Date of Release: Sep 28, 2007
Genre:
Rock
Styles: Hard Rock
Label: Roadrunner (0016861797126)
AMG Review:
Ever since 1987's Rick Rubin-produced Electric, the
Cult have never shied away from reveling in the trashiest aspects of
rock & roll culture. No doubt, Ian Astbury's sojourn replacing Jim
Morrison in the Doors -- or, as they were litigated into calling
themselves, Riders on the Storm -- must have caused the '60s to resonate
with him much more than singing a tribute to Edie Sedgwick, as he did
on the Cult's Sonic Temple. So in 2007, an age when pure hard rock was
nothing to be ashamed of, the Cult roared back with the back-to-basics
record Born into This. (As in the past, Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy are
the Cult; bassist Chris Wyse and drummer John Tempesta are nothing more
than hired guns here.) From the beginning of the first track, it's clear
that Born into This is going to rock as hard as Electric or 1989's
Sonic Temple. The Cult have obviously quit the experimentalism and art
rock asides of the '90s and 2000s, in favor of something that fits in
well with both Astbury's time fronting the Doors and Duffy's
unapologetic metal side project, Circus Diablo. Aside from the
occasional flourish of their post-punk gothic past, most of the record
is the dirtiest and heaviest hard rock they've recorded since the '80s,
like the trailer single "Dirty Little Rockstar" or the similarly trashy
"Diamonds." Astbury's vocals are as muscular as they've ever been,
although his quavering vibrato on the ballad "Holy Mountain" marks it as
a latter-day Cult song. Duffy's songwriting edge may have dulled
slightly, but his lead guitar and the production of longtime British
associate Youth make up for any inadequacy.
The Special Edition
includes a 5-Track Bonus CD.
Specs: EAC / APE / Cue / Log / No
Covers
Track list:
CD1:
1. Born Into This (Album
Version)
2. Citizens (Album Version)
3. Diamonds (Album
Version)
4. Dirty Little Rockstar
5. Holy Mountain (Album
Version)
6. I Assassin (Album Version)
7. Illuminated (Album
Version)
8. Tiger In The Sun (Album Version)
9. Savages (Album
Version)
10. Sound of Destruction (Album Version)
CD2:
1. Stand Alone (Album Version)
2. War Pony Destroyer (Album
Version)
3. I Assassin [Demo]
4. Sound of Destruction [Demo]
5. Savages [Extended]
EAC Logs:
Code
EAC
extraction logfile from 4. October 2007, 16:49 for CD
The Cult /
Born Into This - CD1
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RW DVR-108 Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure with NO C2,
accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format :
Internal WAV Routines
44.100 Hz; 16 Bit;
Stereo
Use compression offset : 0
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples
with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent
blocks : No
Installed external ASPI interface
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename
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Peak
level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
CRC
3EB8717C
Copy OK
No errors occured
End
of status report
Code
EAC
extraction logfile from 4. October 2007, 16:59 for CD
The Cult /
Born Into This - CD2
Used drive : PIONEER DVD
RW DVR-108 Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure with NO C2,
accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format :
Internal WAV Routines
44.100 Hz; 16 Bit;
Stereo
Use compression offset : 0
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples
with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent
blocks : No
Installed external ASPI interface
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename
H:\Toasten 2\The Cult - Born Into This - CD2.wav
Peak
level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
CRC
EB7D8AE5
Copy OK
No errors occured
End
of status report
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