Salvation

These guys Are really great but all the tracks are messed up!

I would agree that this is a great album but I did not download due to what the previous reviewers stated. I also notive that while listening to the previews that no8 is really "Leave me here".

Something very heavy, but not quite heavy from the start. I wanted it to be ambient and even jazzy/melodic mixed with aggressive growls and powerful solos. And this is it! I listened to Crossing over first and the description came to mind..."Pink floydian death metal". Easily my favorite and it was extremely chill for the first half with the exception of very faint growling in the background. Then it built up and finlly had some clean vocals backed up by insane solos The second song I heard was Echoes (Ironic title considering I compared these guys to pink floyd right? Only this isn't 23 minutes) and it's not as good as Crossing over but it still had that incredible anticipation effect. It took four minutes to actually go into the heavy growling parts, but smoothed out a little along the way, and ended with a long ambience. Leave me here was the final one i heard before I decided I had to buy this. It's more like a common heavy metal song, but it still has more of what I want in a song, melodic parts combined with growling sections. However, I would only suggest buying Crossing over from the Itunes version because the tracks are correct but the times are mixed up. Some run on, some cut too short: Echoes is really 12:30 Vague Illusions is really 10:14 Leave Me Here is 7:15 Waiting For You is 10:47 Adrift is 7:19 White Cell is 5:40 And Into the Beyond is 11:26. Anyway, enjoy!

Please re-name/re-order your songs before listening to this: iTunes has them titled incorrectly, and thus they're completely out of order, thus completely ruining the flow of the album. The album itself is great once I could listen to it!

these track names are in the right order but the tracks themselves and the correct running times are not. good album though. for those who love isis, mouth of the architect, red sparrows, so on so on. its almost to the point where u think these bands are all we listen to... not true especially for me its just that these bands have so much in common its all one group to me... isis is on top tho. this is the best cult of luna album by the way

Salvation is as close to a masterpiece of metal beauty as most albums are likely to achieve. It displays a depth of style, a measured patients, and a driving intensity that most musicians, even excellent ones, rarely if ever achieve. I understand others liking other CoL albums more, they are all most definitely good, but for power and emotional content, this one has always been my personal favorite.

This is not COL's best, but it is still incredible. The music is so powerful and emotional.

don't get me wrong, the music is awesome, its actually incredible, but why do all these heavy, intense, "Doom metal" bands decide to screw things up with uneccesary screams and pretensious lyrics about whales, doesn't make sense to me.... the music is beautiful enough, I love outer space, not that much though.

I can't believe people think this is better than Isis, but whatever. I thought Salvation was a little lame after owning their self-titled first release and then "The Beyond." Still this is a good record with some transcendant passages with a simple structure. All 4/4 time if I remember correctly and missing the rage of previous releases but not bad at all. I guess my only problem is that if you are going to abandon you're raw, all out power sound for a slightly toned down, evolved sound then you need to learn to layer different guitar parts and mic your drums better and try some new time sigs. Still a solid record. This review could also stand for their 4th album which iTunes does not offer.

Cult of Luna are practically the definition of a doom metal band: epic songs of crushing heaviness with quiet, contemplative bits strewn throughout, and poetic lyrics sung in a guttural death metal-esque growl. This is an excellent record in all regards, but I would have to recommend their new album, Somewhere Along the Highway, over this one. If you don't want to venture out of your home, however, Salvation is still amazing. While the sheer song length and sometimes buried vocals will probably be a turn-off for some people, anyone with a significant attention span will find Salvation to be easily one of the best metal albums of the past few years.