- Country: Portugal
- Style: Gothic metal
- Label: Napalm Records
- Release date: 3 July 2026
Some bands grow old gracefully. Moonspell have decided to grow old dangerously. Far From God, their thirteenth album, arrives five years after Hermitage, a gap the band describe as a stretch of searching and doubt, and it sounds like the moment a candle catches again in a cold, empty church.
Fernando Ribeiro promised a very atmospheric, gothic record with strong choruses, and he kept his word. The title track is a hymn to tragic vampire love, all velvet and shadow, with Pedro Paixão’s keyboards drifting through the room like incense while Ricardo Amorim’s guitars keep the floor heavy beneath your feet. Ribeiro’s voice, that deep, cracked baritone, still sounds like it has lived through every word.
It’s a short record, eight songs in just over forty minutes, and it is better for it. There is no filler, only mood. “Cross Your Heart” opens the album with a pulse of dark romance, “The Great Wolf in the Sky”, featuring Alicia Nuhro, howls at a pale moon, and closing track “Reconquista” ends the record on a proud, defiant note.
Producer Jaime Gomez Arellano, back after Hermitage, gives it a warm, analogue feel. The drums breathe, the guitars have grain, and the melodies are allowed to hang in the air a moment longer than you expect.
While the band are busy celebrating the thirtieth anniversaries of their early classics on stage, this album makes a quiet but strong case that Moonspell’s story is far from finished. Light a candle, dim the lights, and let it wash over you.
Best tracks:
Cross Your Heart
Far From God
The Great Wolf in the Sky (feat. Alicia Nuhro)
Reconquista
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