Plunder the Tombs: Dead Can Dance

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Dead Can Dance launch their new album

Ambient / Neo-classical / Ethereal-Wave gods Dead Can Dance today launched Anastasis, their first new studio album in sixteen years.

Following the initial announcement and release of a free download of the song "Amnesia" on Pitchfork media yesterday, the band's homepage was today updated to allow free streaming of the 3complete album and pre-purchase options for the album in a range of formats including digital download and deluxe autographed packages.

The official release date of Anastasis has been set for August 9th.

Go here - you just know you want to:

http://deadcandance.com/

UPDATE (3rd July 2012)

There's now a purportedly complete track listing for Anastasis floating around out there. No sign of this information on the band's official pages that I can see yet, but let us grant it the benefit of the doubt by assuming it to be accurate. Also some dispute about the actual release date with suggestions that it may in fact be August 13. May well depend upon the country in which you are unlucky enough to reside.

1. Children Of The Sun
2. Anabasis
3. Agape
4. Amnesia
5. Kiko
6. Opium
7. Return Of The She-King
8. All In Good Time

Sunday, January 15, 2012

UK Decay and Dead Can Dance - Pleasant little surprises

Since reforming with new drummer Ray Phillpott in 2008, Luton’s Godfathers of Goth, UK Decay have been playing the festival circuit around Europe and conjoured up enough new material to return to the recording studio for the first time in almost 30 years. They need your help to make this happen though kiddies, and following the very effective strategy employed in 2010 by The March Violets have gone through Pledge Music to raise some much needed dosh.

Just click here to provide UK Decay a helping hand and be a part of what promises to be a very exciting musical outing.

UK Decay live at the DV8 Fest in York, July 2011

In other news, Australian ex-pats and gods of neoclassical/world music and ambient/ethereal Goth , Dead Can Dance have somehow sneakily reformed sometime last year without my noticing and are now threatening both a new album and a world tour for 2012. Click here to sign up to their news updates, and they’ll very nicely give you the free download EP "Live Happenings Part II" recorded during their 2005 reunion tour.

Track Listing:

The Love That Cannot Be
The Lotus Eaters
Crescent
Minus Sanctus

Dead Can Dance live in 2005

Man, they better come to Perth or I’m going to be seriously pissed.

A Welcome and Introduction

Plunder the Tombs was started back in 2010 by way of looking back on a musical past that I felt in sore need of curation.

It was a strange and sad time when what passed for “Goth” in clubs seemed a pale imitator of what once was, following first a decade of cookie-cutter Sisters of the Nephilim clone bands and then another decade of industrial dance being palmed off to younger audiences as a type of faux goth. When on rare occasion DJs in “Goth” clubs did finally become brave enough to play something like Bauhaus it was not untypical to have the dance floor clear, and it became obvious that the memory, meaning and legacy of much that had gone before had been lost.

It’s probably safe to say that the boundaries of what was “Goth” were never clearly defined. An absolute blessing for those bands on the original scene before it had a name pinned to the donkey, but an outright curse for those who came later and found rules had been imposed to dictate that which was and that which was not acceptable. Worse still was to come in the 90s from a lazy and unquestioning media who simply assumed that anything that wore black and make up was by definition “Goth”, thus allowing all manner of pretenders licence, and maximising confusion as to what the term actually referred to.

This has gone on for way too long and its time is at an end. Neo Post-Punk bands now proliferate across Europe, old long dead Goth bands rise from their crypts in the UK, and new deathrock bands are breeding like rabbits up the west coast of America. It is time to reclaim our scene back from metal bands and ravers in disguise.

While the Plunder the Tombs of old focused on what had gone before, there are now far too many exciting new things to ignore. We roar back to life in a reboot, covering past , present and things yet to come.

Let us plunder the tombs….