The Cult’s prime hit-making days were the 1980s and 1990s with songs that are now propulsive classics on alternative and classic rock stations like “She Sells Sanctuary,” “Love Removal Machine” and “Fire Woman.”

But don’t tell lead singer Ian Astbury they are a nostalgia act. That isn’t a term he particularly likes.

“Nostalgia is a sign of a lazy mind,” Astbury told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently. “What is the past and the future? Time is a mental construct. I’m a Buddhist.”

He also doesn’t sit around categorizing the Cult’s music style, which is an amalgamation of hard, goth and punk rock.

“I’m a categorization agnostic,” he said. “I don’t live in categories. We’re just all humans together on this little blue dot, as Carl Sagan said.”

One thing Astbury, now 63, still enjoy

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