A New Chapter for Blast Cult

Jesse Dayton puts a brand-new Texas-built Blast Cult guitar through its paces.

Old Friends. Loud Guitars.

Blast Cult has officially made the move from London to Texas.

For Jason Burns, that has meant a lot more than changing an address. Tools, machinery, instrument parts, hardware, wood and years' worth of accumulated Blast Cult projects had to make their way across the Atlantic before the process of setting everything back up could really begin.

Now the new Texas operation is coming to life.

Jason is back at the bench, actively building instruments in Texas, and the guitar in this video is one of those new builds — made here as part of the next chapter of Blast Cult TX.

And when longtime friend Jesse Dayton came by, there was really only one thing to do.

Hand him the new guitar.

Jason and Jesse go back decades, including their days playing together in the Houston-based Road Kings. Jesse has known Jason's work for years, so this wasn't a formal product demonstration or a carefully staged guitar review.

It was two old friends in the Blast Cult music studio, a newly finished guitar, an amp and a chance to hear what Jason's latest build could do.

Built in Texas. Built Like a Blast Cult.

The guitar Jesse is playing is a brand-new Jason Burns build with an American mahogany body, a red oak neck and a rosewood fingerboard.

Its satin-black body is cut by a bold red center section incorporating machined, finned and polished aluminum — a combination that gives the guitar the industrial, machine-age and hot-rod character that has always been part of Blast Cult's visual language.

Rather than loading the guitar down with switches and extra electronics, Jason kept the layout deliberately direct.

At its heart is a single TV Jones Power'Tron pickup, paired with two controls and gold knobs.

The rest of the build follows the same stripped-down approach, with nickel hardware, a stop tailpiece, a 3+3 tuner configuration, Jason's compact double-cut body design, and the vertical BLAST CULT treatment on the headstock.

Black, red, polished aluminum, nickel and gold give the instrument a look that feels equal parts vintage American electric guitar, hot rod and industrial machine — without simply recreating something that's already been done.

That's the point.

Blast Cult instruments have always been about Jason taking familiar ingredients and pushing them somewhere unmistakably his own.

Then Jesse Plugs In.

Once Jesse gets the guitar in his hands, the specifications become secondary.

He sits down, plugs in and starts playing.

No backing track. No scripted demo. No showroom routine.

Just Jesse Dayton playing a brand-new Blast Cult guitar built by his old friend Jason Burns in Texas.

And in a lot of ways, that's exactly what the move back to Texas is about.

Blast Cult isn't simply relocating an old operation. Jason is building again, developing new instruments, working through ideas and materials brought over from England, and reconnecting with musicians and friends around him here in Texas.

The tools are running again.

New guitars and basses are coming off the bench.

And Blast Cult's next chapter is already getting loud.

Built in Texas by Jason Burns.
Played by Jesse Dayton.
Blast Cult TX.

Old friends. Loud guitars.