CULT LEADER – lightless walk – VINYL LP (silver)

« Lightless Walk » was recorded and engineered by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios (Converge, High On Fire, etc). From the first menacing thumps of « Great I Am », Cult Leader unleash grinding musical fury. « The Sorrower » gallops before crashing into a wall of heaviness as they vocally declare « …nothing will get better ». The pessimistic spiral continues in « Sympathetic » and « Suffer Louder », two tangles of cacophony that give birth to crushers of ending riffs. « Broken Blades » then emerges as a near constant barrage, showcasing the technical prowess thriving underneath Cult Leader’s layers of grime. While « A Good Life » ushers in new dynamics, clawing through melodious dirt before taking flight again. « Walking Wastelands », « Gutter Gods », and « Hate Offering » are all metallic monsters in their own right, lurching towards the epically haunting pairing of « How Deep It Runs » and « Lightless Walk ». Two songs that show Cult Leader at their most depressive and powerful as they recede into introspective darkness.