Cult of Luna transforms music video into gaming experience

Instead of a traditional music video, Cult of Luna creates an immersive audiovisual experience in collaboration with creative agency North Kingdom / NoA, where innovation and storytelling stand at their core.

The player’s mission is to help a “lost light” to escape the darkness, and to find its way home through a dystopian maze. The player can also gather other lights and bring them to The Mother Light, at the center of the maze.

The single has been rebuilt in the real-time tool Unreal Engine, to dynamically adapt to how the player navigates the gaming experience’s world. This makes each experience unique in the dynamic version.

The gaming experience can be found on Steam and is created by Swedish creative agency North Kingdom / NoA, with long-running experience of collaborating with gaming and tech companies such as EA, Riot Games, and Google.

“For as long as we have known Linus Johansson of North Kingdom, which spans from the Leave me here video in 2004, he’s always tried to push interactivity and blur the line between the artist and the art. So it came as no surprise to us when he suggested making a video game out of the Cold burn video. “Go right ahead,” we said and now we are as intrigued by the result as we hope you are,” Johannes Persson of Cult of Luna comments.

1 – Cold Burn
2 – The Silver Arc
3 – Beyond I
4 – An Offering to the Wild
5 – Into the Night
6 – Full Moon
7 – The Long Road North
8 – Blood Upon Stone
9 – Beyond II

BOXSET INFO: Deluxe “Slim” Box containing clear vinyl, art prints of the four cover artworks, vinyl in printed inner sleeves, 16-page booklet, slipmat, patch.

CULT OF LUNA – LINEUP
Johannes Persson – Guitars/Vocals
Andreas Johansson – Bass
Thomas Hedlund – Drums & Percussion
Fredrik Kihlberg – Guitar/Vocals
Kristian Karlsson – Keyboards, Vocals
Magnus Lindberg – Production

CULT OF LUNA – 2022 LIVE DATES