Swedish post-metal outfit Cult Of Luna are newly streaming their 8-minute opus “The Rift“. The group will have that sprawling song included upon their approaching new album “In The Shadow Of Your Shadow“. A November 06th release date stands for that via the band’s own RED CRK Recordings label.
Guitarist/vocalist Johannes Persson provided the following primer to get you ready for this track and its below visualizer:
“‘The Rift‘ is about the loneliness of the human experience and the urgent need to belong, to seek refuge in the collective. There’s a kind of euphoria in knowing your peers’ mantras, in feeling chosen for a greater cause. Those shared beliefs tell you who you belong to. More importantly, they tell you who is excluded.
In an echo chamber, every idea comes back louder. Certainty hardens, loyalty to the pack deepens, and the rift grows wider.
These are interesting times we live in, for sure. Truth has become a matter of conviction, and the wheel of history turns for another round. The noose is tightening and we have no one to blame. We tied it ourselves.”
Initial live activities booked around this record include:
11/07 Manchester, UK – Damnation Festival
With BRUIT ≤ and Youth Code:
02/26 Lausanne, SWI – Les Docks
02/27 Toulouse, FRA – Le Bikini
02/28 Barcelona, SPA – Razzmatazz
03/01 Lyon, FRA – La Rayonne
03/03 Paris, FRA – Le Trianon
03/04 Maastricht, NET – Muziekgieterij
03/05 Lille, FRA – L’Aeronef
03/06 London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town
03/07 Bruxelles, BEL – Ancienne Belgique
03/09 Strasbourg, FRA – La Laiterie
03/10 Wiesbaden, GER – Schlachthof
03/11 Berlin, GER – Huxleys
03/12 Warsaw, POL – Progresja
03/13 Prague, CZE – Archa
