{"id":6789,"date":"2012-06-22T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6789"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:08:01","slug":"the-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/the-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CULT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6790\" title=\"THE-CULT-M-Review-May2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/THE-CULT-M-Review-May2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/THE-CULT-M-Review-May2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/THE-CULT-M-Review-May2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>HE CULT<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Choice of Weapon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Cooking Vinyl]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s been more than 20 years since the Cult achieved platinum success with <em>Electric <\/em>and<em> Sonic Temple<\/em>, records that appeared to establish the band as goth-metal\u2019s reigning power. Unable to sustain the momentum, the group ultimately disbanded in the mid-\u201990s, with frontman Ian Astbury going on to gain notice as the fill-in for Jim Morrison in touring configurations of the Doors. The group\u2019s latest album consolidates a solid comeback hatched with 2007\u2019s <em>Born Into This<\/em>. Propelled by founding guitarist Billy Duffy\u2019s searing riffs, Astbury sings like a doomsday prophet, issuing nightmare visions like a muscled-up version of Nick Cave. The song titles alone\u2014\u201cThe Wolf,\u201d \u201cLucifer,\u201d \u201cLife&gt;Death\u201d\u2014signal this is not material for the faint of heart. Musically, <em>Choice of Weapon<\/em> conjures up an aural image of the early \u201970s, when bands such as Deep Purple and Queen often mixed metal, prog and what today is considered classic rock into a simmering concoction. \u2013Russell Hall<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CULT Choice of Weapon [Cooking Vinyl] It\u2019s been more than 20 years since the Cult achieved platinum success with Electric and Sonic Temple, records that appeared to establish the band as goth-metal\u2019s reigning power. Unable to sustain the momentum, the group ultimately disbanded in the mid-\u201990s, with frontman Ian Astbury going on to gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4105,4099,282,4104,4100,4102,4103,3754,4101,4098],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}