Moonspell

Moonspell
Fernando Ribeiro in Club Studio in Kraków in 2007.
General information
Genre (s)	Black Metal , Dark Metal , Gothic Metal
founding	1989
Website	http://www.moonspell.com/
Current occupation
singing	Fernando Ribeiro
Electric guitar	Ricardo Amorim
Electric guitar, keyboard	Pedro Paixão
Drums	Miguel Gaspar
bass	Aires Pereira
former members
Electric bass	João Pedro (1989–1997)
Electric bass	Sérgio Crestana (1997-2003)
Electric bass	Niclas Etelävuori (2003, 2008)
Electric guitar	Mantus
Electric guitar	Luis Lamelas

Moonspell is a Portuguese Metal - band from Brandoa in Lisbon .

Band history

Ricardo Amorim in Club Studio in Kraków in 2007.

Moonspell was founded in 1989 by Fernando Ribeiro as a black metal band under the name Morbid God. The band recorded a few demos until 1992 when they found their style and was renamed Moonspell. In 1993 they released the demo Anno Satanae under a new name .

In 1994 the band played with Cradle of Filth at a concert in Lisbon , Portugal . Shortly thereafter, she released her second EP, Under the Moonspell . She signed a deal with Century Media and released her debut album, Wolfheart , which broke through in 1995.

The band's second album, Irreligious , was released in 1996. There was a single release as well as a music video that was shown on various television channels. In 1998 the band Sin / Pecado released their third album . In the same year Moonspell devoted herself to her side project "Daemonarch", under which they released the album Hermeticum .

In 2001 the album Darkness and Hope was released , from which the single Nocturna was released. On this album Moonspell also covered the Ozzy Osbourne title Mr. Crowley .

In 2003 the album The Antidote was released , which reached number 4 on the Portuguese album charts. In 2005 the band signed a three-album deal with SPV / Steamhammer. Their first release under the new label was Memorial in 2006 , which peaked at number 1 in Portugal.

In 2007 the band released the album Under Satanae with re-recordings of the pieces by Under the Moonspell and Anno Satanae . This album also made it to number 43 in the Portuguese charts. Shortly after its release, the band played the entire album at a concert in Lisbon in front of 3,500 spectators. Later in the same year an appearance at the Wacken Open Air followed . In January 2008, Moonspell began recording their next album, Night Eternal . As with The Antidote, Niclas Etelävuori from Amorphis recorded the bass tracks.

In 2010 Moonspell in Portugal were honored by the CTT Correios de Portugal for their Wolfheart album with a 1 euro stamp.

style

Pedro Paixão at the Epic Metal Fest 2015

Moonspell started out as a black metal band and then became a representative of melodic dark metal or gothic metal . In an interview, singer and lyricist Fernando Ribeiro described Moonspell as "[one of the means of] letting people know that there is no god besides man." The band's influences include Bathory , Root , Morbid Angel , Samael , Tiamat , Carcass , Fields of the Nephilim , The Cure and Metallica .

Discography

Albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	PT
1995	Wolfheart Century Media	-	-	-	-	First published: April 1, 1995
1996	Irreligious Century Media	DE55 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	-	First published: July 29, 1996
1998	Sin / Pecado Century Media	DE42 (4 weeks) DE	AT25 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	First published: January 20, 1998
1999	The Butterfly Effect Century Media	DE69 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	First published: September 13, 1999
2001	Darkness and Hope Century Media	DE43 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	First published: September 18, 2001
2003	The Antidote Century Media	DE75 (1 week) DE	-	-	PT4 (4 weeks) PT	First published: September 29, 2003
2006	Memorial Steamhammer	DE68 (1 week) DE	-	-	PT1 gold (5 weeks)PT	First published: April 25, 2006
2007	Under Satanae Steamhammer	-	-	-	PT12 (2 weeks) PT	First published: October 12, 2007 New recordings by Under the Moonspell and Anno Satanae
2008	Night Eternal Steamhammer	DE62 (1 week) DE	-	-	PT3 (6 weeks) PT	First published: May 16, 2008
2012	Alpha Noir Napalm Records	DE37 (1 week) DE	AT44 (1 week) AT	CH48 (1 week) CH	-	First published: April 27, 2012
2015	Extinct Napalm Records	DE39 (1 week) DE	AT54 (1 week) AT	CH32 (1 week) CH	PT1 (10 weeks) PT	First published: March 6, 2015
2017	1755 Napalm Records	DE72 (1 week) DE	AT63 (1 week) AT	CH62 (1 week) CH	PT11 (15 weeks) PT	First published: November 3, 2017

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Live albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	PT
2018	Lisboa Under the Spell Napalm Records	DE38 (1 week) DE	-	CH94 (1 week) CH	-	First published: August 17, 2018

Singles

• 1993: Goat on Fire
• 1996: opium
• 1997: 2econd Skin
• 1999: Nocturna
• 2002: Magdalena
• 2004: Everything Invaded
• 2012: White Skies

Others

• 1993: Anno Satanae (demo)
• 1994: Under the Moonspell (EP)
• 2007: The Great Silver Eye (Best-Of)

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Moonspell in the Portuguese charts. portuguesecharts.com, archived from the original on March 21, 2015 ; Retrieved October 13, 2008 . 
2. ↑ http://www.metal.tm/news/moonspell_zieren_portugals_briefmarken_2892.html
3. ↑ http://biotechpunk.de/2010/07/moonspell-mit-eigener-briefmarke/
4. ^ Metal Israel »Blog Archive» Metal Israel Exclusive Interview: Fernando Ribeiro of Moonspell. metalisrael.com, archived from the original on February 2, 2009 ; Retrieved October 13, 2008 . 
5. ^ Moonspell: Brotherhood of blood. Live-Metal.Net, February 10, 2007, accessed on August 31, 2010 (English): “Bathory, Root, Morbid Angel, Samael, Tiamat, Carcass, Fields of The Nephilim, Cure, Metallica, and so on, this is a mix of the 4 of us !!! " 
6. ↑ Micha Kite: Sumerland: Press: Pit Magazine: Carl McCoy interview. In: Pit Magazine # 55. 2006, accessed on August 31, 2010 (English): “For 10,000 moments the great beast writhed in the works of TYPE O NEGATIVE, MOONSPELL, TIAMAT, LACUNA COIL (as well as countless others) as all were heavily worshiping at the feet of FOTN (MOONSPELL even blatantly sampled the spoken work from Alister [sic!] Crowley). But even as these false idols cast their shadows across Nod there was no sign of Leviathan's return. " 
7. ↑ Jackie Smit: Under the Spell of the Antidote. Chronicles of Chaos, January 25, 2004, accessed August 31, 2010 : “We'd like to be remembered more along the lines of bands like Fields of the Nephilim; as a cult band. " 
8. ↑ Sin: Moonspell: Art is made to discover. Gothtronic, accessed on August 31, 2010 (English): “A band that really makes my kind of Gothic Metal is Fields of the Nephilim. They have a sound like Slayer but it's very dark. And they are a very big inspiration for what we do now. " 
9. ↑ MOONSPELL: 'Memorial' Certified Gold In Portugal. Blabbermouth.net , accessed April 24, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : Moonspell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Moonspell at MusicBrainz (English)
• The subjective biography (metal.de)
• Chart positions: DE / AT / CH / PT