One of the best heavy sludge metal bands of recent years. The tracklist on the back cover is slightly wrong, mute departure is placed at the 7 position and disharmonia is placed at the 6 position, but on the cd mute departure is track 6 and disharmonia is track 7. Much like all of cult of lunas records, vertikal is a challenging listen. Stream vertikal by cult of luna and tens of millions of other songs on all your devices with amazon. Shot in an abandoned mental hospital, you can watch the eerie treatment for passing through. Contrasting the industrial and cityfocused vertikal, mariner explores themes relating to outer space.
Licensed to youtube by the orchard music, wmg on behalf of indie recordings. The final result is a challenging piece of work, which proves that there is no limit to what this band can achieve in musical terms. Get the shot, imminence, knocked loose, milking the goatmachine, northlane. Vertikal licensed to youtube by wmg, the orchard music on behalf of indie recordings. They formed from the remnants of the hardcore punk band called eclipse in 1998. After 5 years of absence from the live scene, cult of luna returned strong in 20, with a new album and an ep, vertikal and vertikal ii, inspired by fritz langs science fiction classic metropolis. It took them a lineup eight musicians strong, three guitars and five years to get to this point. Cult of luna passing through acoustic off the record. Albums include somewhere along the highway, salvation, and vertikal. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Vertikal is the sixth studio album by the swedish metal band cult of luna and is also the bands first studio album since eternal kingdom 2008. Previously, cult of lunas sideshow forays detracted from their bulkhead of heaviness. Finland from somewhere along the highway by cult of luna digital track. Cult of lunas previous album, eternal kingdom, was released way back in the summer of 2008.
Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures. Zum abschluss seiner zeit mit cult of luna trat er. Punctuated by electronic interludes, the album shows off cult of lunas patience for a good, slow build as they carefully assemble layers and connect passages, stopping only when the monstrous songs theyve built are fully operational. They are known for postmetal music similar to the contemporary bands neurosis and isis. Vertikal is the album cult of luna have always tried to write. For as many similarities there are to be found when comparing this. Cult of luna concert setlists sign in to get statistics for your attended concerts.
Cult of luna have been laborious in their attempt to ensure that the music of vertikal is reminiscent of the austere atmosphere of the expressionist film that forms its muse, and the swedish. The album was released in europe on january 25, 20 through indie recordings, and in the us on january 29, 20 on cd through density records and on vinyl through back on black. In 2016 the band released their spacethemed seventh album, mariner, featuring american vocalist julie christmas. On april 8, 2016, cult of luna released its seventh studio album titled mariner a collaborative release with the american vocalist julie christmas, formerly of made out of babies and battle of mice.
During the recording sessions and supporting tours for vertikal, cult of luna made two major lineup changes that werent publicly addressed until. The band was signed to earache records in the early 2000s and released five albums, including the commercially successful. Cult of lunas sound has progressed from material that was strongly influenced by doom metal, to a much less aggressive and more interesting orchestrated variant. Shop official cult of luna merch, vinyl records, shirts and more. But despite a nearfiveyear gap between lps, the swedish postmetal outfit has lost none of its power. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. Cult of luna is a swedish postmetal band from umea founded in 1998. Its heavily layered and detailed, with each of the compositions exposing a new facet of themselves on every listen. Passing through according to a press release, vertikal marks a muchanticipated return for the band after five years spent cultivating the ideas and directing the influences that have helped form a concept for the.
They released their selftitled debut album in 2001, and in august of 2019, they released their 8th full length album a dawn to fear. After an extended period of inactivity, cult of luna returned with its indie recordings debut vertikal 20 and companion ep vertikal ii 20, both drawing inspiration from fritz langs 1927 film, metropolis. Vertikal by cult of luna, released 29 january 20 1. Cult of luna are one of those bands that are so underrated its almost criminal. Vertikal sees cult of luna return to their thematic roots of overarching authority and corruption in high places.
Cult of luna by cult of luna, released 14 september 2001 1. If you are familiar with cult of luna at all, then you know the score. First things listeners will notice is that the sound is unmistakably cult of luna. The cd is said to be thematically influenced by the film metropolis, a hypnotic backdrop of machinery and repetition. Part of the problem stems from the fact that when this particular batch of swedes finally arrived about a decade ago, it was already too late. Touring scandinavia and europe from october to december 2019 with brutus and a. Includes unlimited streaming of vertikal via the free bandcamp app, plus highquality download in mp3, flac. The record can be equal parts cathartic and effusive or brooding and melancholic, the band truly accomplish this by moving, with ease, between. Vertikal dabbles in every facet shown in previous records and while not completely new or innovative by any means but here under the flag of vertikal, cult of luna have indeed shaken things up. Cult of luna is an experimentalpost metal band from sweden, formed in 1998 by johannes persson guitar and klas rydberg vocals. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology.
Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. Vertikal, despite being on a new label not earache is just as strong and methodical as past efforts. At the edge, looking up shifting focus onto a majestic void leaving myself open to let go drift along and disappear chorus i listen when you sing. The eternal music is the musiconly part of audio book dvd eviga riket, which was originally released independently by the band in 2010. Swedish art rockers cult of luna will release their first studio album in five years, vertikal, in early 20. Cult of luna biography, albums, streaming links allmusic.
Written and produced by cult of luna, spring 2011 autumn 2012. Somewhere along the highway 10th anniversary euro tour. Its more raw, more viscereral, and more destructive than past efforts. The song was available for download for a few days and was later removed.
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