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Album: A Dawn to Fear

Old Rating: 5/5

Verdict: One of the more recently acquired releases that I'll put on this blog, having got this on either my birthday or Xmas last year (which are just four days apart), A Dawn to Fear was, for a time, my album of 2019. It gradually got unseated by Opeth though, but remained of course among my most beloved 2019 albums. At the time my early impression was that it was the best Cult of Luna album I'd heard yet, though the eight months since getting it have shown that to be the honeymoon period doing the talking and now I look back on Mariner, their collaboration with Julie Christmas, more fondly once again. This is however, still a masterclass in atmospheric sludge metal. So says the guy who hardly listens to atmospheric sludge metal of course, so take what I say about the genre with a pinch of salt. Believe me when I say though that I still love this album a lot.

New Rating: No Change.