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Workhorse

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Described as a three-way love child between Mastodon, Pantera, and John Lee Hooker, the Denver-based Workhorse delivers some of the most searing and tightly chaotic Southern Metal and Hard Rock to be had in the Mile High City. Laced with plenty of old-school blues chops, stoner-rock sludge and everything in bewteen, Workhorse knows how to keep a crowd on its toes. Formed in mid-2005, Workhorse hit the ground running with their first EP “Why the Long Face?” landing a spot on MTV, with “Bam’s Unholy Union”! With the release of the full-length “Beasts of Burden”, Workhorse taken their solid foundation and expanded on it, adding some mellowed-out acoustic moments, porch-stomping blues tunes and lumbering psychedelic doom-riffs to their already groove-heavy, blistering approach to Southern Metal. Already hammering out new material for TWO new efforts, Workhorse still manages to play out at least once a month. Check your local listings; many bars are now allowing you to trade aluminum cans for admission. A case is probably enough.