Death Cult Electric release debut double album ‘Cult Classic’
Death Cult Electric released the 15-track double album “Cult Classic” on 26 June 2026 via Black Maraca Records, recorded by frontman Steffan Pringle.
U.K. alternative noise quartet Death Cult Electric have released their debut double album “Cult Classic”, a 15-track set issued on 26 June 2026 across two volumes through Black Maraca Records, with distribution by Symphonic Distribution. The band, fronted by producer Steffan Pringle, mix hyper-distorted post-punk, alternative rock and industrial-edged noise.
Death Cult Electric split ‘Cult Classic’ across two volumes
“Cult Classic” runs 15 tracks over two volumes. The first volume holds eight, opening with “Deleter” and moving through “Wishy Washy”, “The FinePrint”, “Lucifer in the Sky with Diamonds”, “In Infrared”, “Ooops! Wrong Planet”, “We are not Bees” and “She Comes too Quick”. The second volume, “Cult Classic (Vol II)”, adds seven: “Alligators”, “Moolah”, “Snakes and their Children”, “I’m So Cool……”, “Let’s Nightmare!”, “A.I Duplicate” and “Burn Bubblegum”.
The set pulls together singles the band issued over several years, among them “Deleter”, “The FinePrint”, “She Comes too Quick” and “A.I Duplicate”, alongside newer tracks. Steffan Pringle recorded and mixed the album, mastered to a loudness of 6.66 LUFS. Press material for the release describes it as “It’s like if Nick Cave, Mark E Smith, Andy Falkous, and Guy McKnight became one channeling Big Black and holding Queens of the Stone Age by the throat. […] it rages so hard.” Both volumes are available digitally on Bandcamp and through the band’s Spotify page.
About Death Cult Electric
Death Cult Electric are a U.K. alternative noise quartet from Cardiff, built around Steffan Pringle, a producer and former member of the Welsh group Estrons who has also produced Adwaith and Himalayas. The current line-up features Pringle alongside Richard Wright, Alec Rees and Christopher Hampson. The group cite Sonic Youth and The Jesus Lizard among their reference points and have shared stages with Pulled Apart By Horses, Mclusky and Midasuno.
The project emerged around 2019 with the single “She Comes Too Quick”, followed by “Deleter” and “A.I Duplicate”. In April 2021 the band released the single “The FinePrint” through Black Maraca Records, and later collected early material on the EP “How to Sprint at Strangers”. After a hiatus, Death Cult Electric returned with “Cult Classic”, issued on 26 June 2026 – their first full-length, spreading 15 tracks across two volumes and drawing several of those earlier singles into one release. The band are currently touring.
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