Cult Of Dom Keller – Unholy Drum

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‘Unholy Drum’ is the long-awaited sixth album from Nottingham band Cult Of Dom Keller – not a ‘return’, for they were never really gone, but the product of five years spent evolving. In collaboration with Angus Andrew of LIARS on production duties, “Songs were cut apart, inverted, whispered to. Left alone long enough to twitch back to life. All while the fever dream of global instability seeped into the DNA of the record.” The result – due for release March 27th 2026 on Fuzz Club – finds a more expansive and left-field art-rock sound shining through the cracks in the Cult’s dark psychedelic noise-rock. Reflecting on the time leading up to ‘Unholy Drum’, the Cult – now comprised of Neil Marsden (vocals/keys/synths), Ryan DelGaudio (vocals/guitar/synths) and Alistair Burns (drums) – write: “It’s been nearly five years since we slipped through a crack in the world – and couldn’t 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 didn’t 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 Cult’s vault of ideas soon pried upon for Angus to dig his claws into: “Working 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.