[Pre-Order] Billy Nomates - Metalhorse [CD]

Metalhorse is Billy Nomates’ (aka Tor Maries) third studio release, following 2023’s critically acclaimed 'CACTI' and her self-titled 2020 debut.

This is the CD version of the album which comes housed in a digi-pack sleeve. 

**This is a pre-order item which will ship in time for the May 16th release date.**

Metalhorse is a concept album revolving around the image of a dilapidated funfair, representing the tumultuousness of life – risk and pleasure, danger and exhilaration.

The 11 new songs here explore blues, folk and piano-driven arrangements that take Billy Nomates’ stark punk sound in a more pastoral direction. The first Billy Nomates album to be made in a studio with a full band, the line-up inc. bass player Mandy Clarke (KT Tunstall, The Go! Team) and drummer Liam Chapman (Rozi Plain, BMXBandits) plus a special feature from The Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell on “Dark Horse Friend”.

Metalhorse is a balancing of extremes. Reckoning with loss, material insecurity and trying to stay true to yourself against an increasingly unpredictable backdrop of global chaos, the scales could easily have tipped towards darkness but the more Maries has had to weather, the more precious those smaller moments of happiness have become.

Metalhorse begs the listener to find their own funfair; there will always be things that feel perilous. At the same time, you have to marvel at the lights while they’re still on. Dancing with those feelings of uncertainty and joy, Metalhorse is awash with both pain and perseverance.

Tracklist :

1. Metalhorse 
2. Nothin Worth Winnin
3. The Test
4. Override
5. Dark Horse Friend
6. Life’s Unfair
7. Plans
8. Gas
9. Comedic Timing
10. Strange Gift
11. Moon Explodes