Pocas bandas han logrado transformar la espiritualidad, la melancolía y el colapso humano en un cúmulo de energía sonora tan bella y devastadora como Dead Can Dance. Muchas de sus composiciones son como textos sagrados en la comunidad de melómanos góticos, encontrados entre ruinas olvidadas, bosques perdidos y cielos que nunca nos prometieron la salvación.
A lo largo de las décadas, Brendan Perry y Lisa Gerrard han escrito frases de visiones apocalípticas y memorias rotas que nunca han dejado de resonar como manifiestos antiguos que luchan contra el tiempo. Y aquí recopilamos algunas de las más profundas y elegantes para ustedes:
1. Contemplate the world and its traitors to the soul; the forces of derision and their legions manifold. Usurpers of the crown, all pretenders to the throne, your world is linked in chains: ‘All in one, one in all’.
The Cardinal Sin / Spleen and Ideal LP / 1985
2. Amidst the throes of perplexity, phobia moves amongst us; in her hand is held the seed. The extermination angel stood beside the road in violent retribution for the seeds that we have swon.
The Arcane / Garden of the Arcane Delights EP / 1984
3. Give me 69 years, another season in this hell. It’s all sex and death as far as eyes can tell.
Black Sun / Aion LP / 1990
4. I believe in the ways of an older law, when we used to dance to a different drum. And we are changing our ways; yes, we are taking on different roads. Tell me more about the forest that you once called home.
Tell me about the Forest (you once called home) / Into the Labyrinth LP / 1993
5. We live in the dreamtime. Nothing seems to last. Can you really plan a future when you no longer have a past?
Amnesia / Anastasis LP / 2012
6. Heaven is a place I never want to see. You know I’d rather be dead for eternity. I don’t need your kind of infinity: a living hell of prolonged cruelty.
Death Cults / SINGLE / 2026
7. The Earth is our mother, she taugh us to embrace the light. Now the lord is master, she suffers an eternal night.
Song of the Dispossessed / Spiritchaser LP / 1996
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