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WARNED! The first few notes of The Cult's
'Dreamtime' LP will rip your speakers
apart! Their music is laced with – a
storming power and energy and is topped
by the distinctive high wailing vocals of
Ian Astbury. The Cult are descendants
of Southern Death Cult, a band which
formed two years ago and went directly
from rehearsals in a Bradford basement to
a tour with Theatre Of Hate (former TOH
guitarist Bill Duffy now strums for The
Cult) and instantly gained a substantial
grass roots following.
Southern
Death Cult became simply Death Cult and
while both tasted success at indie chart
level, the new and even more simply named
ensemble are aiming for the headier
realms of mainstream acceptance.
Their
recent single 'Go West' was their most
aggressively commercial to date and to
coincide with the above mentioned debut
album is an hour-long live video culled
from a show earlier this year at London's
Lyceum.
"We
wanted something that showed us at the
time of the album", explains Ian,
"we felt that the band had grown up
a lot and finally come into its own since
the days of Death Cult. That was the
first period when we felt really
confident. We wanted a live video to
capture that, it's not a commercial ploy
it's more something for our fans."
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