Charcoal grace | LP | Caligula's Horse

Appears on black Vinyl in gatefold format including LP booklet.

Developed by the metal bands of the world, Caligula's Horse returns with their 6th studio album, Charcoal Grace, featuring a combination of raw rock power and immense emotional depth.

Charcoal Grace is born from the static hopelessness that the band and much of the world have been subjected to in recent years due to the pandemic. It is an album that confronts the experiences and outcomes of this time and ultimately aims for catharsis - a more hopeful future.

The title Charcoal Grace is described by the band as 'the dark allure and strange beauty of silence, silence, and loss'. This can be heard in the 10-minute opening track 'The World Breathes With Me', a mission statement for the main themes of the album. Musically, it is a work of contrasts, moving from the gentlest ebb to the heaviest flow. The second track and first single from the album, 'Golem', deals with the struggle with the burden of expectation brought on by the pandemic. It is a heavy song with a focus on riffs and driving rhythms.

At the heart of the album is the four-part suite of the title track, a 24-minute piece that deepens the fundamental themes of the album: connection, alienation, and the way humanity acts under duress. Musically, it covers all facets of the band's vocabulary, from heavy and dense, orchestral intensity that embodies the darkest lyrical ideas of the songs, to gentle, acoustically influenced moments and introspection.

After Caligula's Horse was unable to present their last album, Rise Radiant, to the world in recent years, they are now ready to bring Charcoal Grace to the people in an uncompromising manner. With this album, Caligula's Horse has made a statement, and they are ready for the world to listen.