Dionysus (album)

Dionysus is the ninth studio album by the British-Australian band Dead Can Dance, officially released on 2 November 2018 by PIAS Recordings, six years after the group's last album, Anastasis.^[6][7]

Dionysus
Studio album by Dead Can Dance
Released	2 November 2018
Studio	Ker Landelle Studios (Brittany, France)
Genre	World music, worldbeat, neoclassical dark wave, pagan rock
Length	36:06
Label	PIAS Recordings A55 (US)
Dead Can Dance chronology
In Concert (2013) Dionysus (2018)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Pitchfork	7.3/10[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]
Uncut	[5]

Artwork and title

The album cover's artwork features a skull mask made by the Huichol of Mexico.^[8] Dionysus is the ancient Greek god of wine and religious ecstasy.

Critical reception

Dionysus was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 78, based on 10 reviews.^[1] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 79 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 15 reviews.^[9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dead Can Dance (Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard).

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Act I – Sea Borne"	6:44
2.	"Act I – Liberator of Minds"	5:20
3.	"Act I – Dance of the Bacchantes"	4:35
4.	"Act II – The Mountain"	5:34
5.	"Act II – The Invocation"	4:56
6.	"Act II – The Forest"	5:04
7.	"Act II – Psychopomp"	3:53
Total length:		36:06

All physical versions are indexed as just two tracks respectively.

Personnel

Dead Can Dance

• Brendan Perry – vocals, instrumentation, cover photography and design
• Lisa Gerrard – vocals, instrumentation

Additional personnel

• Geoff Pesche – mastering
• DLT – layout

Charts

Chart performance for Dionysus

Chart (2018)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[10]	55
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[11]	44
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[12]	25
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[13]	15
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[14]	40
French Albums (SNEP)[15]	53
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[16]	8
Italian Albums (FIMI)[17]	29
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[18]	7
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[19]	12
Scottish Albums (OCC)[20]	31
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[21]	33
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[22]	27
UK Albums (OCC)[23]	59
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[24]	6
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[25]	8
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[26]	64
US Top Current Album Sales (Billboard)[27]	55