On October 26, 2024, Moonspell etched their identify deeper into the historical past of Portuguese steel with their first-ever symphonic live performance, Opus Diabolicum, held at Lisbon’s MEO Enviornment. A landmark second of their three-decade-long journey, the present was a monumental celebration of the band’s darkish legacy, uniting the feral spirit of gothic steel with the grandeur of classical music.
Now, one yr later, this once-in-a-lifetime efficiency can be out there to expertise anytime, as Opus Diabolicum arrives on DVD/Blu-ray, 2-CD, black and coloured vinyl, and digital codecs through Napalm Information on October 31, 2025.
The manufacturing, their most bold thus far, noticed Moonspell joined on stage by the 45-piece Lisbon Sinfonietta Orchestra, carried out by maestro Vasco Pearce de Azevedo. Collectively, they revisited career-spanning classics and introduced their acclaimed 2017 album 1755 to symphonic heights, crafting a set that was as immersive because it was emotionally devastating.
To mark the announcement, a brand new reside video for “Vampiria” premieres at this time, captured in all its gothic glory on the Opus Diabolicum live performance. Initially launched on Moonspell‘s 1995 debut Wolfheart, the track takes on a brand new life on this orchestral kind, rising with darkish majesty, sweeping preparations, and vampiric splendor. “‘Vampiria’ is a Moonspell basic, as previous as time itself,” stated Moonspell frontman Fernando Ribeiro.
“It was a primary alternative for us as a result of it is truly some of the exceptional preparations of the entire present, which granted new blood and life (aren’t they the identical?) to a timeless, everlasting track. See it risen from the lifeless with your individual eyes, after ‘travelling oceans of time’.”
Ribeiro continued: “I’ve by no means been the one to push Moonspell into an orchestral route. Like every fan, I can recognise the impression Classical had over Heavy Steel—Quorthon from Bathory used to cite Wagner as his favorite ‘band’—and in my assortment, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and Ravel sit beside Bathory, Celtic Frost, Sarcófago or Maiden. However I wasn’t a fan of the metal-meets-orchestra efforts myself.
“Once I approached Jaime (Gomez Arellano) to combine this beast, I instructed him: have you ever heard S&M and different ‘reside with an orchestra’ albums? We would like nothing like that! That is the work of ardour: actually the work of the satan—opus diabolicum—imperfect, unprocessed, untamed. A launch made by pals, to all the buddies we have now round this goth-forsaken world, who in an enviornment in Lisbon or in a sweaty membership in Texas, maintain the spell going, till we are not any extra.”
For longtime followers and new listeners alike, Opus Diabolicum is a testomony to Moonspell‘s unmatched skill to stability darkness, drama, and devotion, immortalizing a historic night time when their music rose larger than ever earlier than. No fan ought to miss the prospect so as to add this uncommon doc of gothic grandeur to their assortment. Pre-order Opus Diabolicum here, which runs as follows:
- Em Nome do Medo
- 1755
- In Tremor Die
- Desastre
- Ruinas
- Breathe (Till We Are No Extra)
- Extinct
- Proliferation
- Finisterra
- All the things Invaded
- Scorpion Flower
- Vampiria
- Alma Mater
- Fullmoon Insanity
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