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15 май 2008
MOONSPELL Frontman Offers 'Night Eternal' Track-By-Track Breakdown
NIGHT ETERNAL depicts Moonspell more innovative and darker than they were for years. But there's more to the album lyricwise, of course. Vocalist Fernando Ribeiro explains, what.
The Biblical Apocalypse, Lucifer and Lillith, darkness and love - it's all there on NIGHT ETERNAL.
To prevent getting lost in all these, vocalist Fernando Ribeiro explains the songs:
1. At Tragic Heights
Kicks off with a big quote from St. John's Apocalypse and sets the terminal feeling upon which the album lays. But this time around, it's not an alpha/male angel who falls but a woman, who, like in the classic myth, dares to know and hopes for the truth. Musically, it's fast and emotional, with a somewhat more complex structure into it, but the intention is to kill from first note on!
2. Night Eternal
...it's the morning you will never see. Actually, morning is as used on night on this song. It is a lyric of abandonment and alarm for the "tear and the wear of the earth" by her favorite sons: us. It's brutal and melodic at once and the middle part is already one of my favorite headbanging moments with the double bass drum setting the pace.
In this song, you can find the chant of a suffering woman, an avalanche of guitars and a block of strong words. All meaningful and true.
3. Shadow Sun
One of my faves for the time being. It brings a hypnotic vibe in the verses with the "darktrip" approach to the vocals. It's a distinctive style for us and I believe our most progressive moment for ages.
The lyrics can either be about the end of the world or the end of a relationship, about someone watching one or the other through the rain. I love the chorus because it is unleashing and I love this song because it's claustrophobic and dark! Like from the inside of a shadow.
4. Scorpion Flower
It's the summer hit for Goths :)
No, really, it's one of our best moments and a duet I will never forget with the beautiful and charismatic Anneke Van Giersbergen! It turned out to be a great video as well, where everybody looks great but me…
This song incarnates fury and beauty, the sting of the scorpion and the freshness of a flower. Stupidly romantic, just the way I like it! Check the scorpion and the frog fable, cool to understand these lyrics.
5. Moon In Mercury
Aaarrragghhh! After the balsam comes the wound! I have to be honest here, I didn't know where this song would go but after the studio work it grew on me a lot, it's very old school, made of different parts, but it sticks together like a demon's grip! Lyrically, it deals with revelation through the gleam of a blade, or of an astrological map. Moon in mercury, moon in the house of the dead planet.
6. Hers Is The Twilight
If there is a Gothic Metal son on this album, it is this one! Metal riifing and Fields Of The Nephilim's verses. I love the way it builds (I love my band, that's so corny) and the way it ends. The twilight of the earth, or the twilight of a woman? That's the question to be asked about this one really.
7. Dreamless
Lucifer and Lilith, the first couple, the first lie, the first betrayal, the first tragic love. It's a song that tends to the side of beauty on this album. One should not be afraid of beauty, and one should embrace it, that's what I insisted on for this whole record. Moonspell is not an extreme band, but an emotional one, dreamless with all its keys, acoustics, vocal dubs. Candy for Liltih.
8. Spring Of Rage
Fury and beauty. I love, when the song gets loose for that B part. Widowed in the whiteness pure. It was a song that I always loved, even in its demo form. It was here that I decided to use clean vocals again, sorry about that. I love that explosion with the chorus and the guitar beginning. Ah, and it's a love song with pagan poetry for your soul errr...
9. First Light
MY FAVOURITE SONG! I love the lyrics which describe a quite hypnotic circle in which a prodigal son, a bride to be, and a leader of people intervene. I am as proud of this one text as I was, when I wrote ‘Mephisto’ back in 1996. The rest is what Moonspell does the best, in my poor opinion: doom, big, full moon madness vibe, crescendos, staccatos, classical music kind of vibe.
A great way of finishing an album that is called NIGHT ETERNAL – with a song called ‘First Light’... And I do not mean to be ambiguous, just a bit maybe...
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