Ian Astbury is so much funnier than we imagined. The Cult, his mighty metal-crunching band with guitarist Billy Duffy, has just released Choice Of Weapon (Cooking Vinyl), the newest and best Cult album since 1994’s The Cult. In our Q&A with him, Astbury takes down those who make themselves authoritarian without merit—music journalists, politicians—in a fashion similar to his highly personal lyrical outlook on Weapon. He is guest editing magnetmagazinecom all week with the same candor.
Astbury: Somewhere in these pages, I began to connect with another perspective. Something shifted within me. Since I first read it in my 20s, I haven’t looked at life the same way. I have returned many times to its rich text and discovered new insights.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqL9c4jYigk
