Dead Can Dance

[speed]

Any fans? I absolutely love their music, especially the experimentation with so many forms of native music, from celtic, to arabian, to native american. Aion is my fave album of them all.

[Burkhard]

Originally Posted by speed

Any fans? I absolutely love their music, especially the experimentation with so many forms of native music, from celtic, to arabian, to native american. Aion is my fave album of them all.

My favourite albums are "Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun" and "Toward The Within" - both of them also contain my favourite song: "Cantara". Recently, I read some rumours that there is a chance of a DCD-reunion.

As Lisa Gerrard is one of my favourite vocalists, I also like her solo albums very much! Her voice is really awesome!

BTW, if you like DCD/Lisa Gerrard, you should also give Mila Mar´s album "Nova" a try! I think the range of Anke Hachfeld´s vocals comes close to Lisa Gerrard´s, and on this album, Anke sings just sounds - like Lisa Gerrard usually does.

[Episteme]

It's a bitch trying to find their albums.

[dreadnaught]

Im a huge fan. Got most their albums to and their video. it helps living in the bay area! next to Berkeley. i want to write a metal version on Cantara. it would rule.
Just picture heavely distortied guitars playing the synth lines and a good drum track pushing it


Here are all my second favorites:
the arrival and the reunion
as the bells ting the maypole
the wrting in my fathers hand
Yulunga (the video is amazing)
towards the within
Rakim
And their last album

[Burkhard]

Originally Posted by dreadnaught

Im a huge fan. Got most their albums to and their video. it helps living in the bay area! next to Berkeley. i want to write a metal version on Cantara. it would rule.
Just picture heavely distortied guitars playing the synth lines and a good drum track pushing it

It may have already been done! Recently I read an annoucement of the release of a double-CD titled DEAD CAN DANCE TRIBUTE - "The lotus eaters" (to be released on Black Lotus Records) which features two versions of "Cantara", one by Danny Lilker (yes, the guy from Nuclear Assault!) and another one by Green Carnation. As I haven´t heard the CD yet, I have no idea what the songs will sound like, but here´s a track-list of the two CDs:

CD 1:
Arcana - In The Wake Of Adversity
Persephone - Spirit
Danny Lilker - Cantara
Ataraxia - Bylar
Faith And The Muse - Mesmerism
Trail Of Tears - The Arcane
Hortus Animae - Windfall/Summoning Of The Muse
Amber Asylum - Cardinal Sin
Grido - Rakim
Anathema - How Fortunate The Man With None
Imperia - The Lotur Eaters
Ephemeral Sun - Avatar
Sarah Jezebel Deva - The Wind That Shakes The Barley

CD 2:
Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book
Jarboe - American Dreaming
Antimatter - Black Sun
The Gathering - In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated (it was already released on their "Kevin´s Telescope" CD-single some years ago)
Nightfall - The Ubiquitious Mr Lovegrove
Darkwell - Anywhere Out Of The World
Green Carnation - Cantara
Ulver - In The Kingdom Of The Blind The One-eyed Are Kings
Akrabu - Desert Song
Noekk - How Fortunate The Man With None
Imperial Black - Enigma Of The Absolute
Secrets Of The Moon & Nostalgia - The Protagonist
Monumentum - Windfall
Subterranean Masquerade - Summoning Of The Muse (Deconstructed)

[Nocturnal Silence]

I've only heard "Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun", and it's pretty good. What should I get besides that one?

[Burkhard]

Originally Posted by Nocturnal Silence

I've only heard "Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun", and it's pretty good. What should I get besides that one?

Definitely their live-album "Toward The Within" (I think it´s also out on DVD now) and, well, (nearly) anything else! Personally, my "least" favourite ones are their eponymously titled debut album and their last album "Spiritchaser", but that doesn´t mean they are really bad and, as always, it´s just a question of personal preferances.

If you like Lisa Gerrard´s voice, you should also get her solo-albums. For more information about her work go to: www.lisagerrard.com.

[crimsonfloyd]

Yes Dead Can Dance is brillant, flat out brillant. Within the Realm of a Dying Sun is arugably the greatest album ever. And yeah when your in the Bay Area, you can get all their albums pretty easily.

[Blackwinged]

Originally Posted by Burkhard

BTW, if you like DCD/Lisa Gerrard, you should also give Mila Mar´s album "Nova" a try! I think the range of Anke Hachfeld´s vocals comes close to Lisa Gerrard´s, and on this album, Anke sings just sounds - like Lisa Gerrard usually does.

Mila Mar's first album is fantastic. Unfortunately though since than they've turned into complete crap. Now there a shitty pop band or something. I dunno, but I didn't like their last album to much.

[Vadim]

Favourite album - 'The Serpent's Egg'
Favourite song - 'Severance'

If you never had heard DCD on LSD - you never had heard them at all.

[Ethereal Sage]

I love their music. Have the DVD. WIll be getting 'The Lotus Eaters'.

Track of choice would probably have to be The Host Of Seraphim.

Those DCD loves that haven't done so yet, I strongly recommend that you get hold of the short movie called 'Baraka', it is a view on life, with a folk/contemporary soundtrack that includes the above-named DCD track. Great stuff.