This Is Dead Can Dance

“Crown me in silence…
Dress me in sin…
And pierce my faith again…”

They said pain would purify 
But it only made me colder.
Wrapped in thorns they called divine,
As the blood slid off my shoulder.

Their scripture kissed with acid tongues,
Their prayers stitched in disguise.
I swallowed light, they called it truth 
But all I tasted…
Was lies.

Thorns on my head, blood in my mouth,
Lies like nails, driving doubt.
I wore the crown they made for gods 
But felt the steel of every fraud.

You preached of grace while burning books,
Guilt turned into gold you took.
I knelt in fire, I begged the stone 
But heaven stared with hollow bones.

The choir weeps in perfect pitch,
While sin drips from their holy switch.
A lash, a lie, a kiss, a cross 
What’s salvation if I’m the loss?

This is not redemption — this is rot.
I gave my soul. They gave me… what?
A crown of thorns. A book of rules.
A grave dug deep. A world of fools.

Thorns on my head, blood in my mouth,
Lies like nails, driving doubt.
I wore the crown they made for gods 
But I broke it off with spiteful jaws.

Thorns… blood… lies…
“And none of it was mine.”

Thorns, Blood, Lies

a song about home in times of chaos. recorded entirely on a roland sp404mk2 sampler with a little assistance from a tascam model 12. keys plyed on a nord electro and a sequential take 5, drums played on a yamaha fingerdrum pad guitar is a strat played through a tech 21 tri ac sansamp and vocals recorded with a shure sm58 mic. 

im starting to not recognize what i see

★ inspired by the 1978 song "Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" by US artist JOHNNY THUNDERS ★ more shred here : soundcloud.com/le-slapon/sets/gazed-diffused ★

𝐌𝐀𝐋 : 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘈𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺

Wake

The Carnival Is Over

Opium is available for free download from: http://t.opsp.in/k0BqK

Dead Can Dance have announced details of the release of a new single, Opium, through [PIAS] Recordings on 29th October 2012.

The single is taken from their recently released album, Anastasis, which came out in August. The album was their first since 1996’s Spiritchaser. 

The band also recently announced an extensive European tour, including a show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, tickets for which sold-out within 48 hours of going onsale. 

The full list of European dates are as follows:

SEPTEMBER
16th		Beirut				Zouk
19th		Istanbul			        HCTAT
21st		Thessaloniki			Earth Theatre
23rd		Athens				Lycabetus
25th		Utrecht		         	MCV
27th		Paris				Grand Rex
29th		Brussels			Cirque Royal

OCTOBER
1st			Frankfurt			Alte Oper
3rd			Berlin				Tempodrom
5th			Hamburg			CCH
7th			Munich			         Philharmonie
8th			Cologne			         Philharmonie
10th		Prague				KCP
12th		St. Petersburg		 Ice Palace
13th		Moscow			        Crocus City Hall
15th		Warsaw			         Sala Kongresowa
17th		Budapest			Papp Laszlo Arena
19th		Milan				Teatro Degli Arcimboldi
20th		Geneva			        Batiment Des Forces Motrices
22nd		Barcelona			Auditori
24th		Porto				Casa Da Musica
26th		London			         Royal Albert Hall
28th		Dublin				Grand Canal Theatre

Signed by 4AD and releasing their first album in 1984, the duo drew rapturous reviews for albums that spanned neo-classical and folk across time and geography, each album selling to a progressively larger audience, the emotional drama of their coming to the attention of the San Francisco ballet, Hermes Perfume and a documentary on Hitler and Stalin; likewise motion pictures such as Heat, The Crossing Guard and Baraka. Gerrard developed her own solo film soundtracks - The Gladiator and The Insider, for example – while Perry worked on solo albums such as 1999’s ‘Eye Of the Hunter’ and 2008’s ‘Ark’.

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