Caligula's Horse album "Moments from Ephemeral City" (2011) and follow up EP "Colossus" (2011) were released independently before signing with Welkin Records and releasing their second album "The Tide, the Thief & River's End" (2013). The band then signed with Inside Out Music for the release of their 2015 album "Bloom". The band released their fourth album In Contact on 15 September 2017. In early 2011 Caligula's Horse was formed by Sam Vallen and Jim Grey. The band is named after the prized possession, Incitatus, of Roman Emperor Caligula by Grey, who is studying ancient history and classical languages at university. Initially
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III (21 September 1415 – 19 August 1493) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1452 until his death. He was the first emperor of the House of Habsburg, and the third member of the House of Habsburg to be elected to King of Germany after Rudolph I of Germany and Albert I in the 13th century. He was the penultimate emperor to be crowned by the Pope, and the last to be crowned in Rome. Prior to his imperial coronation, he was duke of the Inner Austrian lands of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola from 1424,