The Cult Frontman Collaborates With Japanese Metal Band

The Cult Frontman Collaborates With Japanese Metal Band

August 18, 2010

As collaborations go, Ian Astbury’s new project with Japanese metal band Boris is probably as strange as it gets.

Having already teamed up with Slash, The Doors and UNKLE… this time the Cult frontman experiments with Boris unque brand of avant garde doom rock.

The result is BXI – a three track EP that includes a cover of the Cult’s Rain and it’s released today.

BBC 6 Music’s Adrian Larkin’s been finding out more about the music from Astbury himself…

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