Cultic – Lore

Cultic – Lore

Cultic are back swinging a fkn warhammer with Lore, their heaviest and most deranged record to date. Out now via Eleventh Key Records, this beast of an album doesn’t just tiptoe into the dark, it boots the fkn door down and drags you straight into the dungeon.

From the first crushing notes of “Nomad”, (premiered with Decibel Magazine), Cultic set the stage for an apocalyptic journey of myth, madness, and doom laden fury. The riffs churn like rusted chains, war drums thunder like a medieval siege, and horns bellow with a terrifying grandeur that makes you want to drink mead and set something on fire. Track “Fool” channels first wave black metal grit, while “Night Grifter” sharpens the attack into something nastier, catchier, and more immediate than anything the band has done before.

But this isn’t just brute force, there’s twisted imagination at work here. “Twilight” and “Spellbound” add eerie synth layers, plunging the listener deeper into Cultic’s blackened fantasy realm. By the time you hit “Crone” and “Vast Horizons”, the band fully flex their experimental muscle, proving dungeon metal isn’t just a tag, it’s a fkn world they’ve built brick by brick.

Guest spots from Rachel and Jason Robison, plus Reese Harlacker, add even more color to this unholy tapestry, weaving in voices that sound straight out of some cursed medieval opera. And let’s be real, when Cultic say this record is “like driving a chopper through a haunted castle,” they’re not wrong. Lore is brutal, weird, cinematic, and absolutely unrelenting. It’s heavy metal with guts, imagination, and zero fks given.