Moonspell
Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band with elements of black metal. The group, founded in 1989 originally as Morbid God, was renamed Moonspell in 1992. With the release of their first album Wolfheart in 1995, the band quickly gained status and became one of the most recognizable metal bands from Portugal.
The band started out as folk-tinged black metal. In 1992, still under the name Morbid God, they released the promo track "Serpent Angel". Read Full BioMoonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band with elements of black metal. The group, founded in 1989 originally as Morbid God, was renamed Moonspell in 1992. With the release of their first album Wolfheart in 1995, the band quickly gained status and became one of the most recognizable metal bands from Portugal.
The band started out as folk-tinged black metal. In 1992, still under the name Morbid God, they released the promo track "Serpent Angel". In 1993, vocalist Fernando Ribeiro, drummer Mike Gaspar and bassist João Pedro released the demo Anno Satanæ under the name Moonspell, which caught the attention of French label Adipocere. It was for Adipocere that Moonspell released in 1994 a mini-album titled Under the Moonspell. The record was a considered a landmark in Portuguese metal and sold more than 5000 copies, becoming Adipocere's best-selling record at the time. Shortly after the release, they played with Cradle of Filth in a concert in Lisbon.
Breakthrough (1995-1997)
After the release of mini-album Under the Moonspell, Moonspell signed with Century Media for six CDs. Wolfheart was recorded in Germany with producer Waldemar Sorychta and was released in 1995 and was followed by a European tour. Although the album had little or no recognition at the beginning, it was later recognized as a "milestone" by heavy-metal reviews site Metal-Observer.com. During the tour, guitarist Mantus quit the band and was replaced by Ricardo Amorim.
Irreligious came out in 1996 and was recorded again with producer Waldemar Sorychta. While previous album was considered black metal, this one fell into the genre of gothic metal. The song Opium became the first Moonspell single. It quoted one of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms, Álvaro de Campos, on his poem "Opiário" and its music video, featured the character of poet writing in a bar with the band playing. Along with the release of the album in a convent, the Convento do Beato, there were factors that helped the band selling 10.000 copies of the album in their homeland.
After conflicts with the band involving lawsuits, bass player Ares left the band and was replaced by Sérgio Crestana.
Experimenting (1998-2000)
Sin/Pecado (Pecado means 'sin' in Portuguese) was released in 1998. It had a bigger experimental nature than its predecessors. The song 2econd Skin was released as a single. At the time they released the one and only Daemonarch album, Hermeticum. Daemonarch was a side project composed by all Moonspell members but drummer Mike Gaspar. The album was seen as a return to their black metal roots and its lyrics were all written by singer Fernando Ribeiro between the age of 14 and 16.
Sin/Pecado was followed in 1999 by The Butterfly Effect, recorded in London and produced by Andy Reilly. This album is considered to be very experimental in nature as well. Featuring "down-tuned guitar riffs, eerie synthesizer passages", the album was mainly composed by guitarist/keyboard player Pedro Paixão and was not very well received by metal critics.
"Darkness and Hope" and "The Antidote" (2001-2005)
Darkness and Hope was released in 2001 and was produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa, producer of Sentenced or HIM. The album reached 79th on German charts and special editions included covers of Madredeus, Ozzy Osbourne's Mr. Crowley and Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart. Nocturna was released as a single and music video.
In 2003, the band released The Antidote, with Niclas Etelävuori from Amorphis playing as a session musician on the bass guitar. The album was released with a book with the same title written by Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto. Both the CD and book share the same concept and story and each song in the CD is sister to a chapter in the book that enhances the story in the lyrics. "Everything Invaded" was released as a single and music video. The band toured extensively around the world, playing at Rock in Rio Lisbon in 2004, a concert that brought them to more mainstream attention in Portugal. From this album on, the tours feature Aires Pereira on the bass.
In early 2004 the band recorded a cover of the jazz standard "I'll see you in my dreams" for the soundtrack of a Portuguese horror movie of the same name. There is an official music video of this song featuring footage from the film itself.
