Dessau (band)

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Dessau
Origin Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Genres Industrial rock
Years active1983–2000
Labels
Past members
  • John Elliott
  • Mike Orr
  • Barry Nelson
  • Skot Nelson
  • Norm Rau

Dessau were an American industrial rock band based out of Nashville, Tennessee. The band was founded by John Elliott, who worked with a revolving cast of musicians to create Dessau's music. The bnd released two studio albums, 1989's Exercise in Tension by Carlyle Records and 1995's Dessau by Mausoleum. [1]

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History

Dessau was founded by composer John Elliott in 1983 out of Nashville. In 1985 he self-released Dessau's debut EP Red Languages. Happy Mood followed the next year and contained "First Year" from the band's debut. [2] In 1988 the band released a 12" single of their cover of Joy Division's "Isolation" , which was produced by Paul Barker of Revolting Cocks and Al Jourgensen of Ministry. [3] The band released their debut studio album Exercise in Tension in 1989 by Carlyle Records. The EP Details Sketchy followed in 1995 and became Fifth Colvmn's fastest selling release. [4] [5] [6]

In 1995 Dessau released an extended track remix of the song "Suffer" for the Fascist Communist Revolutionaries compilation and their self-titled second album for Mausoleum. [7] [8] The band covered Paul Dresser's "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" and released it on Fifth Colmn's World War Underground compilation in 1996 [9] and again on the 1998 Coolidge 50 compilation. [10] In 1999 the band released a cover of "Revenge" by Ministry on Another Prick in the Wall - A Tribute to Ministry - Volume 2 by Invisible Records. [11] The compilation The Truth Hurts 1985-2000 , released in 2009, compiled several newly recorded tracks with live performances and track from the band's first two EPs. The collection was released on Bandcamp. [12]

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Compilation albums

Compilation appearances

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