
Cult Of Dom Keller - Unholy Drum
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Available on Cloudy Clear Vinyl
Includes Printed Inner Sleeve + Download Card
Reflecting on the time leading up to âUnholy Drumâ, the Cult â now comprised of Neil Marsden (vocals/keys/synths), Ryan DelGaudio (vocals/guitar/synths) and Alistair Burns (drums) â write: "Itâs been nearly five years since we slipped through a crack in the world â and couldnât find the same exit twice. It was a time where bassists dissolved like mist. Where bodies glitched in ways that felt half-medical, half-mythic. Where everything stalled except the music. Ideas kept arriving. Fragments. Residue. Ghost scraps clinging to existence like unfinished dreams, waiting to become whole. But this time, we wanted to create something totally different."
And then came LIARS' Angus Andrew: not a producer in the traditional sense but "a kindred spirit who opened a door we didnât even know we had locked." Working with Angus on a LIARS remix of their 2021'Run From The Gullskinna' single, a new creative relationship was immediately forged and the Cultâs vault of ideas soon pried upon for Angus to dig his claws into:
âWorking with Angus brought a different angle of experimentation to the way we worked. Together, everything was dismantled and pushed further into the dark. Sound was dissected until it sprouted limbs. We went so deep inside the tracks that eventually it felt like the songs were waiting for us to catch up⊠And yet, there was liberation. A freedom in abandoning defined roles. In serving the song rather than the structure. In hearing an idea suddenly explode into life through, say, the force of a full orchestra. It felt like any sound in our heads was now possible, and we continued to craft and shape the songs.â
For all that 'Unholy Drum' might mark a departure from the crushingly heavy or freak-out-inclined sonics that characterised much of the Cultâs ever-evolving back-catalogue, the shadowy, post-apocalyptic visions that have always been at the core remain deeply-rooted. Only this time something stranger stepped out, wired directly into the voltage of now. âUnholy Drumâ is an album that brushes against our bleak political reality without delivering a manifesto â not a sermon, but the sound of a fever, a possession, a rupture.
âThe Unholy Drum is the pulse you obey without meaning to. The rhythm that already owns you. Itâs the click-track of modern existence â the subliminal march of markets, governments, algorithms, and the digital ghosts that crave our attention more than our blood. We didnât name it to provoke. We named it because it was already there. At times it felt less like making an album and more like receiving a transmission from a future we wanted no part of. UNHOLY DRUM is that transmission."
Tracklisting
- Live Without Life
- Let Me Go, Satan
- Disappear
- B(o)ing
- Leaders with Hooves
- Void Horizon
- Shoot My Mind
- They Cut the Heart From Out of the Sky
- Galaxies SOS
Please note:
Due to the nature of making a vinyl record, each record is one of a kind. The vinyl you receive may look different from our photo. Colored vinyl is more prone to surface noise and imperfections.
Pre-order fulfillment can be affected by label manufacturing issues. On the rare occasion we do not receive the stock we have ordered and cannot fulfill an order, you will be refunded for the item.Â
All pre-order sales are otherwise final
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In Stock and Shipping Now!
Available on Cloudy Clear Vinyl
Includes Printed Inner Sleeve + Download Card
Reflecting on the time leading up to âUnholy Drumâ, the Cult â now comprised of Neil Marsden (vocals/keys/synths), Ryan DelGaudio (vocals/guitar/synths) and Alistair Burns (drums) â write: "Itâs been nearly five years since we slipped through a crack in the world â and couldnât find the same exit twice. It was a time where bassists dissolved like mist. Where bodies glitched in ways that felt half-medical, half-mythic. Where everything stalled except the music. Ideas kept arriving. Fragments. Residue. Ghost scraps clinging to existence like unfinished dreams, waiting to become whole. But this time, we wanted to create something totally different."
And then came LIARS' Angus Andrew: not a producer in the traditional sense but "a kindred spirit who opened a door we didnât even know we had locked." Working with Angus on a LIARS remix of their 2021'Run From The Gullskinna' single, a new creative relationship was immediately forged and the Cultâs vault of ideas soon pried upon for Angus to dig his claws into:
âWorking with Angus brought a different angle of experimentation to the way we worked. Together, everything was dismantled and pushed further into the dark. Sound was dissected until it sprouted limbs. We went so deep inside the tracks that eventually it felt like the songs were waiting for us to catch up⊠And yet, there was liberation. A freedom in abandoning defined roles. In serving the song rather than the structure. In hearing an idea suddenly explode into life through, say, the force of a full orchestra. It felt like any sound in our heads was now possible, and we continued to craft and shape the songs.â
For all that 'Unholy Drum' might mark a departure from the crushingly heavy or freak-out-inclined sonics that characterised much of the Cultâs ever-evolving back-catalogue, the shadowy, post-apocalyptic visions that have always been at the core remain deeply-rooted. Only this time something stranger stepped out, wired directly into the voltage of now. âUnholy Drumâ is an album that brushes against our bleak political reality without delivering a manifesto â not a sermon, but the sound of a fever, a possession, a rupture.
âThe Unholy Drum is the pulse you obey without meaning to. The rhythm that already owns you. Itâs the click-track of modern existence â the subliminal march of markets, governments, algorithms, and the digital ghosts that crave our attention more than our blood. We didnât name it to provoke. We named it because it was already there. At times it felt less like making an album and more like receiving a transmission from a future we wanted no part of. UNHOLY DRUM is that transmission."
Tracklisting
- Live Without Life
- Let Me Go, Satan
- Disappear
- B(o)ing
- Leaders with Hooves
- Void Horizon
- Shoot My Mind
- They Cut the Heart From Out of the Sky
- Galaxies SOS
Please note:
Due to the nature of making a vinyl record, each record is one of a kind. The vinyl you receive may look different from our photo. Colored vinyl is more prone to surface noise and imperfections.
Pre-order fulfillment can be affected by label manufacturing issues. On the rare occasion we do not receive the stock we have ordered and cannot fulfill an order, you will be refunded for the item.Â
All pre-order sales are otherwise final











