Cult Of Luna share new track ‘Sadness Will Reign’ featuring Joe Duplantier of Gojira

Cult Of Luna have shared “Sadness Will Reign”,last single before their new album release on Friday November 6. The new album In The Shadow of Your Shadow will be released on their own label RED CRK. 

“Sadness Will Reign” is a blunt, misanthropic statement, with guest vocalist Joe Duplantier,frontman of Grammy-winning extreme metal titans Gojira, declaring “All of you are born from filth!” to hammer home the track’s fury.

“What I like about Joe is that he has a very particular voice,” says Johannes Persson. “I think it’s one of the reasons why Gojira stands 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.”

Cult Of Luna‘s upcoming new and tenth studio album is a more-than-worthy addition to their dynamic canon, In the Shadow of Your Shadow – Produced by the band themselves, recorded by Daniel Berglund (Sandås Silence), mixed by Magnus Lindberg (Redmount Studios) and mastered by Ted Jensen (Sterling Sound) – 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 new album features two amazing guest musicians. Besides Joe Duplantier of Gojira featured on “Sadness Will Reign”, “One More Day” – a song about the emotional struggle of depression, getting through life one day at a time – drops to a Fields of the Nephilim-like crawl, emphasizing the baritone of guest David Eugene Edwards, 16 Horsepower leader and American folk icon. 

Cult Of Luna will be touring across Europe in early 2027. From late February until mid March they will be playing shows Switzerland, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. 

Cult Of Luna will bring Bruit ≤ and Youth Code as support acts on all dates (see below).

Cult of Luna was also recently confirmed as the headliner on one of the days of Ankea Festival 2027 in Finland!

Hailing from Umeå, Sweden – home to fellow legendary innovators Meshuggah and Refused – Cult of Luna built an ardent fanbase with their albums Cult Of Luna (2001) and The Beyond (2003), before Salvation (2004) catapulted them to global acclaim. The raw and vast Somewhere Along the Highway (2006) won Sweden’s prestigious P3 Gold Award for Best Rock/Metal Album of the Year, and inspired the band to fully embrace their metal side for 2008’s crushing Eternal Kingdom.

Each subsequent release added new shades to their sound: Vertikal (2013) took influence from industrial cityscapes; the Julie Christmas team-up Mariner (2016) was a space-metal rocket ride that got nominated for a Swedish Grammis Award; A Dawn to Fear (2019) was their longest standalone album to date; and The Long Road North (2022) featured contributions from musician/actor Mariam Wallentin as well as the critically acclaimed musician/composer Colin Stetson (Hereditary OST). Cult of Luna have also collaborated with such beloved musicians as Godflesh’s Justin Broadrick (who remixed “Vicarious Redemption” for 2013’s Vertikal II EP) and Screaming Trees’ Mark Lanegan (guest vocalist on “Inside of a Dream” from 2021’s The Raging River EP), as well as curating their own genre-busting festival, Beyond the Redshift.

New album In the Shadow of Your Shadow is another evolutionary effort from a band who refuse to stand still. It’s devastating and diverse, and it cements their place as trailblazers.

The band will headline the Damnation Festival in Manchester (UK) on Saturday 7th November, the day after release.