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Ever heard Microfilm, Lisa Gerrard's experimental post-punk band before Dead Can Dance? Looks like they just had one release, a 7" in 1980 with two tracks:
Side A: "Centrefold": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yyUO93JpEw
Side B: "Window": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCFRbvyix4
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/master/945458-Microfilm-Centrefold
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Ever heard Microfilm, Lisa Gerrard's experimental post-punk band before Dead Can Dance? Looks like they just had one release, a 7" in 1980 with two tracks:
Side A: "Centrefold": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yyUO93JpEw
Side B: "Window": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCFRbvyix4
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/master/945458-Microfilm-Centrefold
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Der vierte Vorbote für das nächste Album von Dead Can Dance ist wieder exklusiv auf Bandcamp erschienen. Und wieder fehlt Lisa Gerrard.
Schöne Geschichte auf der Songseite über den mythischen Hintergrund der Zikaden nach Platon.
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Der vierte Vorbote für das nächste Album von Dead Can Dance ist wieder exklusiv auf Bandcamp erschienen. Und wieder fehlt Lisa Gerrard.
Schöne Geschichte auf der Songseite über den mythischen Hintergrund der Zikaden nach Platon.
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📡 🎶 👁️ While resting outside Athens, Socrates and Phaedrus are surrounded by a loud chorus of cicadas...
https://youtu.be/v1u-zK6EN9k #newreleases #music #deadcandance
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📡 🎶 👁️ While resting outside Athens, Socrates and Phaedrus are surrounded by a loud chorus of cicadas...
https://youtu.be/v1u-zK6EN9k #newreleases #music #deadcandance
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Dead Can Dance release 'The Cicadas' single via Bandcamp #DeadCanDance
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A new Dead Can Dance song? Don't mind if I do. https://deadcandance.bandcamp.com/album/the-cicadas
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A new Dead Can Dance song? Don't mind if I do. https://deadcandance.bandcamp.com/album/the-cicadas
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Mortiis – Ghosts of Europa Review By TymeMortiis has cut a swath through Norway’s music scene since 1992, beginning as the inaugural bassist for black metal pioneers Emperor. When Håvard “Mortiis” Ellefsen realized the blackened arts weren’t for him, he swapped his bass guitar for a keyboard and embarked on a journey that, six years and six full-length albums later, left him a progenitor and “Godfather” of dungeon synth. Over the following vicennial, Mortiis explored other musical outlets, from darkened synth-pop to industrial rock and murky ambient before returning to his dungeon synth roots with 2020’s Spirit of Rebellion. After revisiting the genre he helped found, Mortiis releases his 11th full-length album, Ghosts of Europa—in part shaped by a subsequently abandoned collaboration with Stephan Groth (Apoptygma Berzerk)—to pay homage to old German electronica, especially Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. Mortiis took those early recordings and embarked on a six-year journey to transform them into Ghosts of Europa. Will Ghosts serve as the harbinger of Mortiis’s greatness, or be cursed to haunt the darkened shadows of Norwegian mediocrity?
Ghosts of Europa is sexy, spacy, and cinematic—a synth-forward record that draws from each of Mortiis’s electronic eras—moving from dungeon scenes to movie screens. Those familiar with Tangerine Dream’s ’80s “soundtrack” era,1 will feel that theatrical presence, in addition to early Enigma, Pink Floyd, and Dead Can Dance, in the windswept, dystopian synthscapes and expansive, Gregorian chant-inspired, Middle Eastern-influenced female wails of Ghosts’ more ambient moments (“Return to the Old Fields,” “Transcending Morpheus,” “Tribes of Dystopia”). When Ghosts of Europa shifts to straightforward, beat-driven electronics (“Ghosts of Europa,” 2 “Violent Silence”) it taps a Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk vein. Still, other Mortiis Era II specters haunt Ghosts’ halls on tracks like “Tundra, Heart of Hell,” an electro-rocker that channels She Wants Revenge and The Cult, just as “Farewell Romero” has a distinct Marilyn Manson feel to its slow, painful burn. Mortiis has reached the peak of his musical prowess, wielding a conductor’s control over his collaborators and delivering one of his most emotive albums.
