The Cult - Born Into This

Now that he’s fulfilled his dream of becoming Jim Morrison, performing in The Doors tribute band Riders on the Storm, singer Ian Astbury is back to doing what he does best: rawking out with Cult axeman Billy Duffy. The reunited goth-rock band’s eighth album is chock full of gutbucket vocals and monster riffs on tracks like “I Assassin” and “Dirty Little Rockstar,” which depicts backstage excesses in Spinal Tap fashion. And Astbury delivers some Morrison-style mysticism with the solemnly pretentious “Holy Mountain.”