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 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 was the band's most commercially successful album, the band was fraying behind the scenes, due to alcohol abuse and off-stage tensions. By 1995, the Cult had split up.
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 by for posterity by InstantLive. The band are set to record new material starting in February of 2007. The band are set to perform in California in late February, with the possibility of more dates in the Spring. They are also reportedly looking into scheduling another European tour in June or July 2007. There has also been interest in getting the band to appear again at the "Big Day Out" festival in Australia.
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1988: Death Cult
1984: Dreamtime
1984: Dreamtime Live at the Lyceum
1985: Love
1987: Electric
1989: Sonic Temple
1990: The Singles Collection
1991: Ceremony
1993: Pure Cult: For Rockers, Ravers, Lovers and Sinners
1993: Live Cult
1993: Sanctuary Mixes MCMXCIII, volume one
1993: Sanctuary Mixes MCMXCIII, volume two
1993: The Witch
1994: The Cult
1996: High Octane Cult
2000: Pure Cult: The Singles 1984 - 1995
2000: Rare Cult
2000: The Best of Rare Cult
2001: Beyond Good and Evil
2002: Rare Cult: The Demos Sessions
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