Heaving with atmosphere, Ghosts of Europa punctuates its vast, sweeping sonicscapes with rich vocal textures and introspective lyrics. From the repetitive refrain “When we all fall down” that dominates the opening title track to the chorus on “The Faith That Fades Away” requesting “Leave me with my sins, leave me with my thoughts,” and on through “Farewell Romero”‘s painful admission “I found a way to kill some of the pain, like a warm and cleansing summer rain,” Ghosts’ lyrics serve as an apology to the relationships Mortiis admittedly damaged along the way.3 And to further execute his no-boundaries vision, Mortiis focused on vocal arrangements in a way he hasn’t on previous efforts, partnering with a cast ranging from Sarah Jezebel Deva (Cradle of Filth) and Illiana Tsakirake (Septicflesh) to Christopher Rakkestad (Elvarhøi, Bolverk) and Skinny Puppy’s Matthew Setzer,4 who join him and, along with a vocoder and some autotune modulation, cement completely the otherworldly experience Ghosts of Europa provides.
Effortlessly flowing and expertly paced, Ghosts of Europa is permeated with a laid-back melancholy, allowing Mortiis to undulate easily between extended ambient moments and more traditional synth-pop. This ebb and flow effectively renders Ghosts of Europa’s fifty-plus-minute runtime into something that feels much shorter. As with any great film, Ghosts of Europa begs to be heard in its linear totality, rather than having any of its constituent parts relegated to a cannibalized playlist, despite some of its more traditional moments being ripe for such compartmentalization. Mortiis has provided an experience akin to getting lost in any of his early, Era I dungeon albums, if that sparks you, but with dialogue and an impactfully matured, image-conjuring vivacity. I repeatedly found myself easily lost in the Neverending Story-like feel of Mortiis’s conjuration, enamored with every moment. My one critique is reserved for the album’s editing, which could easily be attributed to the product of the promo, but rests with the abrupt and awkward resolution of some of the tracks (“The Faith That Fades Away,” “Tundra, Heart of Hell,” and “Farewell, Romero”). Not nearly enough to ruin the experience, but worth mentioning.I have never felt FOMO for missing out on Mortiis’s back catalog. I’m not particularly fond of dungeon synth as a genre, and took minuscule note of Mortiis’s shift into more traditional territory nearly 26 years ago. I was very drawn, however, to the stark cover art of Ghosts of Europa and the soul-syncing feel of the album’s title track. The door I walked through after listening to the whole thing converted me. Ghosts of Europa has earned my highest rating this year to date, and I can only recommend that you all give it a chance as well.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
#2026 #40 #DarkSynth #DeadCanDance #DepecheMode #Enigma #GhostsOfEuropa #IndustrialRock #Jun26 #Kraftwerk #MarilynManson #Mortiis #Norwegian #PinkFloyd #ProphecyProductions #Review #SheWantsRevenge #TheCult
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Prophecy Productions
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook | Webstore
Releases Worldwide: June 26th, 2026 -
Mortiis – Ghosts of Europa Review By TymeMortiis has cut a swath through Norway’s music scene since 1992, beginning as the inaugural bassist for black metal pioneers Emperor. When Håvard “Mortiis” Ellefsen realized the blackened arts weren’t for him, he swapped his bass guitar for a keyboard and embarked on a journey that, six years and six full-length albums later, left him a progenitor and “Godfather” of dungeon synth. Over the following vicennial, Mortiis explored other musical outlets, from darkened synth-pop to industrial rock and murky ambient before returning to his dungeon synth roots with 2020’s Spirit of Rebellion. After revisiting the genre he helped found, Mortiis releases his 11th full-length album, Ghosts of Europa—in part shaped by a subsequently abandoned collaboration with Stephan Groth (Apoptygma Berzerk)—to pay homage to old German electronica, especially Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. Mortiis took those early recordings and embarked on a six-year journey to transform them into Ghosts of Europa. Will Ghosts serve as the harbinger of Mortiis’s greatness, or be cursed to haunt the darkened shadows of Norwegian mediocrity?
