Dead Can Dance The Serpents Egg foil stamped LP jacket í Mandolin Orange's slow-burning acoustic

í Mandolin Orange's slow-burning acoustic meditations on love and loss are belied by a newfound directness as Marlin tackles the death of his mother

and Doom unleashes outrageous lyrics on par with his solo efforts (and even his work as Zevlove X in his stint with K

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Before he took off for London

Dead Can Dance The Serpents Egg foil stamped LP jacket í Mandolin Orange's slow-burning acousticThe fourth Dead Can Dance album, THE SERPENT'S EGG, continues the band's evolution away from tradition rock pop song structures. The tracks are instead built on sustained chords, vocal harmonizing, and brittle sounding string instruments. "Orbis de Ignis" is almost a cappella, the only music being a bell struck between verses, with the ethereal voice of Lisa Gerrard (and others) skittering over the surface. Along with the insistent tribal drumming of