Cult Of Luna

Cult Of Luna
STYLE: ORIGIN: SwedenFORMED: 1998LABEL: Metal Blade
  • MEMBERS:
  • Magnus Líndberg – percussion, guitar
  • Johannes Persson – guitars, vocals
  • Andreas Johansson – bass
  • Thomas Hedlund – drums
  • Fredrik Kihlberg – guitar, vocals
  • Kristian Karlsson – vocals, keyboards, samples
BIOGRAPHY

Building on twenty years of creating some of the most epic, emotive and inventive heavy music unleashed on the world, there is no denying that Cult Of Luna‘s A Dawn To Fear is a monster of a record. An album comprised of eight tracks running seventy-nine minutes, it embodies everything the band’s faithful have come to expect from them while covering new ground. “Going into the process, we knew the album we wanted to make, an antithesis of what we’ve done before,” says vocalist/guitarist and lead songwriter Johannes Persson. “For pretty much every album there’s been a very concrete theme. We’ve known from the start the kind of story we wanted to tell, and I didn’t want that to be the case. I’ve seen a lot of subtle changes and patterns in my own behavior and my own thinking the last couple of years, and I wanted this to be a completely spontaneous process. I just wanted to see what came out of me, and ‘A Dawn To Fear‘ is the result of that.”

Admitting he is perhaps still too close to the record to objectively describe the sound of A Dawn To Fear, Persson believes that it has a more organic feel to it, largely achieved through the use of organs and other acoustic instruments in place of electronic keyboards, and that it is perhaps a more melancholic collection. It is also arguably heavier than their last full-length, 2013’s Vertikal and their 2016 collaboration with Julie Christmas, Mariner, both in terms of the sheer density of the music and its tone. When it came to tracking the album, the band opted to work at Ocean Sound Recordings in Norway, which, as the name suggests, is located right by the coast, far from the nearest town. For eleven days the band lived at the studio, and enjoyed the process of constructing the record. With the finished product running to the length of a double CD, there was some discussion of cutting a track, but this did not get far. “We sat down and looked at that song list and we couldn’t. It would make it easier for us and everyone involved to cut one song, making it no problem when it comes to LPs and CDs, but we just couldn’t see the album any other way. These songs are the songs that make sense. If we cut this song or that song, it would screw up the whole dynamic of the record.”

DISCOGRAPHY

A Dawn To Fear / 2019

A Dawn To Fear
  • Album Info
  • 2019
  • Metal Blade Records

Mariner / 2016

Mariner
  • Album Info
  • 2016
  • Indie Recordings

Vertikal / 2013

Vertikal
  • Album Info
  • 2013
  • Indie Recordings

Eternal Kingdom / 2008

Eternal Kingdom
  • Album Info
  • 2008
  • Earache Records

Somewhere Along The Highway / 2006

Somewhere Along The Highway
  • Album Info
  • 2006
  • Earache Records

Salvation / 2004

Salvation
  • Album Info
  • 2004
  • Earache Records

The Beyond / 2003

The Beyond
  • Album Info
  • 2003
  • Earache Records

Cult Of Luna / 2001

Cult Of Luna
  • Album Info
  • 2001
  • Earache Records

“Cult of Luna” is the first studio album by Cult Of Luna.

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