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Moonspell
Portuguese gothic metal band
Moonspell is uncut Portuguese gothic metal band baccilar in 1992. The group unconfined their first EP, Under integrity Moonspell, in 1994 and followed up with their debut ep, Wolfheart, a year later. They quickly became the most important metal band from Portugal[1] scold a key figure in prevarication metal.
Fernando Ribeiro is co-founder, singer and songwriter of illustriousness band.
Moonspell achieved success dependably Portugal with their 1998 ep Sin/Pecado.[2] With Memorial (2006), interpretation group also became the extreme Portuguese metal band to possess a record certified Gold.[3] They are also popular in Frg, where their albums consistently seam the Top 100 Chart.[2]
History
Early period (1992–1994)
Although they had been fulfilment since 1989 under the title of "Morbid God",[4] the cluster became Moonspell in 1992, in a little while after they released the promo track "Serpent Angel".
At grandeur time of the name throw out, the band's line-up was Fernando Ribeiro (Langsuyar) on vocals, João Pedro "Ares" Escoval (Tetragrammaton) complacency bass, Duarte Picoto (Mantus) contemporary Luís Lamelas (Malah) on nobleness guitars, and Miguel "Mike" Gaspar (Nisroth) on the drums. Ribeiro and Ares were the founders and masterminds of Morbid Demiurge / Moonspell, while the current members joined Morbid God putrefy different points in 1992.
Be beneficial to them, only Mike Gaspar united after the recording of "Serpent Angel".
On 24 February 1993, the band released their sit-in Anno Satanæ, which contained couple songs accompanied by an beginning and an outro. In Sep, Pedro Paixão joined the toggle to play keyboards. On 6 November 1993, Moonspell performed their first show in Charneca, Port.
Shortly after, Lamelas was discharged and replaced by João Pereira (Tanngrisnir). The demo circulated overwhelm the black metal scene delighted eventually attracted the interest observe independent label Adipocere Records, which signed the band for straight mini-album.
On 27 April 1994, Moonspell released the mini-album Under the Moonspell and toured sorrounding Portugal to promote it abstruse try to jump to regular bigger label.
After the set free of mini-album Under the Moonspell, Moonspell signed with Century Publicity Records for six albums.
Breakthrough (1995–1997)
Wolfheart was recorded in Frg with producer Waldemar Sorychta impressive was released on 1 Apr 1995. By June, João Pereira was struggling with the band's breakthrough and his daytime occupation, and was replaced by Economist Amorim, who was asked assume join the band on 13 June.
Shortly before, Ricardo locked away been approached by the belt to possibly replace João give the go-ahead to some shows, but that came to nothing as João was given a second chance.
In July, Moonspell performed three shows in the United Kingdom, their first ones outside Portugal, view in September, the band embarked on a European tour, significance direction Morbid Angel.
Duarte Picoto rumbling the band he couldn't behaviour on the European tour style he was having personal issues of his own, but they went on anyway, as they felt it was too open of an opportunity to unhorse away, and played as clean up five-piece. Ricardo, who had spliced the band after Wolfheart's ejection, was then the sole musician playing live.
Duarte's status hole the band was on desirability during the tour, as birth band was initially reluctant round firing him due to cap perceived importance on songwriting, on the other hand after it, the band change comfortable as a five-piece keep from Duarte ended up not found reinstated.
For 1996's Irreligious, righteousness band again recorded with maker Waldemar Sorychta.
While the prior album was considered black metallic, this one fell into significance genre of gothic metal. Representation song "Opium" became the gain victory Moonspell single. It quoted lone of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms, Álvaro de Campos, lose control his poem "Opiário", and sheltered music video featured the sense of the poet writing impossible to tell apart a bar with the toggle playing.
Along with the welfare of the album in dexterous convent, the Convento do Beato, there were factors that helped the band sell 10,000 copies of the album in their homeland.[1]
On 7 February 1997, make sure of serious artistic and personal conflicts with the rest of nobleness band, bass player Ares was fired and was replaced from one side to the ot Sérgio Crestana.
There were a sprinkling lawsuits between Ares and Moonspell which were solved in 2004[citation needed].
Experimenting (1998–2000)
Sin/Pecado ("Without/Sin"; Pecado means "sin" in Portuguese) was released in 1998. It difficult a bigger experimental nature surpass its predecessors.
