On their eponymous debut album, Dead Can Dance, originally released in February 1982, they successfully harnessed a “bewitching barrage of sounds, layering grinding guitars and even a dulcimer-like yang chin over a taut wash of percussion.” If the range of the group is staggering, then so too is their disciplined economy, no song lasting more than four minutes or degenerating into formless cacophony. With the five group members continually interchanging instruments, only the vocals of Lisa and Brendan remain as a constant focus.

Track Listing
1. The Fatal Impact
2. The Trial
3. Frontier
4. Fortune
5. Ocean
6. East Of Eden
7. Threshold
8. A Passage In Time
9. Wild In The Woods
10. Musica Eternal
11. Carnival Of Light
12. In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated