Sam Vallen Guitarist,Songwriter,Founder of Australian Prog Rock Group 'Caligula's Horse'
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- Rock Raymond
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- Wed 27 Dec 2023
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AUSTRALIAN PROGRESSIVE ROCK GROUP CALIGULA’S HORSE RELEASING NEW ALBUM ‘CHARCOAL GRACE’ RAW ROCK POWER WITH EMOTIONAL DEPTH!
SPECIAL LIVE EVENT WITH LEAD GUITARIST/SONGWRITER SAM VALLEN FROM AUSTRALIA!
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho.
Caligula’s Horse, hailing from Brisbane, Australia, are a leading light in contemporary progressive metal. Their colourful and emotional music, spanning influences as diverse as King Crimson, Steely Dan, Opeth, and Jeff Buckley, has forged a deep and lasting connection with fans across the globe. In 2020, Caligula’s Horse released their most focused and potent artistic statement yet: Rise Radiant, an uncompromising exploration of the human experience dressed in vivid musical color and virtuosic performances.
The brand-new release by Caligula’s Horse is entitled Charcoal Grace and is borne of the static hopelessness that the pandemic forced upon the band and, indeed, much of the world, these past few years. It is an album reckoning with the experiences and outcomes of this time geared, ultimately, towards catharsis - moving towards a more hopeful future.
The title Charcoal Grace is described by the band as “the grim allure and strange beauty in stillness, silence, and loss”.
At the center of the album is the 4-part title track suite, a 24-minute opus that pushes deeper into the album’s foundational themes: connection, alienation, and the ways humanity acts under duress. Musically, it covers every facet of the band’s vocabulary, from heavy and dense orchestral-accompanied intensity embodying the song’s darkest lyrical ideas, through to soft acoustic-driven moments and introspection. Charcoal Grace will be Officially released on Jan. 26th. But the album is available for preorder.
Please welcome lead guitarist, musical director producer, and songwriter for Australian progressive metal band Caligula’s Horse, who is also a music educator and holds a doctorate in music from the Queensland Conservatorium … SAM VALLEN TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS …
PREORDER
THE NEW ALBUM
BY
CALIGULA’S HORSE
entitled
CHARCOAL GRACE
Officially released on Jan. 26th.
Pre-Order Charcoal Grace at
https://caligulashorse.lnk.to/CharcoalGrace-Bio
Listen to the 10-minute opening track "The World Breathes With Me" at
“CHARCOAL GRACE BY CALIGULA’S HORSE IS A MASTERFUL MELODIC MASTERPIECE!
A BRILLIANT ARRANGEMENT OF INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTATION AND MESMORIZING VOCALIZATION.
PHENOMINAL AND UNPRECEDENTED!”
By music journalist Ray Shasho
5 stars!
Watch the video for the first single "Golem"at
FOR MORE INFORMATION
ABOUT
CALIGULA’S HORSE
VISIT
Official website
https://www.facebook.com/caligulashorseband
http://instagram.com/caligulashorse
https://twitter.com/CaligulasHorse
https://www.youtube.com/samvallen
YouTube
INSIDEOUT MUSIC online:
www.insideoutmusic.com
www.samvallen.com
Sam Vallen official website
The band recently announced their Charcoal Grace North America Tour 2024 with special guests Earthside. Tickets available at caligulashorse.com.
CALIGULA’S HORSE TOUR
2024
US:
01/31 Union Stage - Washington, DC
02/01 Underground Arts - Philadelphia, PA
02/02 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
02/03 New York, NY - The Gramercy Theatre
02/04 Montreal, QC - Le Studio TD
02/06 The Axis Club - Toronto, ON
02/07 Thunderbird Cafe & Music Hall - Pittsburgh, PA
02/08 Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL
02/10 Exit - Nashville, TN
02/12 The Underground - Charlotte, NC
02/13 The Masquerade (Hell) - Atlanta, GA
02/15 Come Take it Live - Austin, TX
02/16 Granada Theatre - Dallas, TX
02/18 Nile Half House - Phoenix, AZ
02/19 Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA
02/20 The Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA
02/21 Cornerstone - Berkley, CA
02/23 El Corazon - Seattle, WA
02/24 Hawthorne Theatre, Portland, OR
02/25 Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver, BC
4/25 Max Watts Melbourne/Melbourne, Australia
4/26 Manning Bar Camperdown, Australia
CALIGULA’S HORSE
DISCOGRAPHY
Moments from Ephemeral City
Released: 2011
The Tide, the Thief & River's End
Released: 2013
Bloom
Released: 2015
In Contact
Released: 2017
Rise Radiant
Released: 2020
Charcoal Grace
Scheduled: 26 January 2024
EP’S
Colossus
Released: 2011
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