★★★★★
The Forum, in London, stands in silence, as Cult of Luna take control of the light and toy with its frequency. They cast no shadow, and the wavelength of the photons elongates, shifting to red like that of a faraway object in the expanding universe. The grey, liquid rays may envelop the bodies on stage, but the music travels faster than the speed of light tonight...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-06-04
★★★★★
Cult of Luna's latest is the new complimentary work full airy tracks that didn't quite make the cut for , which was released back in January. The new album features only four tracks, but the run time still exists at just over thirty minutes. From the beginning of the album any COL fan can tell this is a bit of a departure for the band, but it's one that still feels primarily rooted in the bands signature sound...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2013-09-17
★★★★★
MUSIC ALBUM REVIEW
Cult of LunaVertikal***½
by Jordan Mainzer on February 24, 2013Jump to Comments (0) or Add Your Own
Taking a cue from the physical highs and lows of titular city of Metropolis and the emotional highs and lows of the 1927 film's story, Cult of Luna's Vertikal is a linear album, best appreciated from start to finish...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2013-02-25
★★★★★
In the solemn and self-serious realm of post-metal, no band serves as a working template quite as much as Neurosis. For the last quarter century, the California group has blended massive atmospherics with steely-eyed ferocity, resulting in albums of grand arches and, at best, total immersion...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
A Grey Metropolis.
Cult of Luna have always taken great care and consideration when it comes to presenting their art. The band's previous record, Eternal Kingdom, released back in the summer of 2008, was promoted as based on the hallucinatory ramblings contained within a diary of a mental patient which was supposedly found by the band when they were practising in a building previously used as a mental hospital...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-01-28
★★★★★
Cult of Luna have always taken great care and consideration when it comes to presenting their art. The band's previous record, Eternal Kingdom, released back in the summer of 2008, was promoted as based on the hallucinatory ramblings contained within a diary of a mental patient which was supposedly found by the band when they were practising in a building previously used as a mental hospital...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-01-28
★★★★★
Cult of Luna's previous album, Eternal Kingdom, was released way back in the summer of 2008. But despite a near-five-year gap between LPs, the Swedish post-metal outfit has lost none of its power.
While Eternal Kingdom was inspired by recording in a disused mental hospital, Vertikal is an altogether more calculated beast. With a concept loosely based upon Fritz Lang's dystopian science fiction film, Metropolis, it sounds as stark and uncomfortable as you might expect...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-01-25
★★★★★
4/5 Inspired by the classic Fritz Lang film Metropolis, the Swedish octet's sixth album draws on a surprising range of influences--early synthpop, '60s prog, classic krautrock--to find the right palette of instrumental colors for these brooding soundscapes. They take their time with them, too, teasing out the melodic power of each idea through steady, restrained repetition. This is music at a slow simmer, not a fast boil, and as such, takes time and patience to absorb...
- www.revolvermag.com
2013-01-15
★★★★★
When I first heard Cult Of Luna's debut CD some eight or nine years ago I still hadn't embraced any music with hardcore vocals. Therefore, it spent all of about five minutes in my stereo before it was yanked and listed on eBay and I haven't pursued any of their music since...
- www.dangerdog.com
2010-12-06