Ghosts of Europa is sexy, spacy, and cinematic—a synth-forward record that draws from each of Mortiis’s electronic eras—moving from dungeon scenes to movie screens. Those familiar with Tangerine Dream’s ’80s “soundtrack” era,1 will feel that theatrical presence, in addition to early Enigma, Pink Floyd, and Dead Can Dance, in the windswept, dystopian synthscapes and expansive, Gregorian chant-inspired, Middle Eastern-influenced female wails of Ghosts’ more ambient moments (“Return to the Old Fields,” “Transcending Morpheus,” “Tribes of Dystopia”). When Ghosts of Europa shifts to straightforward, beat-driven electronics (“Ghosts of Europa,” 2 “Violent Silence”) it taps a Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk vein. Still, other Mortiis Era II specters haunt Ghosts’ halls on tracks like “Tundra, Heart of Hell,” an electro-rocker that channels She Wants Revenge and The Cult, just as “Farewell Romero” has a distinct Marilyn Manson feel to its slow, painful burn. Mortiis has reached the peak of his musical prowess, wielding a conductor’s control over his collaborators and delivering one of his most emotive albums.
Heaving with atmosphere, Ghosts of Europa punctuates its vast, sweeping sonicscapes with rich vocal textures and introspective lyrics. From the repetitive refrain “When we all fall down” that dominates the opening title track to the chorus on “The Faith That Fades Away” requesting “Leave me with my sins, leave me with my thoughts,” and on through “Farewell Romero”‘s painful admission “I found a way to kill some of the pain, like a warm and cleansing summer rain,” Ghosts’ lyrics serve as an apology to the relationships Mortiis admittedly damaged along the way.3 And to further execute his no-boundaries vision, Mortiis focused on vocal arrangements in a way he hasn’t on previous efforts, partnering with a cast ranging from Sarah Jezebel Deva (Cradle of Filth) and Illiana Tsakirake (Septicflesh) to Christopher Rakkestad (Elvarhøi, Bolverk) and Skinny Puppy’s Matthew Setzer,4 who join him and, along with a vocoder and some autotune modulation, cement completely the otherworldly experience Ghosts of Europa provides.
Effortlessly flowing and expertly paced, Ghosts of Europa is permeated with a laid-back melancholy, allowing Mortiis to undulate easily between extended ambient moments and more traditional synth-pop. This ebb and flow effectively renders Ghosts of Europa’s fifty-plus-minute runtime into something that feels much shorter. As with any great film, Ghosts of Europa begs to be heard in its linear totality, rather than having any of its constituent parts relegated to a cannibalized playlist, despite some of its more traditional moments being ripe for such compartmentalization. Mortiis has provided an experience akin to getting lost in any of his early, Era I dungeon albums, if that sparks you, but with dialogue and an impactfully matured, image-conjuring vivacity. I repeatedly found myself easily lost in the Neverending Story-like feel of Mortiis’s conjuration, enamored with every moment. My one critique is reserved for the album’s editing, which could easily be attributed to the product of the promo, but rests with the abrupt and awkward resolution of some of the tracks (“The Faith That Fades Away,” “Tundra, Heart of Hell,” and “Farewell, Romero”). Not nearly enough to ruin the experience, but worth mentioning.I have never felt FOMO for missing out on Mortiis’s back catalog. I’m not particularly fond of dungeon synth as a genre, and took minuscule note of Mortiis’s shift into more traditional territory nearly 26 years ago. I was very drawn, however, to the stark cover art of Ghosts of Europa and the soul-syncing feel of the album’s title track. The door I walked through after listening to the whole thing converted me. Ghosts of Europa has earned my highest rating this year to date, and I can only recommend that you all give it a chance as well.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
#2026 #40 #DarkSynth #DeadCanDance #DepecheMode #Enigma #GhostsOfEuropa #IndustrialRock #Jun26 #Kraftwerk #MarilynManson #Mortiis #Norwegian #PinkFloyd #ProphecyProductions #Review #SheWantsRevenge #TheCult
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Prophecy Productions
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook | Webstore
Releases Worldwide: June 26th, 2026 -
#DeadCanDance é muito bom, mas é música pra maluco rs.
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Algum fã de #DeadCanDance aqui? Esta música aqui é maravilhosa (bem melhor do que o filme bosta do qual ela é trilha sonora rs) porque é obra de dois gênios: a #LisaGerrard (do Dead Can Dance) e #HansZimmer:
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In the late 1980s, a relative sent me a mixtape. The first song was something off of Dead Can Dance's first album. Somewhere else on there was a song by Le Mystere de Voix Bulgares.
Today I found a link to a 2018 album by The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices and Lisa Gerrard, who is one of the founding members of Dead Can Dance. Not only that, but on the Bandcamp for this album, there's a note that Lisa Gerrard talked about how much the LMdVB influenced her singing technique when she first discovered them in the early 1980s.
