THE HIGHEST RISE

Much like the fabled Roman emperor referenced in their name, Caligula’s Horse are titans of a gloriously stately force. Since their earnest origins in Brisbane’s underground club scene circa 2011, the prog-metallers have carved out an impressively zealous niche for themselves – they’re the go-to crew for grandiose, sprawling narrative epics that grab the listener by their ears and yeets them at a thousand kilometres a second into the eye of a kaleidoscope belonging to God himself.

Rise Radiant is the fifth album to bear the Caligula’s Horse stamp of approval – yet, in many ways, it’s