{"id":1148,"date":"2008-10-15T21:43:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T20:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2015-04-08T01:23:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T00:23:44","slug":"death-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/death-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Cult – Situation 2 Records – 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brothers Grimm \/ Ghost Dance<\/a><\/p>\n

Horse Nation \/ Christians<\/a><\/p>\n

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One of my favorite bands at the time, Death Cult were to me the real deal, soon enough though they got super big\u00a0with a cod-metal attitude\u00a0and\u00a0were much less favoured by myself.<\/p>\n

This debut 12″ was a fine start to the career of the band, and Ian Astbury was such an immense showman on the stage, that he now is the vocalist for The Doors, who I believe were quite big in the 1960’s and early 1970’s!<\/p>\n

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The origins of the Cult lie in the Southern Death Cult, a goth rock outfit formed by vocalist Ian Astbury (born May 14, 1962) in 1981. Astbury was the son of a merchant navy man, which meant he moved frequently during his youth; at one point in his childhood, his family lived in Canada, where the young Astbury became fascinated with Native Americans, which would become a recurring theme in his songwriting. Astbury eventually settled in Bradford, Yorkshire, where he met a group comprised of David Burrows (guitar), Barry Jepson (bass), and Haq Queresui (drums). Ian joined the group as their lead vocalist (performing with the last name of “Lindsay,” which was his mother’s maiden name) and had the group renamed the Southern Death Cult. At only their fifth concert, the band was attracting audiences of 2,000. In December 1982, the Southern Death Cult released their first single — the double A-side “Moya”\/”Fatman” — and the following month, they supported Bauhaus on tour. Though the group’s future was looking bright, Astbury pulled the plug on the band because he was frustrated with the positive articles he was receiving in the press. The remaining three members joined Getting the Fear, which eventually became Into a Circle; in the late ’80s, Quereshi became a member of FunDaMental. All of the Southern Death Cult recordings were eventually released in 1986.<\/p>\n

Following the disbandment of the Southern Death Cult, Astbury shortened the name of the group to Death Cult and recruited guitarist Billy Duffy — who had previously played with Morrissey in the pre-Smiths band the Nosebleeds, as well as Theatre of Hate — and drummer Ray Mondo and bassist Jamie Stewart, who had previously played with Ritual. Death Cult released an eponymous EP in the summer of 1983; on the EP, Astbury reverted back to his given name. Later in the year, Mondo was replaced by Nigel Preston, who had previously played with Duffy in Theatre of Hate; coincidentally, Mondo became the drummer for Preston’s previous band, Sex Gang Children.<\/p>\n

In early 1984, the band shed “Death” from the title, fearing that the word gave them the misleading appearance of being a goth band. Where both Southern Death Cult and Death Cult had been overtly influenced by post-punk, the Cult was a heavy hard rock band with slight psychedelic flourishes. Dreamtime, the group’s first album, was released in the fall of 1984, accompanied by a single “Spiritwalker,” which reached number one in the U.K. in the spring. Dreamtime reached number 21 on the U.K. charts. In the spring of 1985, Preston left the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brothers Grimm \/ Ghost Dance Horse Nation \/ Christians One of my favorite bands at the time, Death Cult were to me the real deal, soon enough though they got super big\u00a0with a cod-metal attitude\u00a0and\u00a0were much less favoured by myself. This debut 12″ was a fine start to the career of the band, and Ian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8308,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/8308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}