Album: Eternal Kingdom
Year: 2008
Country: Sweden
This blog hasn't been updated for a little while, but at least I have an excuse - I've been having this nasty fever and been slightly delusional. Someone who also was sligthly delusional was Holger Nilsson. He was convicted for the murder of his wife in the beginning of the 20th century. He denied it, but since he was considered to be in a very bad mental condition, he was taken into Umedalens Mental Institution. There he wrote a book of his version of what happened.
And several years later, Umedalen Mental Institution was rebuilt as a cultural building instead, with some rehearsing studios in it. Cult Of Luna played there for a while, and they managed to find the old book Holger wrote. From that they got inspiration for doing this album, which is an interpretation of Holger Nilsson book - "The Eternal Kingdom". The lyrics of the songs are actually taken straight from the book.
There's so much to write about this album, but if I wrote everything I could come up with, this post would be as long as the bible. I know most of you have already this album as an favourite of yours, and if not - COME ON LISTEN TO IT!
Song(s) you should listen to: Following Betulas is the best song on the album. I'm not skilled enough with my words to describe the song the way it deserves, but it starts off like a good song, and then bursts out into a powerful apocalyptic anthem. The ending is lyrically about the moment just before a fight with the good and the evil, and you can definately feel it.
Ghost Trail starts off pretty slow and a bit haunting, let's just call it ghostly. It then turns into an aura of epicness, and ends with an apocalyptic two-drum part. This doesn't happen very fast, since the song itself is 11 minuter long, but song under 10 mintues aren't cool in the post-world.
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