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MOONSPELL have announced a brand new live release!
Titled Opus Diabolicum, the upcoming live album and concert film from the Portuguese gothic metal pioneers is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Napalm Records. Captured at the band’s first-ever symphonic show at the MEO Arena in Lisbon on October 26th, 2024, the performance marks a historic moment in both the band’s legacy and the evolution of Portuguese metal.
At the show, the band revisited their classics and their album 1755, performing alongside the 45-piece Lisbon Sinfonietta Orchestra, conducted by Vasco Pearce de Azevedo. The result is the band’s biggest production to date, blending dark metal power with classical grandeur.
Speaking about the upcoming live album, frontman Fernando Ribeiro shares, “I have never been the one to push MOONSPELL into an orchestral direction. I mean, like any fan, I can recognise the impact Classical had over Heavy Metal (Quorthon, from BATHORY, used to quote Wagner as his favourite ‘band’) and in my musical collection Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and Ravel, could be found, shoulder to shoulder with the aforementioned BATHORY, CELTIC FROST, SARCÓFAGO or MAIDEN. But, I wasn’t a fan of the metal meets orchestra efforts myself and when I approached Jaime (Gomez Arellano) to mix this beast, I asked him: have you heard S&M 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, unprocessed, untamed. A release made by friends to all the friends we have around this goth forsaken world and that in an arena in Lisbon or in a sweaty club in Texas, keep the spell going, until we are no more.”
Alongside the announcement, the band have released a new live video for the track Vampiria. Speaking about the track, Ribeiro says, “Vampiria is a MOONSPELL classic, as old as time itself. It was a first choice for us because it’s actually one of the most remarkable arrangements of the whole show, which granted new blood and life (aren’t they the same?) to a timeless, eternal song. See it risen from the dead with your own eyes, after ‘travelling oceans of time’.”
Watch the official live music video for Vampiria here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new live album below:
Track List:
- Tungstennio (CD + DVD/Blu-ray only)
- Em Nome do Medo
- 1755
- In Tremor Die
- Desastre
- Ruinas
- Breathe (Until We Are No More)
- Extinct
- Proliferation
- Finisterra
- Everything Invaded
- Scorpion Flower
- Vampiria
- Alma Mater
- Fullmoon Madness
Opus Diabolicum is set for release on October 31st via Napalm Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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