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* [[invoked]]UnpleasableFanbase: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in "Dream the Dead", which is from the perspective of such a fanbase, demanding that their favorite artist relapse into alcoholism so they can get to see more of his art, [[UngratefulBastard even if it kills him to make it.]] In discussions about the album, Grey and Vallen mentioned that they wrote the song to explore the darker side of fanatic obsession with another person's creations, to the point of trying to control their lives.
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* [[invoked]]UnpleasableFanbase: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in "Dream the Dead", which is from the perspective of such a fanbase, demanding that their favorite artist relapse into alcoholism so they can get to see more of his art, [[UngratefulBastard even if it kills him to make it.]] By "The Hands Are the Hardest", he's so sick and miserable from withdrawal symptoms that abandoning his latest shot at sobriety sounds like a great idea. In discussions about the album, Grey and Vallen mentioned that they wrote the song to explore the darker side of fanatic obsession with another person's creations, to the point of trying to control their lives.
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* AddledAddict: The protagonist of the "To the Wind" saga on ''In Contact'' is a hardcore alcoholic who has long tried and failed to get sober, with "The Hands Are the Hardest" serving as the most blunt portrayal of his situation - he's got the shakes and is too sick to even function, let alone focus on his art. By "Love Conquers All", he's dejectedly gone back to drinking and the cycle has begun anew.
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* Adrian Goleby - rhythm guitar (2017-2021)
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* LongestSongGoesLast:
** "Graves", which runs for 15:31, closes out ''In Contact''.
** ''Rise Radiant'' ends with the 10:43 "The Ascent".
** "Graves", which runs for 15:31, closes out ''In Contact''.
** ''Rise Radiant'' ends with the 10:43 "The Ascent".
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!!Tropes seen in Caligula's Horse's music include:
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Their style within progressive metal has been, as is to be expected, compared to contemporary projects such as Music/DreamTheater, {{Music/Opeth}}, and {{Music/Haken}}, and Grey's vocals often get compared to [[{{Music/Tool}} a cleaner Maynard James Keenan]], but they occupy a unique niche within the genre. Vallen has, on various occasions, mentioned Music/SteelyDan, Music/FrankZappa, and Music/JeffBuckley as inspirations for his compositions.
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Their style within progressive metal has been, as is to be expected, compared to contemporary projects such as Music/DreamTheater, {{Music/Opeth}}, and {{Music/Haken}}, as well as their fellow Australians Karnivool, and Grey's vocals often get compared to [[{{Music/Tool}} a cleaner Maynard James Keenan]], but they occupy a unique niche within the genre. Vallen has, on various occasions, mentioned Music/SteelyDan, Music/FrankZappa, and Music/JeffBuckley as inspirations for his compositions.
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Caligula's Horse is an Australian ProgressiveMetal band from Brisbane, Queensland. They were formed in 2011 by lead guitarist and songwriter Sam Vallen and lead singer Jim Grey, who to this day are the primary core of the band. The project was initially a one-off collaboration, but positive response to their debut album ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' led them to continue producing records. After releasing a follow-up EP, titled ''Colossus''[[labelnote:*]]The EP's two songs would later be appended to ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' upon rereleases.[[/labelnote]], later that year, they produced a full-on ConceptAlbum, ''The Tide, The Thief, and River's End'', in 2013. After signing with [=InsideOut=] Records (a progressive metal-focused label), they released their first major commercial success, 2015's ''Bloom'', and then another, somewhat different concept record in 2017's ''In Contact'', while steadily gaining further worldwide recognition and expanding tours.
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Caligula's Horse is an Australian ProgressiveMetal band from Brisbane, Queensland. They were formed in 2011 by lead guitarist and songwriter Sam Vallen and lead singer Jim Grey, who to this day are the primary core of the band. The project was initially a one-off collaboration, but positive response to their debut album ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' led them to continue producing records. After releasing a follow-up EP, titled ''Colossus''[[labelnote:*]]The EP's two songs would later be appended to ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' upon rereleases.[[/labelnote]], later that year, they produced a full-on ConceptAlbum, ''The Tide, The Thief, and River's End'', in 2013. After signing with [=InsideOut=] Records (a progressive metal-focused label), they released their first major commercial success, 2015's ''Bloom'', and then another, somewhat different concept record in 2017's ''In Contact'', while steadily gaining further worldwide recognition and expanding tours.
tours. In March 2020 they announced their fifth album, titled ''Rise Radiant'', to be released in May of that year.
