The Cult

BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 40 In 2025

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Back in time

24 December 2024

Band: NEW ORDER
Album: Low Life
Their 3rd one,
#7 in the UK.

Melody Maker said: “The album boasts the most articulate sound
since The Cocteaus’ Treasure, elevating depression to ecstasy.”

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Band: THE POGUES
Album: Rum Sodomy & The Lash
2nd LP, #13 in the UK.

The album’s title is taken from a quotation attributed to Winston Churchill:
“Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”

NME wrote: “A collection of free-ranging stuff to be sure. It’s never
sentimental, it’s rarely polite, and it’s certainly not ordinary.”

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Artist: TOM WAITS
Album: Rain Dogs
9th LP,
#188 in the US,
#29 in the UK.

The Village Voice wrote: “Waits worked out a unique and identifiable lounge-lizard
sound that suits his status as the poet of America’s non-nine-to-fivers.”

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Band: THE FALL
Album: This Nation’s Saving Grace
8th longplayer.

AllMusic: “This collection is ample proof of the pure confidence the group had
at this time. The Fall sound mysterious, down-to-earth, and hilarious all at the
same time.”

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Band: THE CURE
Album: The Head On The Door
6th one, #7 in the UK.

Pitchfork: “Their most focused
pop album. A tight, terrific package.”

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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Thursday Afternoon

AllMusic: “Thursday Afternoon is an hour-long, uninterrupted ambient piece
created in Eno’s “holographic” compositional style, in which even the most brief
snippet of music is representative of the performance as a whole.”

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Band: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
Album: Southern Accents
Their 6th LP,
#7 in the US.

AllMusic: “An ambitious album, attempting to incorporate touches of soul,
psychedelia, and country into a loose concept about the modern South.”

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Band: THE CULT
Album: Love
Their second LP,
# in the UK.

AllMusic: “Considering the musical schizophrenia that would plague each
subsequent Cult release, Love just may be the band’s purest moment.”

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Band: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Album: Psychocandy

NME said: “A great searing citadel of beauty whose wall of noise,
once scaled, offers access to endless vistas of melody and emotion.”

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Band: HÜSKER DÜ
Album: Flip Your Wig
4th longplayer
#1 Indie charts UK

AllMusic: “Flip Your Wig would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing.”

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THE CULT Celebrate Their 40th Anniversary With Tour And Recompiled Edition Of 1983 LP ‘GHOST DANCE’

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4 May 2024

Famous bombastic Goth-wave rockers THE CULT formed in 1983 as Southern Death Cult with key members Ian Ashbury, the charismatic frontman and guitarist Bill Duffy. A year later they shortened the band’s name to The Cult.

In 2023 they returned and reunited for a handful of performances. And this year they’ll celebrate their 40th Anniversary with a Europe and UK tour (and probably more live-action to come afterward).

Billy Duffy (guitarist): “Following up from the great energy of Death Cult 8323 shows,
I’m looking forward to bringing that sense of celebration of the band’s music, and the communion with our fans, to Cult 8424. CFFC. Let the ceremony commence!”

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Ashbury and Duffy also curated the previously released Death Cult collection Ghost Dance from 1983, and recompiled the tracks for a 2024 release titled Paradise Now. It’ll be out on May 17. Pre-order info here .


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Tracklist:

A1. Horse Nation
A2. Ghost Dance
A3. Brothers Grimm
A4. Christians

B1. Gods Zoo (These Times)
B2. A Flower In The Desert
B3. Butterflies
B4. With Love (Sea and Sky)

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HIGH FIVE – 5 New Big Ones For The Weekend

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5 new big ones to stay on track in the weekend

14 October 2022

British Goth-metal legends THE CULT released their 11th LP, named
Under The Midnight Sun proving they still know all the tricks in the
book to make their fans go berserk.

One of the top tracks is the single GIVE ME MERCY.

Let’s roll…

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Band: GRIMELDA
Who: 2-chump freaky noise-rock from Saskatchewan, Canada
Motto: “We literally and purposefully ripped off other rock songs
and made our own “conventional” rock anthem. The point was twofold:
rock music is dumb and everyone steals ideas but also rock ‘n roll is
FUN so who cares.”

New single: GEORGE THOROGOOD
Who: Blues rock hero from Delaware, US

“Why’s it called “George Thorogood?” Cause we’re all George Thorogood.
George is a good old rocker dude who wrote songs about rocking out so we
figured he’s a fitting subject. It’s about embracing your inner George and
saying to yourself “heck ya, I rock!”

What we need in these fucked-up times are wacko motherrockers like these
who show that punk havoc doesn’t have to be serious all the time, as long as
it played with mean, mad, and manic neurosis so we all fun in the moshpit.

GRIMELDA: Facebook
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Band: DIABLOGATO
Who: A collaborative band where each of its four members contribute equally to the overall vision, songwriting, and storytelling. So it makes sense that as the Boston rock and roll brigade watches the world burn, an invitation is extended for everyone else to join in and drift into the “Jet Black Night” – all that’s needed is a little white noise and anesthesia.

New single: JET BLACK NIGHT

“With all the crazy in the world that we have such little control over, we are trying to
rally our fellow people into the darkness together. Because no matter how much despair and disaster we face, together we are not alone in the darkness facing it – into the ‘Jet Black Night’.”

This is a blues rock-fueled sledgehammer, a nasty mid-tempo groove
for all doomed people out there, pretty much all of us. No rest for the
wicked. If we have to go down, let’s do it together while having bad-ass
blasts like this on the stereo.

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Noise Warriors FUCKED UP have a brand new William Shakespeare EP
out baptized Oberon, the king of the fairies in Shakespeare‘s comedy play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I didn’t know the play writer was a hardcore fan.

Here’s of the 4 thunderclaps, titled MASHHIT


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Band: YABBA
Who: Scottish newcomers who turn up the heat
New single: GET BY

Holy smoke. What a hammer blow of a debut. For a second I thought
it was industrial psycho Al Jourgensen and his hotrod squad Ministry
who made my speekers go gaga. A reference that counts big time.
Yabba has entered Terrordome with a big bang.

Press play and
bang your head…

Also st(r)eaming on Spotify
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YABBA: Facebook

Metallic Post-Punk Legends THE CULT Released Their 11th Album ‘UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN’

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9 October 2022

Band: THE CULT
Who: Metallic post-punk heroes from
Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Active: 1983–1995, 1999–2002, 2006–present
11 studio LPs (new one included) between 1984
and today.

New album: UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN
Released: 7 October 2022 – order info here

MOJO Magazine (UK) writes: “Under The Midnight Sun invests those
primal energies with the wisdom of age, creating something fresh
and powerful.” 4/5.

TUTV: No surprises here. It’s The Cult playing The Cult.
Familiar bombast, familiar Ian Ashbury vocals, familiar
rapture. For all The Cult fans this will be a treasure of
a record.

Key tracks: A Cut Inside / Knife Through The Butterfly Heart /
Give Me Mercy / Under The Midnight Sun

Singles: Give Me Mercy / A Cut Inside

– GIVE ME MERCY –

– A CUT INSIDE –

Stream full longplayer on Spotify…

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