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The Cult

The Cult
The Cult on their 1987 album, Electric
The Cult on their 1987 album, Electric
Background information
OriginEngland
Genre(s)Alternative rock
Hard rock
Gothic rock
Years active1981–1995
1999–present
Label(s)Situation Two
Beggars Banquet
Atlantic Records
Virgin Records (Europe, SE Asia, South America)
EMI (Mexico)
Polygram (Canada)
Yeh Eum (Korea)
Jugoton Yugoslavia
CBS (Israel)
Monsters of Rock (Eastern Europe)
Sire Records (US)
Roadrunner Records
Associated
acts
Southern Death Cult
Death Cult
Holy Barbarians
Theatre of Hate
Guns N' Roses
WebsiteOfficial website
Members
Ian Astbury
Billy Duffy
John Tempesta
Mike Dimkitch
Chris Wyse
Former members
Les Warner
Ray Mondo
Nigel Preston
Jamie Stewart
Mark Brzezicki
Kid Chaos
John Webster
Chris Taylor
Eric Singer
Mickey Curry
Matt Sorum
Todd Hoffman
James Kottak
Charley Drayton
Michael Lee
Kinley Wolfe
John Sinclair
Craig Adams
Scott Garrett
Martyn LeNoble
Barry Jepson
Haq Quereshi
Billy Morrison

The Cult are an English rock band. In the mid-1980s, the Cult was one of England's leading heavy metal revivalists, a hard rock band with slight psychedelic flourishes, influenced primarily by the Native American mysticism of The Doors and the hard guitar rock of Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. The band also touched upon post-punk goth rock, a relatively new style at the time.

The Cult had hits in Britain in the mid-1980s, such as "She Sells Sanctuary”, "Rain", and "Revolution" and in the late 1980s, the Cult broke into the American heavy metal market with the song, "Love Removal Machine". Although 1989's Sonic Temple is the band's most commercially successful album to date, by the late 1980s and early 1990s, the band was fraying behind the scenes, due to alcohol abuse and off-stage tensions. In early 1995, the Cult split up, citing unspecified problems on a recent South American tour.

Between 1999 and 2002, the band reformed to record the album Beyond Good and Evil and reissued all of their albums in Asia and eastern Europe in 2003 and Japan in 2004. In 2006, the band reformed to perform a series of worldwide tours, and a number of dates were captured for posterity by InstantLive. The band is set to record new material starting in February of 2007. The band is set to perform in California in late February, with the possibility of more dates in the Spring. They will be touring with The Who in Europe in June 2007 and are also reportedly looking into scheduling another headlining European tour in July 2007, with additional dates to follow in August in the United States and Canada. There has also been interest in getting the band to appear again at the "Big Day Out" festival in Australia.

Since the band's inception in early 1983, no lineup has lasted more than 2 years.


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