"Memorial", "Under Satanae" and "Night Eternal" (2006-present)
Memorial was released in 2006. Recorded with the producer of their first three albums Waldemar Sorychta, who also recorded the bass guitar parts, it was the first to be released under their new label SPV Steamhammer. The album topped the Portuguese album chart on its first week and also broke into the German Top 100 at number 68. Memorial achieved gold status in Portugal after selling 10,000 copies, making Moonspell the first Portuguese heavy metal band to achieve that.
Although the album is heavier than the previous, it was very well received and its release was featured in various Portuguese news broadcasts. A new release of the album was released in December 2006 and featured a DVD with live performances and the music videos made for the album. Music videos for "Finisterra" and "Luna" were released.
On November 2, 2006, Moonspell won an MTV Europe Music Award in the category of Best Portuguese Act.
The Great Silver Eye, a best-of album, was released on June 26, 2007.
Recently, Moonspell released Under Satanæ, a re-recording of early songs.
The last album has been called "Night Eternal". It was released on May 16, 2008. Moonspell is slated to tour Danzig's 2008 incarnation of his Blackest of the Black tour.
After a lot of legal troubles, Moonspell released their first Dvd "Lusitanian Metal" on December 8, 2008 in 3 different versions. The most complete one is composed of 2 Dvds, a Cd and a small booklet with photographs and introduction to the footage written by some of the members of the band. The first Dvd contains a show they played in 2004 in Katowice, also recorded on the Cd, a collection of all their videos until "Everything Invaded" and an interwiew shot in a Graveyard. The second dvd presents some live footage took from different tours from 1992 to 2005.
Current members
Fernando Ribeiro - vocals (1989-present )
Mike Gaspar - drums (1992-present )
Ricardo Amorim - lead guitar (1995-present )
Pedro Paixão - keyboards / rhythm guitar (1994-present )
Aires Pereira - bass (2004-present )
Previous members
Baalberith - drums (1989-1992)
João Pedro (Ares / Tetragrammaton) - bass (1989-1997)
Luís Lamelas (Malah / Fenrir) - guitar (1992-1993)
J.M. (Tanngrisnir) - guitar (1993-1995)
Mantus/Duarte - guitar (1990-1995)
Sérgio Crestana - bass (1997-2003)
Discography:
1992 - Serpent Angel (demo)
1993 - Anno Satanae (demo)
1994 - Under the Moonspell
1995 - Wolfheart
1996 - Irreligious
1997 - 2econd Skin (disc 1) (Single w/ bonus live CD)
1997 - 2econd Skin (disc 2) (Single w/ bonus live CD)
1998 - Sin Pecado
1999 - The Butterfly Effect
2001 - Darkness and Hope
2003 - The Antidote
2006 - Memorial
2007 - The Great Silver Eye (Best Of)
2007 - Under Satanae (The first three releases re-recorded)
2008 - Night Eternal
2012 - Alpha Noir / Omega White
2015 - [algum artist=Moonspell]Extinct
Dvds
2008 - Lusitanian Metal
www.moonspell.com
The band started out as folk-tinged black metal. In 1992, still under the name Morbid God, they released the promo track "Serpent Angel". Read Full BioMoonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band with elements of black metal. The group, founded in 1989 originally as Morbid God, was renamed Moonspell in 1992. With the release of their first album Wolfheart in 1995, the band quickly gained status and became one of the most recognizable metal bands from Portugal.
The band started out as folk-tinged black metal. In 1992, still under the name Morbid God, they released the promo track "Serpent Angel". In 1993, vocalist Fernando Ribeiro, drummer Mike Gaspar and bassist João Pedro released the demo Anno Satanæ under the name Moonspell, which caught the attention of French label Adipocere. It was for Adipocere that Moonspell released in 1994 a mini-album titled Under the Moonspell. The record was a considered a landmark in Portuguese metal and sold more than 5000 copies, becoming Adipocere's best-selling record at the time. Shortly after the release, they played with Cradle of Filth in a concert in Lisbon.
