Moonchild (band)

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Moonchild
General information
Genre (s) Pop-rock , metal , gothic rock
founding 1987 as Wages of Sin
Website www.moonchild.purespace.de
Founding members
Susan d'Iavollo
Uwe Holler
Bass , vocals, synthesizers
Toni de Santis

Moonchild is a German - Italian band that was founded in 1987 in Donzdorf under the name Wages of Sin .

history

Moonchild was able to make a name for himself in the Gothic scene with his first album Shed No Tear . The title track and the song Faces were released on compilations of this genre.

In 1997, after the release of the third album, Third , Moonchild appeared at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen , one of the biggest events of the black scene , in Leipzig.

The first three albums were still in the tradition of classic Gothic Rock , as played by Siouxsie and the Banshees , Fields of the Nephilim or Garden of Delight , but much more melodic and pop-oriented.

The style of the band finally went increasingly towards metal from 1998 . For the album Melomania , the drummer Alex Sauer from the band Love Like Blood could be won over instead of the drum computer previously used .

With the album Somewhere Someplace Somehow Moonchild consistently developed her new, harder style. The album was recorded in the Bi-Acoustics-Studio in Ostfildern-Ruit.

In July 2007 the band performed at the Norwegian "Kvinesdal Rock Festival". A new album was released in 2008 under the name Nothing is Forever . This shows a clear departure from the earlier style towards pop-rock. At the same time, Moonchild said goodbye to the record industry, as the CD is only available as a download from the band's website.

Discography

  • 1993: Shed No Tear (album)
  • 1994: Lunatic Dreams (album)
  • 1996: Third (album)
  • 1998: A Single to a Friend (MCD)
  • 1998: Melomania (album)
  • 2000: How Now Spirit, Wither Wander You? (Compilation)
  • 2002: Somewhere Someplace Somehow (album)
  • 2008: Nothing is Forever (album)

Trivia

All three members of the band are vegetarians . Especially front woman Susan d'Iavollo is against animal cruelty . This is discussed in the piece Like a Cannibal from the album Melomania .

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