On February 27th, 1984, British/Australian post-punk band Dead Can Dance released their self titled debut album on 4AD Records.
The band was formed as a quartet in 1981 in Melbourne, after Brendan Perry relocated there from New Zealand with his band Marching Girls. Perry and drummer Simon Monroe would then recruit bass player Paul Erikson, and Microfilm vocalist Lisa Gerrard to form Dead Can Dance.
The band would then relocate to London, leaving Monroe behind, and in his place joined Peter Ulrich who remained with the band throughout most of the band’s classic album releases and performing virtually all live dates up until 1990.
TRACK LISTING:
A1. The Fatal Impact
A2. The Trial
A3. Frontier
A4. Fortune
A5. Ocean
B1. East Of Eden
B2. Threshold
B3. A Passage In Time
B4. Wild In The Woods
B5. Musica Eternal