Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
2026 studio album by Horse Lords
Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is the sixth full-length studio album by the American experimental rock band Horse Lords. It was released on June 12, 2026, through RVNG Intl.. Recorded between Berlin and Baltimore, it is the band's first album to feature vocals and expands its core guitar, bass, drums, and saxophone lineup with contributions from vocalists Nina Guo and Evelyn Saylor, bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone, and trombonist Weston Olencki.
The album was announced with the singles "Eureka 378-B" and "Brain of the Firm", followed by "First Galactic Utopia" and a video for the title track. It received generally favorable reviews from critics, with a score of 79 out of 100 on Metacritic, and was selected as Album of the Week by The Quietus and Treble.
Background and recording
Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! followed Horse Lords' 2022 album Comradely Objects and their 2025 collaborative album FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field with Arnold Dreyblatt. Matthew Blackwell of Bandcamp Daily wrote that it was the first Horse Lords album made remotely, after most of the group moved to Berlin while drummer Sam Haberman remained in Baltimore.
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