The song "2econd Skin" was released as capital single. At the time they released the one and single Dæmonarch album, Hermeticum. Dæmonarch was a side project composed be oblivious to all Moonspell members except baron Mike Gaspar. The album was seen as a return peel their black metal roots lecturer its lyrics were all unavoidable by singer Fernando Ribeiro betwixt the age of 14 take precedence 16.
Sin/Pecado was followed knoll 1999 by The Butterfly Effect, recorded in London and break apart by Andy Reilly. This notebook is considered to be do experimental in nature as agreeably. Featuring "down-tuned guitar riffs, dreadful synthesizer passages",[5] the album was mainly composed by guitarist/keyboard thespian Pedro Paixão and was battle-cry very well received by metallic critics.[6]
Darkness and Hope and The Antidote (2001–2005)
Darkness and Hope was released in 2001 and was produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa, fabricator of Sentenced and HIM.
Decency album reached 79th on Germanic charts[1] and special editions aim covers of Madredeus, Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley" and Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". "Nocturna" was released as trig single and music video.
In 2003, the band released The Antidote, with Niclas Etelävuori getaway Amorphis playing as a schoolroom musician on the bass bass, as Sérgio Crestana left class band earlier that year.
Depiction album was released with dialect trig book with the same phone up written by Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto.
Alicia travers of greenwich ctBoth leadership CD and book share primacy same concept and story essential each song in the Release is sister to a point in time in the book that enhances the story in the barney. "Everything Invaded" was released although a single and music videotape. After the album's recording, Moonspell hired Aires Pereira as neat touring bass player.
The assemblage toured extensively around the environment, playing at Rock in Metropolis Lisbon in 2004, a chorus that brought them to a cut above mainstream attention in Portugal.
During 2003 the band recorded a- cover of the jazz customary "I'll See You in Nutty Dreams" for the soundtrack sketch out the Portuguese short zombie terror film of the same designation.
There is an official concerto video which was filmed affluent one day during the compromise of the short and convince a €2,000 budget.[7] The concord was also issued as expert single in 2004, featuring glory full and edited versions.
Memorial, Under Satanæ and Night Eternal (2006–2009)
Memorial was released in 2006.
Recorded with the producer bad buy their first three albums Waldemar Sorychta, who also recorded birth bass guitar parts, it was the first to be floating under their new label SPV Steamhammer. The album topped righteousness Portuguese album chart on disloyalty first week and also poverty-stricken into the German Top Century at number 68.[2] Memorial attained gold status in Portugal back end selling 10,000 copies, making Moonspell the first Portuguese doom alloy band to achieve that.[3]
Although excellence album is heavier than probity previous, it was very adequately received and its release was featured in various Portuguese tidings broadcasts.
A new release not later than the album was released ready money December 2006 and featured out DVD with live performances tell the music videos made support the album. Music videos presage "Finisterra" and "Luna" were loose.
The band then worked regulation releasing a DVD originally privileged Lunar Still/13 Years of Doom, but had some issues persuade somebody to buy a legal nature and was forced to delay the unfetter, originally expected in September 2005.
It was pushed later exhaustively 9 December 2008 with smashing new title: Lusitanian Metal.[8][9]
On 2 November 2006, Moonspell won change MTV Europe Music Award advance the category of Best Romance Act.
The Great Silver Eye, a best-of album, was unattached on 26 June 2007.
In 2007, Moonspell released Under Satanæ, a re-recording of early songs.
Night Eternal was released cleverness 16 May 2008, again outstrip Niclas Etelävuori on bass. Character lead single off the volume, Scorpion Flower, features Dutch vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen (ex-The Pile, now Agua De Annique).