I got to send this link to my relative, who is recovering from surgery, and who introduced me to both of these musicians nearly 4 decades ago.
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In the late 1980s, a relative sent me a mixtape. The first song was something off of Dead Can Dance's first album. Somewhere else on there was a song by Le Mystere de Voix Bulgares.
Today I found a link to a 2018 album by The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices and Lisa Gerrard, who is one of the founding members of Dead Can Dance. Not only that, but on the Bandcamp for this album, there's a note that Lisa Gerrard talked about how much the LMdVB influenced her singing technique when she first discovered them in the early 1980s.
I got to send this link to my relative, who is recovering from surgery, and who introduced me to both of these musicians nearly 4 decades ago.
#DeadCanDance #LeMystereDesVoixBulgares #darkwave #LisaGerrard -
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - Wild in the Woods (Remastered)▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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Seit längerem mal wieder Dead can dance anhören und von Lisa Gerrards Stimme wie eh und je völlig geflasht sein.
Wie gern ich ein Konzert live erlebt hätte, das muss ein unbeschreibliches Erlebnis sein.
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Seit längerem mal wieder Dead can dance anhören und von Lisa Gerrards Stimme wie eh und je völlig geflasht sein.
Wie gern ich ein Konzert live erlebt hätte, das muss ein unbeschreibliches Erlebnis sein.
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - Saltarello (Remastered)▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim (Remastered)▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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On 3 June 1996, Dead Can Dance released their last album for the time being.
During the recording of 'Spiritchaser''s predecessor months later, they called it quits, halting their genre-exceeding partnership for more than 10 years, till their musical visions aligned again with 2012's Anastasis.
"After Spiritchaser, when we started to lose direction, and out of frustration we turned on each other. We drifted apart."
03. Indus
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On 3 June 1996, Dead Can Dance released their last album for the time being.
During the recording of 'Spiritchaser''s predecessor months later, they called it quits, halting their genre-exceeding partnership for more than 10 years, till their musical visions aligned again with 2012's Anastasis.
"After Spiritchaser, when we started to lose direction, and out of frustration we turned on each other. We drifted apart."
03. Indus
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - Spirit▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - Indus (Remastered)▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - Opium▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim (Remastered)▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - Don't Fade Away (Live Remastered)▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - The Promised Womb (Remastered)▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Dead Can Dance:
🎵 The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Dead Can Dance:
🎵 The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove -
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - Opium▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - Avatar (Remastered)▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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🪐 new release May 15, 2026
Mon Amour Sauvage
by Dead Can Dance
https://deadcandance.bandcamp.com/album/mon-amour-sauvage
#WorldMusic #Darkwave #DeadCanDance #MotherNature #Music -
🪐 new release May 15, 2026
Mon Amour Sauvage
by Dead Can Dance
https://deadcandance.bandcamp.com/album/mon-amour-sauvage
#WorldMusic #Darkwave #DeadCanDance #MotherNature #Music -
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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📻 Vortex Abyss 🕳️ (Dark ambient, neofolk, shoegaze, immersive)
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim (Remastered)▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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📻 Vortex Abyss 🕳️ (Dark ambient, neofolk, shoegaze, immersive)
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🎵 Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim (Remastered)▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
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#MusiQuinta com tema "eu juro que esse subgênero existe":
O subgênero é neoclassical darkwave e a música De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow) de Dead Can Dance. 🖤
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#musiquinta poliglota: Dead Can Dance - Song of the Stars
Tenho escutado bastante essa ultimamente e acho que encaixa. Letra em inglês e no idioma dos Povos Algonquinos.
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While eating lunch, I stumbled upon this KCRW video of Dead Can Dance that I had never seen before from 2013. Day instantly improved, swoon. #Music #DeadCanDance
Dead Can Dance Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW Studios, Santa Monica, 19 04 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvhKAzHfPeo
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DEAD CAN DANCE - De profundis
https://youtu.be/KkwbhL9i6pY?si=sLrdQmsA4KBIXHXh -
Moon Far Away – Acou Review By Grymm
As a fledgling metalhead in the 90s and early 2000s, I spent many a day scouring my local record shop for new, interesting bands and artists due to magazine interviews, reviews, and the occasional word-of-mouth treatment from friends and artists alike. This adventurous time period was responsible for my dalliances and appreciation of the world of neofolk. Between the somber atmospheres of Tenhi and the thriving, teeming music of the late Nebelhexë, it opened up new avenues to explore and bands to check out. With this in mind, I decided to tackle Acou, the fifth album from Russian quartet Moon Far Away, only to realize that they’ve been around since 1994 and this is the first time hearing about (or anything from) them.
