Biography
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.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Into The Labyrinth
1993
Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
1987
The Serpent's Egg
1988
Aion
1990
Spiritchaser
1996
Toward The Within
1994
Spleen And Ideal
1985
Dead Can Dance
1984
Anastasis
2012
A Passage In Time
1991
Nighttime Birds
1997
Symbol Of Life
2002
The Church With One Bell
1998
Karma
1997
Dead Can Dance • Garden Of The Arcane Delights
1992
Garden Of The Arcane Delights
1984
In Concert
2013
Credited work
646 releases · 63 albums · active 1984–2025
- Performance · 769
- Production · 594
- Other credits · 109
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Woodbine Studios · Quivvy Church · The Mayfair Theatre, Santa Monica · Vineyard
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Gathering
- Magic Find
- Armia
- The Ruins Of Beverast
- Velns Viņu Zin
- John Martyn
- Percival Schuttenbach