Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant, JF 7/21/20

You assholes just don’t get it. Caligula’s Horse is so sick and original. In Contact would’ve won album of the year for me and Claire if it didn’t fall upon a Propagandhi year.

“The Tempest” is a perfect opener. “Salt” is incredible! “Oceanrise” is tolerable. And “Autumn” and “The Ascent” will forever be etched in my mind as epic uphill Tahoe mountain biking songs. The covers are great too and “Don’t Give Up” got me through a surprising handful of brutal uphill climbs. I submitted this to Metal Bros…

…and it got slaughtered by basically everyone! Like… nobody rated it above a 4 I couldn’t believe it! It is ferocious and clever! I can only imagine the mainstream songs turned everyone off, maybe Jim Grey? He is an uber talented vocalist, unsure what it is that makes people passionately hate Caligula’s!

 Caligula was a brutal ruler who had a perplexing love for animals, somewhat of an oxymoronic subset of values. Anyway, if you can stomach this album, it offers a tremendous payoff, but apparently I am in the minority, and I will gladly rock this album solo. This was also the album where I went overboard with my bro, and went lame and aggressive in hopes to make an impact. Hopefully “this too will pass.”