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The Cult's Billy Duffy on how the relationship between him and singer Ian Astbury is like a "separated married couple"
Rock's odd couple embark on a UK tour later this year...
"He looked like Daniel Day Lewis in The Last Of The Mohicans, except he jangled when he walked. I thought: 'That's a bit interesting'": Billy Duffy on Ian Astbury and the early days of Death Cult
When Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy announced the 2023 resurrection of Death Cult, goths went batshit and gig tickets sold like blackened coals. Here’s how the seminal band came into being
“Us and them doesn’t exist any more”: How The Cult's Ian Astbury tried to break down genre barriers with his pre-Lollapalooza festival Gathering Of The Tribes, and claimed he got “ripped off” for his trouble
Don't tell Ian Astbury that Perry Farrell invented the concept of the genre-fluid alt. rock festival in the US
"A rush of almost spiritual ecstasy": Death Cult find joy in dragging skeletons from the closet on 40th anniversary tour
The Cult's Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy resurrect Death Cult, summoning old ghosts to powerful effect
"Belfast in 1980 was intense. The army were throwing you up against the wall and beating you with batons": The Cult's Ian Astbury on what he learned as a teenage punk squatting in N. Ireland
The Cult's Ian Astbury prides himself on being a global citizen, but squatting in Belfast in 1980 proved to be a formative experience
"There was always an undercurrent of youthful exuberance, violence and piracy": Why The Cult's Billy Duffy and Ian Astbury aren't scared of summoning the ghosts of their past by resurrecting Death Cult
The Cult's guitarist Billy Duffy explains why he and vocalist Ian Astbury have resurrected Death Cult for a 40th anniversary tour
10 metal bands who completely changed and immediately made a masterpiece
Bands need to evolve to survive, and these classic albums by Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold and Sepultura are masterclasses in switching everything up
The first 30 years of Goth in 30 records
The albums, singles and tracks shaped goth music over three decades of glorious gloom, 1979 - 2008
