All those who enjoy that sort of epic, psychedelic, sludge stuff from Neurosis and Isis will absolutely love this. The best way of describing this CD is if Neurosis had continued on making music in the vein of Through Silver in Blood. Massive, churning riffs, quiet/loud dynamics, layers and layers of effects/samples/etc. Pounding tribal inspired drums. The singing is 90% well done screams with a few clean instances.

Cult Of Luna seem to fall somewhere between Neurosis, Isis, old Pink Floyd, and Porcupine Tree. Epic, experimental, atmospheric, melodic, and of course, heavy. Salvation might just be truly be that, with songs that sound like a sonic storm, complete with the calm but deadly eye. Vocals are scarce at times, putting emphasis on the immensely creative musical landscape the band paints.

It's not the crushing heaviness that you first notice on Salvation, it is the quiet peace that permeates a large portion of it. Cult of Luna have obviously learned how to pull things back in the volume department. This isn't to say for a second that Salvation isn't crushing and loud, it just means that they now possess the ability to play upon their quieter moments as much as their impossibly heavy ones. And I must say that Salvation is all the better for it. The slow�burn technique has been impeccably mastered on this recording and pays off in suitably apocalyptic fashion.

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