Metal Anarchy

Cult Of Luna have revealed the details for their new album “In The Shadow Of Your Shadow.” The effort will be released on November 6 and it will feature guest spots from Joe Duplantier (Gojira) and David Eugene Edwards (16 Horsepower, Wovenhand). A visualizer for the title track can be found below:

“In The Shadow Of Your Shadow” Track Listing:

01. “In The Shadow Of Your Shadow“
02. “Sadness Will Reign” (feat. Joe Duplantier)
03. “Landby“
04. “Breach“
05. “The Rift“
06. “A Way Back“
07. “One More Day” (feat. David Eugene Edwards)
08. “From Grey to Black“
09. “Burial“

The following was said about the album:

“This new, 10th studio album is a 71-minute monolith: a stark rejection of trends, convention and pandering to one’s audience. Lyrically, it channels recent experiences of loss into a bleak set of songs. The title track and lead single is about feelings thought to be long buried, returning after something painful occurs. It takes the perspective of this anguish and characterizes it as a parasite: ‘His body is weak, the cracks will fit me. A disfigured form, I will complete it.”

Vocalist/guitarist Johannes Persson commented:

“Stagnation is the only thing that scares me. I’ve said this in every interview I’ve done for the past 25 years: I don’t care whether or not people think we’re repeating ourselves. As long as we feel like we aren’t, we will continue to do this.

We all have our history, we all have our baggage. Everything that you’ve gone through leads you to where you are right now. It’s a boring cliché, but it’s true. There were certain things that I thought I’d left behind, and certain events during the last couple of years have brought them back. When you put the lid on things for decades, it’s interesting to see how they come back. This parasite is back again.””

He also added the following about working with Duplantier and Edwards:

“What I like about Joe is that he has a very particular voice. I think it’s one of the reasons why Gojira stand out as the metal giants that they are. It has its own unique character and would stand out even if you put him next to a hundred or a thousand other vocalists.

David has been a huge influence for years. I’ve been a huge fan of 16 Horsepower, his solo projects and Wovenhand for decades. His voice fits perfectly on the song and it carries the subject matter with conviction.”