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  • Summary: The latest full-length release for Swedish metal band Cult Of Luna features guest appearances from Colin Stetson and Mariam Wallentin.
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  1. Mar 18, 2022
    85
    The album’s strength is in its sheer breadth, its teleological scope, its grandeur without pretence.
  2. Mar 18, 2022
    80
    Cult Of Luna’s evolution shows no signs of slowing down. The Long Road North is another welcome addition on their quest to push sonic boundaries and is one of their hardest hitting releases yet.
  3. Mar 18, 2022
    76
    The Long Road North is a more sophisticated record than A Dawn to Fear, and Cult of Luna’s reputation for steely competence is quite at home in its various details and refinements. It’s less contingent on the intensity of individual moments, benefitting more from a pervasive atmosphere of the risky-wilderness-journey variety.
  4. Classic Rock Magazine
    Mar 18, 2022
    70
    The default setting of these thunderous doom lords from Sweden's far north remains the expansive, melodic, lavishly arranged anthem, layered densely with clobbering drums and shuddering riffs. [Apr 2022, p.79]
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