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Dead Can Dance

Dead Can Dance are an Australian neoclassical darkwave band from Melbourne. Currently composed of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, the group formed in 1981. They relocated to London the following year. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance's style as "constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chant, Middle Eastern music, mantras, and art rock."Having temporarily disbanded in 1998, they reunited in 2005 for a world tour, and again in 2011 to release and tour the album Anastasis. They released their most recent album, Dionysus, in 2018, and toured Europe in 2022.

Albums

1984 Dead Can Dance
1985 Spleen and Ideal
1986 Dead Can Dance / Garden of the Arcane Delights
1987 Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
1988 The Serpent’s Egg
1990 Aion
1993 Into the Labyrinth
1996 Spiritchaser
2012 Anastasis
2018 Dionysus
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