Cult Of Luna release new single, The Silent Man

Cult Of Luna have released a brand new single, The Silent Man. It's the first new music from the Swedish prog metallers since their 2016 collaboration with Julie Christmas, Mariner, and the first sole new music from the band since 2013's Vertikal.

The Silent Man, which you can listen to below, is the first fruits of the band's new deal with record label Metal Blade with whom the band signed earlier this year. A new album is expected to be released later in the year.

Cult Of Luna have announced a string of live festival dates this summer and a further tour with A.A. Williams in November and December.

They will play:

SWE Huskvarna Folkets Park -May 18
NED Fortarock - June 1
BEL Graspop Metal Meeting - 21
FRA Hellfest Open Air - 22
FIN Tuska Festival - 28
FIN Provinssi Festival - 29
SPA Resurrection Festival - July
CZE Brutal Assault Festival - August
NOR Øya Festival - August 9
SWI Rock Altitude - August
UK ArcTanGent Festival - August

w/A.A. Williams

GER Berlin Festsaal Kreuzberg - Nov 24
GER Cologne Stollwerck - 25
FRA Paris Le Trianon - 30
SLO Lubljana Kino Siska - Dec 4
GER Munich Technikum - 5
AUS Vienna Arena - 6

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.