Horse Lords' Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is Out Now!

Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! manifests in our world today, an ecstatic invitation to a utopic dimension of sound.

D2BT2HA! marks RVNG’s fourth release with Horse Lords, and the tenth full-length accumulation of material in the band’s sixteen year history. Sixteen years is a long haul, and no easy feat for a band that found three of its four members transplanted from Baltimore to Berlin in 2021. While expatriating added a certain spice to the band dynamic, they recognized that D2BT2HA! would be the first Horse Lords album synthesized from a distance.

This endeavor offered an experiment with proximity, a dedication to communal philosophies, an opportunity for individuality to harmonize in the great spirit, and experience, of communication. As the band describes: “though the goal is still to speak from the position of a compound subjectivity, to break down the boundaries that individuate us, much more than past records there are four individuals speaking here. parallel play.”

And parallel play they have. D2BT2HA! is the most euphoric and joyful the band has sounded, a true exploration of spiritual rapture. Weaving numerous sonic and conceptual layers together with ease and intensity, the Lords have emerged with their most ambitious work, a celebration of music’s undeniable power and humanity. Is it a coincidence that 2026 marks the Year of the Fire Horse?

Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is available now in clear and marbled blue LP, black LP, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.