'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. 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.”

For all that 'Unholy Drum' might mark a departure from the crushingly heavy or freak-out-inclined sonics that characterised much of the Cult’s 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. ‘Unholy Drum’ is an album that brushes against our bleak political reality without delivering a manifesto – not a sermon, but the sound of a fever, a possession, a rupture.

“The Unholy Drum is the pulse you obey without meaning to. The rhythm that already owns you. It’s the click-track of modern existence – the subliminal march of markets, governments, algorithms, and the digital ghosts that crave our attention more than our blood. We didn’t 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."

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