Breakthrough (1995-1997)
After the release of mini-album Under the Moonspell, Moonspell signed with Century Media for six CDs. Wolfheart was recorded in Germany with producer Waldemar Sorychta and was released in 1995 and was followed by a European tour. Although the album had little or no recognition at the beginning, it was later recognized as a "milestone" by heavy-metal reviews site Metal-Observer.com. During the tour, guitarist Mantus quit the band and was replaced by Ricardo Amorim.
Irreligious came out in 1996 and was recorded again with producer Waldemar Sorychta. While previous album was considered black metal, this one fell into the genre of gothic metal. The song Opium became the first Moonspell single. It quoted one of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms, Álvaro de Campos, on his poem "Opiário" and its music video, featured the character of poet writing in a bar with the band playing. Along with the release of the album in a convent, the Convento do Beato, there were factors that helped the band selling 10.000 copies of the album in their homeland.
After conflicts with the band involving lawsuits, bass player Ares left the band and was replaced by Sérgio Crestana.
Experimenting (1998-2000)
Sin/Pecado (Pecado means 'sin' in Portuguese) was released in 1998. It had a bigger experimental nature than its predecessors. The song 2econd Skin was released as a single. At the time they released the one and only Daemonarch album, Hermeticum. Daemonarch was a side project composed by all Moonspell members but drummer Mike Gaspar. The album was seen as a return to their black metal roots and its lyrics were all written by singer Fernando Ribeiro between the age of 14 and 16.
Sin/Pecado was followed in 1999 by The Butterfly Effect, recorded in London and produced by Andy Reilly. This album is considered to be very experimental in nature as well. Featuring "down-tuned guitar riffs, eerie synthesizer passages", the album was mainly composed by guitarist/keyboard player Pedro Paixão and was not very well received by metal critics.
"Darkness and Hope" and "The Antidote" (2001-2005)
Darkness and Hope was released in 2001 and was produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa, producer of Sentenced or HIM. The album reached 79th on German charts and special editions included covers of Madredeus, Ozzy Osbourne's Mr. Crowley and Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart. Nocturna was released as a single and music video.
In 2003, the band released The Antidote, with Niclas Etelävuori from Amorphis playing as a session musician on the bass guitar. The album was released with a book with the same title written by Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto. Both the CD and book share the same concept and story and each song in the CD is sister to a chapter in the book that enhances the story in the lyrics. "Everything Invaded" was released as a single and music video. The band toured extensively around the world, playing at Rock in Rio Lisbon in 2004, a concert that brought them to more mainstream attention in Portugal. From this album on, the tours feature Aires Pereira on the bass.
In early 2004 the band recorded a cover of the jazz standard "I'll see you in my dreams" for the soundtrack of a Portuguese horror movie of the same name. There is an official music video of this song featuring footage from the film itself.
"Memorial", "Under Satanae" and "Night Eternal" (2006-present)
Memorial was released in 2006. Recorded with the producer of their first three albums Waldemar Sorychta, who also recorded the bass guitar parts, it was the first to be released under their new label SPV Steamhammer. The album topped the Portuguese album chart on its first week and also broke into the German Top 100 at number 68. Memorial achieved gold status in Portugal after selling 10,000 copies, making Moonspell the first Portuguese heavy metal band to achieve that.
Although the album is heavier than the previous, it was very well received and its release was featured in various Portuguese news broadcasts. A new release of the album was released in December 2006 and featured a DVD with live performances and the music videos made for the album. Music videos for "Finisterra" and "Luna" were released.
On November 2, 2006, Moonspell won an MTV Europe Music Award in the category of Best Portuguese Act.
The Great Silver Eye, a best-of album, was released on June 26, 2007.
Recently, Moonspell released Under Satanæ, a re-recording of early songs.
The last album has been called "Night Eternal". It was released on May 16, 2008. Moonspell is slated to tour Danzig's 2008 incarnation of his Blackest of the Black tour.
