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Dresden'45 | Maritime Independent Music Festival | 1989.IV.2 | Capital Exhibition Centre, Fredericton
Dresden'45 play the sort of music that I love to listen to at home with all the lights turned off except for some flashing police beacons strategically placed behind scattered potted ferns. Generically, categorists refer to Steve and James' brand of nerve-tingling post-holocaust dread “Death Rock” but I think this is a rather unfortunate term. I was unlucky enough to arrive late in the set, but even so, the two songs that I did catch fit the barren industrial wasteland of the gargantuan cow shed called the Capital Exhibition Centre perfectly. Swathes of moody bass-drone washed over nail gun electronic percussion that gave a wonderful cinematic ambience to James' distorted scorched-messiah vocalization.
— Steve Griffiths, The Brunswickan, 1989.IV.7