Assigning a musical genre to Dead Can Dance is difficult, as its style
is particularly eclectic. However, its early work could be considered
"darkwave". In their later work, including and subsequent to the
release entitled The Serpent's Egg, Dead Can Dance would take ancient
or various musics from around the world as primary sources, with
Gerrard singing glossolalia, giving it a very distinctive style. As a
result, their later albums sound quite different from the first three.
Various sources have labelled those latter releases as neo-classical,
ethereal or dark world music.
Discography:
1. Dead Can Dance, 1984
2. Spleen And Ideal, 1986
3. Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun, 1987
4. The Serpent's Egg, 1988
5. Aion, 1990
6. A Passage In Time, 1991
7. Into The Labyrinth, 1993
8. Toward The Within, 1994
9. The Mirror Pool, 1995
10. Spiritchaser, 1996
11. Duality, 1998
12. Eye Of The Hunter, 1999
13. Box Set (3. CD)