October 26, 2024 Saw Portuguese Metallers Moonspell performe First-eva Symphonic show, Dubbed “Opus diabolicum”at The Meo Arena in Lisbon, Portugal’s Capital City. The Band Made History at This Unforgetable Live Event, Adding Another Magnificent Chapter to Both Metal Music Made in Portugal and Their Own Legacy. Now, A Year Later, This Monumental Event Can Be Yours To View Anytime, Available in DVD/Blu-Ray, Two-CD, Black and Colored Vinyl and Digital Formats Via Napalm Records On October 31, 2025.
ON “Opus diabolicum”, Moonspell ITS CLASSICS AND ITS PUMPASTIC ALBUM “1755” AT A ONE-OFF, EXCLUSIVE SHOW AND ITS BIGEST PRODUCTION TO DATE. The Heavy Metallic Power of The Dark Metal Pioners Meets The Classical Magnitude of The 45-Piece Lisbon Sinfonietta Orchestra (Lisbon Sinfonietta Orchestra) – One of Portugal’s Finest Orchestras – driving by teacher Basque Pearce de Azevedo.
A new video clip for the Moonspell Anthem, “Vampiria”Is Premiering Today Below. Captured Live at The “Opus diabolicum” show, it’s a haunting tribute to the gothic roots of Moonspellthat Now Rises Once More in Full Symphonic Glory, Unleashing Dramatic Orchestration and Vampiric Grandeur Like Never Before!
Moonspell Frontman Fernando Ribeiro Comments: “‘Vampiria’ is a Moonspell Classic, as Old as time to its itself. It was a First Choice for Us Becouse It’s Actually One of the Most Remarkable Arrangements of The Whole Show, Which Granteed New Blood and Life (Aren’s Aren’s The Same?) To a Timeless, Eternal Song. See it risen from the dead with your own eyes, after ‘Traveling Oceans of Time’. “
Holding His Vision For “Opus diabolicum”, Fernando Said: “I will need the one to push moonspell into an orchestral direction. I mean, like any fan, and can pick up the impact classical had over heavy metal (Quorthonfrom Bathoryused to quote Wagner as his favorite ‘band’) and in my musical collection Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and Ravel Could Be Found, Shoulder to Shoulder With The Aphorementione Bathory, Celtic Frost, SARCOPHAGUS Or [IRON] Maiden. But i wasn’t a fan of the metal-meets-orstra efforts myself and when i approached Jaime (Gomez Arellano) to mix This Beast, I Asked Him: Have You Heard [METALLICA‘s] ‘YE’ and Other ‘Live-With-An-Orchestra’ Metal Bands’ Albums? We want nothing like that!
“This is Work of Passion: Truly The Work of the Devil (Opus diabolicum): Imperfect, Un Prossed, Untamed. BY MADE BY FRIENDS TO ALL THE FRIENDS WE HAVE ARUND THIS GOTH FORSAKEN WORLD AND THAT IN AN Aren Going, Until We Are No More. “
“Opus diabolicum” Track listing:
01. Tungstennio (CD + DVD/Blu-Ray Only)
02. Em nome do medo
03. 1755
04. In tremor die
05. Disaster
06. Ruins
07. BREATHE (UNTIL WE ARE NON MORE)
08. Extinct
09. Proliferation
10. Finisterra
11. Everything invaded
12. Scorpion Flower
13. Vampiria
14. Alma mater
15. FullMoon Madness
In a Recent interview with grece’s Keysmash Magazine, Ribeiro spoke about a possible follow-up to Moonspell‘S 2021 ALBUM “Heritage”. He Said: “Well, Wever Stopped Writing Material [MOONSPELL‘s debut album, 1995’s] ‘Wolfheart’three decades of ‘Wolfheart’. Next Year Is Gonna Be Three Decades Of [MOONSPELL‘s second album, 1996’s] ‘Irrigious’. So i entered the idea of Why not be a legacy Band? WHY NOT PLAY SUB SHOWS? What’s The Point of Making New Music? I Think That’s a Question That Every Musician, Every Honest Musician, You have to an answer. For instance, when i see Metallica Stuggling with a new album … personally, i didn’t Like [METALLICA‘s ’72 Seasons’] – I Mean, Not Liking, But I Didn’t [think] It was like Such to Special Album. I like ‘Hardwired[… To Self-Destruct]’ but ’72 Seasons’I Think, ‘Well …’ But i Understand, As a Musician, That Subtimes, Even If you are the Biggest Band in the World, You are not inspired and you just do it for reasons that i want to understand. So We Kind of Delayed and Delay The Album. “
I have continued: “‘Heritage’The Last [MOONSPELL] Album, was from 2021. We had our label saying, ‘What’s up with the new album?’ But We Did Touring, We Did The Theater Acoustic Show in Portugal, We Did The Orchestra Show in Portugal. That’s all coming out. And I know it’s very Romantic Sounding, but we had to feel the muse calling. And i went to Pedro [Paixão, MOONSPELL keyboardist] and Ricardo [Amorim, MOONSPELL guitarist]Because We Write The Songs, and I Said, ‘I Think it’s time for a new album. I Think it’s time to man up and do subthing. ‘ And I Think That This Is Gonna Be One of the Most Important Albums of Our Lives. That’s What I’M Writing. I Wrote A Lot of Lyrics, Like 30 Lyrics Or More. We Wrote A Lot of Songs. We Are Now Cherrypicking What’s Coming in The Album, What’s Not Coming In The Album [and what] can be used on. And I Think We’re Gonna Have a New Moonspell Album in the first semester of 2026. “
Scolding the musical and lyrical direction of the new Moonspell material, Fernando Said: “It’s Still in The Early Days. It’s Not Going To Be Progressive Like ‘Heritage’‘Cause We’ve Done That Before. But i want make an album that is about pure feeling and an album that will grab [people] immedialy as the sound of Moonspell. So, as I do the Lyrics Than The Music, I’M Not Writing About Politics or Society, Money Or ambition. People Have This Every Day in Their News, In Their Feed, So I’m Writing A Vry Romantic, Even Gothic Album About Love, Death, What Are We Doing Here? You know, more existentialism. And I Think That’s The Direction We want to go now. So, Wish us luck, scholars i Think We’ll Need It. There’s soy bands coming, but i think it’s hat time and Also as a kind of a reward to the fans that have waited so much for the new album. I Think We Never Spent So Time In Between Albums, So It’s Gotta Be Special. And for us too, Because Otherwise Why Make Something Just To Fill The Calendar When You Have Albums Like ‘Wolfheart’, ‘Irrigious’ Or [2015’s] ‘Extinct’? So The Stakes Are High. So we have to be on par with the stakes. “
In the spring of 2023, Moonspell Completed the “American Full Moon” 30th-Anniversary Trek.
Three Years ago, Moonspell Canceled ITS Summer 2022 North American Tour Due to “Unsolvable Logistic and Transportation Problems”.
In SEPTEMBER 2022, Moonspell Release Vary Special Blu-ray/DVD and Album, Live Performance of Eyst Studio Album, “Heritage”with “From Down Below – Live 80 Meters Deep” via Napalm Records.
Moonspell‘S 13th Studio Album, “Heritage”was release in february 2021 via Napalm Records. The LP was remembered, Mixed and Mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, PRIMORDIAL, Ghost, SOLSTAFIR) at the Orgone Studios in the uk
In 2020, Moonspell Partd Ways With Original Drummer Miguel “Mike” Gaspar and Replace Him With Hugo Ribeiro (No related to Fernando Ribeiro).
Moonspell es:
Fernando Ribeiro – Vocals
Ricardo Amorim – Guitars
Pedro Paixão – Keys
AIRES PEREIRA – Bass
Hugo Ribeiro – Drums
Photo Credit: Basque Rui
