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" A Dawn to Fear" is the seventh full length studio album by the Swedish metal band Cult of Luna, released 20th September 2019 through Metal Blade Records.
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.
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‘A Dawn To Fear’ picked up from where ‘Mariner’ left off, while still remaining true to the band’s rooted sound. The instrumental interludes that utilize ambient distortion and pulsating hi-hats are particularly reminiscent of ‘Mariner’ – “Lay Your Head To Rest” and “Nightwalkers” being prime examples.
The first track and single from ‘A Dawn To Fear’, “The Silent Man”, is a great hook for the album, presenting a regimental, Rammstein-esque 3/4 opening. For the first few spins, I instantly gravitated toward it, having immediately received 100% of my expectations going into the record. The shortest track, clocking in at six and a half minutes, is “Lay Your Head To Rest”, which begins similarly to the previous album’s “Chevron”, but morphs into the band’s classic ‘Eternal Kingdom’ era sound. However, the title track “A Dawn to Fear” becomes my favorite song of the record more and more with each listens. It has a way of lulling you into a trance of beautifully executed ghost notes and an aura of nordic folk, which transitions through hovering, organ-backed, foreboding vocals into a perfect ebb and flow of heavy sludge and clear, sparkling waves. The aquatic atmosphere continues in the sombre “We Feel the End”, where what I refer to as the “underwater” vocal effect from “Passing Through” resurfaces.
Every member of the band brings their best to the table, which becomes even more impressive as the years pass.
Reviewed by Sandra Yeomans for metalwani.com.
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