Sonic Temple
by The Cult
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The Cult bestography
Sonic Temple is ranked 2nd best out of 18 albums by The Cult on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Cult is Love which is ranked number 1412 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,205.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Sonic Temple track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/28/2026 16:30 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 | |
| 11/28/2025 18:48 |  Kingturtle | 7,552 | 73/100 | |
| 09/05/2025 14:20 | replacementlevel | 7,724 | 70/100 | |
| 07/10/2025 22:32 | LittleM1971 | 5,897 | 81/100 | |
| 05/19/2025 21:12 | brent13 | 1,919 | 68/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.6.
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Sun King is a great opener; Fire Woman and Soul Asylum the next favourites.
Good album all around.
VictorVale 12/21/2022 15:15 | #292117
Início bastante forte!
The album where the Cult reached the big time, but with some sacrifice to the originality of the sound they had created. The first side is much better than the second and contains the four hits.
Fischman 10/28/2016 17:06 | #177662
Outstanding album! Lots of great hard rockin' cuts with a little ballad thrown in for variety. The as yet unmentioned but positively outstanding deep cut is "American Horse."
Eastwood 11/25/2014 16:11 | #127963
Good album. Best 10 songs average is 82,5/100 and the album can get good 85/100. Best songs are "Edie (ciao baby)" and "Sweet soul sister" both 90/100, followed by "Fire woman" 85/100.
Genre: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Decurso 11/14/2014 13:31 | #126957
A bit more melancholy than their last two efforts and not quite as memorable, but a album that manages to be accessible hard rock without being full blown metal. It definitely peaks in the middle.
junodog4 07/28/2013 19:52 | #82621
To me, good or bad, these guys are much like Def Leppard.
The Cult has fully transformed from a Gothic rock outfit to a fully fledged hair metal band. Perfect timing as thanks to Guns 'n' Roses, keyboards had been ditched as an instrument. Great production, great songs and vastly improved guitar work. Classics for me are: Fire Woman, Edie, Sweet Soul Sister, Soul Asylum, Soldier Blue and Wake Up Time For Freedom.
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