Vertikal, the new studio album from Sweden’s CULT OF LUNA, will be released via Indie Recordings in Europe on January 25th and Density Records in the US on January 29th. The album track, 'I: The Weapon', is available for streaming below:

In addition to the regular CD, there will be released a Limited Edition of Vertikal including one bonus track. The vinyl will also be available through Back On Black.

Vertikal tracklisting:

'The One'

'I: The Weapon'

'Vicarious Redemption'

'The Sweep'

'Synchronicity'

'Mute Departure'

'Disharmonia'

'In Awe Of'

'Passing Through'

Bonus track limited edition only:

'The Flow Reversed'

According to a press release, Vertikal marks a much anticipated return for the band after five years spent cultivating the ideas and directing the influences that have helped form a concept for the album. Distilled throughout are themes of machinery, repetition and clear, linear structures honed to the visual imagery of Fritz Lang’s classic expressionist science fiction film Metropolis. The music broods, builds and boils as you may expect from Cult of Luna, but never over?complicates itself or veers from its intentions; it is arguably their finest and most cohesive piece of work to date.

Cult of Luna will be returning to the live arena for a full European tour, with a new set of dates just announced in April and May in addition to the previously announced period around the album’s release in January and February. There are US dates being planned and the band intend to tour further in late 2013.

All currently announced tour dates can be found on Facebook and these will all be on sale on Friday, November 9th, when another handful of European dates will be released.