Somewhere Along the Highway

Somewhere Along the Highway is the fourth studio album by Swedish post metal band Cult of Luna, released in 2006 by Earache Records. A concept album, it revolves around the motif of male loneliness. It was warmly received by critics and accordingly claimed several awards. The album followed Salvation in the band's chronology, and differed from it in terms of sound and feel. While Salvation was deemed "celestial", Somewhere Along the Highway was characterized as "unpolished" by the band. According to drummer Magnus Lindberg, the remote location, coupled with the sighting of "Wicca witch women dancing in the woods" and the actual acoustics of the barn itself all contributed towards creating the perfect ambience to lay down the basic tracks which were done primarily live, as a unit. Accordingly, the album has "a less polished sound – not as produced as Salvation – definitively a more rough sound." The band had a relatively low budget and little time to record the album in comparison with the painstakingly produced Salvation;

The album was released on April 24, 2006, by Earache Records. In August 2006, the band released a remix of "Marching to the Heartbeats", entitled "Heartbeats", solely on the Internet community MySpace. The song was available for download for a few days and was later removed. According to Anders Teglund (keyboards and electronics), the intention was to see if the song would be "kept alive" by file sharing, as well as serving as a statement against the conservative nature of the music industry. A video was shot for "Back to Chapel Town", directed by band member Johannes Persson. Shooting lasted five days, and the concept, according to Persson, is that of "a man waking up in a world he doesn't know, he knows nothing of his past or where he is, people treat him like air or are very suspicious of him".