Cult Leader

'Lightless Walk' (album stream)

BY Gregory AdamsPublished Oct 9, 2015

The previews to Cult Leader's Lightless Walk have been an exercise in sheer brutality so far, but now the Salt Lake City band are upping the ante by delivering a fully-damaging, all-album preview a week ahead of its official release. If you're ready, their debut album is streaming online.

Already, we'd heard the lightning-crack "Suffer Louder" and the deceptively rapturous "Sympathetic." Now, brace yourself for brickbat beatings like "Great I Am," which likewise attacks via Anthony Lucero's harrowing musings on isolation, and the cement-thick boot stomp of "The Sorrower."

Elsewhere, you've got near-Botch-style tech aggression like "Walking Wastelands" and comparatively softer but still devastating pieces like the half-sung "A Good Life."

You can check it all out below, via Noisey. As previously reported, Lightless Walk touches down October 16 via Deathwish Inc.

Tour dates:

10/10 Salt Lake City, UT - The Underground (album release party)
10/17 Tucson, AZ - Southwest Terror Fest *
10/19 Kansas City, MO - El Torren
10/20 Chicago, IL - Subterranean Downstairs
10/21 Toronto, ON - Parts and Labour
10/22 Montreal, QC - Turbohaus
10/23 Brooklyn, NY - The Acheron
10/24 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie
10/25 Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs
10/26 Baltimore, MD - Charm City Art Space
10/27 Richmond, VA - Strange Matter
10/28 Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern
10/29 Orlando, FL - Backbooth
10/30 Tampa, FL - Epic Problem
10/31 Gainesville, FL - The Fest
11/01 Jacksonville, FL - Birdhouse
11/02 Atlanta, GA - 529
11/03 Nashville, TN - The End
11/04 Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone
11/05 New Orleans, LA - Sisters in Christ
 
* with Sleep

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