LINGUA IGNOTA

Caligula PROFOUND LORE

Lingua Ignota’s second album definitely wasn’t one of the easiest records to listen to this year, but it was indisputably one of the most intense. Kristin Hayter’s ‘survivor anthems’, dealing with domestic violence, abuse of power and revenge, struck a chord most people didn’t even know existed before. And not only was the subject matter unusual, she mixed together elements of church and classical music, noise, industrial and extreme metal, turning Caligula into an experience without peer. It’s uncommon that music as extreme, challenging and demanding as this – with its distorted sounds, genre-defying mentality and crushing narrative – gets such recognition in the wider scene. The fact that it did is