Gothic Metal band Moonspell have released a new video for the track Vampiria, ahead of their forthcoming epic live album, Opus Diabolicum, recorded at the MEO Arena in Lisbon and featuring the Renowned Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa, due out October 31st, via Napalm Records.
You can watch the video for Vampiria here:
While pre-orders for Opus Diabolicum are available from this link.
Frontman Fernando Ribeiro comments:
“‘VAMPIRIA’ is a Moonspell classic, as old as time itself. It was a first choice for us because it’s actually one of the most remarkable arrangements of the whole show, which granted new blood and life (aren’t they the same?) to a timeless, eternal song. See it risen from the dead with your own eyes, after ‘travelling oceans of time.
I have never been the one to push MOONSPELL into an orchestral direction. I mean, like any fan, I can recognise the impact Classical had over Heavy Metal (Quorthon, from Bathory, used to quote Wagner as his favourite “band”) and in my musical collection Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and Ravel, could be found, shoulder to shoulder with the aforementioned Bathory, Celtic Frost, Sarcófago or Maiden. But, I wasn’t a fan of the metal meets orchestra efforts myself and when I approached Jaime (Gomez Arellano) to mix this beast, I asked him: have you heard S&M and other “live with an orchestra” metal bands albums? We want nothing like that!
This is work of passion: truly the work of the devil (opus diabolicum): imperfect, unprocessed, untamed. A release made by friends to all the friends we have around this goth forsaken world and that in an arena in Lisbon or in a sweaty club in Texas, keep the spell going, until we are no more.”
Tracklist:
- 1. Tungstennio (CD + DVD/Blu-ray only)
- 2. Em Nome do Medo
- 3. 1755
- 4. In Tremor Die
- 5. Desastre
- 6. Ruinas
- 7. Breathe (Until We Are No More)
- 8. Extinct
- 9. Proliferation
- 10. Finisterra
- 11. Everything Invaded
- 12. Scorpion Flower
- 13. Vampiria
- 14. Alma Mater
- 15. Fullmoon Madness
Opus Diabolicum will be available on October 31, 2025 in the following Formats:
- – Digipak 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD + 2 Audio CD
- – 2-LP Black Gatefold Vinyl
- – 2-LP Splatter Cristallo/Black SP026 Gatefold Vinyl
- – Digital
You can also catch Moonspell live on the following dates at the following locations;
- 23.08.2025 (IT) Metal For Emergency
- 27.08.2025 (PT) Festas De Corroios
- 29.08.2025 (GR) Crete, Rethymno Rocks
- 05.09.2025 (CH) Meh Suff
- 13.09.2025 (DE) Prophecy Fest
- 26.10.2025 (NL) Samhain Festival, Maastricht
- 31.10.2025 (PT) Halloween United (w/ Dark Tranquillity & Sinistro) – Lisbon, LAV’s Arena
PRESS SOURCE: Mona Miluski/All Noir.
