Cult of Luna The Long Road North
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osmark86
November 8th 2024


12576 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I would like some more unfreshness from CoL soon please

Demon of the Fall
November 8th 2024


39105 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I cannot remove the context of their wider discog to help this one's 'freshness', but if I could, then I would almost definitely be kinder on it

It was still enjoyable during the initial release period, I just didn't stick with it all that long (probably revisited every other CoL album since last hearing this in fact, except maybe the S/T and Raging River - which I guess shows where my priorities lie)

It's time to mix things up

Zakusz
November 8th 2024


2134 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I love this band but for some reason have never even given the self titled a single chance. What's everyone's take on it?

Demon of the Fall
November 10th 2024


39105 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Solid. Inessential for less hardcore fans simply because The Beyond expanded upon its ideas and ultimately superseded it

It does have a slightly different atmosphere but not sure that’s enough to make it really stand out

icatchthirtythree
November 11th 2024


1206 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The self titled crushes and just sounds like a more primitive/raw type of sound

JohnnyoftheWell
November 11th 2024


64287 Comments


yeah the self-titled is inessential, but mainly because everything it did well was taken a step further on the Beyond, which is extremely essential

Titan
January 5th 2025


26550 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

'fair because adtf, the ep, and this one were all written in the same sesh'



didn't know this but makes sense considering that I adore all 3

DarkSideOfLucca
June 5th 2025


19180 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah their second album blows their first one out of the water imo, I'm prob not gonna revisit their first one very much at all (especially considering how insanely long/how much better every other album is)



Alright, one album left to go, jamming this later today then I can do an official ranking finally

Titan
June 5th 2025


26550 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

guess what lucca - this one is better than highway and salvation too



i'll fight every one of you

DarkSideOfLucca
June 5th 2025


19180 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Lmfaoooo I'll let you know my thoughts tonight dude, but I'm excited



So far, every album minus their debut has been straight fuckin fire

Titan
June 5th 2025


26550 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

i'm in the minority on this one dude but i know there are peeps that agree with me on ADTF

Titan
June 5th 2025


26550 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

awesome short 45 minute documentary with live performances of Cold Burn, Silent Man, and the mammoth Blood Upon Stone:







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVyHPmn7LTk

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
June 5th 2025


116682 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

This is also better than Salvation but not Highway.

0GuyMan0
June 5th 2025


5643 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

adtf> but I like this better than I did on release

Demon of the Fall
June 5th 2025


39105 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This being better than Salvation is a wild take, damn

I should probably revisit this now the dust has settled. I remembered it being still v good because it’s CoL doing CoL, but kinda ‘by the numbers’ for them. Impressively still decent. I just haven’t revisited because I’d rather hear their others yet again and it always gets left out of the equation

Relinquished
June 5th 2025


50089 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I mean, that’s fair and also unfair



fair to compare it to ADTF since of the same session, also unfair cuz it was of the same session. I would compare both (and the EP) directly and rank em by song personally.

DarkSideOfLucca
June 6th 2025


19180 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This is like the middle of my list in their discog and its still a 4.5



Wtf is wrong with these guys

0GuyMan0
June 6th 2025


5643 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

They the GOAT imo

Demon of the Fall
June 6th 2025


39105 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I’ve (kinda) given up comparing the big three. It was Neurosis first. Then I got into CoL later and put them atop that pedestal. Then, despite knowing them for a long time Isis appeared as if from nowhere and now it’s almost impossible to separate the three.

On the strength of their top 2 albums it’s a dead heat, I really can’t call a winner. Then it depends if I gravitate towards ‘best 3rd album’ etc. or the sheer number of quality releases. The massive nerd in me wants to work this out (with NUMBERS), but the answer will have changed in a couple of months anyway, lol

Relinquished
June 6th 2025


50089 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

yea it’s pointless, we’ve known that for like the past 10 years lol



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