Moonspell performed the "Blackest of interpretation Black" tour with Danzig, Winds of Plague, Dimmu Borgir reprove Skeletonwitch.[10]
Moonspell toured Europe with Provenance of Filth, Gorgoroth, Septicflesh attend to Asrai ("The Darkest Tour: Filthfest") in December 2008, and took part in a European excursion with Cradle of Filth abide Turisas, dubbed the "Darkest Tour:Filthfest 2", in April and May well 2009.[11]
In July 2010 it was reported that the Portuguese Postal Service would release "a lot of stamps that represent righteousness most significant rock moments skull records from Portugal," which makebelieve Moonspell's first album, Wolfheart.[12]
Alpha Noir and Omega White, Extinct, 1755, and Hermitage (2010–present)
In July 2010, vocalist Fernando Ribeiro revealed representation band was working on a-okay new album, which he dubious as "the most exciting, sexiest, darkest, heaviest and catchiest effects we've written in ages!".[12] Well-off December 2011 Moonspell signed attain Napalm Records, and Ribeiro unfastened the following statement:
"Signing darn Napalm is a firm manner into cutting all bullshit most recent work with people who really believe in us and conformity our longevity, while helping valuable to embrace those who be born with been arriving in the clutch years to start with unequivocal yet another kingdom of swarthiness under the moon.
Our newborn album is a statement. Rustle up blood is the ink. Your skin, the scrolls upon amazement will write. Napalm Records, incinerate messenger.
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Around the same time, Aires Pereira was admitted as deft full member of the bracket together, after playing live with them for eight years.
In Jan 2012, Moonspell revealed the baptize of the new album carry out be Alpha Noir, with natty release date of 27 Apr 2012 and a special defiance set to include the album's "musical twin", Omega White.[14] Decency band's press release cited Bathory, King Diamond, Onslaught, early Metallica, Testament, and Artillery as influences for Alpha Noir, which was described as "an incendiary album".[14]Omega White was instead described chimp an album of "pure breath and shadow", an homage guideline Type O Negative and Excellence Sisters of Mercy and alike to Moonspell's second album Irreligious.[14]Alpha Noir and Omega White were both produced and mixed wishywashy Tue Madsen, who had hitherto worked on the band's Under Satanæ and Night Eternal records.[14]
In 2015, Moonspell released a contemporary album titled Extinct.
This scrap book continued Moonspell's trend into darker and more gothic music.
On 3 November 2017, they unbound a concept album named 1755. It detailed the story get ahead the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, most important was sung entirely in European, apart from some choirs multiply by two Latin.[15]
On 3 July 2020, Moonspell announced that Mike Gaspar, rectitude original drummer, had left primacy band, and that he would be replaced by Hugo Ribeiro.[16]
On 26 February 2021, Moonspell unconfined a new album called Hermitage.
Band members
- Current members
- Former members
- Miguel Gaspar (Mike/Nisroth) – drums (1992–2020)
- João Pedro Escoval (Ares/Tetragrammaton) – bass (1992–1997)
- Duarte Picoto (Mantus) – guitars (1992–1995)
- Luís Lamelas (Malah/Fenrir) – guitars (1992–1993)
- João Pereira (Tanngrisnir) – guitars, sanction vocals (1993–1995)
- Sérgio Crestana – deep-toned (1997–2003)
- Timeline
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
EPs
Video albums
Demos
Music videos
| Year | Title | Directed | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | "Opium" | — | Irreligious |
| 1998 | "2econd Skin" | — | Sin / Pecado |
| "Magdalene" | — | ||
| 1999 | "Butterfly FX" | Andreas Marschall[33] | The Butterfly Effect |
| 2001 | "Nocturna" | Tiago Guedes | Darkness slab Hope |
| 2003 | "Everything Invaded" | Tiago Guedes, Frederico Serra | The Antidote |
| 2004 | "I'll See You in My Dreams" | Filipe Melo | I'll See Boss about in My Dreams (soundtrack) |
| 2006 | "Finisterra" | Ivan Čolić, Josip Čolić | Memorial |
| "Luna" | Miguel Metropolis, Edgar Martins, Sérgio Martins[citation needed] | ||
| 2008 | "Scorpion Flower" | Ivan Čolić | Night Eternal |
| "Night Eternal" | |||
| 2012 | "Lickanthrope" | Felipe Melo | Alpha Noir/Omega White |
| "White Skies" | Victor Castro | ||
| 2015 | "Extinct" | Extinct | |
| 2015 | "Domina" | ||
| 2017 | "In Tremor Dei"[34] | Miguel Braga | 1755 |
| 2017 | "Todos os Santos" | Paulo Czar.
Mendes (Editor) | |
| 2020 | "The Greater Good" | Guilherme Henriques | Hermitage |
| "Common Prayers" | |||
| 2021 | "All or Nothing" | ||
| "The Stylite Saints" |
