Album Rating: 5.0

“It's a beast, probably the most underappreciated CoL”



It had huge boots to fill after SATH and I remember the band saying at the time that they made a conscious effort to move away from what was an oversaturated ‘post rock’ market, hence the dirty tones and dissonance that pervades the album. It has a particular atmosphere to it, no doubt influenced by the bizarre circumstances that inspired it. It’s now one of my favourite CoL releases.

Album Rating: 4.0

it's been growing on me lately too. didn't care for it too much at first either

Album Rating: 3.0

This began their frustrating decline

Album Rating: 4.0

Ghost Trail is one of their best songs.

Album Rating: 4.0

not at all frogmaster. the interludes are cool by themselves, and the rest is some of their more 'artsy' material. non of the songs dip below a 3.5/5

Album Rating: 3.0

Ghost trail is amazing yea, rest isnt



Guitar work took a huge hit here, atmospherics arent up to par with the execution of their earlier work, too many sections of songs have 2 much boring



This and vertikal are the only col albums I'd consider to not be good

Album Rating: 4.0

atmosphere is different, yea. feels more whimsical and 'fantastic' considering the themes. the riffs rule too. ending outros to Owlwood and Betulas rule face, plus when they toured this the songs were massive as heck.

Album Rating: 3.0

Would love to see em live , think I could have for mariner but I screwed up



Owlwood is good too the other songs are just very skippable to me, it's just not on the level songwriting wise that the previous two lps were at

Album Rating: 4.0

bet if you compared their songs side-by-side many of these would top some old ones.

Album Rating: 3.0

Eh some of them do but beyond thru sath mostly poops on everything on this album

Album Rating: 4.5

Ghost Trail is amaaaaaaaaaaaazing

Album Rating: 3.5

That and the closer are the keepers here

ghost trail is the heaviest song ever written

Album Rating: 3.9 | Sound Off

Ghost Trail is life. You get that effing transcendental clean riff and a black hole of heaviness in the same track.

Album Rating: 4.5

Ghost Trail of course, but that Betulas ending.



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B I R C H E S

Album Rating: 3.5

the BRASS ! !

Album Rating: 4.0

This is the Cult of Luna album Ive never managed to sit through for whatever reason. Forcing myself now and fuck me that title track is awesome.

Album Rating: 4.0

Ghost trail fucks jesus. Why did i out this off for so long

Album Rating: 5.0

This album is awesome, all tracks are amazing. After a not so bright SatH, it was great to recover the best CoL version.

Album Rating: 4.0

This is great but I think SatH is still my top for them. Then again CoL has an extremely solid discog