The band's discography:
*''Moments From Ephemeral City'' (2011)
*''Colossus'' (EP) (2011)
*''The Tide, The Thief, and River's End'' (2013)
*''Bloom'' (2015)
*''In Contact'' (2017)
*''Rise Radiant'' (2020)
*''Moments From Ephemeral City'' (2011)
*''Colossus'' (EP) (2011)
*''The Tide, The Thief, and River's End'' (2013)
*''Bloom'' (2015)
*''In Contact'' (2017)
*''Rise Radiant'' (2020)
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* Jim Grey - lead vocals
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* Jim Grey - lead vocalsvocals (since 2011)
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* EpicRocking: They have their fair share of long songs, given their genre. Most notably, "Alone in the World" from ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' clocks in at 11:04, and "Graves", the fourth and final chapter of ''In Contact", reaches a full 15:31.
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* EpicRocking: They have their fair share of long songs, given their genre. Most notably, "Alone in the World" from ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' clocks in at 11:04, and "Graves", the fourth and final chapter of ''In Contact", Contact'', reaches a full 15:31.
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Decidedly not an example of the [[Main/CaligulasHorse trope of the same name]], though the band did name themselves after the original example of the trope.
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* [[invoked]]UnpleasableFanbase: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in "Dream the Dead", which is from the perspective of such a fanbase, demanding that their favorite artist relapse into alcoholism so they can get to see more of his art, [[UngratefulBastard even if it kills him to make it.]]]] In discussions about the album, Grey and Vallen mentioned that they wrote the song to explore the darker side of fanatic obsession with another person's creations, to the point of trying to control their lives.
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Caligula's Horse is an Australian ProgressiveMetal band from Brisbane, Queensland. They were formed in 2011 by lead guitarist and songwriter Sam Vallen and lead singer Jim Grey, who to this day are the primary core of the band. The project was initially a one-off collaboration, but positive response to their debut album ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' led them to continue producing records. After releasing a follow-up EP, titled ''Colossus''[[labelnote:*]]The EP's two songs would later be appended to ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' upon rereleases.[[/labelnote]], later that year, they produced a full-on ConceptAlbum, ''The Tide, The Thief, and River's End'', in 2013. After signing with InsideOut Records (a progressive metal-focused label), they released their first major commercial success, 2015's ''Bloom'', and then another, somewhat different concept record in 2017's ''In Contact'', while steadily gaining further worldwide recognition and expanding tours.
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Caligula's Horse is an Australian ProgressiveMetal band from Brisbane, Queensland. They were formed in 2011 by lead guitarist and songwriter Sam Vallen and lead singer Jim Grey, who to this day are the primary core of the band. The project was initially a one-off collaboration, but positive response to their debut album ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' led them to continue producing records. After releasing a follow-up EP, titled ''Colossus''[[labelnote:*]]The EP's two songs would later be appended to ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' upon rereleases.[[/labelnote]], later that year, they produced a full-on ConceptAlbum, ''The Tide, The Thief, and River's End'', in 2013. After signing with InsideOut [=InsideOut=] Records (a progressive metal-focused label), they released their first major commercial success, 2015's ''Bloom'', and then another, somewhat different concept record in 2017's ''In Contact'', while steadily gaining further worldwide recognition and expanding tours.
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* TitleDrop: An odd example of this trope overlapping with NonAppearingTitle is "The Cannon's Mouth", which doesn't appear in the song itself, but in the last line of the preceding track, "Inertia and the Weapon of the Wall":
--> ''So spit in the cannon's mouth, and tell 'em Ink sent ya!''
--> ''So spit in the cannon's mouth, and tell 'em Ink sent ya!''
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* TitleDrop: An odd example of this trope overlapping with NonAppearingTitle is "The Cannon's Mouth", which doesn't appear in the song itself, but in the last line of the [[SiameseTwinSongs preceding track, track]], "Inertia and the Weapon of the Wall":
--> ''So spit in the cannon's mouth, and tell 'em Ink sentya!''ya!''
