The Cult have announced details of a new album, the band's first since 2001's reunion affair, 'Beyond Good And Evil'. The new long-player is called 'Born Into This' and is due in early October, with singer Ian Astbury telling Billboard.com what to expect: "Our last record, with all respect to [producer] Bob Rock, we were guilty as charged as much as he was, it was an overproduced record. We just went too far with it. It took about a year and a half and an exorbitant amount of money. This one was far more economic. We didn't want to get entrenched in debates of whether this is working or is this not working. If anything got a little bit drawn out, we just moved onto the next track".
The new album is also the band's first since drummer Matt Sorum left to join Velvet Revolver and this is something that Astbury claims also massively influenced the record, adding that it allowed them to go in a direction that Sorum may have previously refused to let them move in: "Matt's a very grand figure, and a very theatrical figure. He's a big guy and he holds a lot of space". However, despite saying all that, Astbury - perhaps wary of scaring off older fans - did conclude: "It's a real, true Cult record".