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Dead Can Dance
Sign in to saveBritish-Australian neoclassical darkwave band around the duo Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry
Key facts
- Origin
- Melbourne , Australia
- Genres
- Neoclassical darkwave world ambient art pop gothic rock (early) post-punk (early)
- Years active
- 1981–1998, 2005, 2011–present
- Labels
- 4AD , Warner Bros. , Rhino / Atlantic , Rykodisc , PIAS , Holy Tongue
- Members
- Brendan Perry
- Past members
- Lisa Gerrard , Paul Erikson, Simon Monroe, Peter Ulrich , James Pinker, Scott Rodger
- Website
- deadcandance .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.deadcandance.com
- Image
- Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard in concert as group Dead Can Dance, Paris, June 2013.jpg
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- inception
- 1981-00-00
- social media followers
- 182000
- Commons category
- Dead Can Dance
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- Dead Can Dance
- start of work period
- 1981-00-00
- end of work period
- 1998-00-00
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Dead Can Dance are a British-Australian neoclassical darkwave band founded in Melbourne in 1981 by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard before the pair relocated to London the following year. They signed with independent label 4AD and were initially associated with the UK's gothic scene before developing a style that incorporated European medieval and Renaissance music traditions alongside ambient pop, darkwave, and world music elements. Beginning with their 1985 album Spleen and Ideal, the band helped to pioneer the neoclassical darkwave subgenre.
The band reached their commercial peak with 1993's Into the Labyrinth, which appeared in the Billboard 200 and made the group 4AD's highest-selling act. 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.