*[[invoked]]UnpleasableFanbase: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in "Dream the Dead", which is from the perspective of such a fanbase, demanding that their favorite artist relapse into alcoholism so they can get to see more of his art, [[UngratefulBastard even if it kills him to make it.]]
--> ''So spit in the cannon's mouth, and tell 'em Ink sent
*[[invoked]]UnpleasableFanbase: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in "Dream the Dead", which is from the perspective of such a fanbase, demanding that their favorite artist relapse into alcoholism so they can get to see more of his art, [[UngratefulBastard even if it kills him to make it.]]
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Their style within progressive metal has been, as is to be expected, compared to contemporary projects such as Music/DreamTheater and {{Music/Haken}}, and Grey's vocals often get compared to [[{{Music/Tool}} a cleaner Maynard James Keenan]], but they occupy a unique niche within the genre. Vallen has, on various occasions, mentioned Music/SteelyDan, Music/FrankZappa, and Music/JeffBuckley as inspirations for his composition style.
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Their style within progressive metal has been, as is to be expected, compared to contemporary projects such as Music/DreamTheater Music/DreamTheater, {{Music/Opeth}}, and {{Music/Haken}}, and Grey's vocals often get compared to [[{{Music/Tool}} a cleaner Maynard James Keenan]], but they occupy a unique niche within the genre. Vallen has, on various occasions, mentioned Music/SteelyDan, Music/FrankZappa, and Music/JeffBuckley as inspirations for his composition style.
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*{{Homage}}: "Dragonfly" from ''Bloom'' is meant as one to Music/JeffBuckley.
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Caligula's Horse is an Australian ProgressiveMetal band from Brisbane, Queensland. They were formed in 2011 by lead guitarist and songwriter Sam Vallen and lead singer Jim Grey, who to this day are the primary core of the band. The project was initially a one-off collaboration, but positive response to their debut album ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' led them to continue producing records. After releasing a follow-up EP, titled ''Colossus'', later that year, they produced a full-on ConceptAlbum, ''The Tide, The Thief, and River's End'', in 2013. After signing with InsideOut Records (a progressive metal-focused label), they released their first major commercial success, 2015's ''Bloom'', and then another, somewhat different concept record in 2017's ''In Contact'', while steadily gaining further worldwide recognition and expanding tours.
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Caligula's Horse is an Australian ProgressiveMetal band from Brisbane, Queensland. They were formed in 2011 by lead guitarist and songwriter Sam Vallen and lead singer Jim Grey, who to this day are the primary core of the band. The project was initially a one-off collaboration, but positive response to their debut album ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' led them to continue producing records. After releasing a follow-up EP, titled ''Colossus'', ''Colossus''[[labelnote:*]]The EP's two songs would later be appended to ''Moments From Ephemeral City'' upon rereleases.[[/labelnote]], later that year, they produced a full-on ConceptAlbum, ''The Tide, The Thief, and River's End'', in 2013. After signing with InsideOut Records (a progressive metal-focused label), they released their first major commercial success, 2015's ''Bloom'', and then another, somewhat different concept record in 2017's ''In Contact'', while steadily gaining further worldwide recognition and expanding tours.
tours.
Their style within progressive metal has been, as is to be expected, compared to contemporary projects such as Music/DreamTheater and {{Music/Haken}}, and Grey's vocals often get compared to [[{{Music/Tool}} a cleaner Maynard James Keenan]], but they occupy a unique niche within the genre. Vallen has, on various occasions, mentioned Music/SteelyDan, Music/FrankZappa, and Music/JeffBuckley as inspirations for his composition style.
Their style within progressive metal has been, as is to be expected, compared to contemporary projects such as Music/DreamTheater and {{Music/Haken}}, and Grey's vocals often get compared to [[{{Music/Tool}} a cleaner Maynard James Keenan]], but they occupy a unique niche within the genre. Vallen has, on various occasions, mentioned Music/SteelyDan, Music/FrankZappa, and Music/JeffBuckley as inspirations for his composition style.
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