Cult Of Luna will release their first album in five years in early 2013. The effort will be titled “Vertikal” and will be accompanied by a January European/UK tour. According to the band:
“The album will be released at the beginning of the year, and is thematically influenced by the film ‘Metropolis’: a hypnotic backdrop of machinery and repetition. Before we started writing we were keen to find a theme that in a very direct way could be shown through the music, and we hope to have achieved this. We developed clear structures – very linear, refusing to over complicate the writing process.
We realise fans have been waiting for what seems like an age for us to return to the live arena properly, but we were not keen on playing shows before we had the new material ready. There have been changes, and we wanted to come back on our own terms with something completely new. It is very important for us to transpose the idea of a new album into the live setting, to not tread water, and to include the fans in what we’ve been working on; you will be hearing this very soon.”
Here’s how the aforementioned tour will run:
01/17 Hamburg, GER – Knust
01/18 Luxembourg, LUX – Kulturfabrik
01/19 Glasgow, UK – Ivory Blacks
01/20 Sheffield, UK – Corporation
01/21 Wolverhampton, UK – Slade Rooms
01/22 London, UK – The Garage
01/24 Paris, FRA – Le Divan Du Monde
01/25 Vannes, FRA – L’Echonova
01/26 Bordeaux, FRA – Le Krakatoa
01/27 Bilbao, SPA – Sonora
01/28 Lisbon, POR – Paradise Garage
01/29 Porto, POR – Hard Club
01/30 Madrid, SPA – Caracol
01/31 Barcelona, SPA – Razzmatazz 3
02/01 Beaumont, FRA – Le Tremplin
02/02 Karlsruhe, GER – Stadtmitte
