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In 1996, Beggars Banquet remastered and reissued the 1988 eponymous Death Cult compact disc. This new collection was released in the UK and US simultaneously (marking the first time Death Cult material was released in the US). The compact disc collection featured new artwork and was given the title Ghost Dance. [citation needed]
Death Cult issued one more release under their original name, "Gods Zoo", before renaming themselves the Cult in January 1984. [3] The band released their full-length debut Dreamtime in September, early copies of which were packaged with Dreamtime Live at the Lyceum. [4] Another single, "Ressurection Joe", followed at the end of the year. [5]
"Gods Zoo" was released while the group was still recording and performing as Death Cult (they would not change their name to the Cult until 13 January 1984) and was intended to be the lead single for Death Cult's first album (tentatively titled A Flower in the Desert). [1]
The Cult are an English rock band formed in Bradford in 1983. Before settling on their current name in January 1984, the band had performed under the name Death Cult, which was an evolution of the name of lead vocalist Ian Astbury's previous band Southern Death Cult.
In October 1983, Death Cult released a single, "God's Zoo", [9] with Preston on drums. The group changed their name to The Cult minutes before a live performance of the song "Spiritwalker" on the Channel 4 series The Tube. Stewart continued to play bass on all Cult recordings until 1990.
Southern Death Cult formed in 1981, with a lineup of vocalist Ian Astbury, guitarist David "Buzz" Burrows, Jepson, and Aky. The group's name derived from an old term for the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex , a mound-building Native American culture (and the band were also known for their use of Native American imagery), [ 3 ] but it also served ...
The B-side of the seven-inch single is the song "Sea And Sky". The song originated from when the group was still Death Cult where it was entitled "The Waste Of Love". When the group recorded the song for the radio sessions for the David Jenson show on BBC Radio One (later released on the compact disc collection of Death Cult recordings entitled Ghost Dance) the title of the song had been ...
"A Flower in the Desert" is a reworking of the Southern Death Cult's song "Flowers in the Forest". The music of the album is characterized as dramatic, moody, dark psychedelic, with "crystalline guitar not that far off from what U2 was going after". [7] In 1985 Ian Astbury noted that the Cult were "like Big Country and U2, only better!". [8]