According to blabbermouth.net, during an interview with Marko Syrjala of Chaoszine, The Cult guitarist Billy Duffy was asked about plans for the band to release new music as the follow-up to the band’s 2022 album, Under The Midnight Sun. “Well, Ian says a lot of things. I don’t even know if he’d remember saying that. I’m always writing music, but as far as I know, we’re not actively engaged in recording anything. That’ll happen eventually, but I don’t know what made him say that,” said Duffy.

When being asked if The Cult has a record deal with a label at the moment, the guitarist said: “No, but I’m sure we can get one. We always seem to find someone who wants to sign us and that desire always seems to be there. So, I don’t think that’s a problem. I think we just have to be in the right mental space as artists, as a band, to want to make a new record. We also need to figure out what the goal is, but I think that time is coming. We’ve done enough touring now and we’ve pretty much toured everywhere in the world that we can, give or take.”

Duffy adds: “So, what generally happens then is there’s downtime, and we go quiet. That’s when we start getting creative. Yeah, well, that’s what I think. So, I believe it’ll happen organically. It seems to happen on a cycle of every four years. Obviously, the pandemic disrupted things for everyone. But if you look at The Cult, since we got back together in 2006, we’ve sort of made a record every four years. So that cycle will come around again — you just have to wait and see. I know we’ll give it a go and  I can feel it coming. But I’m not sure what [Ian] meant back then. Maybe he just had a vision for the year ahead.”

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