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Triumph From Tragedy With CALIGULA'S HORSE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  In the vibrant world of Brisbane's progressive metal scene, one name stands out Caligilla's
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  Horse. Since their inception in twenty eleven, they've not only captivated audiences across
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  Australia, but also garnered international attention, with previous releases gaining recognition on the
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  ARIA Chants. The band is now unleashed their sixth studio album, Charcoal Grace.
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  Recently, members Jim, Josh and Dale took a moment to sit down
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  with Heavy to discuss the album and their upcoming is Coast tour. I'm es
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  and you're tuned into the Heavy podcast, Join me as I dive into a
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  conversation with the legendary talents of Caligila's Horse. It's a full house in here.
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  This is exactly wasn't told. I was just like, am I going
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  to get one member? Am I going to get all members? And what
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  am I going to get? You get the first members, you get all
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  three of the worst members you've got. Is if there was like a meat
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  and potatoes of Horse, you have the potatoes. As someone who constantly refers
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  to themselves as a potato, I am part of the club now on a
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  potato for five minutes. So what what is your favorite kind of potato?
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  Look, here's the thing. It's for me. It is a crisp baked
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  potato. But it's been treated well. Okay, you've got to part boil
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  the ship. You've got to sort of rough up the edges a little bit,
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  give it a bit of the crunch. You know what I'm saying?
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  What do you what do you had to said? Baked potato? That's that
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  is also my mouth and that's it. You're not like no sour cream,
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  no bacon, and Jip hasn't got time for that. We're in a progressive
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  metal band. Mate, Do you think I'm made of money? Do you
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  think this is off to a good start? And considering I've really got ten
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  minutes with you guys tonight, you know why why not talk about potatoes straight?
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  The correct answer is roast potatoes won't have anything? Next question, let's
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  go well anyway, thank you all so much for joining me tonight on the
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  Heavy Podcast. Exciting times for Caligula's Horse. You got new music, You've
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  got a tour announcement, and just for listeners that aren't in the know,
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  you guys are releasing your sixth studio album on January twenty sixth. Is the
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  sixth, isn't it? It is the sex sweet I did my job properly,
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  and you guys have already given us a taste of what's to come with
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  two singles released recently. I saw your post on social media when The World
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  Breeds with Me was released, and I really love that small blurb that you
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  posted about the theme of the song. Do you mind expanding on that for
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  listeners? Yeah? Sure. This one's kind of like if there was kind
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  of a snapshot of the themes of the album. I feel like the World
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  Breaths with Me is that because Shark or Grace is essentially like a you know,
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  it's it's full of motifs and stories of things that we experienced or saw
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  during the pandemic, things that we learned from it, and then some some
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  of that is fictional and some of it is deeply personal. But The World
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  Breeze with Me is kind of a zoomed out view of that. So it's
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  sort of taking the whole journey from from the like the loss and utter despondence
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  and the loss of faith in humanity at the beginning of it, and the
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  kind of bitterness of that through to kind of like understanding that we carry this
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  weight together and that you know, I'm as guilty of selfishness as everyone else
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  in our own ways, and then finally realizing at the end that it's you
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  know, the positive takeaway is that it's you know, we're all like irrevocably
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  connected by breath if nothing else, you know, and sort of we're connected
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  to the world through each other, and that that kind of journey is its
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  essentially what we've been on because you know, during the COVID years, we
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  didn't want to do this anymore. I didn't want to write anymore. I
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  had nothing left to say, you know, I had, and I was
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  afraid that that was going to be forever. And coming back and having that
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  realization as a group has kind of led us to chuck or grace as a
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  whole. One of the things, Yeah, one of the things that I
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  love about the world Breeze with Me is that that was just the power phrase
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  that I think you've chucked out at one point as well. I breathe in
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  the world Breeze with Me, Yeah, And that was like the origins of
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  a very simple idea I think at the beginning. That's so cool and this.
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  Sometimes the simplest of ideas are the ones that like, are born into
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  much bigger monsters. I suppose. Yeah, the ones where you know,
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  like I'm trying to write something or I'm trying to sleep. Actually usually I'm
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  trying to sleep, and then I have to go and write something because the
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  idea is there and I have to go into it, which is so unfortunate.
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  But yeah, it was one of those. I don't ever, don't
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  ever ever fall into that trap of thinking that you'll remember it in the morning,
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  you know, I get a yeah, get a pen or convince yourself
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  it's not a very good idea memory has already written. No, I think
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  it's a really beautiful song and such a great sort of snapshot of what a
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  fantastic progressive metal song should be. Too. Like it takes you on a
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  bit of a journey, so is Charcoal Grace. Then is it a concept
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  album or, like you said, just a selection of snapshots about as specific
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  time period. I would say it's not necessarily a concept album. I like,
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  I sort of back and forth over this one, and Sam doesn't think
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  it is, and for a bit I did. But it doesn't fucking matter.
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  But there are definitely like Charcoal Grace, the four part suite in the
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  center of the entire thing is fundamentally a concept song because you know, it's
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  characters and story as well as motifs and themes that carry through everything else.
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  But because of the really deeply honest and personal nature of the other songs,
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  would say that it's basically an album that's just a collection of themes. I
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  think we've anard about that couple of times over the like going, yeah,
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  it's say concept album, and then like more we think about it, like
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  yeah, nah, perhaps you can call it a concept album, but each
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  song stands alone. Yeah, just as well. You can write, you
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  write all the ad copy for this, and that's fine for me. Okay,
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  Oh, just put it on the pile with all the other ones.
