Salome's Dance
Salome's Dance
Salomes Dance hail from St. Petersburg, Russia, and their self-titled debut combines influences of Christian Death, Killing Joke, Play Dead, Ritual and German cult deathrock band Evil Speaks. The "positive punk" appellation - the strange term coined by Richard North, and adopted by others (including David Tibet of Current 93!) in NME and Sounds in the early 80s to describe the bands that would become the early UK gothic rock bands - probably does fit Salomes Dance the best. The bands sound is a seamless fusion of California deathrock and early British goth-punk. Songs like "August" and "Cyrhet" remind me a little of the dark burliness of Lost Tribe, or even slightly lesser known older goth-punk acts like Arch Criminals and Vex, two other bands cited as influential by members of Salomes Dance in a recent interview. "When we started Salomes Dance" - singer Vadim explains - "[M]any people in Russia took us for a copy of Anasazi and Lost Tribe.. To say that we were not inspired by these bands would be a lie, though. As time flew by, despite all the difficulties within the band, we were drifting to more British 80s goth and the dark side of an anarcho-punk oriented sound." Melancholy and experimental in the uncharted way that postpunk traditionally was inclined to- wards in the early 1980s, Salomes Dance have delivered one of the finest, purist deathrock and goth-punk albums of 2014!!! CVLTNation