Well, at least I got to finally experience their music, as Acou is a fairly enjoyable album with some interesting angles. After a brief interlude, featuring a lone trumpet and some ambient chantings and melodies, the title track kicks off in earnest, showcasing just why Moon Far Away have earned the reputation as “The Russian Dead Can Dance” as the vocal harmonies of multi-instrumentalist Count Ash and his counterpart (and song lead) Leda intertwine during the chorus over a playful bassline from Zhigich and some driving percussion by Victorion, creating a rapturous atmosphere that also plays homage to their Russian roots. Elsewhere, “Steel Light Love” shows off their more Gothic leanings, with Count Ash taking the lead with Leda softly wailing in the background throughout the song’s majority. On these three songs, the band’s artistic strengths shine brilliantly, giving off the impression that this is a neofolk classic for the ages.
The problem is that there are other songs on here, and some of them pull the proceedings down quite a bit. “17 Years” features an older vocalist1 chant-singing partially off-key for over three minutes. Speaking of off-key, Count Ash’s voice on “Look, the Human Flocks…” keeps to a monotone, often at odds with Leda’s angelic vocals, and the song ends without building up to anything. But the biggest issue lies with “Soulofkey,” which starts off promisingly enough, with a haunting piano melody that burrows into your skull. Still, it keeps burrowing, because other than a few key changes, it just keeps going and going and going for the entirety of the song’s seven-minute runtime, losing all potency and interest.
At least Acou sounds great from a production standpoint. Zhigich’s bass is thick and meaty, and Victorion’s percussion hits with the impact his performances need. Even the traditional instruments, such as the flute and trumpet, all ring with a stark clarity that’s sometimes missing from neofolk music. I just wish the arrangements and performances were a bit tighter overall, because when Acou shines, it’s with a brilliance that few can match, and that’s no mean feat.And that kills me, as I wanted to like Acou more than I do. When everyone’s on top of their game, Acou is a compelling album that’s teeming with life and vibrancy. But the hiccups on some of the tracks keep my enjoyment tempered, and that’s a shame because Moon Far Away impressed me on their best tracks, and they are giving me a new band to check out in the future. That said, there’s still plenty to like on here, and if you enjoy any of the bands I mentioned above, you could do much worse than what’s on offer here.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
#2026 #30 #Acou #DarkNeofolk #DeadCanDance #Mar26 #MoonFarAway #Nebelhexe #NotMetal #ProphecyProductions #Review #Reviews #RussianMetal #Tenhi
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Prophecy Productions
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Release Dates: EU: 2026.03.13 | NA: 03.27.2026 -
Sunday's midnight.
DEAD CAN DANCE - Our day will come (2026)
https://youtu.be/LtGfmeomvQM?si=_xumr1AX719F2eVO -
A message (and a new song) by Dead Can Dance:
Future Dead Can Dance releases are to be sold exclusively via Bandcamp on our very own Holy Tongue Records label.
‘We have decided to no longer support streaming platforms that continue to exploit artists and promote AI generated music. In future we will sell our music directly to the public via Bandcamp, a platform that continues to support independent artists and which has commendably banned all forms of AI generated music, a technology that threatens the very life and soul of our profession.’
The first of these new releases is the single ‘Our Day Will Come’ and is released today: https://deadcandance.bandcamp.com
This will be the first in a series of songs to be released on a regular monthly basis throughout 2026. Each release will be accompanied by a digital pdf containing original artwork and song lyrics.
For every purchase of ‘Our Day Will Come’ we will donate 50% of the proceeds to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians). MAP do incredible work to provide medical care as well as providing food and nutritional aid to the Palestinian people.
All donations are very much appreciated and for details regarding their work please visit their website at https://www.map.org.uk
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Dead Can Dance estrena «Our Day Will Come» y fija exclusividad con Bandcamp | vía #NaciónRock
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Listening to Dead Can Dance, "Our Day Will Come"
Surprise new song!
