a small venue in Vitoria-Gasteiz with a clear idea: to unleash their creativity and their desire to experiment. A starting point that grew, and thus emerged Caballo Muerte, a furious quartet that knows how to find the harshest aspects of certain genres.

Because Rakel Arnaiz-Porras (vocals), Saúl Oruña (guitar), Beatriz Perales Fernández de Gamboa (bass) and Eneko de Arza Cid (drums) have made the distortion, noise and density of doom their own to reflect a reality that generates anger, feelings of oppression, anxiety…

Emotional states that are taken further, which they confront in the form of songs.

Photo by Eider Iturriaga