After a lot of legal troubles, Moonspell released their first Dvd "Lusitanian Metal" on December 8, 2008 in 3 different versions. The most complete one is composed of 2 Dvds, a Cd and a small booklet with photographs and introduction to the footage written by some of the members of the band. The first Dvd contains a show they played in 2004 in Katowice, also recorded on the Cd, a collection of all their videos until "Everything Invaded" and an interwiew shot in a Graveyard. The second dvd presents some live footage took from different tours from 1992 to 2005.
Current members
Fernando Ribeiro - vocals (1989-present )
Mike Gaspar - drums (1992-present )
Ricardo Amorim - lead guitar (1995-present )
Pedro Paixão - keyboards / rhythm guitar (1994-present )
Aires Pereira - bass (2004-present )
Previous members
Baalberith - drums (1989-1992)
João Pedro (Ares / Tetragrammaton) - bass (1989-1997)
Luís Lamelas (Malah / Fenrir) - guitar (1992-1993)
J.M. (Tanngrisnir) - guitar (1993-1995)
Mantus/Duarte - guitar (1990-1995)
Sérgio Crestana - bass (1997-2003)
Discography:
1992 - Serpent Angel (demo)
1993 - Anno Satanae (demo)
1994 - Under the Moonspell
1995 - Wolfheart
1996 - Irreligious
1997 - 2econd Skin (disc 1) (Single w/ bonus live CD)
1997 - 2econd Skin (disc 2) (Single w/ bonus live CD)
1998 - Sin Pecado
1999 - The Butterfly Effect
2001 - Darkness and Hope
2003 - The Antidote
2006 - Memorial
2007 - The Great Silver Eye (Best Of)
2007 - Under Satanae (The first three releases re-recorded)
2008 - Night Eternal
2012 - Alpha Noir / Omega White
2015 - [algum artist=Moonspell]Extinct
Dvds
2008 - Lusitanian Metal
www.moonspell.com
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Opium
Moonspell Lyrics
Opium, desire or will?
Inspiration bound from an elegant seed
Subversion, through smoke I foresee
Erotic motions of lesser gods in ectasy
Opium, bring me forth another dream
Spawn worlds of flesh and red,
Little jewels of atrocity
Opium, I sleep in debauchery
And burn with you
When you burn in Me
Opium, we fantasize
As we fuse with your root
You are a strange flower,
We are your strangest fruit
Opium, it burns in me and you
Opium, it burns for me and for you
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Written by: AL SCHNIER, CHUCK GARVEY, ROB DERHAK
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GrigioO
Lyrics:
Opium, desire or will?
Inspiration bound from an elegant seed
Subversion, through smoke I foresee
Erotic motions of lesser gods in ectasy
Opium, bring me forth another dream
Spawn worlds of flesh and red,
Little jewels of atrocity
Opium, I sleep in debauchery
And burn with you
When you burn in Me
Opium, we fantasize
As we fuse with your root
You are a strange flower,
We are your strangest fruit
Opium, it burns in me and you
Opium, it burns for me and for you
*"Por isso tomo ópio. É um remédio
Sou um convalescente do momento
Moro no rés do chão do pensamento
E ver passar a vida faz-me tédio."
*Last verses are taken from poem
Opiãrio - Fernando Pessoa.
Irina Afonso
Opiário
Ao Senhor Mário de Sá-Carneiro
É antes do ópio que a minh'alma é doente.
Sentir a vida convalesce e estiola
E eu vou buscar ao ópio que consola
Um Oriente ao oriente do Oriente.
Esta vida de bordo há-de matar-me.
São dias só de febre na cabeça
E, por mais que procure até que adoeça,
já não encontro a mola pra adaptar-me.
Em paradoxo e incompetência astral
Eu vivo a vincos de ouro a minha vida,
Onda onde o pundonor é uma descida
E os próprios gozos gânglios do meu mal.
