Cult Of Luna Bio

Cult of Luna emerged from the ashes of the infamous hardcore act Eclipse. When the band split up, vocalist Klas Rydberg along with guitarist Johannes Persson had new ideas how to explore music further on. A new band had come to light, soon to be called Cult of Luna. After some member hunting and rehearsal, Cult of Luna had their first line-up and some ideas on the sound; raw, heavy and with total darkness. The first line-up consisted of: Klas, Johannes, Erik, Magnus and Fredrik. Fredrik joined the cult for a while but had to leave due to some personal difficulties. When practice started to pay off, CoL hit the studios for the first time and recorded a two-track demo. (January 1999)



After some more rehearsal and after the first gig, the band felt that to fully live out their wet dreams of sound experimenting, one more member was needed to handle the samples. Since Magnus had both knowledge and equipment, he was written in. Given that Magnus had handled the drums earlier, CoL needed a new drummer, and found one in a mutual friend, his name was Marco and he had previously helped out with more primitive sample engineering on live performances. Axel then joined the band as Bass player after Fredrik was dismissed, this then completed the line-up that stands today.



The frequency of rehearsals was pretty low and therefore also live performances. The fact that the band members live in different cities made it hard to give priority to write new material or to do live shows. It fell to another mutual friend to help CoL to release their first record. Tim, head of trust no one recordings released the first record which was a 7" split vinyl with friends Switchblade. Following a concert at the Trästock festival '00, UK label Rage of Achilles got in contact with the band and released Cult of Luna's debut full-length album in September 2001. Hydra Head recordsreleased a two-track 7" in March 2002, Before Earache signed the up in June 2002.