MOONSPELL

Moonspell is a Portuguese black metal/gothic metal band with death/doom metal elements, formed in 1989 as Morbid God. After renaming themselves Moonspell in 1992, they released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before of the release of their first album Wolfheart. The band quickly gained status and became one of the most recognizable metal bands from Portugal.^[1]

Moonspell reached the Portuguese top first with their album Sin/Pecado, and were, along with Metallica and Iron Maiden, the only metal band to reach the first place of the Portuguese charts after the release of their latest album, Memorial, in 2006.^[2] With Memorial, Moonspell also became the first Portuguese heavy metal band to have a record certified gold status.^[3] They are also very popular in Germany, where Memorial entered in 68th in the Top 100 Chart.^[2]

BAND MEMBERS:

Fernando Ribeiro – Vocals

Miguel Gaspar – Drums

Ricardo Amorim – Guitar

Pedro Paixão – Keyboard/Guitar

Aires Pereira – Bass

DISCOGRAFHY:

Wolfheart (1995)

Irreligious (1996)

Sin / Pecado (1998)

The Butterfly Effect (1999)

Darkness and Hope (2001)

The Antidote (2003)

Memorial (2006)

Under Satanae (2007)

Night Eternal (2008)

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http://www.moonspell.com/
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http://www.myspace.com/moonspell