Do you like Nintendo? Not as much as HORSE the Band you don't! Doesn't matter if you've got a tattoo of the Konami code or you figured out how to make R.O.B. actually do something'"HORSE have you beat. These Cali geeks, on resurrected '80s thrash label Combat for some reason, load up their metalcore with dinky 8-bit synths and philosophical lyrics about Mega Man bosses. Meanwhile, their non-'Tendo sense of humor involves stuff like devoting an entire EP to the subject of pizza. Prediction: A Natural Death will be slightly less serious than the new Hatebreed.