Moonspell - Night Eternal
Posted on June 10, 2008 at 8:00 am by admin
It’s hard to follow up a great first couple of efforts. Sometimes the sequel fails to match the predecessor. There’s a flip side that I’m experiencing though, with bands who I previously thought of as over the shark managing to capture the magic and spirit of their previous releases, with something a little different than youthful exuberance.
When I heard “The Antidote”, I knew they’d captured a lot of that magic in an album that was quite a bit lighter than what I’m used to. There were a lot of slow passages and mostly clean singing on that effort, so you’d most likely expect a band such as Moonspell to lighten up in order to progress further, as is the case with many bands who tinker so much with feathery moments in such heavy music. That of course is not the case, as not only is “Night Eternal” more powerful with sawing guitars, double-bass drum pounding and Fernando Ribeiro’s harsh roar (when needed of course, this isn’t an old-school doom/death album) are coupled with busy epic passages and an motional heaviness.
Moonspell of course practically stands on their own with cutting-edge goth metal with that romantic flair you could only get from Portugal. Sure it does tend to sound like themselves throughout their career up to now without really pushing that much forward, but there’s just so much passion pouring off the damn thing it’s not hard to be sucked in.
Released June 10th, 2008
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