É por um mecanismo de desastres,
Uma engrenagem com volantes falsos,
Que passo entre visões de cadafalsos
Num jardim onde há flores no ar, sem hastes.
Vou cambaleando através do lavor
Duma vida-interior de renda e laca.
Tenho a impressão de ter em casa a faca
Com que foi degolado o Precursor.
Ando expiando um crime numa mala,
Que um avô meu cometeu por requinte.
Tenho os nervos na forca, vinte a vinte,
E caí no ópio como numa vala.
Ao toque adormecido da morfina
Perco-me em transparências latejantes
E numa noite cheia de brilhantes,
Ergue-se a lua como a minha Sina.
Eu, que fui sempre um mau estudante, agora
Não faço mais que ver o navio ir
Pelo canal de Suez a conduzir
A minha vida, cânfora na aurora.
Perdi os dias que já aproveitara.
Trabalhei para ter só o cansaço
Que é hoje em mim uma espécie de braço
Que ao meu pescoço me sufoca e ampara.
E fui criança como toda a gente.
Nasci numa província portuguesa
E tenho conhecido gente inglesa
Que diz que eu sei inglês perfeitamente.
Gostava de ter poemas e novelas
Publicados por Plon e no Mercure,
Mas é impossível que esta vida dure.
Se nesta viagem nem houve procelas!
A vida a bordo é uma coisa triste,
Embora a gente se divirta às vezes.
Falo com alemães, suecos e ingleses
E a minha mágoa de viver persiste.
Eu acho que não vale a pena ter
Ido ao Oriente e visto a índia e a China.
A terra é semelhante e pequenina
E há só uma maneira de viver.
Por isso eu tomo ópio. É um remédio
Sou um convalescente do Momento.
Moro no rés-do-chão do pensamento
E ver passar a Vida faz-me tédio.
Fumo. Canso. Ah uma terra aonde, enfim,
Muito a leste não fosse o oeste já!
Pra que fui visitar a Índia que há
Se não há Índia senão a alma em mim?
Sou desgraçado por meu morgadio.
Os ciganos roubaram minha Sorte.
Talvez nem mesmo encontre ao pé da morte
Um lugar que me abrigue do meu frio.
Eu fingi que estudei engenharia.
Vivi na Escócia. Visitei a Irlanda.
Meu coração é uma avòzinha que anda
Pedindo esmola às portas da Alegria.
Não chegues a Port-Said, navio de ferro!
Volta à direita, nem eu sei para onde.
Passo os dias no smokink-room com o conde -
Um escroque francês, conde de fim de enterro.
Volto à Europa descontente, e em sortes
De vir a ser um poeta sonambólico.
Eu sou monárquico mas não católico
E gostava de ser as coisas fortes.
Gostava de ter crenças e dinheiro,
Ser vária gente insípida que vi.
Hoje, afinal, não sou senão, aqui,
Num navio qualquer um passageiro.
Não tenho personalidade alguma.
É mais notado que eu esse criado
De bordo que tem um belo modo alçado
De laird escocês há dias em jejum.
Não posso estar em parte alguma. A minha
Pátria é onde não estou. Sou doente e fraco.
O comissário de bordo é velhaco.
Viu-me co'a sueca... e o resto ele adivinha.
Um dia faço escândalo cá a bordo,
Só para dar que falar de mim aos mais.
Não posso com a vida, e acho fatais
As iras com que às vezes me debordo.
Levo o dia a fumar, a beber coisas,
Drogas americanas que entontecem,
E eu já tão bêbado sem nada! Dessem
Melhor cérebro aos meus nervos como rosas.
Escrevo estas linhas. Parece impossível
Que mesmo ao ter talento eu mal o sinta!
O fato é que esta vida é uma quinta
Onde se aborrece uma alma sensível.
Os ingleses são feitos pra existir.
Não há gente como esta pra estar feita
Com a Tranqüilidade. A gente deita
Um vintém e sai um deles a sorrir.
