The Cult The Witch

Subscribe to The Arkive Beggars Banquet Archive 21 of the Arkive s favourite videos Outside of the album Electric, The Witch is the only song that was ever produced by Rick Rubin for The Cult. The song started as a demo named Northern Man and can be found on Rare Cult , remolded into The Witch , and used specifically for the Real World soundtrack. The Cult is an English rock band formed in 1983 in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Before settling on their current name in January 1984, the band performed under the name Death Cult, which was an evolution of the name of lead singer Ian Astbury s previous band Southern Death Cult. They gained a dedicated following in the United Kingdom in the mid1980s as a postpunk, gothic rock band, with singles such as She Sells Sanctuary, before breaking into th