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  So do you have Do you have any more singles coming out before the album
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  actually drops? Yeah, we do. We in very early January, we're
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  going to be dropping single number three, which is the Storm Chaser. I
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  went I went blank there for a second, not because I forgot the name
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  of the song, forgot I forgot where I was. It's much worse.
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  It's much worse than it seemed. The thing is you didn't have to say
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  I could. I could so edit that just to make it sound so seem
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  really no, no, no, never edit always always handed. But no,
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  we've yeah, we've got the third one there, it's going to be
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  the last little exciting little tidbit before the album comes out. And then Kaboo
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  January twenty sixth. There it is, yeah, seek and then you've got
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  an East Coaster that you've just announced, which is happening off the back of
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  like a ton of overseas dates as well. So twenty twenty four is already
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  looking like stacked for you guys. Yes it is, Josh, lots lots
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  of time. You're ready to get Are you ready to get fat with me
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  in America? Dude? Oh my god, we're in a lot of trouble,
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  you and me, baby Potato, a lot of trouble. Oh it's
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  it's not it's it's all the high for address corn syrup. But I'm likely
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  to consume without realizing it or knowingly doing it. Yeah, I really am
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  going to eat my way around the country and hopefully burn it off at the
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  shows. Otherwise, Yeah, coming back a different person. What's actually kind
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  of funny about that is that, like While it's a very silly thing to
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  say, it kind of does reflect kind of the nature of what we love
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  to do when we're touring that we haven't been able to do for so long,
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  and that is that, like, you know, we're a bunch of
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  nerds who like to travel. And yes, we play a lot of shows,
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  and yes we don't have a lot of time, but with the time
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  that we do have to spend, we like to do it doing cultural stuff
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  or like walking around and seeing what it's like to be in a place.
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  Sometimes do a little tourism, but a lot of the time it's food and
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  it's you know, just like being in a location. So yeah, we're
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  all really excited about that. I guess people don't don't understand either. The
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  touring schedules are so hectic sometimes you don't get the chance to really do tourist
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  things. So I guess the next closest thing you can do to experiencing a
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  culture is food. It's just stick it in your gob just like that's going
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  to be the headline for this interview. Just stick it in your gobour for
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  this The subtitle for this podcast is can I Eat this? Well? I
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  do want to say as well on behalf of Ossie Heavy fans. Thank you
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  for bringing me all on board. Yes as well, because they are such
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  an underrated band and I cannot wait to see them thanks to you. Yeah,
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  we haven't had a chance to see them live either, like we've we've
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  met the lads online, but yeah, oh you haven't. I was going
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  to ask have you have you performed with them before or anything like that,
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  but no, we've had we've had digital contact. I long I yearned to
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  touch them. That's about it. Yeah. No, it's cool to have
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  an international band here in support and to have that like really strong package going
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  around. I think people are pretty amped as you are about bringing Riddle along
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  as well. I think it's going to be really exciting. And do you
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  have any local supports on as well or I don't think so. I think
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  that the package is just the two bands down. Am I right about that,
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  buddy? It's up in the air. We well, I think I
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  think just having the two is just exciting enough. So oh yeah, yeah,
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  And I did want to say while we're still talking about food, and
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  this is completely not to do, like not going to be in the interview
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  at all. I will edit it out, but I can't look at your
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  band name anymore without because I'm friends with Chris the Malco, and now I
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  cannot look at your band name without the meme that he made of Caligula's sauce.
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  So you can thank him for ruining your name. Not even like a
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  good it's a master foods tomato sauce pot You know what I mean? You
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  mean, the greatest source in existence? How have we not monetized this into
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  a hot source? Gip? What are you doing with your time? Do
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  it? Boys? Keeping? I'm keeping that in now. If someone wants
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  to get on board and help fund this, it's time to sleep experimenting with
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  some recipes. Boys, I'll see it soon wrecked, Let's go dick it
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  on a baked potato. I just got aul of beer and that I think
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  that that is a really good note to end on, since our time is
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  already up. That was that felt like I went so quick? Oh sorry,
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  that's okay. I know you've got a bunch of interviews to do,
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  so no, that's you know, this has been the most fun. If
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  I laugh more than I actually speak in an interview, that's generally a sign
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  that's a good one. Yeah, we covered all of the big topics.
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  Of course we did it home runs. Thank you so much, guys,
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  smash out another interview. We'll see you see you in Melbourne in February.
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  February. No, not February. When is it April to go? Yeah?
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  Please get me the just come down in February anyway. No, you
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  guys will be overseas. Man. I can't. I'm just I'm sorry.
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  You can't can't attend alright. I better let you get to your next one.
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  Thanks, all right, see by. Okay, So what did we
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  learn from this eye opening conversation? Something about an album and lots of rambling
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  about potatoes and hot sauce. The newest release by Kaligilla's Horse is titled Chuck
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  Old Grace and it's out now waiting for you to listen to it in its
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  entirety. The band will be on tour in April, playing the following dates
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  and venues. Thursday April twenty five at Max Watts in Melbourne, Friday April
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  twenty sixth at the Manning Bar in Sydney and Saturday April twenty seven at the
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  Trippet in Brisbane. As mentioned, prog metal band Wheel hailing from Helsinki,
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  Finland will be supporting the Boys on those dates their first time playing in Australia,
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  so these are definitely shows not to be missed. This has been another
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  episode of the Heavy Podcast. Until next time, keep life Heavy. Sh