Pertenço a um gênero de portugueses
Que depois de estar a Índia descoberta
Ficaram sem trabalho. A morte é certa.
Tenho pensado nisto muitas vezes.
Leve o diabo a vida e a gente tê-la!
Nem leio o livro à minha cabeceira.
Enoja-me o Oriente. É uma esteira
Que a gente enrola e deixa de ser bela.
Caio no ópio por força. Lá querer
Que eu leve a limpo uma vida destas
Não se pode exigir. Almas honestas
Com horas pra dormir e pra comer,
Que um raio as parta! E isto afinal é inveja.
Porque estes nervos são a minha morte.
Não haver um navio que me transporte
Para onde eu nada queira que o não veja!
Ora! Eu cansava-me o mesmo modo.
Qu'ria outro ópio mais forte pra ir de ali
Para sonhos que dessem cabo de mim
E pregassem comigo nalgum lodo.
Febre! Se isto que tenho não é febre,
Não sei como é que se tem febre e sente.
O fato essencial é que estou doente.
Está corrida, amigos, esta lebre.
Veio a noite. Tocou já a primeira
Corneta, pra vestir para o jantar.
Vida social por cima! Isso! E marchar
Até que a gente saia pla coleira!
Porque isto acaba mal e há-de haver
(Olá!) sangue e um revólver lá pró fim
Deste desassossego que há em mim
E não há forma de se resolver.
E quem me olhar, há-de-me achar banal,
A mim e à minha vida... Ora! um rapaz...
O meu próprio monóculo me faz
Pertencer a um tipo universal.
Ah quanta alma viverá, que ande metida
Assim como eu na Linha, e como eu mística!
Quantos sob a casaca característica
Não terão como eu o horror à vida?
Se ao menos eu por fora fosse tão
Interessante como sou por dentro!
Vou no Maelstrom, cada vez mais pró centro.
Não fazer nada é a minha perdição.
Um inútil. Mas é tão justo sê-lo!
Pudesse a gente desprezar os outros
E, ainda que co'os cotovelos rotos,
Ser herói, doido, amaldiçoado ou belo!
Tenho vontade de levar as mãos
À boca e morder nelas fundo e a mal.
Era uma ocupação original
E distraía os outros, os tais sãos.
O absurdo, como uma flor da tal Índia
Que não vim encontrar na Índia, nasce
No meu cérebro farto de cansar-se.
A minha vida mude-a Deus ou finde-a ...
Deixe-me estar aqui, nesta cadeira,
Até virem meter-me no caixão.
Nasci pra mandarim de condição,
Mas falta-me o sossego, o chá e a esteira.
Ah que bom que era ir daqui de caída
Pra cova por um alçapão de estouro!
A vida sabe-me a tabaco louro.
Nunca fiz mais do que fumar a vida.
E afinal o que quero é fé, é calma,
E não ter estas sensações confusas.
Deus que acabe com isto! Abra as eclusas —
E basta de comédias na minh'alma!
(No Canal de Suez, a bordo)
Álvaro de Campos, in "Poemas"
Heterónimo de Fernando Pessoa
Ziggy Montana
It was brilliant when I was 17 and still is while I am 40.
crusader2638
Im 40 too...i heard this song 1000times in my youth but still Great!!! Rock iiiit
Андрей Фадеев
Absolutly.
Victor Sotar Merino
Me too brother i am 41 and Moonspell is gold
Daniel Valerio
Alta som. Estes putos agora é só kizomba
Alexandria Library
43 y now, I remember when I was 16 y...
Moonspell, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames
etc was a great years 😌
Rafaello
Long live to Portugal from Poland !
Koreksektor 2015
Dziękuję caralho😉
Delhi Delirium
Long live PoLand from Portugal !!! Great polish friends around the world ( specially in Sweden ) , all great ... best Vodka, best speed , shrooms aren´t too shabby either : -)
Thanks for Vader and Mgla btw !
SoulSick
2003? Century Media Records, get your shit together, its more like 1996!