CULT OF LUNA new album and 2013 Euro tour

Sweden's Post-Metal legends CULT OF LUNA are currently wrapping up work on the new album they began recording this past spring. The new effort is titled "Vertikal" and will be available in early-2013. Here's the official word:

"The album will be released at the beginning of the year, and is thematically influenced by the film 'Metropolis': a hypnotic backdrop of machinery and repetition. Before we started writing we were keen to find a theme that in a very direct way could be shown through the music, and we hope to have achieved this. We developed clear structures – very linear, refusing to over complicate the writing process."

Meanwhile, Cult of Luna will take to the road this winter in Europe. 2013 UK dates include:
19/01 Glasgow, Ivory Blacks
20/01 Sheffield, Corporation
21/01 Wolverhampton, Slade Rooms
22/01 London, The Garage