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Formed in the late 80´s by Ritchie LaRoux !
The band had the first live performance at a local
music café outside Malmoe, Sweden in the summer of 89 !
The Band Also Appeared at a local festival the same summer !
The Band split up shortly after theese
2 gigs. Ritchie & the Rhythm Guitar-player Ronny Fors
(A.K.A."Spider") decided to keep on going ! But due
to the fact that no members were to be found, the
band was on ice... Ritchie started to write material
for a "Guitar-Record". 3 years of hard work and practice,
gave results, And his vision of a "Guitar-
album" was shaped. In 92 however, he met up with a
self-proclaimed drummer, and was asked to join a
local cover band. He accepted, Even though the band sucked !
He saw a chance to meet other, more skilled musicians !
Also the rhythm guitar player of this band,
"Freddie" hooked up with Ritchie.
And the two began writing some songs together.
But the material was far to heavy and "Metal" for the other two
members of that band !
So, Shortly after the first (And Only !) gig with that band,
Ritchie Left and said goodbye to playing soft Rock forever !
But, funny enough, all the other
guys of that band became more, and more interested in
what was going in Ritchie´s Cult Disciples.
The drummer (hahahaha)
& Demogorgon Bilé)
had a dance & Rock Cover band going,
and Ritchie & Freddie hooked up with Bass-Player Magnus Person
(A.K.A. Charles Dexter Ward) and all of a sudden everybody
wanted to sing in the band ! First Daniel, Then Marcus ! Meanwhile
Freddie and Drummer Boy joined a Kiss Wanna-Be Band !
and the whole thing became a circus !
But, In the end of the summer of 94, Ritchie met
A Drummer who auditioned for the band, and was accepted !
( Ollie Damballa)
The first Real Line-Up in 5 years were complete !
And In The spring of 95, The Band Recorded a Official Demo !
"Do What Thou Wilt"
This demo was printed in a limeted edition of 200 copies, and
The Band made a video on the song
"In the web"in the summer of 95.
The video was filmed by Mattias ,
who later fits into the story !
In the summer of 95, Mr. Charles, announced his
departure of the band. He could not find the time that
was essential for the bands future plans !
So, in the bands best interest Charles left in
hope that the band could find another bass-player, that could
give the band full- Attention !
In august of 95 Mr Ollie did a remarkable announcement !
He was tired of drums, and Metal. So, He decided to
pick up guitar-playing in a indie-Pop band instead !!!
Irony strikes again ! In the late 95 Cult Disciples got their
first record-deal. And this made the whole thing somewhat
bizarre! Ritchie was alone with Bil´e, who saw a chance
of making his stairway to heaven !
Cult Disciples was included on an compilation CD
Simply named Unsigned Swedish Artist 1.
With the Track "Hiding In Twilight" from the demo !
In the spring of 96 A record-deal was made for the band
for 1 full-lenght Album. Before this, Mattias joined
the band as a Keyboard-player. He had never played
Before, but He was there in our time of need !
So, Bilé tought Mattias some chords and the threesome
began working on their Album material !
Ritchie wrote the main part of the album, with a helping hand
from Bilé & Mattias who figured out some keyboard-runs,
and the 3 rehearsed for 3 full months 6 hours a day
7 days a week to complete the material for the Album.
In the end of june a drummer was recruted to the band
( Mephistopheles)
But he had no chance of learning the drums to 14 songs
in 2 weeks,so The Band recorded the entire Album
with Drum-Machine. The recordings took about 10 days
and nights to complete.
A couple of weeks later a 2nd guitar player was recruted to
Cult Disciples. ("Bonnie")
The album was ment to be released in december, of 96
But The record company (T.C.B.-Agency) was in financial
problems and the owner sold his "Band Stable" to a new
"Record Company" called Sonus records. And in march of 97
A contract was made with them, at this time, Bonnie & Mephistopheles
had performed Live a few times with the band .
So suggestions came about letting them be a
"Part of the Album" This was a good
alternative at the time, because everything would look smoother
and more "natural" and this was of course a demand from Sonus,
"The Promotion" of the album would then be easier !
First The band appeared with 2 Tracks on the Compilation CD
that sonus used for "Promotion". Then We had to pay
for the printing and manufaction of the CD. So, said and done !
We all chipped in to save up for the money to the Album,
When we paid the half in advance, the record came in production
At this time the entire booklet had been changed from it´s
original concept ! Mephistopheles & Bonnie were given credit for
playing on the album ! And Weeks of technical problems with the
Albums production was to be solved,but finally in may/June
of 97 The album "hang by the cross" was released and
The band was promised a great back-up from the Record-Company.
But nothing happened Ritchie paid sonus from his own pocket
in late 97 ( This was Later denied by Sonus ! )
They actually split the Band ! Ritchie was the contact person
in the band,
Sonus promised tours in portugal and spain, Big sales in
Hong-Kong and Russia, And there were so many plans....
After 6-7 months of waiting Ritchie suggested that
the band should leave the record company !
This was fallen to deaf ears !
Bilé & Mephistopheles had plans for themselves
And in the end of august an actual "TakeOver" was tried by
them ! Sonus wanted to get rid of Ritchie, because
He was a "Problem" and not easy enough to trick !
So this led to a situation that all the "hired Guns" left the
band for a new deal with sonus !!!
But this was not the end !!!
This was the beginning of greater things to come !
Ritchie´s Girlfriend (Lilith Argerich) supported Ritchie into
starting all over !
Bandmembers are hard to find, but hopefully
the band could someday be complete !
Meanwhile temporary guest-musicians are helping out !
The Band Will Do Recordings During the Winter of 2000 And
A New Album will be Released as soon as possible !
