Moonspell - Night Eternal

Idiom goes that one should never change a winning formula, and having found their pennies with the previous Memorial, MOONSPELL on Night Eternal are doing just that, enjoying dinner with a “best of” from their now long-serving career playing off a jukebox in the background. Such is Night Eternal – nothing MOONSPELL has not attempted before, yet once again presenting MOONSPELL as winners, as unlike many others, the lack of originality only gives way to a vibrancy reserved by their finest moments to date, so much as to say that their flirting with non-metal styles along the years has developed them to shape a gem in Night Eternal.
Stripped off its keyboards, this album has moments of the meanest metal around, like the double bass drum attack on Moon in Mercury or moreover the bridge and chorus of Shadow Sun, both coming by with an anger measured in magnitudes. On the other hand, stripped off the same keyboards that give MOONSPELL their signature melodramatic gothic overtone, some songs could easily make up for strong festival-contesting pop tunes, like Dreamless and Scorpion Flower (featuring Anneke van Giersbergen ex- THE GATHERING now with AGUA DE ANNIQUE). Add to that a Moorish vocal overtone here and there, and I am left to observe that only MOONSPELL’s experience can tell how they manage to get all these styles together so effectively well.

I, for one, am enjoying the Portuguese meal MOONSPELL have on their menu, looking forward to when I can feast again like a Port wine-induced inebriate to MOONSPELL live. I am hungry and thirsty, and MOONSPELL are teasing my taste buds successfully!!!!!

1. At Tragic Heights
2. Night Eternal
3. Shadow Sun
4. Scorpion Flower
5. Moon In Mercury
6. Hers Is The Twilight
7. Dreamless (Lucifer And Lilith)
8. Spring Of Rage
9. First Light

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Reviewer: necrogool
Feb 26, 2009
Next review: Moonspell - Memorial

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