Holger Nilsson spent most of his days institutionalized undertaking psychiatric care at Umedalen's Hospital. After a tragedy that took place in the village of Yttre Åkulla before World War II, just north of Umeå, he was convicted of manslaughter on his wife whilst pleading not guilty. During the consequent time at Umedalen's Hospital he wrote down his version of what had happened. Soundtrack by Cult Of Luna.

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Umedalen's Hospital is no longer a house of health care but a house of the arts filled with music facilities, art studios and other cultural activities. This is the place where we rehearsed for a few years, this is the place where we found our sound. Also where we coincidentally came over Holger's diary in a forgotten carton box in an almost empty storage space. The texts were fragmentary and occasionally unintelligible. However, we could not help but to be drawn into his dark world, a world which apparently was very real for him. We made a structured narrative out of his notes and the events. We made an album, Eternal Kingdom (2008), solely based on his texts about the Eviga Riket. It is the same story and narrative we now return to, but this time in more detail.

This book is based on Holger's real fate in Yttre Åkulla and his diary notes about Eviga Riket combined with our dramatic endeavours trying to understand these two contradictory sources on what really happended that tragic autumn night. Thus, it is not essentially our story, but more importantly, it is neither the story of Holger Nilsson. We are somewhat in the middle of between.
Cult Of Luna, 2010 (www.cultofluna.com)

Eviga Riket is a hardbound book accompanied by an audio book on DVD. It is bilingual, written in Swedish and read by Swedish actress Sara Arnia and the English translation is read by Scottish actress Anna Guthrie. The soundtrack to the audio book is newly composed by Cult Of Luna. The book is illustrated by the Belgian artist Joris Vanpouke.