Moonspell

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]

The Portuguese band Moonspell premiered today “Todos Os Santos”, one of the tracks from their upcoming special album “1755”. This concept album focused on 1755 Lisbon Earthquake tragedy and it mainly differs from their previous releases as it will be entirely sung in their mother tongue. The lyric video released today for “Todos Os Santos” [...]

The 4th edition of the Reverence Santarém festival is coming. This year’s edition will happen on the 8th and 9th of September, in Parque da Ribeira, Santarém. Moonspell, Portugal’s most well-known metal act, will be headlining the first day of the event alongside the Belgians Amenra and Oathbreaker. They will be joined on stage for [...]

“1755” will be released on November 3rd via Napalm Records/Alma Mater Records. Portugal’s Dark Metal pioneers in Moonspell are finally back with a brand new and hotly anticipated album, titled “1755”. Now the band fronted by Fernando Ribeiro unveiled first details about ‘1755’ and unleash the cover artwork as well as the album track list! From [...]

The month of August comes to an end with another brutal event in Portugal: ADM Metal Fest. All preparations in the village of Andam, in the parish of Porto de Mós, are now finalised to receive the first edition of  the ADM Metal Fest. #Day 1 Opening this festival we will have TRI-REX, a Portuguese cover [...]

We had a nice chat with Portuguese Oldschool Death Metal band Cape Torment. TBP – Hi how are you? Thanks for taking the time to talk with us. For those who don’t know you yet, can you brief us about the people who are part of Cape Torment? CT – Hi. First, thank you for [...]

Moonspell 1755 will be presented twice in Lisbon and a single show in Porto. Moonspell and Alma Mater Records are proud to present the first three concerts of the 1755 tour on a dual date in Lisbon (30 and 31 OCT) and a long awaited return to Porto where they have not played for more [...]

MOONSPELL is ready to release their next album already during 2017. The band is currently on pre-production with John Phipps (orchestralmetal.com) at their home studio (Inferno) in Portugal and has been recently in their social media pages some pictures and videos of their daily work at the Moonspell studio. The upcoming album will be entitled “1755” [...]

20 years have passed since the release of the breakthrough album “Irreligious” by Moonspell. Compared to the previous album “Wolfheart”, this was an album that featured a musical approach more orientated towards Gothic Metal that established the band in the highlights of the Metal community and showed that after “Wolfheart”, the band had amazing work [...]

Moonspell passed by Leipzig for another date of their European tour, and it was an intense show. The opening acts were Eleine and The Foreshadowing. Eleine, Swedish symphonic gothic metal, were the first band to come upon stage. The crowd was still scarce when they started, maybe due to the fact that they are a [...]

Once again, the town of Vagos became a place of pilgrimage. Vagos Metal Fest brought thousands of people for another Metal Festival. With a totally different promoter in charge of the arrangements, there was great curiosity to see how it would be. The festival structure was well arranged, while the placing of the stage, merch [...]

Check out our report of the awesome performances at Laurus Nobilis Famalicão by Moonspell, Bizarra Locomotiva and Quinteto Explosivo, last July 22th. Special thanks: Laurus Nobilis organization [...]

The organizers of the new Vagos Metal Fest have announced the last band as well as all the information regarding the festival. Correia is the last band confirmed for this year’s edition. The first edition of the festival will take place at Quinta do Ega, Vagos, Portugal on August 13th and 14th. VAGOS METAL FEST: Website | [...]