CULT OF LUNA Begin Recording New Album

CULT OF LUNA have begun recording around seven to eight tracks for their follow-up to their 2004 release, "Salvation", in their homeland of Sweden. The band was holed up recording in Umeå-based studio The Barn for seven days and the group's label, Earache Records, got some words from keyboardist Magnus Lindberg to find out how things were going:

"Nov. 29: The first recording session of the next CULT OF LUNA album is now complete! We spent 7 days recording mostly drums, bass and guitars in a wooden octagon barn outside of Umeå. The scenery out there is seriously like in that 'Blair Witch' movie, we even saw 'Wicca-witch type looking girl' doing some freebase hippie dancing in the woods at one point. We think she suspected that she was being watched so we never saw her again. Bummer. In Other words, we were in the perfect mindset to record a CULT OF LUNA album.

"Speaking of the barn itself, the big room sounds really awesome was perfect place to track drums. Thomas Hedlund joined us to share his amazing drums skills, and on some songs both Thomas and myself are playing simultaneously...pretty fucking rad."

Those who are familiar with CULT OF LUNA's previous outing, "Salvation", may recall the record having somewhat of a clean, unabbrasive sound to it, Magnus stated that fans should expect something a little different this time around:

"Most of the tracks were recorded live, which is quite different than the approach we had for the previous albums," he said. "Expect a raw and unpolished album this spring."

The band is only complete with the first part of their recording process and they now move on to the next step in recording which takes them to Tonteknik studios for additional tracking. Says Magnus: "Next thing to do is go into Tonteknik studios for a few days for additional recordings, like vocals, keys, noise and what not. After that I will be mixing the album before this X-mas!"