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Cult of Luna's next release will be a book called "Eviga riket", covering the "lifes and times of Mr. Holger Nilsson" and the rest of the story behind their latest album "Eternal kingdom". For those that are unaware or don't remember, that record was based on Nilsson's diaries which cover the time he spent as a mental patient imprisoned for the drowning murder of his wife. As Wikipedia says, "Digesting the diary, the band realised that they had stumbled upon the ramblings of a madman. In the diary, Nilsson blamed the death of his wife on the Näcken, a Swedish folk entity believed to be Satan. The diary created a completely imagined world in which owl men and tree men all contributed to a fantasy story that explained why Nilsson was innocent of the crime." The new book will be in both Swedish and English and will include a narrated version of the story will newly-written and recorded soundscapes from the band. No exact release date yet, but expect it in early 2010.
Cult of Luna says they will be gathering for a mid-October recording session, but they say it's not for a new album, it's for "something else." Expect more details soon?
Umeå hardrock act Khoma (feat. members from Cult of Luna) are back from the dead and working on a new album for release in early 2010: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=61026876
Magnus Lindberg, the singer/songwriter from Grymlings -- not the Cult of Luna member nor the Finnish composer, will release his new album "Ett eget liv" on April 22.
The release of the new Cult of Luna DVD "Fire was born" has been delayed to late April, so the band has compensated by posting another clip online from the disc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RzVpwfRVeo
Check out a teaser clip from the new Cult of Luna DVD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWIi17NR7uU
Cult of Luna has a whole bunch of new European dates posted at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/cultofluna
Cult of Luna's new live DVD "Fire was born", filmed in London last July, will be released on March 23 both as a bonus disc to a new repackaged version of their latest album "Eternal kingdom" and also as a standalone product.
Magnus Lindberg, drummer for Cult of Luna and engineer at Tontektik in Umeå, reports that he just finished mixing a new album from Swedish artist Gustav Spetz which is due to be released via Imperial Recordings sometime next year.
Cult of Luna has a nice, sleek new website: http://www.cultofluna.com/
Note the Australian dates in February.
Cult of Luna will play Russia for the first time on December 21 at the XO club in Moscow.
Anders Teglund (Convoj, Cult of Luna) and his father Sven Teglund have created a short film called "Waves" as a dedication to dearly departed musician Esbjörn Svensson: http://promenaderochutflykter.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-post_4463.html
Of all the folks participating in the Björn Kleinhenz cover countdown, Anders Teglund's contribution has got to be the most off the wall. The guy's already got a pretty impressive resumé - Cult of Luna, Convoj, columnist for Groove - might as well add in remixer, though I'm not sure that's what I'd call this piece of music. There are obvious Björn Kleinhenz vocal samples, but who knows where the other sound sources came from? I imagine this isn't too far off from what a Thrones version of the same would be like. Be sure to stick it out too, it gets better as it goes along. I like weird, weird is good.
Anders Teglund - I whisper, he lives