Artist: Wheel
Title: Charismatic Leaders
Label: Inside Out Music
Cat #: 19658865842
Release Year: 2024
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digipak
Special Attributes: Contains the Ruminations EP as bonus tracks

Charismatic Leaders is the third full-length studio album from the Anglo-Finnish progressive metallers Wheel.

The album was meticulously crafted to meet Wheel's ever-heightening benchmarks and recording with engineers/co-producers Daniel Bergstrand and Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah) stretched from August to December 2023. The end result, mixed by Forrester Savell, has consolidated all the gains of what came before: singer/guitarist James Lascelles, lead guitarist Jussi Turunen and drummer Santeri Saksala's third album represents their heaviest and most conscious music to date.

Since forming in 2015, Wheel have swiftly grown from underdogs of Helsinki, Finland, to an international tour de force. The angular riffs, unforgettable melodies and adventurous scope of the trio's 2019 debut, Moving Backwards, was instantly adored by fans of megastars from Tool to Coheed & Cambria. Then, 2021 follow-up Resident Human received rave reviews from publications across the planet, praising its sonic evolution and bravely dystopian themes.

Recommended if you like: Tool, Karnivool, Leprous, Caligula's Horse, Textures, The Ocean, Haken, TesseracT

Track Listing:

1. Empire
2. Porcelain
3. Submission
4. Saboteur
5. Disciple
6. Caught In The Afterglow
7. The Freeze

Ruminations EP
8. Blood Driunker
9. Synchronise
10. Impervious